this album was my introduction to Pavement, still love it. i was driving back to Los Angeles from San Francisco with five other friends. we were all into music so we each picked a CD (or two) for the ride home. my friend Mike pulls out a cassette, tells us that he just got this album and that we will probably all hate it. it was only about an hour into our ride home but after awhile we stopped talking and just listened, then we played it again.
went with "Range Life"
― Bee OK, Thursday, 6 September 2007 00:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I had to listen to this album on the way to work today to be able to vote. So so many great songs. It's not an original choice but I gotta go with Cut Yr Hair.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 6 September 2007 13:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Elevate Me Later
― I know, right?, Thursday, 6 September 2007 22:52 (sixteen years ago) link
i just still don't like the fckg song all that much.
Ah ok, that's what it was. Well, fortunately for Pavement, you weren't working for Matador at the time.
-- Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 09:59 (Yesterday) Link
yeah, like i was saying i wished i'd been there choosing the first single off the album........you patronising tosser. fortunately for pavement i still bought their singles even if the a-side was lame, cos i was a fan and i liked their music.
a song's hook alone (e.g. ooh) doesn't make it a good song, let alone a good single.
― whatever, Thursday, 6 September 2007 23:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I voted for hit the plane down just because I never really thought of the song too much until I saw all of the insane irrational hate for it here.
― filthy dylan, Thursday, 6 September 2007 23:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I have insane irrational hate for Silence Kit
― I know, right?, Thursday, 6 September 2007 23:15 (sixteen years ago) link
whatever, "Cut Your Hair" was THE song that got me into Pavement in the first place. Whether you think its good or not, it did just what it was intended to do. And I'm sure I'm not the only one.
It must be such a burden to have more refined tastes than everyone else.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 6 September 2007 23:15 (sixteen years ago) link
It's not the fucking ooohs-- it's the lyrics, it's the way they make it work despite never changing the chord progression, it's that it's the best example of the mocking seriousness about rock that makes this album so goddamn wonderful.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 6 September 2007 23:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I never said a hook alone makes a good single (and I was never talking about "Cut Your Hair" as a song, good or bad). But once you unruffle your feathers, please let us know what you think makes a good single. Seriously. I want to know.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 6 September 2007 23:40 (sixteen years ago) link
arrrgggghhhhh
― whatever, Thursday, 6 September 2007 23:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Newark Wilder is my fave Pavement song ever, OK tied with "We Dance"
― wanko ergo sum, Thursday, 6 September 2007 23:50 (sixteen years ago) link
that last "stuff me" is like all of INDIE stuufed into one second of song
― wanko ergo sum, Thursday, 6 September 2007 23:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Johnny Fever, great you love the song and it got you into the band, but you're misreading me if you think i'm trying to say my taste in pavement is "more refined" than "everyone else"'s. i love(d) the band and (especially) this album, but out of the 12 tracks on it I'd take 11 of them before 'cut your hair'. it's personal preference, not point-scoring.
― whatever, Friday, 7 September 2007 00:00 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, September 6, 2007 11:40 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
kevin, i've no idea what makes a good single per se. popular ones apparently sell well. the ones that sell well are apparently popular.
laurie anderson - o superman; bob dylan - like a rolling stone; elvis presley - hound dog; althea & donna - uptown top ranking. all popular singles, but what is the point in trying to work out what common ground they share other than acknowledging their chart success?
music isn't maths. duke ellington said "if it sounds good it is good", and only half of that is right.
― whatever, Friday, 7 September 2007 00:13 (sixteen years ago) link
why did i make this poll so long
anyway, I went with elevate
― dmr, Saturday, 8 September 2007 03:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Will anyone make a case for "Heaven Is A Truck?"
I always thought this woulda fit right in on Wowee Zowee. It sorta pre-empts "Grounded," to my ears...
I thought this too as Wowee Zowee has so much half-done mediocrity on it.
― Cunga, Saturday, 8 September 2007 03:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm seriously torn... nah I'll just have to skip this one, every single track on CR, CR is beyond perfect so it would be a total waste of my breath
페이브먼트짱!!!!
― Mellow Jazz Docent, Monday, 10 September 2007 17:55 (sixteen years ago) link
This is incredibly difficult.
Two weeks ago I listened to this for the first time in a year and have probably listened to it ten times since.
Eh fuck it, Gold Soundz it is.
― duestown, Monday, 10 September 2007 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
im tired of all the POLLS
― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 01:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow! I didn't see this coming.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 23:27 (sixteen years ago) link
inneresting results, laidbacktrax have it
― whatever, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 23:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Gold zoundz is ace. n1.
― W4LTER, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 23:29 (sixteen years ago) link
this thread is full of punks they got spikes
― mookieproof, Thursday, 13 September 2007 03:28 (sixteen years ago) link
how the hell did Silence Kit and Fillmore Jive score so low???
― Stevie D, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:15 (sixteen years ago) link
they've always had their hataz
― ledge, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:20 (sixteen years ago) link
goodnight to the rock and roll era
― Mr. Que, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:21 (sixteen years ago) link
why you complainin'
TA!
xpost OTM
i'm drunk.
― duestown, Saturday, 15 September 2007 07:58 (sixteen years ago) link
released 25 years ago today
― mookieproof, Thursday, 14 February 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link
good night to the rock and roll era
― we're far from the challops now (voodoo chili), Thursday, 14 February 2019 16:43 (five years ago) link
/error
― large bananas pregnant (ledge), Thursday, 14 February 2019 16:43 (five years ago) link
newark wilder doesn't get enough love
― we're far from the challops now (voodoo chili), Thursday, 14 February 2019 16:58 (five years ago) link
https://chainedandperfumed.com/2011/01/23/luck-on-every-finger-part-two/
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 14 February 2019 18:04 (five years ago) link
https://chainedandperfumed.com/2009/03/08/luck-on-every-finger/
haha, look how excited malkmus ishttp://matadorrecords.tumblr.com/post/182807378494/mat-rcocrcr25
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 February 2019 18:12 (five years ago) link
oh and this album is still great!
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 February 2019 18:13 (five years ago) link
"Cut Your Hair" is our generation's "We're An American Band"
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 14 February 2019 18:17 (five years ago) link
https://www.theringer.com/music/2019/2/14/18224287/pavement-crooked-rain-25th-anniversary-range-life-cut-your-hair-gold-soundz
― mookieproof, Thursday, 14 February 2019 18:36 (five years ago) link
Those National Geographic finds are great
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Thursday, 14 February 2019 18:57 (five years ago) link
― 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