• Meeting Malkmus - a Pavement podcast

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Meeting Malkmus - a Pavement podcast

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  • Meeting Malkmus - a Pavement Podcast is an obsessive and exhaustive deep-dive into the songs of the seminal '90s indie rock band Pavement. Working in chronological order according to the date of release, your host jD, takes a song-by-song trip through the Stockton, California group's catalog, from their very first track - You're Killing Me - through their five full-length albums and EPs, including 1992 classic "Slanted & Enchanted," their 1994 breakthrough "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain" and their 1999 swan song "Terror Twilight." In each episode, jD hyper-focuses on one song, describing its sound, deconstructing its lyrics and detailing its context, including cool stories from the band's heyday. The goal of the show is twofold: Fold #1: To help others fully appreciate the works of the world’s greatest indie rock band, and Fold #2: to someday, perhaps meet the podcast's namesake - Stephen Malkmus.
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  • MMT50 - 233

    MMT50 - 233
    May 6 2024
    This is so fucking cool. Bob Nastanovich joins me this week to talk about a whack of shit including song 33!!!!Transcript:1:00] Loretta Scars. Alex from Portland, how are you feeling about Loretta Scars?It's a great song. I've got all kinds of thoughts on it, but it's on Flannidand Enchanted, which is a great album. it's,Slanted and Enchanted is the least varied album in my opinion like,most of the songs on it are kind of of one vibe and this is definitely no exceptionI think it's a great vibe I enjoy it Hey this is Westy from the Rock and Roll Band.Track 3[1:40] Pavement and you're listening to The Countdown Hey it's It's JD here back foranother episode of our top 50 countdown for Seminole indie rock band Pavement.Week over week we're going to count down the 50 essential Pavement tracks thatyou selected with your very own top 20 ballads.I then tabulated the results using an abacus, a bicycle pump,lotion, and some biscuits for Kevin, my homemade from uni.How will your favorite songs fare in the rankings? Well, you'll need to tune in to find out.So there's that. This week we're joined bypavement superstar bob fucking nastanovichbob what is up nookay cool and you're aren't you a toronto personsure am yeah how are thingsthere bright blue sunny skies todayabout five degrees celsius so that'slike spring weather for us especially yeah that's niceyeah we've got I don'tmean to show you up Jamie but it's 63degrees Fahrenheit here with a light breeze and a bright sunshine oh man herein Paris Tennessee you know like a typical winter day here is kind of gray and44 but it's especially nice.Track 3[3:03] Today which is pretty awesome that sounds about rightthat sounds like good you know good walking weatherso yeah how are you doing all right with thisproject so far so good i'm likelike people are lining up to do it uh likei'm caught up through march uh i'vegot to do some interviews this week with people sobasically people seem to be like iwas like i don't know how people respond to a top 50 thatthey have to listen to every week but idon't know my numbers are good and um like goodfor me you know yeah they'll get into it yeah ithink so and like just a little bit of water cooler debate rightwhat's that bud just a littlebit of water cooler debate yeah exactly youknow like what if what are you fucking thinking greenlanders likegreenlander was 46 six andyou know people were really pleased thatit made the top 50 but then there's another cohort that are like that's crazyit should be at least in the top 30 you know or whatever so no that is so weirdi mean i don't um i do know people that love greenlander and i um ineffectively insisted.Track 3[4:18] On trying to getit played live in iceland and that would have been cool yeah and um he we soundchecked it and it sounded just fine for about 70 seconds and malchus was.Track 3[4:43] Like i don't want to do that one you know and then um with him you know his attitude was so.Track 3[4:53] Sterling in 2022 and 2023 that um you don't and he was willing to play so many,different songs because in the past like specifically in 2010 um i just thinkit's uh i mean i remember his attitude back then was sort of uh.Track 3[5:18] It's going back to a more juvenile style of songwriting for him, which is more direct,but I guess maybe it kind of reminded him of certain aspects of his life.I mean, especially the earlier stuff, pre-Steve West, seems to give him a certainamount of actual PTSD, which is a word I never use.Track 3[5:48] Self-reference um just because of umthe stress caused by gary likei sat next to him when we watched the screening of gary's documentary andum it he didnot i mean it's a great documentary have you seen iti did yeah it's a great documentary andi don't think they really could have done a better job and umi mean i would have been wildly pleasedwith it i know gary was um so coolthat he got to see it before he passed at least right ican't i can't believe he lived that long i mean noway you know i mean i mean forhim to make it to 70 um should give us all belief that we can do it too um buthe comes from really supremely great genes in terms of longevity his parentslived well into their 90s and uh for some reason despite.Track 3[6:49] Every possible...
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  • MMT50 - 234

    MMT50 - 234
    Apr 29 2024
    This week on the program, Alex from Portland talks about his Pavement Origin story with jD before they gab about song 34!Transcript: Track 1[1:00] It's Half a Canyon. Ryan, from Soundtrack Your Life, what are your initial thoughts about this song?It's a great song. I really like this song.For some reason, for a long time, I thought this was the last song on Wowie Zowie.It kind of has that epic, you know? Yeah, it has that epic finale,you know, with how it ends and just this big jam of chaos.Hey, this is Westy from the Rock.Track 3[1:33] Roll Band, Pavement, and you're listening to The Countdown.Hey, it's JD here, back for another episode of our Top 50 Countdown for SeminoleIndie Rock Band, Pavement.Week over week, we're going to countdown the 50 essential pavement tracks thatyou selected with your very own Top 20 ballads.I then tabulated the results using an abacus and a pool cue I broke over my knee in a moment of rage.How will your favorite song fare in the ranking? You'll need to tune in to find out. So there's that.This week we're joined by Pavement superfan Alex from Portland.Alex, how you doing, motherfucker? Fucking great, JD. How are you?Oh, man, I am stellar right now. I am feeling good. Yeah.How about you? Feeling good myself. I apologize if my vocal cords crack.I decided to sing karaoke last night. Oh, nice.Yeah. What'd you sing?Rocks Off by the Rolling Stones.Oh, wow. I went really, really hard in my Jagger mode, too.So if I sound like a mid-pubescent boy, that's why.Track 3[2:50] That's great. Well, what do you say we talk about pavement? I'm so ready.All right. Hit me with your pavement origin story.It goes like this. So I am a millennial. I was born in 1990.So when they were doing their initial, when they were an active band recordingmusic and touring originally, I was way too young to be a part of it or even know about it.But how I came to Pavement is, I was 15. This would have been 2005.We had a local coffee shop where I'm from, a small town in Indiana.And you would walk down there on a given night, and there would be live music.It was usually acoustic bands.And we were there, me and a couple friends of mine.And we're watching this like i don'tknow kind of like weird sort of indieband they were acoustic but they were still kind of like doingheavier stuff and they were catchy and interesting and weirdand the lyrics didn't really make any sense and iwas fascinated like at 15 years old the shit was blowing my mind and i was likehell yeah dude this band's great and i look over and we see Matt the cool kidand Matt's like this mysterious kind of you know all the boys want to be himall the girls want to be with him he's shout out to Matt that kid was just the coolest kid in our town.Track 3[4:17] And I remember going up to Matt after the show andsaying like man that band we just watched was reallycool and he he takes like you know a probably afive second drag of a cigarette just goes they're justripping off pavement man oh wowand i uh i had never i didn't knowwho that was but of course i'm trying to be cool for cool matt soi'm like yeah dude totally totally ripping offpavement yeah they're they're way better so ii rushed home i open up lime wireof course yeah i've been pavement intothe search bar and and by the way i did want touh i wanted to reiterate something i wrote intoyou when you were doing your old show uh in2005 if you opened up you knowa peer-to-peer illegal downloading appuh and you typed in pavement harness yourhopes was by far the top thingthat would come up really even on limewire even back then it wasn't even closelike it was harness your hopes with however many thousands or hundreds of thousandsof downloads And then I think cut your hair was like number two,but it was down by quite a margin.That's wild. So harness your hopes has been the fan favorite for a lot longerthan people have noticed.Track 3[5:37] I wonder if that's because people were looking, you know, if they're lookingfor pavement, like the idea of a B-side is so savory, you know,and B-sides weren't always easy to get.Yeah it's it might just be theirlike you know undisputed best song and everyonejust knows it or something i don't know but i heardit and i just i walked away with two thoughts...
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  • MMT50 - 235

    MMT50 - 235
    Apr 22 2024
    This week jD is joined by Ryan from the Soundtrack Your Life podcast, to discuss song number 35 on the countdown. Will it surprise you? Download and let me know! jd@meetingmalkmus.comTranscript:Track 2[1:00] Previously on the pavement top 50.Track 1[1:02] So there it is track 36 on the countdown isharness your hopes from the june 22nd releaseof the spit on a stranger ep and thenlater on the bright in the corner nicene creators editionreissue chad fromlos angeles what areyou vibing with this song talk to me it's funny i i like this i mean let mepreface it with i like this song a lot um is it my favorite pavement song noyou know um it's probably not in my top,25 or 30 favorite pavement songs but that is that doesn't mean that it's nota good song it's obviously it's it's a really good song i really enjoy it.Track 2[1:51] Hey this is westy from the rock and roll band pavement and you're listeningto the countdown countdown.Track 3[1:58] Hey, it's JD here back for another episode of our top 50 countdown for seminalindie rock band, Pavement.Week over week, we're going to count down the 50 essential pavement tracks thatyou selected with your very own top 20 ballots.I then tabulated the results using an abacus and 10 metric rulers and a box of rat poison.How will your favorite song fare in the rankings? Well, you'll need to tunein to find out. So there's that.This week, I'm joined I'm joined by pavement superfan Ryan from Soundtrack Your Life.Ryan, how the fuck are you? I'm doing great.Excited to talk about pavement. That is good to hear. Yeah, and you came tothe right place then, because that's what we're going to do.And we'll kick it right off.We won't mess around. We'll kick things right off with your pavement origin story.Track 3[2:48] So I was in high school, and I have an older sister.I have many older sisters, butI have one specific older sister who was working in the music business,and I think she had a big hand in telling me, like, there's more to music thanjust what you hear on the radio. Right.And I don't know exactly how that conversation came up, but Pavement was definitelyone of the bands that she recommended for me.And in 97 she was working at Capitol Records and Capitol Records co-releasedBrighten the Corners I did notknow that yeah so they did a few different albums with Matador they did.Track 3[3:38] Um, a couple of the John Spencer blues explosion records. Um,and they did, I think Liz fairs, white chocolate space egg album.Whoa. Okay. And so my sister sent me bright in the corner. So I think that wasmy first pavement album.Um, and I think I'd been exploring them, you know, through music videos on MTV.And, um, I think there was a website called like the pavement internet archive.That's some guy at some college hosted where like he had like some of the,uh, BBC sessions and stuff like that. So, you know, since I was on a high schoolbudget, I couldn't just go out and buy all the records.So I was trying to figure out how to listen to Pavement without owning anything.Track 3[4:21] But, I mean, eventually I got them all, but that's kind of how it all started.It was a good time to look for free music in the late 90s.I mean, with Napster and LimeWire and that kind of stuff, it was easy to trackdown. Was there a lot of pavement out there on those types of services when you were looking?I think the albums were out there. I think as far as like the,you know, the single B-side tracks, I don't think those were as available.I mean, once Napster got really into full gear, like everything was available.Yeah. But, you know, in like 1998, I was going to this guy's website and I thinkhe just hosted it through like some, his college.And he just had all the B-sides and all the BBC and John Peel sessions.That must have been like a treasure chest when you found that.Oh, yeah. I remember not having enough hard disk space on my computer,but I just kept downloading them.Track 3[5:24] Oh. Did you ever get a chance to see them live?I did. So I saw them on the Bright in the Corners tour.And I lived in San Diego at the time, and a lot of bands like Pavement,they only played like 21 and up venues.Oh, really? But Pavement, because they were bigger than the average indie band,they played an all ages show, so I was ...
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