Stephen Malkmus

Wow! Just read all this thread and I had previously been under the impression that most people liked Malkmus solo just as much or more than Pavement. I like the solo stuff more, I think Pig Lib is enormous fun and the best thing he ever done (tho I think I'm missing some Pavement eps, haven't heard his stuff with Robert Pollard and I've only heard my brother play the recent Malkmus album a couple of times, but it sounded very good).

No mention of "Wicked Wanda"? I really think that is one of the best songs he ever done. Real Emotional Trash is probably my second favourite.

you're definitely in the minority although i agree that most of his solo stuff is excellent and a little under-appreciated. i wouldn't put any solo album over any of pavement's first three, but everything else is about on the same plane for me

early pavement's not bad but his first two solo albums are my favorite things he's been involved with besides american water. what a charmed life dude's had. the grace kelly of indie rock indeed

i def listen to his solo stuff more than pavement these days, but not sure i would ever say it's better. pavement is so tied up with high school and tons of different personal stuff for me.
real emotional trash easily my least favorite of his solo albums though

I thought Face The Truth was the weakest, but still good. "Pencil Rot" was awesome. I hope he releases a b-side compilation someday, the Pig Lib bonus tracks were amazing. It scares me to think of how many good b-sides I've never heard by all sorts of bands. Waahhhhh, I wish singles didn't exist, everything is easier when they just stick to albums and eps.

Not mad on the last three albums, the first two are great though.

pig lib and real emotional trash are my favorites.

i really loved "mirror traffic". it is amazingly consistent and tuneful. i just realized that it is already two years old. has he done anything after that or is there something in the pipeline?

i think there is a new album finished, maybe coming out early next year?
i agree, mirror traffic is quite good. i dunno, i like most everything this guy does.

yup

re-fell in love with "jenny and the ess dog" this week after not hearing it for probably years, and actually paid attention to the lyrics this time. kind of brutal!

Have been re-acquainting myself with Pig Lib in the car this last week. Every track is a winner - top top album. Picked up Real Emotional Trash not long after it came out and it's still sitting in a box somewhere. Will dig it out.

OTM >>>

i def listen to his solo stuff more than pavement these days, but not sure i would ever say it's better. pavement is so tied up with high school and tons of different personal stuff for me.

― mizzell

if SM was a record label he'd be my answer to that "what record label best approximates your own personal taste?" thread.

xp: jenny + ess dog is so great...

i think there is a new album finished, maybe coming out early next year?

Lol at the Day Nasty reference, don't see many of those in 2013

dag neither

terrible cover

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/bp/malkmus-lp.jpg

01 Planetary Motion
02 The Janitor Revealed
03 Lariat
04 Houston Hades
05 Shibboleth
06 J Smoov
07 Rumble at the Rainbo
08 Chartjunk
09 Independence Street
10 Scattegories
11 Cinnamon and Lesbians
12 Surreal Teenagers

Ouch.

10 Scattegories

Lol

11 Cinnamon and Lesbians

tasty things that go together?

If ever tracklist cried out for Ilx precovers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYC5JASqWnI

into it

haw, nice sun city girls reference. i like it! actually has a crooked rain vibe, which is a little bit surprising.

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.