Awright, I guess I should stop beating around the bush and just say that in my humble opines Pavement is the best band there is. I think indie labels feel too self-conscious to make greatest hits packages, feeling that songs need to be heard in the context of their albums, or that such compilations are the province of K-Tel, et cetera. This forces me into the awkward position of trying to sequence all-Pavement mixtapes that NO ONE wants to hear, least of all my wife (tho she prefers these to the all-Destroyer mixes, which even I can’t listen to). “So, mix it up” you say. OK, I will: Here are five wonderful B-sides, EP and Lost tracks by the aforementioned. Five songs that were very difficult to get my hands on prior to the Matador reissues of the past few years.
So, to the guy who sent me the Pacific Trim 7″ in the early days of eBay, only I didn’t get it in Chicago and my dad didn’t tell me he’d received it in Denver and so I gave the guy a bad seller rating; and to the guy who made me a mix of all the Pavement singles on one red unmarked 90 minute cassette, which got me through two winters before unraveling at a house party at the home formerly known as “The Lesbian Meditation Center”; and to my children, my poor poor children, who have to deal with me incessantly quoting Stephen Malkmus whenever provoked by even the slightest proper noun (“There’s No Coast of Nebraska) I do dedicate these five songs by Pavement.
Spittin’ Superlatives Again
Awright, I guess I should stop beating around the bush and just say that in my humble opines Pavement is the best band there is. I think indie labels feel too self-conscious to make greatest hits packages, feeling that songs need to be heard in the context of their albums, or that such compilations are the province of K-Tel, et cetera. This forces me into the awkward position of trying to sequence all-Pavement mixtapes that NO ONE wants to hear, least of all my wife (tho she prefers these to the all-Destroyer mixes, which even I can’t listen to). “So, mix it up” you say. OK, I will: Here are five wonderful B-sides, EP and Lost tracks by the aforementioned. Five songs that were very difficult to get my hands on prior to the Matador reissues of the past few years.
So, to the guy who sent me the Pacific Trim 7″ in the early days of eBay, only I didn’t get it in Chicago and my dad didn’t tell me he’d received it in Denver and so I gave the guy a bad seller rating; and to the guy who made me a mix of all the Pavement singles on one red unmarked 90 minute cassette, which got me through two winters before unraveling at a house party at the home formerly known as “The Lesbian Meditation Center”; and to my children, my poor poor children, who have to deal with me incessantly quoting Stephen Malkmus whenever provoked by even the slightest proper noun (“There’s No Coast of Nebraska) I do dedicate these five songs by Pavement.
Pavement – No Tan Lines
Pavement – Haunt You Down
Pavement – Rooftop Gambler
Pavement – Easily Fooled
Pavement – I Love Perth
buy some pavement albums, for goodness sakes!