"Stephen Malkmus": "whimsical indie rock" or something greater?

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I think I taped over my copy of the first SM album. The only song I really actually enjoyed listening to was Church on White, the rest of the songs were just too... busy. Cluttered with guitar parts. And some of his lyrics - especially Jenny and the Ess-Dog and that Pirate Song were so insufferably smug and self-satisfied I just couldn't take it. It was like he lost all sense of subtlety and ambiguity and made these incredibly crappy story-songs with too many guitar solos. Blech. (I think Terror Twilight is okay and that Brighten the Corners is great - SM Suxx0r U ALL R GAY gygax!)

Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 1 July 2004 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link

dynamic calories is great, fo' sho.

M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 1 July 2004 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link

his 2 solo albums > pavement's last 2 albums

NO

AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 1 July 2004 18:45 (nineteen years ago) link

brighten the corners is pavement's best.
i sincerely believe this.

aa, Friday, 2 July 2004 02:31 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...
I like "Dynamic Calories" and "Fractions and Feelings" (from the bonus CD that came with Pig Lib) better than any other Malkmus solo stuff.

alex in montreal, Friday, 16 July 2004 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link

thirteen years pass...

This cover was purportedly considered for the s/t:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T3yPsQnwRo

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 31 March 2018 19:59 (six years ago) link

I like "Dynamic Calories" and "Fractions and Feelings" (from the bonus CD that came with Pig Lib) better than any other Malkmus solo stuff.
― alex in montreal, Friday, July 16, 2004 9:24 AM (thirteen years ago)

Seconded (13 yrs. later)

absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 20:00 (six years ago) link

those are fantastic songs. as is 'sin taxi'

loud horn beeping jazzsplaining arse (dog latin), Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:29 (six years ago) link

FSR I had an urge to hear that song "Do Not Feed the Oyster," so I dialed it up -- pretty jammin'!

(I do wish that the "Pig Lib" bonus EP was on Spotify, tho -- all those songs are gr8.)

absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link

Found the traxx on YouseTube. I luv the solo/bridge/breakdown portions of "Old Jerry" so much (pretty much the entire 2nd half of the song).

absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 19:25 (six years ago) link

(Not all 5 traxx are up there; but I did find the original version of "The Poet and the Witch," by Mellow Candle, which is cool.)

absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link


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