Sorta, yeah, but I was thinking more "Outdoor Miner" and "Fragile."

alex maiolo wrote:PS- Oh yeah, I'm a huge Pavement fan. Not Crap, even though "Carrot Rope" sounds like the frickin' Grateful Dead.

Oh really?Of which Grateful Dead do you speak? The one with the dead,
9 fingered guitarist and the stinky hippies? that's the only dead i know.

I have heard enough of that hippy b.s. to know that there is nothing remotely like Pavement in the Grateful Dead. Crazy talk my friend, Keerazy!

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glynnisjohns wrote:

alex maiolo wrote:PS- Oh yeah, I'm a huge Pavement fan. Not Crap, even though "Carrot Rope" sounds like the frickin' Grateful Dead.

Oh really?Of which Grateful Dead do you speak? The one with the dead,
9 fingered guitarist and the stinky hippies? that's the only dead i know.

I have heard enough of that hippy b.s. to know that there is nothing remotely like Pavement in the Grateful Dead. Crazy talk my friend, Keerazy!

Same stinky hippies.
That envelope follower intro to Carrot Rope ambles like the Dead to me. That's just what I think of.

The funny thing is that I saw a comparision chart in a Matador release that matched up each of their bands with a classic rock group. Pavement were The Dead. I thought that was unfair because I can't see it beyond the first 10 seconds of the song I mentioned, and the chart predated Terror Twilight by many years, but it was funny.

I'm going off to the internets now to see if I can find that list.

Also, dgrace, I hear what you're saying. Every band sounds like somebody else. It's just that sometimes it's really clear who a band took their cues from. I'll be the first to say that The Fall influence was pretty much burried after Slanted.
I'm still not really hearing that Wire thing though...

I'm about the biggest Pavement fan around, and I'm going to toss some love at Wowee Zowee. I have no idea why that album is held in such low regard by some people. I like it as much as the rest of them. It's pretty damn long too!

-A

I have not heard a single track by Pavement/Malkmus that I have found even mildly interesting. I guess by "pop sensibility" they mean "kind of boring"? But there might be good Pavement tracks in the world, I just don't give enough of a shit to track them down because, at the risk of redundancy, they bore me.

dgrace wrote:How can a knockoff band have its own knockoff band? I submit into evidence: Weezer.

A knockoff band can easily have its own knockoff band. I don't know what's so incomprehensible about this.

How many Weezer copy bands are out there now?

Pavement: CRAP.

ctrl-s wrote:Sure. I just think Pavement's Wire influence warrants a mention too. "Trigger Cut," dude.

If by Wire you mean Jim Croce, then absolutely.

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tmidgett wrote:

ctrl-s wrote:Sure. I just think Pavement's Wire influence warrants a mention too. "Trigger Cut," dude.

If by Wire you mean Jim Croce, then absolutely.

C'mon, Tim! You don't tug on SuperMalk's cape!

the guitar part for "grounded" alone should put pavement soundly in the "not crap" section...