Stephen Malkmus

P. good. Also I'm in love with that girl

j smoov better be about detroit pistons' josh smith

The cover sucks so hard

but the title owns

xpost Malkmus is a basketball fan, so it probably is.

Well, he probably got the name directly from josh smith, in any case. I don't imagine Malkmus actually wrote a ballad about him.

j smoove bricks have inspired a lot of depressing feelings the hearts of many men. it's an underrated subject

has SM made any statements about Lou Reed's passing?

nah, he did this though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ-fi_2uYgc

Inexplicable decision to leave that off Brighten The Corners.

Nah, that is one of my favorite Pavement tracks all time, but it's the epitome of a fucking awesome b-side

ok love this song and 100% surprised he hadn't already gotten to the "we lived on Tennyson and Venison and the Grateful Dead" lyric before now, such an all-time Malkmus line!

This song is completely awful.

Scattegories

it's spelled Scattergories though?

Wig Out At Jagbags is inspired by Cologne, Germany, Mark Von Schlegell, Rosemarie Trockel, Von Spar and Jan Lankisch, Can and Gas; Stephen-Malkmus-imagined Weezer/Chili Peppers, Sic Alps, UVA in the late 80′s, NYRB, Aroma Charlottenburg, inactivity, Jamming, Indie guys trying to sound Memphis, Flipper, Pete Townshend, Pavement, The Joggers, The NBA and home life in the 2010′s...

song is good. lyrics are kinda dumb. haven't really been feeling him on the lyric front post-Pig Lib - but i haven't actually purchased or spent any significant amount of time with any of those records, either.

http://www.splicetoday.com/music/an-empty-gesture-where-the-cover-should-be

it's an album cover, man

man grumpy people are really getting desperate in creating covers (see what i did there?) for their real agenda of thinkpieces bemoaning how times are changing and how people don't experience albums like they SHOULD.

i'm not sure why people hate the cover...seems fine to me.

everyone knows parquet courts have taken over the pavementy album cover gambit

hate the title but love the cover. song sounds good but i've thought that the past few albums and then never had any urge to revisit them after a month or so.

needs it's own thread

or deserves one, a new album is good news and one in 2013 works.

on board with that new song. his best since the solo debut? i shouldn't say that ... I haven't given anything since a ton of spins.

that tune has a nice fuzzy laid-back vibe a la CRCR, tho.

no idea what that videos all about. another bizarre clip from SM.

new album, full stream:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1001922841

sounding very good on first listen

really like this; it might be second to pig lib for me.

Heard "Stick Figures In Love" today and to these ears it sounded like something off an early MBV EP (Ecstasy or Strawberry Wine?)

Okay, so they closed the encore last night at the Bowery with a great new song apparently called "Kite In A Closet".

Now here's the thing (cue Boards of Canada marketing campaign anthem):

As of right this moment (2/27/2014, 3:35pm EST) if you google "kite in a closet" (with quotes), you get only about 10 results...

One of which is an ILX thread, this message in particular:
Kites

help us out here...where you goin' with this

Big Malk a.k.a. the Pavedriver

chocolate malk

If anyone cares, Malkmus is on WTF today: http://wtfpod.libsyn.com/episode-493-stephen-malkmus

any good?

Just about to start listening.

it's not bad. not great but not his worst

Heard "Stick Figures In Love" today and to these ears it sounded like something off an early MBV EP (Ecstasy or Strawberry Wine?)

I dunno those MBV songs but "Stick Figures in Love" rules.

Happy bday Malkmus, still nifty at 50.

Does Maron talk vaguely about the two Pavement albums he had in college for the duration, lacking a grasp of song titles etc. as usual

Dunno why ppl like that guy (Maron), he's so annoying and not an especially great interviewer

does anyone like him?

He seems to be very popular

He lived too late to be a great prog-rocker, which is a loss to us all. His whole career is sort of like Peter Hammill accidentally joins Swell Maps.

Jicks' Dead cover on that new tribute thing is pretty damn good.

One of only 6 tunes I ripped from that lousy thing before giving it away to a friend who loves Real Estate

i was taken aback by that cover, it sort of lurches along in a weird way for me. although i'm used to the medley on europe 72 which just feels so effortless. i'll have to give another listen

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/middle-america/

love this new one

wow that's great

Co-sign