newark wilder doesn't get enough love
― we're far from the challops now (voodoo chili), Thursday, February 14, 2019 8:58 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
agree, def my fav
― brimstead, Thursday, 14 February 2019 20:41 (five years ago) link
top 5 album all time, idc what 36-year-old cool guys say on Twitter in 2019
― alpine static, Thursday, 14 February 2019 23:57 (five years ago) link
love this album to death
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 February 2019 00:08 (five years ago) link
this thread makes my head hurt:
Listening to Malkmus yelp "You're the kind of girl I like / because you're empty / and I'm empty" in that sing-songy naifish voice makes me want to vomit— Jeremy Gordon (@jeremypgordon) February 14, 2019
― alpine static, Friday, 15 February 2019 00:19 (five years ago) link
More for us, then.
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 15 February 2019 00:22 (five years ago) link
A popular state!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZJeK3nBDdU&fbclid=IwAR3OjK0CRGp1mfRlzurwgaJC9h3c1K-0NiOwljIaNZGpZ5IUqvzgEZXVd5E
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 15 February 2019 00:24 (five years ago) link
Dang.
Well, that was supposed to lead you to Pavement's "Colorado."
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 15 February 2019 00:25 (five years ago) link
malkmus's archness was so needed among a decade of manly emotions
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 February 2019 00:25 (five years ago) link
Someone recently posted on ILM the original source from which the "Cut Your Hair" cover art was taken (an old German LP?), but I can't find it. If you read this (whoever you are), would you mind reposting? Thx!
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Friday, 15 February 2019 00:43 (five years ago) link
i honestly feel bad for those who let all the shit surrounding pavement (the slacker image, the perceived sloppiness) get in the way of letting those effortlessly pretty melodies into your heart
― we're far from the challops now (voodoo chili), Friday, 15 February 2019 02:16 (five years ago) link
iirc no one at the time actually cared about archness/slackerness/sloppiness; it was more about whether they owed mark e. smith royalties or had sold out by making a video
on malkmus' tombstone: HE DID CROSSWORDS
― mookieproof, Friday, 15 February 2019 02:22 (five years ago) link
I remember almost everyone loving them, with few complaints...I was interning at CMJ in the summer of '95, when a VHS with the “Father to a Sister of Thought” video arrived from Matador... the editorial staff immediately went into a conference room and watched it intently, with the volume cranked up high
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Friday, 15 February 2019 02:31 (five years ago) link
they really were the last psychedelic band, goodnight guys
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 15 February 2019 02:36 (five years ago) link
Liked it a lot, but did not love it right after "Slanted."
Then after "Wowee Zowee" the first 3 albums plus the Westing collection crystalized into this permanent part of me.
What a journey from those first EPs to CRCR and Wowee!
― nicky lo-fi, Friday, 15 February 2019 04:12 (five years ago) link
we never did find out what their throats are filled with
― ciderpress, Friday, 15 February 2019 04:21 (five years ago) link
their throats are filled with
― k3vin k., Friday, 15 February 2019 06:48 (five years ago) link
one of my all time faves. blew my mind slightly when i first heard it
― frame casual (dog latin), Friday, 15 February 2019 09:26 (five years ago) link
who is the 36yo cool guy
― ||||||||, Friday, 15 February 2019 09:43 (five years ago) link
W/r/t The archness/slackerness/sloppiness it bothered me at the time, esp the show I walked out of cuz no one in the band really seemed to know how they songs went and Malkmus seemed like he was incredibly bored with everything.
I know he's said recently he doesn't understand how that rep got started...well it seemed pretty clear at the time.
And I really think UMS is right, we needed the archness, even if made some people (me) bristle.
But so, I loved Crooked Rain and I still do!
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 15 February 2019 17:58 (five years ago) link
good album imo
― a Stalin Stale Ale for me, please (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 February 2019 18:02 (five years ago) link
You can definitely see the "slackness" on display here... SM seems bored to the point of passive-aggressive hostility (it's a pretty funny interview, tho):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t92FpC-7Zt0
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Friday, 15 February 2019 18:05 (five years ago) link
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― chr1sb3singer, Friday, February 15, 2019 12:58 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it felt like the critics in that twitter thread linked above were responding to this persona, not so much the music.
― we're far from the challops now (voodoo chili), Friday, 15 February 2019 18:11 (five years ago) link
lol xp
― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Friday, 15 February 2019 18:26 (five years ago) link
I haven't read that Twitter thread (and won't), but why bother complaining about an artist's "persona" from 20 yrs ago?
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Friday, 15 February 2019 18:27 (five years ago) link
“Pavement = ironic slackers” is lazy shorthand that’s hardened into conventional wisdom. Their best songs positively ache. I mean, “Here” was covered by the Tindersticks.— Stuart Berman (@stuberman) February 15, 2019
otm
― we're far from the challops now (voodoo chili), Friday, 15 February 2019 18:29 (five years ago) link
Morris otm, but rock bands and especially indie rock bands are perpetually plagued by dolts who worry about what they represent
― CDU next Tuesday (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 February 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link
i generally found pavement's shambling onstage schtick more charming/entertaining than annoying back in the day (and they were occasionally great when I saw them), but i get why people might find it to be a turn off. i've always been a little confused as to why they're still such a flashpoint for some — it's cool if you don't dig 'em!
― tylerw, Friday, 15 February 2019 18:46 (five years ago) link
That interview is hilarious. I mean, how would you react to being interviewed by Lewis Largent, the Candlebox of MTV VJs?
― George R. R. Caro (PBKR), Friday, 15 February 2019 19:00 (five years ago) link
I find all of their antics a lot more charming/funny now then I did, also a lot of it had to do with much hand-wringing at the time over "irony", and honestly I knew people who really liked Smashing Pumpkins & STP who felt like that those lyrics, even though they are obviously tossed off near non-sequiturs (actually that probably made it worse), were real shots fired at those fan bases.
At least in my experience the two tweakers I worked nights with didn't find it very funny that some "college boys" were making fun of them and other choice descriptions said around gobs of chewing tobacco pinched in their cheeks.
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 15 February 2019 19:27 (five years ago) link
did they also use the 3-letter "f"-word?
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Friday, 15 February 2019 19:39 (five years ago) link
And the 6 -letter version and several other words & phrases that don't get bandy about anymore, I certainly did.
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 15 February 2019 19:47 (five years ago) link
Yeah but to describe Pavement specifically, lol (I could just tell it followed from "college boys"...)
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Friday, 15 February 2019 19:51 (five years ago) link
Ha oh yeah totally, though frankly they way these dudes said it, "college boy" was just about the worst thing you call someone
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 15 February 2019 19:56 (five years ago) link
are we supposed to revisit this every 5 years? i was pretty satisfied with the 20th anniv revisiting. i did lol at era/error and start screaming KOREA in my head though
this is another one of the albums that the stalker left on my windshield. at the time, i was pretty glad he left me this one because i was going to buy it anyway. i have mostly fond memories of this album + gentlemen.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 15 February 2019 19:57 (five years ago) link
you people are my people
― alpine static, Friday, 15 February 2019 20:14 (five years ago) link
also, i thought their throats are filled with silence ... i.e. you loop the lyrics back around to the front end of the album. that's a theory i read, anyway.
― alpine static, Friday, 15 February 2019 20:16 (five years ago) link
If you mash up "Trigger Cut"/"Fillmore Jive" you get:
filled with... rocks & sand
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 15 February 2019 21:26 (five years ago) link
I didn't see and can't find the original post, so sorry for not giving credit, but went looking based on that "Melody in F" text in the corner, and this looks like it:https://www.discogs.com/release/5277469-Beer-Garden-Piano/images
Sorry to whoever originally found it, please do post here!
(There are some other, uhhh, classic cover pics in the Barrel Fingers Barry oeuvre)
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 15 February 2019 22:44 (five years ago) link
Cool, thanks!
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Friday, 15 February 2019 23:17 (five years ago) link
happy 30th
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 23:31 (three months ago) link
Oh hell.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 23:43 (three months ago) link
Come on now, talk about your family
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 15 February 2024 00:30 (three months ago) link
Damn
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 15 February 2024 00:35 (three months ago) link
upto the top of steve shasta gulch
― mookieproof, Thursday, 15 February 2024 00:42 (three months ago) link
write it on a postcard
― brimstead, Thursday, 15 February 2024 01:57 (three months ago) link
in the city we forgot to name
― tylerw, Thursday, 15 February 2024 02:53 (three months ago) link
his telephone was found
― atmospheric river phoenix (morrisp), Thursday, 15 February 2024 03:03 (three months ago) link
She is the queen of the House of California (Casa Pasadena), thrill
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 15 February 2024 03:24 (three months ago) link
don't listen to your grandmother's advice about us, you're solid, kid
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 15 February 2024 04:11 (three months ago) link
goodnightto the rock 'n' roll era
― alpine static, Thursday, 15 February 2024 06:48 (three months ago) link