Pavement Prep Hits & Rarities Comp ... What Should Be On It?
When Pavement first announced their reunion we told you that Matador noted a "details-to-be-determined compilation album planned for release sometime in 2010." Well, as the guys continue adding dates to said reunion tour, they're also offering up some more info re: the comp. As Spiral Stairs noted:
Via NME:
There's talk of doing a best of, with some really cool outtakes on that ... The very first radio show that Pavement ever did has never been released. I don't think anyone's heard it, so we'll put that out there sometime.
You should look for it around the time of those aforementioned reunion gigs. That's called a product tie-in. The bigger issue: What should be on a "best of" Pavement compilation? I'm not talking about rarities, more the essential tracks for a Pavement primer. Like for people who've never heard "Summer Babe (Winter Version)," "Stop Breathin'," or "Frontwards" or a huge etc.
Posted at 5:16 PM by brandon
Tags: Pavement
Hmm...
Stereo
Cut Your Hair
Gold Sounds
Range Life
Rattled by the Rush
Frontwards
Shoot the Singer (1 Sick Verse)
Summer Babe
Spit on a Stranger
Major Leagues
...and Carrot Rope
Shady Lane
for a start.
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BAPTIST BLACKJACK!
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I'll throw in Trigger Cut and Here as well.
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I can't possibly decide. Too many songs to choose from. I'm more excited about those rare alternate outtakes more than anything else. That first radio show is definitely something to look forward to.
2k10 will be Pavement's year.
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Summer Babe [Winter Version]
Trigger Cut
In the Mouth a Desert
Here
Perfume-V
Stop Breathin'
Cut Your Hair
Gold Soundz
Elevate Me Later
Range Life
We Dance
AT&T
Rattled by the Rush
Father to a Sister of Thought
Grounded
Stereo
Shady Lane
Date with Ikea
Blue Hawaii
Spit on a Stranger
Major Leagues
...and Carrot Rope
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Just buy Slanted and Enchanted
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Fillmore Jive, for sure.
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BOOO
Pavement is my favorite band, but I wish that they weren't getting back together, and I double wish that they weren't going to make a best of.
We all know what songs will be on a best of album, so instead here's a few songs that definitely won't be on it that fucking rule:
baptist blacktick
cherry area
no tan lines
fillmore jive
kris kraft
the hexx
easily fooled
billie
ann don't cry
shoot the singer
I'm get that basically all the members of pavement beside SM have fallen on hard times, and its their prerogative to reunite and get paid, but for being a seriously cool band, reuniting is a seriously lame move.
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Here's a list of the kind of accessible songs I expect would make up the Greatest Hits comp:
Summer Babe (Winter Version)
Trigger Cut/Wounded-Kite At :17
Here
Frontwards
Elevate Me Later
Cut Your Hair
Unfair
Gold Soundz
Range Life
We Dance
Rattled By The Rush
Grounded
Grave Architecture
AT&T2
Kennel District
Stereo
Shady Lane
Date With Ikea
Starlings Of The Slipstream
Spit On A Stranger
Major Leagues
...and Carrot Rope
Robyn Turns 26
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harness your hopes
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black out
give it a day
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Summer Babe
Stereo
Elevate Me Later
Shady Lane
Frontwards
Spit on A Stranger
We Dance
Trigger Cut
Rattled by the Rush
Gold Soundz
Loretta's Scars
AT&T
Cut Your Hair
Date With Ikea
In The Mouth a Desert
Stop Breathin
Major Leagues
Here
Range Life
Starlings of the Slipstream
Father to a Sister of Thought
Carrot Rope
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Gangsters And Pranksters!
I Love Perth!
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hopefully it has For Sale: The Preston School of Industry for the first time ever.
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the hexx, gold soundz, and slipstream are magical...simply magical.
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i wonder if they'd sue if i put out a new song that contains sampled Pavement...i guess i'll start worrying if more than three people hear it
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It would have to be a double album. There are too many awesome pavement songs to fit on one CD.
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Summer Babe (Winter Version)
Trigger Cut
Here
Frontwards
Cut Your Hair
Gold Soundz
Range Life
Rattled by the Rush
Father to a Sister of Thought
Grounded
Give it a Day
Stereo
Shady Lane
Date With IKEA
Spit on a Stranger
Carrot Rope
Major Leagues
Although it should be:
Summer Babe (Winter Version)
Loretta's Scars
Kentucky Cocktail
Texas Never Whispers
Frontwards
Nail Clinic
Cut Your Hair
Newark Wilder
Range Life
The Sutcliffe Catering Song
Rattled by the Rush
Half a Canyon
Grounded
Best Friend's Arm
AT & T
Stereo
Blue Hawaiian
Roll with the Wind
Spit on a Stranger
Carrot Rope
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"Give It A Day" is awesome, thank you! I only ever found this on some Japanese tour-only EP that I downloaded in 2003 from somebody on soulseek!
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lions (linden)?
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Loretta's Scars should absolutely be on there, my favorite Pavement song. Summer Babe (Winter Version), Elevate Me Later, Harness Your Hopes, Stereo...they made so many great songs its ridiculous
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Texas Never Whispers
Summer Babe (Winter Version)
In the Mouth a Desert
Zurich is Stained
Here
Stop Breathin'
Cut Your Hair
Range Life
Gold Soundz
Fillmore Jive
All My Friends
Grounded
Pueblo
We Dance
Give It a Day
Kennel District
Type Slowly
Fin
Stereo
Shady Lane
Date with IKEA
Spit on a Stranger
Major Leagues
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Am I really the first to suggest Box Elder?? (props for Give It A Day and Harness Your Hopes suggestions though!)
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I just hope it contains Box Elder and Painted Solders!!!
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One Matador reissue I love is the Underwater Moonlight one...the And How It Got There...disc they sound great for for being so loose...the songs are being born right before your eyes...
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It should come with a disc of nothing but covers of '80s techno pop hits.
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I am more interested in the outtakes and the banter...Any Pavement fan with a brain could come up with a tracklist for a greatest hits comp...would prob consist of all the video tracks plus "Summer Babe (Winter Version)"...?
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Hopefully some of the more "out there" tunes from Westing by Musket and Sextant like:
You're killing me
Internal K-Dart
Maybe Maybe
Baptist Blacktick
From Now On
Home.
Also, the entire Water, Domestic EP...especially Feed em to the Linden Lions.
Slanted and Enchanted has gotta give up Fame Throwa and Here.
After that, you can keep your post Slanted Pavement to yourself.
So Nyahh
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Here's one vote for Unseen Power of the Picket Fence.
But the one commenter was right, their songs always work better within the context of their original albums, not what you would refer to as a "singles band".
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ROYAL TRUX!!!
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These are the tracks that should be on a Pavement best of. All 24 would fit on to an 80 minute CD.
1. Summer Babe
2. Trigger Cut/Wounded Kite
3. In The Mouth A Desert
4. Zurich Is Stained
5. Here
6. Two States
7. Cut Your Hair
8. 5-4 = Unity
9. Gold Sounds
10. Unfair
11. Range Life
12. We Dance
13. Rattled By The Rush
14. Grounded
15. Father To A Sister of Thought
16. Kennel District
17. Stereo
18. Shady Lane
19. Date With Ikea
20. No Tan Lines
21. Spit On Stranger
22. Major Leagues
23. Billie
24. Carrot Rope
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RE: Out-Takes...
On a few of the 2-disc reissues, they used the "extended" versions of some b-sides, and left off the original versions. I feel that these original versions should be included on a "Rarities" disc because some of those songs simply are not how they are usually remembered.
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Embassy Row and Blue Hawaiian... that whole second half of Brighten the Corners is amazing. and the first half, rally, haha
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"The Unseen Power of the Picket Fence" - How can you not love a Pavement song about REM??
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1) Sue Me Jack
2) Unfair
3) AT&T
4) Shoot the Singer
5) Silence Kid
6) Westie Can Drum
7) Stereo
8) Texas Never Wispers
9) Give it a Day
10) Spit on a Stranger
11) Harness Your Hopes
12) Father to a Sister on Thought
13) Frontwards
14) Zürich Is Stained
15) Pueblo
16) Stop Breathin'
17) The Hexx
18) In the Mouth a Desert
19) Gold Soundz
20) Shady Lane
21) Grounded
22) Here (Peel Session)
22) Summer Babe (Winter Version)
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Nothing off Terror Twilight.
I hope.
Pavment should have broken uo before they put thier name on that piece of garbage.
Terrible, Terrible album.
Any song of their first three albums could be on this comp.
-Farmer Ted
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here is a song so rare no one mentioned this gem: so stark you're a skyscraper. a paean to smoking! definitely my favorite pavement song. a lost b-side.
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Hotel California. Here Comes your Man. Message in a Bottle. Barf.
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