Stephen Malkmus

at least two of the new songs they played sounded like the doors to me. i can't decide if that's a good thing.

1. The Zombies "Time of the Season"
2. Yoko Ono "Walking on Thin Ice"

no, sir. i am not. if i'm anything, it's disappointed that someone w/ so much potential. so little returns

idk where 2 put this but i liked this a lot in 2005 and it's still dear 2 me

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6424258467693494613

now stefan malkamus is walking around w/ my face

This is a very good and interesting interview!
http://www.cowbellmagazine.com/home/2011/8/1/rule-portlandia.html

Good interview but interjections like this remind me why I hate (music) journalism:

In the time of Ke$ha and Katy Perry, in the post-empire era of the music-industrial complex, when radio has become the horse-drawn carriage of the Information Age, songs no longer “mean a lot when songs are bought.”

What does this even mean?

I'm so jealous he's moving to Berlin.

What does this even mean?

I think he's trying to say that it doesn't matter as much as it used to to get a song on the radio.

http://mentholmountains.blogspot.com/2011/08/la-guns-intangible-showdown.html#more

haha

I don't want anybody to get hurt.
I can just see the two factions healing their schism
and coming after you with both barrels blazin.
These headbangers are angry and vindictive.
They've been looking for revenge since '92
and let's face it--
you weren't far from the scene of the crime.

new album sounds good! streaming on the npr today.

lol

Yeah, the new album sounds really good. I've got the NPR thing streaming the thing in full so I'm not sure of the exact track name I'm on right now, but the guitar workout a couple tracks after "Senator" is awesome.

this album is kinda crazy. all over the place. some of it sounds like demos to me. liking the alex chilton-y Tune Grief.

no one is (as i are be) sounds like ode to billie joe.

so excited to listen to this!

"gorgeous georgie" is song titles v much in character

i'm only half-listening to this but this is real clean sounding - the short track lengths and the lightness of his vocals give it this real airy feel. it's all very agreeable, this sounds like the style i want malk to be going for at this stage in his career. i think i'm going to like this

each song is a jam. another great album. malkmus solo > pavement

http://www.avclub.com/articles/stephen-malkmus-forced-to-rename-his-album-out-of,60486/

"fall away" is really nice

"stick figures in love"

Yeah I was just listening to this earlier thinking Fall Away is my favourite song, it's really sweet. The whole album is really enjoyable.

one of these nights i'll have to listen to this when i haven't been drinking but i'm pretty sure i like this album a good amount

there was an ad for the this in spotify telling me to listen to it so i clicked on it and it wasn't available for me to play

this album is already growing on me big time

there was an ad for the this in spotify telling me to listen to it so i clicked on it and it wasn't available for me to play

Yeah, that happened to me too. The ad's popped up several times a day for the past couple of days, not sure who's to blame for that one, but its annoying to keep getting promised something I can't listen to. Luckily we have the NPR stream for now.

ok serious lols at that whole mail exchange

you never know what an unsophisticated consumer might think.

yeah honestly, berman and malkmus need to make another record again.

While I feel a little jaded on the whole Malkmus Schtik this record sounds like his best set of songs since Crooked Rain.

!

that's a big claim

more like dinglepicker

Yeah well it is a big claim I suppose, but I didn't really rate the consistency of latter period Pavement myself. And found the other solo records, apart from the first to be collections of mostly jams in search of songs, or an excuse to show us how much he had improved his soloing. As I implied upthread I'm a bit over his whole style anyway and so I can't say my comment comes for someone who is truly invested and cares deeply about the guys work anymore. I feel a lot more detached than I was when Westing or Slanted or Watery Domestic came out and he meant everything to me. I listen to his stuff now out of respect for those earlier records but not expecting much. Hell, its only a claim - an early claim at that, I've only listened a couple of times and was pleasantly surprised- if unexcited. Thanks anyway Buzza for yer constructive and enlightening reply.

first malkmus solo album was his best set of songs since 'crooked rain.' pavement is his buffalo springfield and the jicks his crazy horse. looking forward to seeing these new jams live

bullshit analogy imo, and i like solo Malkmus

pavement kind of sucked after their first two albums

die

this is awesome partly because it is sooo late pavement

be mellow bro

i was just foolin

Yeah I see the sound of this as somewhere between Wowee Zowee and Brighten the Corners and as being overall more consistent than both. It has the kind of laid back, off the cuff feel of WZ combined with some of the more elegant, composed BTC feel. Nothing as good as We Dance though, and maybe Grounded.

You guys get pretty 'het up' if anyone expresses an opinion different to your own, for Malkmus stuff. I don't feel like I am being unreasonable. Must be Sacred Cow syndrome. If you don't agree then explain why and get a conversation going- after all that's the point of this thread and board isn't it?

new board description

explain why and get a conversation going about music.com ??

maybe not. tee he.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/arts/music/stephen-malkmus-the-jicks-and-beck-mirror-traffic.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha28 Malkmus and Beck and bandmates

Mr. Malkmus generally stuck to his songwriting strategy of creating riffs inspired by favorite or recently heard songs and improvising his lyrics on the spot. (This accounts for tracks like “No One Is (As I Are Be),” which combines the gentle acoustic guitar of Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billie Joe” with the Malkmusian line “I cannot even do one sit-up, sit-ups are so bourgeoise.”) Mr. Hansen said he tried not to put his thumb on the scale too much, though he was sorry to see Mr. Malkmus lose a lyric that rhymed “Vietnam” with “lip balm.”

The decision to write and record “Mirror Traffic” before last year’s Pavement reunion tour, Mr. Malkmus acknowledged, was his, though he could not say for certain if that impending commitment had an effect on the album.

“I knew that it was coming,” he said, “so if people try to say it’s somehow Pavement-y, it could be in my mind, that I had to do that tour.” He corrected himself. “Or wanted to do that tour.”

I hate the way the article starts.

This, on the other hand, is a great quote:

“I don’t think Steve Malkmus gets wildly excited about much except fantasy sports,” said Janet Weiss

and whoa @ Beck producing Dwight Yoakam!

There was some talk over on the Malkmus POX thread, but this is probably a better place for it.

🙂

Sweeney-Kelly Sleater-Kinney double bill 2025

Newest detail is that they've landed on a name, The Hard Quartet. New social media accounts launched today.

interesting that it's being presented as a band not "Stephen Malkmus and ..." Could be cool!

Who’s gonna play bass?

Been getting my son into Pavement. He thinks it’s hilarious. Listening to crooked rain a lot and it’s crazy how much mileage they get out him as a vocalist on that album. His, what I’ll call slacker scat, where he creates these great melodies just riffing on the last word of the verse, are so catchy. Does anyone in rock sing like this anymore

Who’s gonna play bass?

― bbq, Tuesday, July 16, 2024 3:10 PM (fifty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

probably Matt Sweeney, he played bass on that Iggy Pop tour where he and Josh Homme were in the backing band

Nah man no one is going to play bass, bass is just a bring down, just gonna be VIBES man

Counterpoint: the triple bass attack is what will make the quartet "hard".

I like malk's voice and his singing – it's funny to read about it, I just listened to this podcast with Andy Richter where he's pretty open about how he felt bad for a while after some ex-bandmates told him his voice sucks. https://teamcoco.com/podcasts/the-three-questions-with-andy-richter/episodes/stephen-malkmus A nice interview really

The first time I remember hearing Pavement when I must have been about 17 or 18, I was struck by how sloppy and skew-whiff it all sounded. I don't hear it half as much in the music any more - it all sounds quite well played and structured. But what was it they were doing, specifically, that made me think this?

Matt's a great bass player, first time I saw him was in GBV playing bass circa Under The Bushes.

According to their Insta post today, the lineup is:

Malkmus: bass, guitar, vocals
Sweeney: bass, guitar, vocals
Kelly: bass, guitar, vocals
White: drums, vocals

wow i like basically all of the names they scribbled on the notepad more than the one they chose

for reference: https://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2024/07/IMG_9625-1720632519-844x1500.jpg

i would've gone with iron chai or the divorce doulas

Will it be on Matador or Drag City?

Matador still has a fax machine so probably them.

Ha ha, great reference

The Shaaak Jumpahs (to be spoken in an Aussie accent by Jim White--with respect to all these guys, this name/campaign has jumped off mighty rough IMO)

(or: Emm's Atomic Dustbin)

divorce doulas is so good

Been getting my son into Pavement. He thinks it’s hilarious. Listening to crooked rain a lot and it’s crazy how much mileage they get out him as a vocalist on that album. His, what I’ll call slacker scat, where he creates these great melodies just riffing on the last word of the verse, are so catchy. Does anyone in rock sing like this anymore

― Heez, Tuesday, July 16, 2024 3:59 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

The many ways he sings the word "underused" in "We Are Underused" are just incredible

divorce doulas is so good

That was my pick as well, but I get why they wouldn't use it.

xpost my favourite example of that is the catchy coda from 'Shoot The Singer': "don't expect, don't expect..."

I don't think I've even felt more seen by a lyric than: "It was Mudhoney summer, Torch of Mystics, Double Bummer."

setting the scenes

at last an indie supergroup to challenge the dominance of Shrinebuilder and Drag City Supersession

Was trying to think of a list of who Matt/Emmett/Jim have all backed/collaborated with before (albeit separately):

Will Oldham
Chan Marshall

been revisiting Mirror Traffic which seems to be the only solo malkmus album we don't have a bespoke thread for but it's my favorite. feels like the Wowee Zowee of his solo career

<3 Janet

It’s a strong one for sure.