The A.V. Club asks Daily Show correspondent Rob Corrdry to do the iPod Shuffle…
Pavement, “Stereo”
Oh wow, I’m awesome. Brighten The Corners?I would argue, the best Pavement record. The Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain people can slam a cock, because this is the best. I miss Pavement. I went and saw Stephen Malkmus live a couple years ago. Terrible. He’s a jam band now. There was this guy in the front row who wouldn’t stop asking Malkmus, “What’s up with the Jicks?” He kept saying, “Steve, what’s up with the Jicks?” And my friend Jason started yelling, “Esteban, que pasa los Jicks?” Needless to say, he did not answer us. Not a good show, though I got very drunk.
I don’t see how you can like “Stereo” and be so negative about SM’s first solo album. Lou Barlow, Weezer, and Low pop up on Rob’s iPod next. Read the whole thing here.
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yes but what should us S&E people slam??
Slanted and enchanted people should be forced to rim a young, bi-curious, graphic designer.
Malkmus & the jicks a “jamband”?? Face the Truth had so much of a psychadelic undertone, but I dont think any of their music treads “jam band” waters.
he’s wrong about Malkmus being a jam band. but very right about Brighten the Corners being the best Pavement album.
Wowee Zowee is my personal favorite, and of all of their albums I really think Brighten the Corners is the weakest. It’s got some great individual tunes in there, but it also has some that I can’t stand. I love Pavement, but not Date w/IKEA.
I do miss Pavement, though, and what was the rumor at some recent festival?
I guess I have to slam a cock…
I guess I have to slam a cock too, considering Crooked Rain is my favorite and Corners is the worst besides Terror Twilight.
I still like Malkmus’ solo work. Pig Lib may have been a little jam bandish but his first solo album and Face The Truth sound like Pavement to me:)
hey cockslammers, I’ll just agree with rob on the Pavement being way better than SM thing… there is no contest.. Pavement owns its’ former lead singers new band.
peace
Jesus Christ- I forgot about Terror Twilight. That one is terrible.
1. Crooked Rain
2. Wowee Zowee
3. S&E
4. Brighten
5. Terror Twilight
Can all us faggots agree?
WOWEE ZOWEE
because any album that starts off with the sound of a bong being hit is by far the best ever!
is this true or am i just high & hearing things?
i hear it as a bong too… (and i think terror twilight is overall better than brighten the corners, BTC would have been a disappointing final album)
What’s wrong with Terror Twilight? Carrot Rope is a far better song than Cut Your Hair. Wake up, kids.
Pavement never put out a bad record (or Malkmus for that matter). That’s all I’m sayin’.
And don’t forget about the Westing compilation. It ownz, yo!
‘Carrot Rope’ is a great song, but that doesn’t make “Terror Twilight” better than “Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain.” I’m pretty sure that all Pavement addicts agree that “Wowee Zowee” is the band’s best album – while critics hail “S&E” and “CR,CR” because they define nineties lo-fi rock. The final two albums (Brighten the Corners and Terror Twilight) are not even close with the first three, and Terror Twilight is at best, mediocre.
You’re telling me 1% of One isn’t a jam band song? He’s right, it is.
The second Malkmus album (Pig Lib, when the Jicks had more input) can be arguably called a ‘jam band’ record, and the tour was even more so. I bet that’s the tour he saw… and if so he’s right on target (compensating for comedic exaggeration, that is.)
It’s pretty telling that he abandoned that pretty much with Face the Truth (and that it’s not easy to find Pig Lib anymore… that album seems to have been ‘disappeared’.)
Now that Wowee Zowee’s getting a redux coming out soon, that means the Brighten the Corners would be next… but I can see it stopping at WZ just as easily.
Brighten the Corners was definately their most accessible album, but I wouldn’t call it their best. Crooked Rain has “Fillmore Jive,” which is pretty much the best song ever written, but Slanted has like five of the best songs ever written on it. Wowee is very good, but very uneven, I don’t know why they even bothered with like “Serpentine Pad” and “Brinx Job”. And, I don’t know where I’m going with this, basically I’m saying I like Pavement. And I have a newfound respect for Rob Corrdry after reading this. Because he’s not that funny on The Daily Show, but I will laugh at him now because he also likes Pavement.
TERROR TWILIGHT = numero uno.
Malkmus solo is still better than Terror Twilight or Kannenberg solo “Preston School Of Industry”. You know an album sucks when you throw away a burned copy.
so this is weird. about two hours after reading this post, “stereo” came up on my ipod shuffle. isn’t that weird?!?
ok, maybe it’s not that weird. but seriously, i have like a bijillion songs on that thing. so it is totally weird! see??!? weird.
‘wowee zowee’ is great because it’s got that “big, sprawling, self-indulgent rock album that still delivers the goods” thing going on. in the end, i can’t pick a fave among S&E, CRCR, and WZ because i find them all pretty different and pretty amazing in their own ways.
i will say that BtC is a very good and very underrated pavement album. i’ve never heard TT.
Sounds like Corddry was referring to SM’s Pig Lib, not his first solo album. Pig Lib was quite jammy. I like it though.
Corrdry should get to slammin’ himself. He knows jack squat about Weezer…bitch, please. They “won’t play” Pinkerton? Uh….this guy needs to update his info.
Funny that Corrdry and two of the comics on the linked page from last month all had something from Pinkerton come up, and they all said it was their favorite Weezer record. Smart comics…
i love terror twilight. billie!
i do see the malkmus jam band influences though.
someone must have heard the rumor of berman and malkmus playing to a dead album at some live performance years back.
I don’t see how anybody can think Terror Twilight or Brighten the Corners are terrible. Those two are my faves, but they’re all good. Damn!
‘Pig Lib’ is easily the greatest album of all time.