#301

Hard to overstate how different and bizarre pavement sounded to a 16 year old who only listened to feeder, the bluetones and guns n roses.

There’d obviously be loads of other parallels now and the way people explore music is different but my only exposure was through randomly downloading songs from Kazaa out of context, remember downloading Pueblo and thinking wtf is this?!

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#302

Had no concept of scenes or indie rock or anything back then, had never been in a record store either

#303

well, you’re very sweet to say so, but it is the awful truth.

#304

Remember getting obsessed with this weird scary song on slanted & enchanted that had all these tribal drums or something, can’t remember it now but I found it scary at the time.

Doubt that album holds up

#305

oh, Pavement for sure. I never thought they were a joke, just couldn’t quite fathom the appeal.

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#306

reckon you should ban @Kallgeese for a day for that :wink:

#307

Old man territory but it was properly exciting to steal music on a 56k modem, waiting in anticipation of a track for 30 minutes

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#308

This Pavement is good.
e255056752396023e00fc8c60b27ad9f--punkrock

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#309

Maybe it’s just that if you already had heard all the elements Pavement put together in one place elsewhere you didn’t care because it was just another band, but as they had so much hype, if you hadn’t it was easy to think they were something better and that was exciting. Like Oasis, but with actual talent.

#310

Can’t think of any other bands that sound like pavement really, who are the main ones?

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#311

^This. Never heard a band like them.

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#312

I once read an interview where Malkmus referred to this as their “Pavement for Offspring fans” song and it makes me smile whenever I hear it and the band kicks in!

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#313

:sleeping::sleeping::sleeping:

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#314

Taking malkmus’ lyrics aside, what’s their main thing like weird loose riffs on very clean guitars? Most other indie stuff that uses clean guitars is very choppy and tight like a talking heads or something

#315

C’mon Funky.

Wednesday for Slayer please. It’s my last day, working back at the hospital Thursday, been working from home since March. Last chance saloon for me.

#316

Hmmm. We’ll see. Wednesday was earmarked for a special edition but you never know.

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#317

I think Can and The Fall are there deffo but not always. I don’t know enough about music to say why but there’s something similar in the guitar sound sometimes.

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#318

Somebody mentioned modern lovers but I don’t want to listen to them because I think they were referenced in an lcd sound system song and that guy is so smarmy I don’t want to give him the satisfaction

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#319

I was thinking off the back of your tribal drum comment. I’ve not managed to ever find Pavement exciting enough to care, but perhaps that was because in the mid 90s sepultura were giving me much more raw tribal drums, so why would I look to a popular california surf band for that?

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#320

Modern Lovers are fucking great Bam.

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