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Posted by mr. mister on 2007-11-07 15:14:36 +0000

The land [unending] was stationed in a conduit between two cells, a veritable no-man's-land, [rain, the flophouse, cog-bone terrors] and carbon monoxide wallpaper. All [his brig-deck trina] boys ask: is it livable? I'm tryin', I'm tryin'....
Great Song Nanny Up

Posted by mahatma chani on 2007-11-07 15:26:18 +0000

What a gem. Here's a band so cocksure of it's own (debatable) talents that they manage to pull off one for the ages. Utterly incredible. I'm going to guess the big reason why it works so well is that they play hard to get. Incomprehensible lyrics over plagarized or standard chord progressions. Or are the lyrics that out there? There's at least two songs here about Southern California's reliance on Northern California's water supply ("Conduit For Sale!" and "Two States"), and atypically typical love songs "Here," "Summer Babe," and "In the Mouth a Desert" all some of my favorites. For a band that got pegged as "slack" they really rock the fuck out on the back end with "Perfume V" and "Jackals..." Bonus points on the artwork for including the lyrics to the non-existant songs "Passion Woman" and "Baby You Rock My Soul." As well as the picture of Spiral Stairs at Fenway Park. A+++++++++

Posted by Epoisses on 2007-11-07 18:19:07 +0000

Spin Magazine ran a review of the record (actually, of a dubbed cassette copy prior to release) as the featured album of the month. All these Fagens I didn't recognize: Swell Maps, 13th Floor Elevators, The Fall. And the one that did made me buy the record the next chance I got: The Minutemen. Okay.

I woulda been more disappointed if I didn't like the songs so much -- the Minutemen, as players, were Pavement's superiors in every way imaginable. But then it dawned on me: Pavement was <i> funny </i>, and lived in their own self-contained universe. Check.

The soundtrack to the last few months of high school -- listened to this on the way back from prom, every day at summer camp. Drove to Providence to see them play and was astounded to see these five normal-looking schmoes (okay, these four normal-looking schmoes and a grizzled hippie) climb up onstage and start playing Pavement songs -- I had never even seen a picture of the band (hey, that's the guy I talked to from the merch booth!). I wore my blue Pavement shirt on the first day of UNH, hoping to meet someone who knew what I was talking about.

Posted by MF DU on 2007-11-08 01:45:42 +0000

It charted well in Two States.

Posted by MF DU on 2007-11-08 01:50:02 +0000

I met Biz Quig either @ a Boston TFUL282 / Pavement show or around that time. He told me the Boredoms were bullshit and I think we've been friends pretty much since that day.

I still know more about Yamantaka EYE that I do about Stephen Malkmus, but then, hey, what the hell do you want from me? I have pretty much always been playing catch up.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2007-11-08 06:39:01 +0000

DU, remember how Pavement made us friends, too?

We were both "working" at WUNH - I think you were MD and I was the weird Anglophilic girl - it was the day after a Pavement show in Boston, and as I walked into the station I overheard you saying to a small group of people in your office, "Did you see (pamsterdam's name, said incredulously) in the MOSH PIT last night?" My proudest moment, that.

Posted by mahatma chani on 2007-11-08 13:54:02 +0000

"Pop Tatari" is unlistenable. But aparently they dropped the hardcore so maybe it's different now.

That show was on the "Crooked Rain" tour. But yeah, everything else is true.

Posted by MF DU on 2007-11-09 23:55:57 +0000

I had no idea what tour Pavement was on-but it was a Pavement show.

Pop Tatari, while a hard sell, is not unlistenable.

Posted by MF DU on 2007-11-09 23:58:57 +0000

:) Yes! I'm guessing the MD stuff was a year after that, but I was definitely always at the station around that time. What a fucking terrible MD I was - oh well. I have a photo you took of Glumac and me from that era somewhere...

Posted by pamsterdam on 2007-11-10 07:58:04 +0000

The photo of you and Glumac hanging off that stuffed bear was absolutely priceless.

You were a great MD. If that rings false - think of the "competition". Yeesh!