pavement SM gasp. no entries for the world's greatest band? 011216 ... Effingham Fish I'd only heard of them from an admittedly nifty cover of No More Kings on the School House Rock! Rocks compilation and a cameo appearance on Space Ghost: Coast to Coast when I bought Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain at a used CD store with high hopes. I took it home immediately and listened to it all the way through exactly one times. The bored, "Sure, let's make a CD, got nothing better to do this afternoon" way in which they played their instruments and sang their songs were inoffensive enough, and I might have listened to it a couple more times, to see if it would grow on me (and to see if I could actually make out more of the lyrics), except for one song, the name of which I'll probably never bother to learn, about two-thirds into the CD, which I guess the writer had penned while touring in Lollapallooza, complaining about that they couldn't understand why all these crappy bands around them were so popular while the sheer sonic genius of his own was overlooked, and that just fucking tore it. I let the remaining few tracks run out out of my own sense of what is right, took the CD out, and took it back to the store I bought it from the same day (glad I didn't pay full price for it) and traded it in for Mono Puff. 011216 ... nemo they're so wonderful 011216 ... ClairE cracked the city i love you (like this strange affection I have for ice_cream_trucks and the button you press at the crosswalk to change the light) 011216 ... god and it's a really nice hair-cut 011217 ... paste! 40 million daggers 011217 ... girl_jane I can fly. I can fly away. So why does the pavement look so damn close... Boy_Sets_Fire 020331 ... paste! a redder shade of neck on a whiter shade of trash and this emery board is giving me a rash 020403 ... little wonder i enjoy this word immensely 020403 ... bethany follow me here pavement's song "no tan lines" is the same tune as that christmas song they played on SNL this past december...and they played it two times live from popular demand does anyone follow? 020403 ... oppressed_youth Rocks my face off. But hi ho silver, ride. Listen to me, I'm on the stereo! Stereo-ho. My baby baby baby baby, you give me maleria hysteria. Go back to those gold sounds. She's got the radio active and it makes me feel ok. I don't feel ok. Please marry me, Mr. Malkmus. 020815 ... Me Just for the record they didn't say that the other bands they were touring with were talentless, they simply inferred they didn't like them (Smashing Pumkins and Stone Temple Pilots). The lyrics are: "On tour with the Smashing Pumkins, nature kids, I/they don't have no function, I don't understand what they say, and I could really give a fuck Stone Temple Pilots, they're eligble bachelors, they're foxy to me, are they foxy to you?" Doesn't REALLY seem as though they're putting these bands down and saything that Pavement is better, does it? Malkmus (lead singer) later when on TV and said it had nothing to do with their music, it was purely personal. Sounds cool to me, rather than lie constantly about how everyone in the industry likes each other. It's a really funny slander anyway! 031018 ... charlie wasteland where my church used to be, there's a Wal-Mart parking lot now. people are going to drive all over my childhood and never know it. i wonder whose childhood i'm driving on. 031202 ... Snook Walking the nearly half mile to the office where i temp I think this with what we were given what we should know this is what we want well, is it? or is it cause that's just how it was for the last generation? does anybody really want this corporation? this ladder one rung to get stuck on always looking up the persons ass above you and some below you always on your back? 050914 what's it to you? who go blather from