#472

Malk’s singing on Jenny and the Ess Dog is superb! Really going for it with the crooning. Don’t think I’ve heard him do it on any other song

#473

I have to admit, it’s the one of his I know least well - detached style combined with long jams is a tough outer shell to crack.

I might give it another go now though.

#474

I hammered his first album when it came out (along with those other early post Pavement albums from PSOI and Marble Valley), so I’ve got a lot of fondness for it.

I read Burmese Days on the back of Pink India, which became one of my favourite novels and Church On White is one of the most gorgeous songs he’s written (I think it’s about the passing of a friend).

It’s very Steve Malkmus that it contains his most direct straightforward lyrics of his career, but that the subject matter of those songs is stuff like the career development of a pirate, a middle ranking bureaucrat in colonial India and the failed relationship of a couple of jaded hipsters!

On 1% of One, that was probably the least surprising song from Pig Lib at the time - he trailed it pretty hard in the build up to its release and from fading memory, it’s the one he chose when doing radio sessions etc.

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#475

Worth it for the title track!

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#476

I read Burmese Days a few years ago and enjoyed it (though not one of my favourite Orwells, I generally prefer his non fiction) but I’ve never really paid attention to the lyrics on Pink India, I’ll have to go back and listen a bit closer

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#477

The lyrics to it are great!

There once was an empire chase
Known as a great, great game
And one of it’s rooks came from stoke-on-trent
And mortimer was his name

:grinning:

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#478

Always makes me think of Bob

Mortimer, not Nastanovich!

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#479

I’ve had a lot of Pavement in my collection since the 1990s but it is only in recent years I’ve realised how much I like them. Crooked Rain is probably my favourite album.

I need to spend some time with Malkmus’ albums. I’ve liked the last couple but hadn’t paid much attention to the earlier ones.

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#480
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#481

This was a fun read, even if drawing 40% of an alternative ‘greatest hits’ from Westing is an unusual move!

Grave Architecture is one of my favourite Pavement songs though, so happy to see its inclusion.

#482

listening to Trigger Cut/Wounded Knife and the chorus sounds eerily similar to something Cloud Nothings would record

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#483

Two live albums from 1997 now on bandcamp (confusingly they both have the same title)

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#484

Nice. Might hold off until Friday so they can get the max £

#485

Think these were the vinyl live albums they gave away with preorders of the brighten the corners boxsets. Nice to have them digitally

#486

some great quotes from Malkmus

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#487

Oh ffs

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#488

:open_mouth:

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#489

At last!

#490

Just spent £50 on a second hand copy of ‘Perfect Sound Forever’, the Pavement biography. Seller won’t even send it to Ireland so I have to get it sent to my brother, who will then send it to me.

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#491

Whoa! Didn’t realise it was rare at all. I bought a second hand copy a few years ago, can’t have been more than a fiver!