Stephen Malkmus and Pavement were almost the entire inspiration behind our odyssey of the mind teams. Hopefully their new stuff stands up to it. We made state every year with our tributes to them.

kidsizedcoffin: Stephen Malkmus and Pavement were almost the entire inspiration behind our odyssey of the mind teams. Hopefully their new stuff stands up to it. We made state every year with our tributes to them.

Any video or audio recordings of said tributes?

Answer: no. This reunion will not be happening for at least several more years.

I can't see this happening. Besides, Malkmus is fine where he is. Real Emotional Trash will be a great contender for album of the year.

While Real Emotional Trash is indeed a fantastic album, the dreams of a Pavement reunion must be kept alive!

Pavement was awesome. Malkmus' solo stuff stinks. That guy sure seems to like the smell of his own farts.

Who knew Spiral Stairs had all the talent in the band?

carmody, are you joking? Spiral was limited to playing backup (mostly the noisy parts) to Stephen's superior guitar playing (the solos and melodic parts, you know, the parts that MADE Pavement). Every once in awhile, he'd pull an ok song out that hardly fit on the album. Plus, have you listened to Spiral's band The Preston School of Industy? Not too great.

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Real Emotional Trash is easily the best thing he's done since his solo debut. His work on the I'm Not There Soundtrack was also damn impressive.

It'd still be cool to see Pavement reunite, and there's no reason both things can't happen. Frank Black got the Pixies back together, and it didn't stop him from doing his own thing.

Nice, only appropriate my first greenlight is Pavement related.

somewhere in Portland, Oregon a low-fi lead singer contemplates a reunion...

irockalot: carmody, are you joking? Spiral was limited to playing backup (mostly the noisy parts) to Stephen's superior guitar playing (the solos and melodic parts, you know, the parts that MADE Pavement). Every once in awhile, he'd pull an ok song out that hardly fit on the album. Plus, have you listened to Spiral's band The Preston School of Industy? Not too great.

Spiral wrote a few good songs (Painted Soldiers, Mussle Rock, etc.), but yeah it's pretty clear that Stephen was the superior talent.

I would love a Pavement reunion, but the Jicks are a great band.
Saw them at Maxwell's in Hoboken (tiny place) last year. I don't even know how I got tickets. It sold out in a few minutes.

This would be cool.

Hi ho silver ride.

I know a certain Spikefletcher is probably very happy about this. Also if anyone has a copy of the show Pavement did on HBO Reverb, I would gladly do anything you need to get a copy of it.

/anything but buttsecks

Pitchfork's reaction is expectedly cynical. They've got a point, but for all their downplaying of the possibility, I can only think of this:

i want to believe

elev8meL8r: Pitchfork's reaction is expectedly cynical. They've got a point, but for all their downplaying of the possibility, I can only think of this:

Eh, it's more realistic than cynical. Malkmus just released an album and is in the middle of a tour, and his response wasn't encouraging. Hell, I'd be happy if they just did a couple Pavement songs on tour. They'd sound fantastic with Janet Weiss beating the skins.

They = the Jicks

Torc: Eh, it's more realistic than cynical. Malkmus just released an album and is in the middle of a tour, and his response wasn't encouraging. Hell, I'd be happy if they just did a couple Pavement songs on tour. They'd sound fantastic with Janet Weiss beating the skins.

That's probably the more accurate/practical reading, I guess. I picked up on the cynicism based on a (possibly false) sense that the contributor was taking some pleasure in shooting down a rumor. In any case, yeah, I wish they would play some Pavement songs on tour. Some of the Wowee Zowee songs would fit right in with the new Jicks album.