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Title: Malkmus on Fox News
Post by: Matthew_S on March 31, 2008, 10:49:56 AM
Stereogum posted this so I imagine many of you already saw it... but I figured the pavement/malkmus fandom here was enough to share it:

http://stereogum.com/archives/video/stephen-malkmus-visits-fox-news-red-eye_008644.html#more

anyone a fan of this show?
Title: Re: Malkmus on Fox News
Post by: KickTheBobo on March 31, 2008, 11:48:20 AM
I love the faces that dude makes.

(http://kickthebobo.com//malk1.gif)(http://kickthebobo.com//malk1.gif)(http://kickthebobo.com//malk1.gif)
Title: Re: Malkmus on Fox News
Post by: erika on March 31, 2008, 04:00:16 PM
He is nothing without Spiral Stairs. Nothing. Garbage.

PAVEMENT FOR LIFE






Oh hey is it OK that I used styles and stuff in my post?? Wouldn't want to make anyone feel put out by overuse of font formatting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or punctuation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Malkmus on Fox News
Post by: John Junk 2.0 on April 02, 2008, 08:58:48 PM
He is nothing without Spiral Stairs. Nothing. Garbage.

PAVEMENT FOR LIFE






Oh hey is it OK that I used styles and stuff in my post?? Wouldn't want to make anyone feel put out by overuse of font formatting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or punctuation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jeez, what a blowhard braggart!!  Get over yourself!  (kidding).

This new Malkmus album is breaking my heart with its mediocrity.
Title: Re: Malkmus on Fox News
Post by: Josh on April 02, 2008, 10:03:58 PM
Quote from: Kim Deal in Time Out New York, April 2-8, 2008 (http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/hot-seat/28186/kim-deal)
“Cannonball” was a big crossover hit. Ever get sick of it?
No. That used to be a popular stance for indie-rockers to take. If somebody actually liked one of their songs, then they would hate the song. I was never like that.

Did the success of that song cause any jealousy among your indie-rock peers?
You know, [Pavement’s Stephen] Malkmus is being a bit of a bitch in interviews recently. One thing he said last summer referred to me as “trashy mouth.” And he just did this article in Spin where he alluded to me unpleasantly, saying [something like], “You know, I always thought that Pavement could have had one of those big hits in the early ’90s with ‘Cut Your Hair,’ but I guess people preferred ‘Cannonball.’ ”

Are you a fan of his music?
Yeah, I liked Pavement. But if he keeps fucking smacking his mouth off about me, I’m going to end up not being able to listen to any of their fucking records again. Anyway, I thought, God, man, “Cut Your Hair” isn’t as good of a song as “Cannonball,” so fuck you. How’s that? Your song was just a’ight, dawg.
Title: Re: Malkmus on Fox News
Post by: Laurie on April 02, 2008, 11:09:04 PM
Quote from: Kim Deal in Time Out New York, April 2-8, 2008 (http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/hot-seat/28186/kim-deal)
Your song was just a’ight, dawg.

Kim Deal channeling Randy Jackson. I love it.
Title: Re: Malkmus on Fox News
Post by: John Junk 2.0 on April 03, 2008, 12:39:44 AM
Pavement still crushes

CRUSHES

The Breeders.

and I like the Breeders.
Title: Re: Malkmus on Fox News
Post by: Pat K on April 03, 2008, 09:40:12 AM
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“You know, I always thought that Pavement could have had one of those big hits in the early ’90s with ‘Cut Your Hair,’ but I guess people preferred ‘Cannonball.’”

I saw this interview too, and I've gotta say, I don't really see where the big slam is in that sentence. He thought "Cut Your Hair" could have been a bigger hit than it was. "Cannonball" turned out to be a bigger hit. And? It's not like he said "I guess people preferred really shitty songs like 'Cannonball' instead." 

I think the idea that Stephen Malkmus might be jealous of The Breeders' hit single is a stretch. Number 1: as much as I love the Breeders, everybody knows Pavement kills them any day of the week. And number 2: a guy as smug as Stephen Malkmus being jealous of anybody? C'mon.
Title: Re: Malkmus on Fox News
Post by: Beth on April 03, 2008, 12:41:30 PM
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“You know, I always thought that Pavement could have had one of those big hits in the early ’90s with ‘Cut Your Hair,’ but I guess people preferred ‘Cannonball.’”

I saw this interview too, and I've gotta say, I don't really see where the big slam is in that sentence. He thought "Cut Your Hair" could have been a bigger hit than it was. "Cannonball" turned out to be a bigger hit. And? It's not like he said "I guess people preferred really shitty songs like 'Cannonball' instead." 

I think the idea that Stephen Malkmus might be jealous of The Breeders' hit single is a stretch. Number 1: as much as I love the Breeders, everybody knows Pavement kills them any day of the week. And number 2: a guy as smug as Stephen Malkmus being jealous of anybody? C'mon.

Maybe she was offended by his lumping together of "Cannonball" and "Come Out and Play". Whatever, though. They've both had successful music careers, and shouldn't be wasting time lashing out at each other.
Title: Re: Malkmus on Fox News
Post by: erika on April 03, 2008, 01:31:01 PM
Pavement still crushes

CRUSHES

The Breeders.

and I like the Breeders.

Nah, Breeders crush Pavement.

Pavement's still good, but the Breeders are still phenominal. Last Splash? One of my desert island albums...
Title: Re: Malkmus on Fox News
Post by: John Junk 2.0 on April 03, 2008, 03:11:50 PM


Nah, Breeders crush Pavement.

Pavement's still good, but the Breeders are still phenominal. Last Splash? One of my desert island albums...

Oh Erika, what are we gonna do with you?
Title: Re: Malkmus on Fox News
Post by: Spoony on April 03, 2008, 03:33:05 PM
Ack. After all that Kim Deal took from the world, I was not ready to ever like the Breeders. This Ban still holds with me.

Remember when everyone was all huffy that Elastica had a song that sounded like Cannonball? I bought five of those Elastica albums just to spite Deal. Elastica was my stocking stuffer gift to everyone I knew that following Christmas. When they toured the US, there was a stop in Rochester, NY because of the rash of album sales going on there. The poor girls expected a sold out show, but it was just me in a Pixies t-shirt.
Title: Re: Malkmus on Fox News
Post by: KickTheBobo on April 03, 2008, 03:49:05 PM
Pavement Confession: I have a long-running fantasy of performing a solo piano and vocal version of 'AT&T' in some smoky Vegas bar as part of a lounge act.
Title: Re: Malkmus on Fox News
Post by: ericluxury on April 03, 2008, 05:30:05 PM
Pavement crushes Breeders, but in the Cut Your Hair v. Canonball? Canonball smashes. Its catchier and poppier and weirder at the same time. If you go by merits, its better and if you were to project which would be a hit, its much more striking a song.
Title: Re: Malkmus on Fox News
Post by: Miss on April 03, 2008, 06:25:05 PM
I LOVE the Breeders.

but -nothing- tops Pavement.

And ladies, is Stephen Malkmus getting sexier with age? Rawr.
Title: Re: Malkmus on Fox News
Post by: John Junk 2.0 on April 03, 2008, 06:59:00 PM
Pavement crushes Breeders, but in the Cut Your Hair v. Canonball? Canonball smashes. Its catchier and poppier and weirder at the same time. If you go by merits, its better and if you were to project which would be a hit, its much more striking a song.

I'd give you that. 

On the other hand, I'd say that Cut Your Hair is way catchier than "The Sweater Song", which I always considered a Pavement rip off, but the fact is if Pavement wrote three albums of Cut Your Hair and were on a major label, they'd probably be rich.  In the end, they wrote like 5 radio-ready pop songs over the course of 8 years or whatever, and hundreds of awesome shit that was a little too weird for normal people.  Part of me thinks if they had continued in the Crooked Rain veign for one more album they may have struck it rich, but instead they came out with Wowee Zowee, which cemented them as legends and buried them as cross-overs. One thing I think is cool about Malkmus is he just throws out these references in interviews and songs and he's really just acknowledging that other bands exist and they're not all necessarily in a big love club together... I always thought it was cool that he respected the Stone Temple Pilot's singer's not taking the bait (or complete obliviousness) of the Range Life "dis", while Billy Corgan was going batshit about it.  I think Kim Deal wouldn't feel so threatened if she hadn't smoked and shot up all that "Cannonball" cash.
Title: Re: Malkmus on Fox News
Post by: Laurie on April 03, 2008, 08:19:21 PM
Oh man, Billy Corgan gets crazier with each passing year. I love it.
Title: Re: Malkmus on Fox News
Post by: dania on April 03, 2008, 11:18:52 PM


Nah, Breeders crush Pavement.

Pavement's still good, but the Breeders are still phenominal. Last Splash? One of my desert island albums...

AGREED!  100% on that completely.  Wait, why is this in pink??  with red glow?  What?  No I'm not implying that women are smarter in every way-I mean ANY way. 
Title: Re: Malkmus on Fox News
Post by: todd on April 04, 2008, 01:41:10 AM
I think Kim Deal wouldn't feel so threatened if she hadn't smoked and shot up all that "Cannonball" cash.

Kelley Deal was the one that did the drugs, not Kim.
Title: Re: Malkmus on Fox News
Post by: John Junk 2.0 on April 04, 2008, 12:57:30 PM
I think Kim Deal wouldn't feel so threatened if she hadn't smoked and shot up all that "Cannonball" cash.

Kelley Deal was the one that did the drugs, not Kim.

I'm pretty sure they both did the drugs.
Title: Re: Malkmus on Fox News
Post by: yesno on April 04, 2008, 11:30:23 PM
New Breeders albums next week.  Supposed to be great.
Title: Re: Malkmus on Fox News
Post by: ben on April 10, 2008, 11:32:03 PM
the Amps were my favorite Pixies sideproject/spinoff/whatever.  But Pavement crushes them all.  Though if I was in a fantasy music league I would probably draft Kim Deal over Malkmus.  Stephen Malkmus reminds me of Christian Laettner for some reason.
Title: Re: Malkmus on Fox News
Post by: masterofsparks on April 11, 2008, 06:14:26 AM
Is "crush" really the right verb to be using when talking about Pavement and the Breeders? It's not like we're talking Led Zeppelin vs. Black Sabbath. Wouldn't something like "ironically barbs" or "mocks its collection of Swell Maps 7"s" be more appropriate?
Title: Re: Malkmus on Fox News
Post by: Pat K on April 11, 2008, 08:53:33 AM
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Is "crush" really the right verb to be using when talking about Pavement and the Breeders?

Maybe "shrugs"? "Smirks"?
Title: Re: Malkmus on Fox News
Post by: Chris L on April 11, 2008, 09:02:27 AM
Pavement hits the Breeders' plane down. There's no survivors.
Title: Re: Malkmus on Fox News
Post by: samir on April 11, 2008, 09:35:47 AM
I interviewed Spiral Stairs once, when the first Preston School of Industry was coming out. He was very charming, and was particularly stoked when I told him that 'Stereo' was an indie-night staple in London.
Title: Re: Malkmus on Fox News
Post by: Pat K on April 11, 2008, 11:54:04 AM
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Pavement hits the Breeders' plane down. There's no survivors.


I laughed very hard at this.
Title: Re: Malkmus on Fox News
Post by: dania on April 11, 2008, 06:47:56 PM
Is "crush" really the right verb to be using when talking about Pavement and the Breeders? It's not like we're talking Led Zeppelin vs. Black Sabbath. Wouldn't something like "ironically barbs" or "mocks its collection of Swell Maps 7"s" be more appropriate?

Ok, Breeders walk all over Pavement.  Makes more sense right? 
Title: Re: Malkmus on Fox News
Post by: Tim K in DC on April 21, 2008, 05:42:59 PM
the Amps were my favorite Pixies sideproject/spinoff/whatever.  But Pavement crushes them all.  Though if I was in a fantasy music league I would probably draft Kim Deal over Malkmus.  Stephen Malkmus reminds me of Christian Laettner for some reason.

The Catholics were my favorite Pixies side project/spinoff/whatever. Two words: Rich Gilbert.