love him but when will people realize that the apathetic thing is extremely carefully crafted by him to serve a purpose, and give him a certain vibe that he knows will appeal to fans? You don't become as mega successful as him if you don't care. He cares alot
This is true, I read a piece about the bizarre inscrutable packaging of Slanted And Enchanted -- the random phrases and stuff. It was ALL very carefully designed to present the image of the band that it presented. A LOT of thought went into making it look tossed off.
"There were some big concerts, like Roseland" - I was at that Roseland concernt (Oct 1994). It was indeed crazy. Guided By Voices opened with Kim Deal joining them on stage for a song or two. When Pavement took the stage it was complete pandemonium. Most of the crowd clearly was just there to "mosh" and go crazy - when they started "Cut Your Hair" they surged to the stage. It was nuts. I was actually somewhat scared for my and other's well being (some large "bros" were swinging around bashing against petite teenage girls). I can understand why Malkmus would freaked out by that.
caught him twice at the 40 watt, first on pavement's final, terror twilight tour, and then again on the jicks' first tour, where I met him after the show and he was WAY nicer than he could've and probably should've been, shooting the breeze with us goofy teenagers and signing some merch. but didn't they come out with a deluxe crooked rain reissue like a decade or more ago, because I'm looking at my copy right now... which I bought even though I already had it all on bootlegs ssshhhhhh
Great interview but who edited this? I never got nausea from watching Blair Witch Project like a lot of people did, but the incessant camera angle changes every 3 seconds in this made me need to hurl. This is not MTV, bruh.
Over the last 20 years this has become probably the most important album in my life, in so many deeply personal ways that I have stopped talking about it openly because i end up sounding whiny and boring to all the "who the fuck is pavement", or "I cant stand pavement" people. This is a shatteringly beautiful masterpiece.
totally rocked my world! forever engraved, the middle part of the opening song: "Come on now, talk about your family Your sister's cursed, your father's all but damned you Silent kid, don't listen to your grandmother's advice about Ezra Silent kid, don't listen to them"
They followed it up with an REM covers EP and then Wowee Zowee, so that was probably why, because they were being referred to as “The smart Nirvana,” so people knew.... Malk said they sold 250,000 copies, and not 750,000, because of the label not being able to market and distribute it in the same way that a major would, and he also said that was the difference between being Weezer and being Pavement
One of my favourite records of all time, i have my CD signed from all Pavement members in 2010 reunion tour, is amazing is still fresh on this days since 1994!
I once called Gary Young on the phone, pretended I was Thurston Moore, and got Stephen’s phone number. I swear that happened. I couldn’t call him anymore after he moved to France or wherever it was.
Aw man I still love this album, I saw you guys tour it in Edinburgh way back in 94 or 95. Stop Breathin is a classic. I love how you can sound shambolic yet amazing at the same time, reminds of the way Tom Waits sounds sometimes.
Finally got to see them in Amsterdam during their 2010 reunion tour.........that show was the soundtrack of the my journey through the 90’s........love this band, still do in 2021. Oh, and Malkmus’ got great hair!
The first time that I heard Pavement, I think: woa! What fuck is this? They had a different way to express the pain and love, and isolation, I Remember that year, april 95 because I lost my best friend on drugs, Malkmus is a very particulary songwritter from the 90's, different from others, contemporaries in fact off the alternative rock music, creator of stimulate lyrics and melodys,
I know you guys probably heard that before.. but this guy's band caused some serious damage on the evil plans laid at that time by corporate warlocks to rob the then decade of the 90's of its best sounds. They fought good, their efforts shall not be forgotten, although, unfortunately, the %¨&*6%% warlocks did take over about a decade or so latter, causing aesthetic deafness to billions of people. Since on the topic of fighting the %¨&%$¨ warlocks of aesthetic deafness, we should put the word out that their aim was not to simply replace the former masters sound-crafters with former disney channel starlets or the many and lesser developed clones of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes. Their real ploy was to make people slowly believe they like stuff that nobody in their sound mind would possibly like. And that, my friends, is the geneses of fake news, right there.
i started listening to pavement for the first time last year after another band mentioned that we kind of sounded like them. since then i learned that we aren’t even close to as talented but i take it as a very high compliment and i’ve loved pavement ever since.
Record just blew my mind when I got the reissue. The creative jangly songs just sounded like what those years probably were like in the indie scene. I was just a kid when this was all about. Never knew indie rock existed only fm radio was all I had like Soundgarden and nirvana.
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain to me is just a warm up for Wowee Zowee. I don't much like "5/4 Unity" (I'd rather listen to Paul Desmond's tune), "Heaven Is A Truck" (rather listen to "Range Life"), or "Hit The Plane Down" (Scott's worst song).
Saw Pavement in Lowestoft, UK in about 1995. They weren't playing there or anything, they were just sitting on the seafront throwing hot chips at seagulls.
It's always been my favorite album because it really matched if not surpassed Slanted and Enchanted, which was a monumental achievement. In fact, I love Slanted so much I refused to even listen to Crooked Rain for at least 6 months after it came out just knowing I would be disappointed. I was wrong.
chrisocony - I do like them all, but Brighten the Corners is my Go-To...then I listen to Crooked Rain & I’m reminded how good they all really are. Those were good times for young me & for Rock n Roll. So much was happening along that time period, compared to the early 2Ks to present, IMO. I get in to the Jicks records, too. I guess I’m just Pro-Malkmus & buy everything he releases.
he's living the range life
He’s settled down
what salesmanship. let's get this guy some on some cold calls.
mtrhny this made me spit my tea out 🤣
thanks for this. You are a prince.
lmfaooooo
stoned much steven?
love him but when will people realize that the apathetic thing is extremely carefully crafted by him to serve a purpose, and give him a certain vibe that he knows will appeal to fans? You don't become as mega successful as him if you don't care. He cares alot
This is true, I read a piece about the bizarre inscrutable packaging of Slanted And Enchanted -- the random phrases and stuff. It was ALL very carefully designed to present the image of the band that it presented. A LOT of thought went into making it look tossed off.
Hold up if Stephen Malkmus and Matt Sweeney are friends, why the hell isn't there a guitar moves with Malkmus yet!??!?
fhudge Yes, need this!
Matt: Wanna do guitar moves?
SM: No, I’m good man. Thanks.
Been thinking the same thing for a while since I saw several pictures of the two together
Because the internet isn’t the world
Matt Sweeney played on his last album, Traditional Techniques.
You don't have to cut every 3 seconds. Other than that, cool video
Thanks Andrew, now I can't even watch this...so much cutting!
hahah tooo much cutting!
lol
"There were some big concerts, like Roseland" - I was at that Roseland concernt (Oct 1994). It was indeed crazy. Guided By Voices opened with Kim Deal joining them on stage for a song or two. When Pavement took the stage it was complete pandemonium. Most of the crowd clearly was just there to "mosh" and go crazy - when they started "Cut Your Hair" they surged to the stage. It was nuts. I was actually somewhat scared for my and other's well being (some large "bros" were swinging around bashing against petite teenage girls). I can understand why Malkmus would freaked out by that.
he’s literally just vibing
tater tot never trust anyone who uses the word, “vibing”
Literally, as opposed to metaphorically
Yeah I can actually see him vibrating... Like literally..
@@jnnx I will never trust Boyz II Men ever again.
I think he has the hiccups too lmao
caught him twice at the 40 watt, first on pavement's final, terror twilight tour, and then again on the jicks' first tour, where I met him after the show and he was WAY nicer than he could've and probably should've been, shooting the breeze with us goofy teenagers and signing some merch. but didn't they come out with a deluxe crooked rain reissue like a decade or more ago, because I'm looking at my copy right now... which I bought even though I already had it all on bootlegs ssshhhhhh
Yes, they did and it ruled with it’s ton of new songs
Oh god the cuts on this, stop! Or screw it, just change camera shots every word, just seizure town USA.
Take out ordering freaks always run the best studios. Malkmus knows what's up.
Great interview but who edited this? I never got nausea from watching Blair Witch Project like a lot of people did, but the incessant camera angle changes every 3 seconds in this made me need to hurl. This is not MTV, bruh.
I'm old and tired. I just like hearing him talk about it. Dad, they broke me, lol.
"im not saying it's all bad" lmao
range rovin' with the cinema stars
TA!
the dark side of the moon comment was (another) stab at billy corgan who called mellon collie and the infinite sadness the wall for generation X
Thank God it was sarcasm. Otherwise what a douche.
@@scherryvalentine9673 using your promo video to slag off other musicians and partake in feuds from decades ago is still quite douchey x
@@hahayou6405 Agree.
It was just a reference to an album that’s always in print
@@hahayou6405*funny
So drunk, in the August sun!
Such a good line!
Masterpiece. Can't believe my age has doubled since it came out.
So you're 52? Thats about my dad's age. Wish he listened to cool bands like this
@@WDHAGN Just turned 51 :)
Over the last 20 years this has become probably the most important album in my life, in so many deeply personal ways that I have stopped talking about it openly because i end up sounding whiny and boring to all the "who the fuck is pavement", or "I cant stand pavement" people. This is a shatteringly beautiful masterpiece.
I kinda prefer slanted and enchanted
It's amazing how apathetic he sounds talking about one of the best bands of the 90s.
why? what happened with him and pavement?
@@FelipeScaff I think Steve just ghosted them.
That's just how Malk is all the time.
@@jeffbrown-hill7739 yeah I was gonna say, you should have seen him in the 1990s
Bumped into him in a bathroom on that first Jicks tour. Gave him the cool guy nod, he reciprocated.
"the cool guy nod"?? is that hipster speak for felatio??? you cottager you!
We did have the internet and we did have message boards that talked about Pavement all the time, but who cares about computer nerds
AOL Pavement message board and Stanford mailing list REPRESENT
Back in those days, it was all about Echo NYC.
Yep, just ask Phish!
The days of Usenet 😉
totally rocked my world!
forever engraved, the middle part of the opening song:
"Come on now, talk about your family
Your sister's cursed, your father's all but damned you
Silent kid, don't listen to your grandmother's advice about Ezra
Silent kid, don't listen to them"
This is the city life!
god damn
I don't think he's ever smoked weed
I remember that SM once told that smoking pot and playing words while on tour in 90s was his biggest mistake in 'time spend' category.
@@barcode_artist What does playing words mean
@@ImStuckInStockton it’s scrabble
@@charliern big ups to my boi C-note. good lookin out G
@@barcode_artist mistake? Lol he's high as a kite here
He is so freaking West Coast I'm about to fall asleep.
“Hey everyone look at me I’m loud and I’m from New York!” That’s the shit that puts me to sleep.
@@ebshitbird2217 u sensitive
Panamera Boomin Because I fall asleep?
@@ebshitbird2217 you took offense to Malkmus’s west coast chill comment
Don't worry. We're in no hurry.
I played this album so many times while traveling in the 90s. Now it's like traveling every time I hear it.
Great album. Funny how they didn't have more success though.
For an indie group, they went very far.
They followed it up with an REM covers EP and then Wowee Zowee, so that was probably why, because they were being referred to as “The smart Nirvana,” so people knew....
Malk said they sold 250,000 copies, and not 750,000, because of the label not being able to market and distribute it in the same way that a major would, and he also said that was the difference between being Weezer and being Pavement
W yea r
They were very successful.
They could have left Matador and maybe had more success, but what would be the point. They got to do what they wanted with very decent success.
i can smell the weed through the screen
The most sarcastic man in history.
but he means it, man
One of my favourite records of all time, i have my CD signed from all Pavement members in 2010 reunion tour, is amazing is still fresh on this days since 1994!
What about the voice of Geddy Lee?
@v2745 Does he even speak like an ordinary guy?
@@eugenekassakov3402 Oh, i know him and he does!
@@patriciosotelo9007 and you're my fact checkin cuz
Music bigwigs: "You're famous, son!"
Malkmus: "Oh No."
this record still sounds great & somehow new to me. ‘Brighten the Corners’ is still my favorite.
I once called Gary Young on the phone, pretended I was Thurston Moore, and got Stephen’s phone number. I swear that happened. I couldn’t call him anymore after he moved to France or wherever it was.
Aw man I still love this album, I saw you guys tour it in Edinburgh way back in 94 or 95. Stop Breathin is a classic. I love how you can sound shambolic yet amazing at the same time, reminds of the way Tom Waits sounds sometimes.
“Slamming” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bailterspace getting a shout out. Nice one Malkmus!
They opened for Pavement on one of the legs of the CR tour
why does the camera gotta change angles every 2 seconds? So distracting
I'm a simple man, Bandwagonesque gets mentioned, I listen to Bandwagonesque.
Absolute legend & criminally underrated guitarist
“Remember the Buzz Bin?! Was hoping to get in there.”
Terror Twilight is still my fave Pavement album
Such a lovely dude
theyre from stockton nice
I can't take the angle changes... It's making me sick.
Unfair....felt the rush of 25 years hit me all at once.
Pre-War Unfair Jad Fair.
I bloody love bailter space
guess he loved bailter space's space
wait i missed it where does he mention them 0_O
@@elliottmcpeek7443 he mentioned that the recording space he used had been used by other bands he liked such as bailter space.
I bloody love baldurs gate
Bloody bailter space rip!
anyone else feel weird about how nonchalantly he talks about replacing his drummers, im a drummer myself
The man looks like he's high on COVID-19.
Stephen is the goat. Cute, nice, always putting awesome personal and special music :)
say goodnight to the last psychedelic band
Finally got to see them in Amsterdam during their 2010 reunion tour.........that show was the soundtrack of the my journey through the 90’s........love this band, still do in 2021.
Oh, and Malkmus’ got great hair!
Just had to point out that it was recorded in pre-internet Williamsburg.
The first time that I heard Pavement, I think: woa! What fuck is this? They had a different way to express the pain and love, and isolation, I Remember that year, april 95 because I lost my best friend on drugs, Malkmus is a very particulary songwritter from the 90's, different from others, contemporaries in fact off the alternative rock music, creator of stimulate lyrics and melodys,
Uncle Steve is still in last year
Also, always fun. And just my favorite songwriter of all time. Hopefully he will be on our show someday 🐨
Made of Things what’s your show
@@awakelingsignals right here on this UA-cam channel! (sorry for the plug Matador)
I know you guys probably heard that before.. but this guy's band caused some serious damage on the evil plans laid at that time by corporate warlocks to rob the then decade of the 90's of its best sounds. They fought good, their efforts shall not be forgotten, although, unfortunately, the %¨&*6%% warlocks did take over about a decade or so latter, causing aesthetic deafness to billions of people. Since on the topic of fighting the %¨&%$¨ warlocks of aesthetic deafness, we should put the word out that their aim was not to simply replace the former masters sound-crafters with former disney channel starlets or the many and lesser developed clones of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes. Their real ploy was to make people slowly believe they like stuff that nobody in their sound mind would possibly like. And that, my friends, is the geneses of fake news, right there.
i started listening to pavement for the first time last year after another band mentioned that we kind of sounded like them. since then i learned that we aren’t even close to as talented but i take it as a very high compliment and i’ve loved pavement ever since.
ben gannon cool I wanna hear
Dude what the fuck I literally have this same story. We even cover range life now because of it
I always suspected classic rock was underneath it all somewhere.
Bailterspace 👍 good kiwi band
Saw him with the Jicks on the Pig Lib tour and it was completely BRILLIANT
Love that album!
Thumbs down for all the cuts. Damn, dude. Editor needs to just relax.
No big hair!
Great album. Range Life is still my favorite song.
"She is the queen of the house in Pasadena thrill..."
Rose parade
Needs more camera cuts
As the Dude says: "I hate the fucking Eagles, man!"
Malkmus is honest music! Love
Still playing the irony card in 2019
Record just blew my mind when I got the reissue. The creative jangly songs just sounded like what those years probably were like in the indie scene. I was just a kid when this was all about. Never knew indie rock existed only fm radio was all I had like Soundgarden and nirvana.
'I hate Eagles'. Glad he hates them enough to inspire a song. My appreciation of Pavement would be missing a chunk without 'Range Life'.
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain to me is just a warm up for Wowee Zowee. I don't much like "5/4 Unity" (I'd rather listen to Paul Desmond's tune), "Heaven Is A Truck" (rather listen to "Range Life"), or "Hit The Plane Down" (Scott's worst song).
Goodnight to the Rock n Roll era, indeed.
Mitchell Hughes nope.
Bobbin' Williams hope.
Saturated Neō Wax hope.
The album I’d play for a casual rock fan that doesn’t know Pavement
this man is old enough to be my father but he is still endlessly attractive to me
Sounds like you have some soul searching to do maybe...?
That's creepy...
just give him the cool guy nod, he'll love it
daddy
best album ever
It looks as if he doesn’t care at all lol
My Favourite Pavement album!
The tour they did for this was so great!
I love their 1st drummer utter mad man. Met him at their gig in Manchester UK.
The Plantman!
Gary Young did handstands was middle-aged just awesome
Holy shit , this editing could give someone a seizure.
SM was always privileged af
& musically does not hold up to time, too clever
the fool can play guitar tho
All analogue vinyl remaster or I hurt something
I prefer Slanted and Enchanted.
Range Life is totally an Eagles song.
Need to change camera angles more
Lol, great ad. I'd definitiely buy it...if I didnt already have it
is he sick from Covid?
waaaaaahhht range life is an eagles rip? hahaha i love that song.
Pull out the plugs and they snort up the drugs
He almost cares
F*ck art let's dance
1994 will live forever in famy (opposite of infamy)!
Yeah Pavement!! One of my favorite bands ever!
Love you stephen
Saw Pavement in Lowestoft, UK in about 1995. They weren't playing there or anything, they were just sitting on the seafront throwing hot chips at seagulls.
Check out my new E.P. Insects by "the delinquent daughters." Released on You Tube.
🌠
Bob rotostandsivitch where your Tom us guide floors?
It's always been my favorite album because it really matched if not surpassed Slanted and Enchanted, which was a monumental achievement. In fact, I love Slanted so much I refused to even listen to Crooked Rain for at least 6 months after it came out just knowing I would be disappointed. I was wrong.
chrisocony - I do like them all, but Brighten the Corners is my Go-To...then I listen to Crooked Rain & I’m reminded how good they all really are. Those were good times for young me & for Rock n Roll. So much was happening along that time period, compared to the early 2Ks to present, IMO. I get in to the Jicks records, too. I guess I’m just Pro-Malkmus & buy everything he releases.
It's too hard to pick a fav. Listen to the bonus track "All My Friends" if you haven't. Stunning.
@@mt-zf6xp not to mention Watery Domestic from around that time is just perfect.
@@chrisocony word!