lol i have basically the same history with BTC. bought it around 98, listened to it several times and was bored.slapped it on a couple years later and was like "ok wtf every song here is great"
― brimstead, Thursday, 8 March 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link
Was my first Pavement album but would suggest it as an entry point due it's slow-medium tempos for much of it. Was there a reason given for Harness Your Hopes being a b-side? And even then, why did it wait until the following album releases for it to come out?
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 8 March 2018 19:18 (six years ago) link
Now here are the best albums, ranked.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 August 2018 01:32 (five years ago) link
brighten the corners is fine. it's fine! it is not better than crooked rain
― mookieproof, Monday, 27 August 2018 01:50 (five years ago) link
LOL – I’m not even clicking
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Monday, 27 August 2018 01:53 (five years ago) link
me neither, not after mookie's comment
― alpine static, Monday, 27 August 2018 02:04 (five years ago) link
It's all the same album, dudes.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 August 2018 02:05 (five years ago) link
lol what
― k3vin k., Monday, 27 August 2018 02:17 (five years ago) link
the #1 is otm though
― k3vin k., Monday, 27 August 2018 02:19 (five years ago) link
great TT blurb
― k3vin k., Monday, 27 August 2018 02:22 (five years ago) link
thanks
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 August 2018 02:32 (five years ago) link
tough to get worked up about a ranking of.....five albums
― call all destroyer, Monday, 27 August 2018 02:33 (five years ago) link
That's the fun part. It's like arguing about Joy Division.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 August 2018 02:36 (five years ago) link
I wonder if someday I'll go back to Terror Twilight and really *feel* it the way I do the other four records.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 27 August 2018 03:22 (five years ago) link
BTC gone down and TT gone up in my estimation throughout the years.
Too much mid-paced torpor on BTC and I really like the shiny Godrich production on TT now.
― . (Michael B), Monday, 27 August 2018 08:09 (five years ago) link
Don't agree Alfred re your low ranking of Crooked Rain, nor your take on "Cut Your Hair."
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 August 2018 14:44 (five years ago) link
It's Slanted And Enchanted. And Crooked Rain would be my #1, though I love Wowee Zowee, too.
― canary christ (stevie), Monday, 27 August 2018 14:56 (five years ago) link
alfred's rankings otm, btc over cr only by a hair
― devvvine, Monday, 27 August 2018 16:05 (five years ago) link
btc has the benefit of not having 'hit the plane down'
― devvvine, Monday, 27 August 2018 16:08 (five years ago) link
i prefer hit the plane down to the two spiral stinkers on btc
― mizzell, Monday, 27 August 2018 17:00 (five years ago) link
I quite like "Date With Ikea"
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 27 August 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
wowee zowie is obviously the best and TT is really good
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 27 August 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link
crooked rain will always be my favorite. it came out on valentine's day 1994, a month and change before kurt cobain blew his head off. an uncannily timed meta-"rock" record, "unfair" as dorm eulogy 1, and then 'the elegant bachelors', and "there's no survivors", and "good night to the rock n roll era" . . .
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 27 August 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link
btw I seem to be that rare Pavement stan who really likes the SS songs
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 27 August 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
I don't mind the SS songs at all.
Terror Twilight would've been at least 8 times better had Side 2 opened up with something like "For Sale: tPSoI" instead of "Ann Don't Cry".
― pplains, Monday, 27 August 2018 21:43 (five years ago) link
I'm kind of Wowee Zowee>Everything Else. I wonder if Watery, Domestic is still as great as I thought it was at the time.
― campreverb, Monday, 27 August 2018 21:50 (five years ago) link
it still has frontwards, texas never whispers and shoot the singer so yes /cif
― a roomba of one's own (rip van wanko), Monday, 27 August 2018 21:54 (five years ago) link
huh Watery, Domestic (or the expanded Slanted and Enchanted) are not up on (UK) Spotify. Finally a reason it wasn't stupid to have spent £10 on 10 minutes of music at Zhivago Records in Galway in 1997.
anyway Alfred's ranking is OTM
― A Box of After Dinner Comics Shipped to Your House Each Month (seandalai), Monday, 27 August 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
uh... Watery, Domestic still remains the best 12 minutes of music ever released.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 27 August 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link
good mourning!
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 August 2018 22:11 (five years ago) link
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, August 27, 2018
The sparkle of that twelve-string intro never fails to grab me. Then SS sings the non-chorus and I've flopped out of his arms.
The actress? She's always breaking things.
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 27 August 2018 22:16 (five years ago) link
fair
― mookieproof, Monday, 27 August 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link
I quite like the SS songs too!
― . (Michael B), Monday, 27 August 2018 22:47 (five years ago) link
uh... Watery, Domestic still remains the best 12 minutes of music ever released.― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion)
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion)
Gary Young at his best. The entire Watery, Domestic recording session is insane:
Texas Never WhispersFrontwardsFeed em to the Lions (Linden)Shoot the Singer (1 Sick Verse)Sue Me JackSo Stark (You're A Skyscraper)Greenlander
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 27 August 2018 23:02 (five years ago) link
yeah I listened to “watery” a few days ago and it’s still as great as it was the first time. their best release maybe
― k3vin k., Monday, 27 August 2018 23:42 (five years ago) link
def the best bang for your buck. SE/CR/WZ all have more quantity of quality, but also so-so spots. WD is perfect, but only for 4 tracks.
― alpine static, Monday, 27 August 2018 23:47 (five years ago) link
also, Albert R. Broccoli otm xxpost
Where are Malkmus' tax returns?
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 00:25 (five years ago) link
The way the river bends, etc.
Yep, still a beaut. If I had any time (or sense of where the issue is now) I'd dig out the copy of YOUR FLESH magazine that wrongly slammed this EP.
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 01:35 (five years ago) link
watery domestic is so so excellent
― canary christ (stevie), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 11:57 (five years ago) link
I was listening yesterday and noticed for the first time that the twangy bass (or guitar?) that opens Greenlander also shows up toward the end of Shoot The Singer
― a roomba of one's own (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 12:12 (five years ago) link
Great snapshot of pre-S&E Pavement -- summer 1991 show at the Middle East just popped up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Cd56fHNFg
― city worker, Friday, 26 October 2018 13:30 (five years ago) link
some good gary young content here
― devvvine, Friday, 26 October 2018 13:46 (five years ago) link
I saw a teenager this summer at a grocery store in my small, middle-of-nowhere home town wearing a red S&E t-shirt and it pleased me greatly.
― joygoat, Friday, 26 October 2018 14:04 (five years ago) link
Wonder where he found it. I don’t get why ‘90s indie bands haven’t been able to cash in on the retro T-shirt craze... I feel like there should be Sebadoh tees at Hot Topic.
― greta van vliet (morrisp), Friday, 26 October 2018 14:28 (five years ago) link
(Also — I didn’t know that Bob was playing with them that early on.)
― greta van vliet (morrisp), Friday, 26 October 2018 14:30 (five years ago) link
It's been so long since I listened to Pavement that when I was watching a bit of that I heard a song I half recognized and thought, hmm, where do I know that song from? And then instantly realized, oh yeah, it's a Pavement song.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 26 October 2018 14:37 (five years ago) link
google search shows that red s&e t shirts are available on the walmart website.
― wmlynch, Friday, 26 October 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
!!
(...it says "Out of Stock," but still!)
― greta van vliet (morrisp), Friday, 26 October 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link