Let's see here...
....I got this album in the summer between sophmore and junior year. I have a feeling that I bought it at Best Buy, and I know that I bought the deluxe edition. No wait!! AH HA! I got it from AMAZON! I remember now! It was early June, I was young and in love and we were building my dad a cornhole set for Father's Day, complete with a Rush logo that we spray painted on them (made by the amazing and talented Zack Grimmet) and this showed up in the mail. I remember working in the garge with mom, drilling pieces of wood, cutting out perfect circles for the bags to fall in and drinking water. To listen to this album, I put it in the stereo in the Tahoe in the garage so we could rock out while building this cornhole set. The first thing I thought, well, wait, this could be a paragraph break.
The first thing I thought was, "WHOA! Where's that tape hiss??? What's this not lo-fi crap?! There's a freaking cowbell!". But then, about 30 seconds later, I realized "damn, this is good!". Here, Pavement stopped listening to Flipper and put on their dad's copies of "Street Survivors" and went to town. Well, not really...maybe.
You see, Pavement wrote great pop songs and here, they are still great.
God I have a headache...but I should continue.
OK.
So southern rock, indie rock, slackers, and ok, well LET'S TALK ABOUT THE TRACKS HERE!
So, seriously, sequencing? TOTAL MESS. I mean, do we need "5-4=Unity"? A "clever" tribute to Dave Brubeck? Or "Newark Wilder" that sounds like a "creepy cabaret song" or some crap? (Sorry, I'm not pulling my copy of "Perfect Sound Forever" out of box to get SM's exact quote Garret.) Well, I mean, that's about it, the tunes are great!
For some reason I always liked "Gold Soundz", it's poppy and kinda sappy and when I was a young 15 year old I thought that it was a song I'd want to play at my wedding. But since even Mark Prindle's wife is leaving him, I shouldn't be too optimistic (about either getting married or finding a wife who also enjoys "Gold Soundz" - that'd be an amusing personal add)...and "Filmore Jive" is a 6.5 min. jam that is something about rockers and their long curly locks. And some fine soloing from the Malkman. And you ain't crazy if you think "Elevate Me Later" uses the same chords as "Loretta's Scars" cuz it duzz! "Range Life" is all countryfried and Silver Jew-ish and he says "Billy Corgan suxx!" or something.
OHH! And this is the first album where both Mark Ibold and Steve West are playing here. All of them, together, crying in a room. This also has that "Cut Your Hair" song that was really popular with morons who also listened to "Exile in Guyville" and watched Daria.
OVERALL RATING - Totally worth your time Holmes Gargiulo.
KEY TRACKS - Gold Soundz, Filmore Jive, Elevate Me Later
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