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Cartman · **Posted:** Sat May 07, 2005 3:39 am

Any fans?

I've heard a lot about this band but never actually listened to them. They sound like a band I'd like. Someone recommend an album to start with.

DirtyFrank · **Posted:** Sat May 07, 2005 11:22 am

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain is the album you should probably start with. Slanted and Enchanted is good aswell.

psychobain · **Posted:** Sat May 07, 2005 3:36 pm

i love "CR, CR" and i enjoy "SLANTED......"

thats all

Mickey · **Posted:** Sat May 07, 2005 4:27 pm

"Crooked Rain Crooked Rain" is a great album. Its very light, kinda carefree, and overall excellent.

Get it, or download the tracks "Silence Kit", "Gold Soundz" and "Range Life".

inadvertent imitation · **Posted:** Sat May 07, 2005 4:53 pm

My favorite band. I was going to resurrect that Pavement thread last night, actually.

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain is my favorite, but Slanted and Enchanted is basically the epitome of what Pavement was and represents. Go chronologically, it's all amazing.

Blind Melvana · **Posted:** Sat May 07, 2005 5:20 pm

They kinda bore and annoy me. Off-key singing is only "new" and "cool" and "hip" for so long.

Athletic Supporter · **Posted:** Sat May 07, 2005 5:26 pm

S&E is their best, but it's a little hard to get into if you ask me. It's really raw and the production is utter shit. Start with Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. Any of the first 4 albums are gold.

Orpheus · **Posted:** Sat May 07, 2005 7:23 pm

Blind Melvana wrote:

They kinda bore and annoy me. Off-key singing is only "new" and "cool" and "hip" for so long.

Uhhh Malkmus sings really well actually.

glorified_version · **Posted:** Sat May 07, 2005 7:32 pm

Definitely start with Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

I just put on Slanted and Enchanted

Orpheus · **Posted:** Sat May 07, 2005 7:37 pm

Do like AS said and start with S&E, it was the first Pavement I heard and they're one of my favorite bands now.

glorified_version · **Posted:** Sat May 07, 2005 8:26 pm

Blind Melvana wrote:

They kinda bore and annoy me. Off-key singing is only "new" and "cool" and "hip" for so long.

what? Pavement's been fairly popular for over a decade now.

Athletic Supporter · **Posted:** Sat May 07, 2005 8:37 pm

Blind Melvana wrote:

They kinda bore and annoy me. Off-key singing is only "new" and "cool" and "hip" for so long.

http://www.theskyiscrape.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=14986

inadvertent imitation · **Posted:** Sat May 07, 2005 9:12 pm

If you have a hard time with shit production, stay away from Westing (By Musket and Sextant)

Sludgefeast · **Posted:** Sun May 08, 2005 1:13 am

I love this band. First got into them when I hear dthe single "Stereo" several years ago. To this day it's a staple on mix CDs I make for people

Cartman · **Posted:** Sun May 08, 2005 4:28 am

They sound like Weezer, but better. I like them.

Stratton28 · **Posted:** Mon May 09, 2005 1:42 am

If you wanna figure out an album to start with, you should get the re-releases of CR, CR or S&E, they're both double discs and cost about the same as your typical single album... they've got some awesome previously unreleased tracks and alternative versions of songs

executed anyhow · **Joined:** Tue Oct 19, 2004 3:25 am **Posts:** 783

Cartman wrote:

They sound like Weezer, but better. I like them.

Hehe...that's pretty close to what I thought when I heard them, too. My exacts thoughts were "Wow, Weezer are a bunch of fucking fakers compared to these guys."

My standing on the albums:

S+E=Great stuff, really cool album. It's got a lot of soul. Not very accessible outside of a few songs, requires a bit of an attention span at first.

CRCR=Very balanced, rocking album. Probably the best.

WZ=Some really cool songs, some bad ones. Doesn't come together in a satisfying experience in the end, but certainly worth listening to.

BTC=Half the songs are INSANELY, ridiculously catchy. You won't be able to get Stereo and Starlings out of your head for months. A few of the songs are really dull, though, and overall it lacks a little subtance. But, still great.

TT=I couldn't even bring myself to listen to the whole thing. I thought it was crap.

Orpheus · **Posted:** Mon May 09, 2005 3:22 am

executed anyhow wrote:

Cartman wrote:

They sound like Weezer, but better. I like them.

Hehe...that's pretty close to what I thought when I heard them, too. My exacts thoughts were "Wow, Weezer are a bunch of fucking fakers compared to these guys."

My standing on the albums:

S+E=Great stuff, really cool album. It's got a lot of soul. Not very accessible outside of a few songs, requires a bit of an attention span at first.

CRCR=Very balanced, rocking album. Probably the best.

WZ=Some really cool songs, some bad ones. Doesn't come together in a satisfying experience in the end, but certainly worth listening to.

BTC=Half the songs are INSANELY, ridiculously catchy. You won't be able to get Stereo and Starlings out of your head for months. A few of the songs are really dull, though, and overall it lacks a little subtance. But, still great.

TT=I couldn't even bring myself to listen to the whole thing. I thought it was crap.

Pretty good assessment. TT does seem more mediocre than the rest.

psychobain · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2005 10:14 pm

"we dance" is a very cool song

i need to download some Pavement songs (post CRCR era)

MF · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2005 10:26 pm

Somehow i missed the whole pavement thing years ago and never caught up. I downloaded a few songs a year or 2 ago and never paid much attention, but recently Grounded came on my random list and i really dug it.
So my new mission is to get in to Pavement.

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