All My Friends
I realize that MP3 bloggers everywhere probably posted about Pavement's Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain reissue back in October when it was first released, but I wasn't reading MP3 blogs then so I'll just pretend that they didn't. Then again, it's probably not all that important what I post given that I'm not really blogging for any particular reason other than to have a conversation of sorts about music with Jay and a few other friends. To tell you the truth, it's actually kind of shocking how many people read the blog every day and I'm starting to feel kind of self-conscious about it.
Pavement - All My Friends
This song gave me an opportunity to remember why I started liking Pavement so much in the first place. I'd heard snippets of it from the Stuff up the Cracks bootleg and the Gold Soundz EP, but recorded properly and as a whole the song seems even better than I thought it would. It's at least as good as anything on the actual Crooked Rain album. I wasn't too surprised that Pavement would be one of the few bands that would actually be able to pull off reissuing a bunch of old albums that everyone already owns without having to fill the second disc with songs that went unreleased in the first place for a very good reason (see: Elvis Costello). As I've said before, Pavement b-sides have always been as good (or better) than the album cuts.
Bring on the Wowee Zowee reissue!
Pavement - All My Friends
This song gave me an opportunity to remember why I started liking Pavement so much in the first place. I'd heard snippets of it from the Stuff up the Cracks bootleg and the Gold Soundz EP, but recorded properly and as a whole the song seems even better than I thought it would. It's at least as good as anything on the actual Crooked Rain album. I wasn't too surprised that Pavement would be one of the few bands that would actually be able to pull off reissuing a bunch of old albums that everyone already owns without having to fill the second disc with songs that went unreleased in the first place for a very good reason (see: Elvis Costello). As I've said before, Pavement b-sides have always been as good (or better) than the album cuts.
Bring on the Wowee Zowee reissue!
posted by ian at 6:37 AM
9 Comments:
Yeah,
You should feel self conscious
I mean that in a good way.
:)
Pavement...yes.
I love, love, love the Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain reissue.
And no one cares whether you post about "old" music or not...b/c they're getting free shit!!!
'All My Friends' alone convinced me to pick up the CRCR reissue, and I am so glad that I did (I love that R.E.M. tribute song on the end of disc 1- so funny!). Nice post, Ian- you're right, the Wowee Zowee reissue cannot come soon enough.
Is the Wowee Zowee one definitely on its way?
I assume that Madator will do one for Wowee Zowee because it's the last of the 'classic' Pavement albums and has quite a few outstanding b-sides, singles and eps (particulalry the amazing 'Pacific Trim' EP). I hope they do one for Brighten the Corners, too, because I'm still quite fond of it despite its flat critical reception (which was undeserved).
I think Brighten The Corners might be the best Pavement album after Slanted And Enchanted.
For me, Terror Twilight is the only one of the Pavement albums that lags behind the others. All the rest are more or less on equal footing in my mind.
... not that Terror Twilight is anything at which to be scoffed. It's a fantastic album also. There are some really brilliant moments in there.
I totally think that Carrot Rope and the Hex are two of the better pavement songs.
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