He's in love? He quit drugs? He found Jesus? He started believing his own press?

FuzzBob wrote:

jayryan wrote:he went from being 25 to 40. not everyone moves that direction as well as, say, steve or tim here on EA.

Why is that a generally accepted excuse?

Interview with Malkmus in The Onion a couple months ago:

AVC: Do you think some of the vocal aggression of the early Pavement records—of your earlier work in general—has transferred to guitar here? There's less screaming, but more shredding.

SM: Yeah, that's true. It's inevitable for an older man. I'm more mature, I guess. Just like I shouldn't be out clubbing and taking Ecstasy, I shouldn't be screaming. But the guitar is another story. You can still rip with your fingers. There's still some aggression left.

I enjoyed this bit:

AVC: What about, like, Bono?

SM: You know, obviously, he's mega-famous. But I can't imagine him in a room with a movie star of equal… If you put him in a room with Tom Cruise—Tom Cruise is crazy, of course, but Tom Cruise is gonna have some kind of radiation coming off him that's greater than Bono's, even though Bono's an artiste, or whatever. There's going to be this heat coming off him, the movie-star heat

http://www.avclub.com/content/interview/stephen_malkmus

enframed wrote:it got worse?

I didn't think it was possible either, but in all fairness, I will never know because I will never listen to any of it.

Praise Jesus for choice!

big_dave wrote:Someone explain the appeal of Pavement.

Write it on a postcard:
Dad they broke me
Dad they broke me

Pavement wins my Jeeze Liz thunderdome.

big_dave wrote:Someone explain the appeal of Pavement.

Check that expiration date, man.

I think a lot of it has to do with the time the "good" stuff was released, and the age that most of us were when we first heard it.

Am I wrong in assuming that most Pavement fans (not casual fans, but like fans that know that Wowee Zowee rules fans) probably first heard them in the 17-20 age range? Also I'm guessing that I'm not the only person for whom Pavement was a gateway to a lot of other bands.

I'm not saying that Slanted & Enchanted isn't a better record than Pig Lib. It is. Way better. But I think I might be making a point.

What I'm saying is, if I heard Pavement for the first time ever right now today, they wouldn't have near the effect on me that they did when I was 18.

That being said, all of the Jicks records are better than Terror Twilight. True.

Did I make a point?

Peripatetic wrote:That being said, all of the Jicks records are better than Terror Twilight. True.

Did I make a point?

Has he written a song as great as The Hexx in the last decade? I think his solo output is pretty boring, save maybe a handful of songs era Pig Lib and Face The Truth.

Edit: I like Terror Twilight more than Brighten the Corners.
Edit:And more than any of the Jicks/Solo material.

Wow this record sucks my dick off. Finally heard it.

Malkmus is an arrogant fuckwit. I always found Pavement about 30% as cool as everyone else did.

Steve V. wrote:Wow this record sucks my dick off.

I'm stealing that.

Real Emotional Trash is awesome. A great rock record. If it came from somewhere obscure many more would love it, but since Malkmus has tread a lot of water after Pavement, people are gonna piss on him no matter what. Like so many other great things I resign myself to: "Well if you don't get it, that's just too bad."