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which is your favorite?

Poll Results

OptionVotes
2. "Box Elder" 10
16. "Debris Slide" 8
6. "Forklift" 4
13. "From Now On" 3
21. "Baptist Blacktick" 3
1. "You're Killing Me" 2
19. "Summer Babe" 2
9. "Internal K-Dart" 1
17. "Home" 1
4. "She Believes" 1
20. "Mercy: The Laundromat" 0
18. "Krell Vid-User" 0
22. "My First Mine" 0
15. "Drive-by Fader" 0
14. "Angel Carver Blues/Mellow Jazz Docent" 0
12. "Heckler Spray" 0
11. "Recorder Grot (Rally)" 0
10. "Perfect Depth" 0
8. "Recorder Grot" 0
7. "Spizzle Trunk" 0
5. "Price Yeah!" 0
3. "Maybe Maybe" 0
23. "My Radio"0


69, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

Box motherfuckin' Elder.

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

"You're Killing Me" is my favorite Pixies song.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

STOP BEING CLEVER

69, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

Oooh tough one. Gotta go with "Forklift" but also thinking fondly of:

"Heckler Spray"
"Angel Carver Blues/Mellow Jazz Docent"
"My First Mine"
"Baptist Blacktick"
"From Now On"
"Perfect Depth"

"You're Killing Me" doesn't sound like any Pixies song I know. I guess he mentions a whore, which sounds like the kind of thing Black Francis would sing about.

Mr. Que, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

That guitar riff is pure Surfer Rosa.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

STOP BEING CLEVER

Waah, it's a Pavement thread.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

debris slide over here for sure

69, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

^^ second choice

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

Perfect Sound Forever > > >the various singles on this thing > > >Demolition Plot J-7 > > > Slay Tracks

Mr. Que, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

U RONG

69, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

okay that is cool. tell me how i am wrong

Mr. Que, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

PSF does have "debris slide," but its more just like not-as-good S&E style stuff, which of course rules, but the slay tracks stuff is so fucking bizarre and awesome, and not really replicated or improved upon later in their career

69, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

She Believes is pretty awes.

Mr. Que, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

ba da ba da ba

DEBRIS SLIDE

dmr, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

WHOA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEvWbwa_1iQ

dmr, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

"Debris Slide" is the clear winner here, a rocker not really like anything else they ever did. In my heart I probably love "Summer Babe" more but I can't really justify that love.

Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

"Price Yeah!" is also pretty great.

o. nate, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

(Though I'm still voting for "Box Elder".)

o. nate, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

box elder is probably my runner-up

dmr, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

a rocker not really like anything else they ever did

I think it's like a lot of other things they did! that track wouldn't be out of place on slanted at all

dmr, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

box elders the new order rip off right?

artdamages, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

what was the question you asked me?

Mr. Que, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

I really gotta listen to this someday. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow... well, maybe tomorrow, if I d/l it tonight.

ledge, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

new order? I don't think so

dmr, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

unless there's something I'm missing

dmr, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

baptissblacktick

ian, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

Box Elder no contest

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

Perfect Depth

Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

debris slide is one of my fave pavement tracks ever.

Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

Slow-Mo
Got his hand stuck in the kitchen sink
It was his birthday tomorrow
And he couldn't resist
But he never found a sign on his second skin
At least he knows how the other half lives
Inside a little room about four inches wide
With windows glued shut,
And air that stinks
But he only saw the kitchen
And the bath
He should be thankful
So thankful

That all's ok with her

And I wasted
No one's precious time
Like I wasted, I wasted all
Your precious time, precious time
Was a sorry thing to do
Was a sorry thing for you
Cuz I wasted,
I wasted it all on you...

Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

Forklift or Home

wanko ergo sum, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

From Now On, on a whim over Forklift

da croupier, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

summer babe ftw

roxymuzak, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

pretty sure Boxelder sounds a lot like a song from Technique. but i cant remember which and only have it on tape.

artdamages, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

love less i think

wanko ergo sum, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

but technique came out two weeks after slay traxxx!

69, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

maybe SM downloaded a promo version of Technique from OINK right before he went into the studio

Mr. Que, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

man, I love this one. gotta go w/ Blacktick. Box Elder right there, though.

will, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Thursday, 1 November 2007 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

I stand by my "Debris Slide" pick but dmr is right, on further reflection it is not at all unlike later traxxxxxx.

Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 1 November 2007 00:55 (eighteen years ago)

Internal K-Dart. First time I ever taped a record because I knew otherwise I'd wear it out. You get two totally rocked out songs for the price of one, and the transition between them halfway through is perfect.

Steve Shasta thanks for posting the Perfect Depth lyrics! I always wondered but half are so buried I gave up on figuring it out.

dad a, Thursday, 1 November 2007 02:02 (eighteen years ago)

debris slide but it only just inches out a bunch of others

electricsound, Thursday, 1 November 2007 02:31 (eighteen years ago)

perfect depth being second

electricsound, Thursday, 1 November 2007 02:31 (eighteen years ago)

Debris Slide or Box Elder for me... I can't decide *cry*

Trayce, Thursday, 1 November 2007 04:08 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ILX System, Friday, 2 November 2007 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

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Mark G, Friday, 2 November 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

I stand by my "Debris Slide" pick but dmr is right, on further reflection it is not at all unlike later traxxxxxx.

I voted for it too

so close :(

dmr, Friday, 2 November 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

OK, let's see if dmr agrees with this: given that _Westing_ is to later Pavement as _Distant Plastic Trees / The Wayward Bus_ is to later Magnetic Fields, we should see songs like "Summer Babe" and "Box Elder" as analogous to "Candy" and "You Love to Fail" -- songs which are terrific in their own right but who owe more to the band's founding influences than their more mature work will. And "Debris Slide" is more like "100,000 Fireflies," the moment at which the band's true sound breaks free and reveals itself for the first time.

Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 2 November 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

i agree on "box elder," but i think "summer babe" is pretty fully pavement!

pretzel walrus, Friday, 2 November 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

also that "debris slide" vid upthread fucking RULES

pretzel walrus, Friday, 2 November 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

fuck yeah it does

dmr, Friday, 2 November 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think I know Mag Fields well enuff to comment on that analogy

but yeah Debris Slide and Summer Babe add more hooks in with the noisy Fall type stuff

dmr, Friday, 2 November 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

twelve years pass...

Interesting timeline stuff:

March 1989 - Slay Tracks recorded in Stockton during Spiral's spring break from ASU (Phoenix/Tempe, AZ)
April-October 1989 - Malkmus backpacks around the Middle/Near East and parts of Eastern Europe for 6 months
November 1989 - Demolition Plot recorded during Spiral's thanksgiving break from ASU
December 1989 - Perfect Sound Forever recorded during Spiral's winter break from ASU

All this "We're a Stockton band" they pushed in their early press/zine coverage is pretty funny, Gary was the only one living in the area.

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 16:06 (five years ago)

(Malkmus was living in Brooklyn/Hoboken prior & after this gap year.)

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 16:11 (five years ago)

I recently re-read the first half of the Rob Jovanovic book, and was also struck by the timelines and good fortune (well, earned, thanks to the material) of how everything took off with those early EPs.

“Pizza House!” (morrisp), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 16:33 (five years ago)

Perfect Sound Forever and Watery, Domestic are probably their best releases in retrospect

avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 16:42 (five years ago)

Watery, D is just immaculate, even being 25% "filler". It works

life is beauitul (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 17:04 (five years ago)

I love reading glowing fanzine reviews of the early EPs, reprinted in that book. Everyone just "got it"... someone was like, "In 10 years, there will be Pavement tribute albums." Think of all the bands that pressed up 1000 copies of a self-produced 7" around that time, and still have 900 copies in their garage... SM/Spiral/Gary happened to have the goods, and reaped the rewards. (I guess this is a "Westing" thread, though, so I could take this elsewhere.)

“Pizza House!” (morrisp), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 18:22 (five years ago)

well, Westing is a compilation of the early singles so

avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 18:24 (five years ago)

Uhhhh, you're right... I was confusing the title w/"Watery" (mentioned directly above my post)!

“Pizza House!” (morrisp), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 18:28 (five years ago)

Kind of related (given the opening tracks): https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/pavement-alternate-top-10

“Pizza House!” (morrisp), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 19:18 (five years ago)


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