Explore Pavement’s Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (in 5 Minutes) | Liner Notes

[@seanmurphy7733]

I was in college in 1994 and Mark Ibold's Dad was one of my art instructors. I remember him talking about his son's band, and that they had a new album out that was getting some good reviews. Pretty cool that it became an indie staple & classic.

[@willis475]

Every photo just looks so good

[@Chasinterrante]

Unfair is an absolute masterpiece about the rifts between Northern and Southern California listen close to the lyrics.

[@nikolademitri731]

“Range Life” will always be my favorite Pavement song.. just so many great memories, such beautiful longing, great lyrics, that country twang.. it’s perfect. They went on to produce “better” songs and albums, but this album, and particularly that track, is what I love most about this band. Oh, and I’m pretty sure that Billy Corgan was the one upset by “Range Life”, not the whole band. I don’t remember if it was Iha, or who it was from the band, but they definitely have talked about Billy being VERY upset about it, and being obsessed with Pavement’s success (or lack thereof), following that.. I mean, Corgan is basically a sociopathic lunatic, or at least a serious narcissist, probably on a clinical level, so it’s no surprise whatsoever that he’d be that upset by those lyrics...

[@thevoid99]

at least stephen malkamus cares about his fans and doesn't try to bullshit them whenever pavement reunites. corgan is just a bitter old has-been who still thinks his shit doesn't stink.

[@nikolademitri731]

thevoid99 Word, and I’m agreeing as an admitted Smashing Pumpkins fan, or at least a fan of their first three albums. Seeing the Smashing Pumpkins live in 2008 (I think it was then, it was somewhere between late 2007- early 2009) for the “Zeitgeist” album, was one of the worst live shows I have ever seen, and I’ve seen a lot of dingy, poor, small time bands with bad equipment, perform in dingy little hole in the walls with bad acoustics (which was admittedly part of the issue with the Pumpkins, which was at the AJ Palumbo Center, at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, just in case you’re ever thinking of seeing a concert there by chance). It can’t all be blamed on the acoustics of the venue, though. Frankly, Jimmy was the only one playing very well. Even the tracks like Cherub Rock, Zero, 1979, Tonight Tonight... the shit you’d have expected them to be able to play perfectly, given that they’re hits, were just performed so incredibly sloppily, and not in a good way. I like sloppy when it’s done right, but this was sloppy at keeping in time, and that’s just not something I can handle. It wasn’t a complete waste of money, but it was close. I just really expected that, even if they don’t play my favs, they’ll play well. Nope. PS - Fuck Billy Corgan..

[@BensCoffeeRants]

So what did they say about STP and Smashing Pumpkins? (That's back when those bands were actually great too!).

[@nikolademitri731]

Ben Do you not know the song? You should definitely listen to it. STP, he calls them elegant bachelors and golden boys, nothing really viscous, just kind of silly and ridiculous. Smashing Pumpkins, he sings about not understanding their music and they have nothing to say and that he really couldn’t give a fuck, which triggered the fuck out of bitch boi Billy “I’m The Most Talented Man On The Planet” Corgan (the vid says the whole band was upset, but it was Billy). I mean, the jabs weren’t even that brutal; like the music as a whole, they’re slacking in the shots they take.. lol.. Anyway, I can’t remember the verbatim lyrics, but you can look them up, if you want the exact words. You should definitely listen to the song/album too, though. ✌🏼

[@BensCoffeeRants]

Nope, don't know the song, I'll give it a listen. I just read apparently Billy Corgans songs, a lot of them were very personal about his life, his disabled brother, his abusive dad etc. so I could see why he'd be upset, but they're also pretty cryptic if you'r not really listening and trying to discern the lyrics, I mean I never realized either. Radiohead is also like that, it took me a while to realize Hail to the Theif was a very political album about Bush, but maybe I'm just not that observant. It's great because the music stands up on it's own and if you want to delve deeper into the meaning, you can.

[@aranc23]

I always loved the drumming on this album.

[@benpooler5965]

Fillmore Jive is my favourite Pavement song but this whole album is perfect

[@EclecticoIconoclasta]

Now do Corey Feldman´s instant classic "Angelik 2 the Core: funkadelic/rockadelic"

[@mothfyre]

You guys have no idea how happy I was when I saw this pop up in my suggestions. Thanks guys!

[@andrewandandrewtv4083]

Gold Soundz???

[@willis475]

weird cos pitchfork also named that the best song of the 90's

[@ryanzepp8897]

That's probably why they avoided it here. They said enough with that placement on the list.

[@ffwlpe]

go back to it

[@milkmedia1657]

One of the best songs ever

[@larrydong5746]

Probably my favorite album ever. Pavement were so special.

[@poolboyinla]

Yes, but they were no Stone Temple Pilots.

[@thenoseknows4389]

@@poolboyinla LOL, Stone Temple Pilots were OK, but Pavement is on a whole other level musically.

[@poolboyinla]

@@thenoseknows4389 I don't think many people would agree with you on that.

[@thenoseknows4389]

@@poolboyinla Doesn't matter, it would be true either way.

[@patriciosotelo9007]

SP, STP And Pavement rocks Weezer sucks

[@MSAPtube]

I was going through bag after bag of 90s brick weed in Minneapolis when I bought this on vinyl. Heard Silence Kit and was hooked.

[@troy8420]

Great video on what is probably my favorite album of all time. Kind of odd to focus on Hit the Plane Down and Heaven is a Truck over Elevate Me Later and Gold Soundz though.

[@drowninglifeguards]

Troy Hartmann so true!

[@mpbourke9019]

a true classic

[@TruthAndReconciliation]

I could never decide if I loved this or Wowee Zowee more

[@RAMULUS31]

WZ just about edges it for me... But their first 3 records are all 10s

[@OhanaFilms]

This. I decided for you.

[@HomicidalBabies]

Wowee Zowee. I also decided for you.

[@spaceunicorn]

Slanted > Wowee > Crooked

[@joeschuh4056]

Wowee

[@rafiansyaharya5817]

Well this one is a fastest click i've ever had

[@nazfrde]

"Synth-driven" "Hit The Plane Down"? I mainly hear bass, drums and Malkmus's and Sprial Stairs' distorted vocals, with angular guitar. I don't hear anything that could even be a synth, much less "synth-driven".

[@nazfrde]

Oops, looks like R. Ellis beat me to this.

[@admiralJONK]

not even mentioning gold soundz or fillmore jive is such a SCALDING take good LORD

[@the_emmo]

One of my favorites. I'm so glad you did this one ❤

[@311connoisseur]

Elevate me later might be my all time favorite song

[@testtube1195]

One of the best records ever made

[@omarnovela9948]

Father to sister of a thought is the best title ever! Wowee Zowee

[@dasdead]

One of the greatest albums of all time

[@nazfrde]

How is "Hit the Plane Down" 'synth-driven"? It's bass, guitars and drums.

[@blueshoe5331]

This album is so good, I love Pavement.

[@gustavttt4148]

i needed wowee zowee. but this one was still great.

[@siddthekid5046]

I never got to see Pavement play. Do another reunion tour!!!

[@Lowtech14]

They’re on tour now! Check it out.

[@siddthekid5046]

@@Lowtech14 I saw them in Seattle and the Paramount!! It ruled. There was a fight during Range Life lol wtf

[@311truther]

pavement is the greatest band of all time

[@germ0s]

In my opinion best album of all time, and as a band... probably too.

[@thebasedgodmax1163]

not my personal favourite but one of my favourites, and have twice been my favourite

[@thenoseknows4389]

Pavement is arguably the best band of the 90s. What other band can claim a one-two punch like Slanted & Enchanted and CR, CR?

[@mustymax5878]

The Nose Knows modest mouse

[@curly_wyn]

@@thenoseknows4389 Robert Christgau definitely thinks so. He LOVES them. But yes, I also agree that Pavement are the best band of the 90s!

[@gloomgirlie]

pavement is what dreams are made of tbh

[@Frances-Luna]

Only for a notification like this I'd immediately pause any true Crime series. Thank you pitchfork!

[@scottEhall3]

An all time personal favorite :) Weird set of songs you guys choose to touch on here though haha

[@ffwlpe]

i was waiting on this video

[@narcolonarcolo]

I love this album

[@therajgreek420]

Broke my laptop clicking on this

[@illes4871]

STONE ROSES NEXT PLEASE?!

[@untitled5034]

just noticed somethin... they say in the video mark ibold and steve west joined pavement for the recording of this album. ibold joined pavement wayyyy before steve west replaced gary young

[@italadz57]

God I miss this series

[@SatieSatie]

Range Life made me fall in love with Pavement

[@jakevineyard2102]

do more pavement

[@RAMULUS31]

Best band of all time

[@RudieObias]

Pavement's masterpiece!

[@joebowles06]

Everyone should go listen to Swell Maps.

[@poolboyinla]

and Stone Temple Pilots

[@poolboyinla]

@Justin Case They are still on the radio with people rocking out to them and Pavement is not...and I love Pavement.

[@tannerin]

@Justin Case they're elegant bachelors

[@josephwhite7247]

@@tannerin are they foxy to you? they're foxy to me....

[@yeatsbell3480]

Swell maps 💕

[@brendanfosh7775]

Can’t believe they didn’t go over gold soundz

[@birdsareprettyrad]

YO SWAG THANK YOU PITCHFORK

[@masterfeh2753]

Can I get uhhhhhhh G O L D S O U N D Z ?????

[@smoshbooz]

G O L D S O U N D Z machine 🅱️roke

[@Transporter311]

Best album

[@kid-ava]

gotta love pavement 🤍

[@ianbenson1254]

Please do Blank Generation by Richard Hell and the voidoids or pink flag by wire

[@katchen2626]

Ian Benson blank?

[@ianbenson1254]

Kat Chen yes, thanks for correcting me

[@horseshoulder]

WE GOT DESERTS WE GOT TREEEEEEEEEEEEES

[@Thegreepest]

We got the hills of beverleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey!

[@Peaveygang4lyfe]

Chris Hickson let's burn the hills of beverleeeeeeeeEEEEEE

[@LucaVincent]

WALKKKK

[@powerk15]

WITH YOUR CREDIT CARDS IN THE AIIIRRRR!

[@SEGAClownboss]

SWING YOUR NACHOS LIKE YOU JUST DON'T CARE

[@BandEater]

swaggeringly playful? wow i sure love music journalism

[@janeboni2572]

young malkmus was a snack

[@OhanaFilms]

A true masterpiece. No mention of Bob though?

[@mattmayo2708]

Ohana Films I know, always mention bob!

[@thomviolence384]

i have never clicked on something faster

[@startervisions]

Such cool music

[@HomicidalBabies]

thank you!!

[@lockyp204]

No mention of the Buddy Holly influence on Silence kid?

[@Ghoopty]

The same thing occurred to me. Here’s the link ~ m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/fX7Iq6qqd5aiebc

[@etamommy]

Well yeah...seems to have basically copped a melody there...it somehow messes up the song for me.... I love the intro but cannot separate things sufficiently when I hear that verse lyric kick in.

[@cosmic_republic]

YES.

[@HarryHood96]

Great album

[@danman92]

they didn't talk about the best three songs on the album - Stop Breathin', Gold Soundz, and Fillmore Jive - so this vid is *wrong*

[@LucaVincent]

if only you reviewed wowee zowee

[@woweezowee3777]

just a friendly reminder that wowee zowee is their best album

[@VolvoImpala]

Behind Slanted and Enchanted and Wowee Zowee, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain stands solid as my third favorite Pavement album. They may have matured at the time and produced the greatest single of the 90's in "Gold Soundz", but I still feel "5-4/Unity" (I'd rather listen to "Take 5" by Brubeck), "Heaven Is A Truck" (sub-"Range Life"), and "Hit The Plane Down" (hands down my least favorite Kannberg song) were inferior. Especially since Wowee Zowee, for all of its breadth, never reached those lows itself.

[@ryanjavierortega8513]

If ‘Gold Soundz’ had been the first Single...

[@OhanaFilms]

Just learned it's actually "Silence Kid" the other day.

[@NutritionalZero]

Malkmus is a second generation UVA grad, like his father (Stephen Malkmus Sr.). UVA is the CIA recruiting school of choice. After graduation, and an initial double-blind selection process, Malkmus Jr was picked up by a handler and deployed to monitor and report on the potentially maoist forces of indie rock led by Kim Gordon. If you have ever wondered why Pavement's music was just not good enough, it's because it didn't need to be. It needed to be incompetent enough to gain the trust of Kim and Thurston. I lived on Bleeker street between 1987 and 2003 and I've seen the war on drugs and the war on art rock first hand. Most of it was because the CIA considered the avant garde activities of the Lower East Side to be seditious and would happily put agents into CBGB or wherever to keep a casual eye on it. Half of your favourite NYC records from 1977-1982 are funded or performed by CIA operatives. Have a good night!

[@alexbooth5981]

you wot

[@patriciosotelo9007]

Dude, leave the drugs that you take please

[@davidrewit]

CIA has done a good job then, those NYC bands are fantastic

[@RealAsaMitaka]

youre on crack

[@hakanuriona]

Finally

[@randallpinkfloyd4857]

Do Sebadoh

[@ARogolino1]

I would like to see Bleed America

[@danielemilazzo432]

Silver Jews American Water?

[@jacksonforrester3496]

Daniele Milazzo best road trip album if you ever get the pleasure of driving across Kansas and just listening to that album with a storm behind you and the sun setting

[@zigzagwandra]

I thought the title came from David Berman(?)

[@coffdrop77]

This album may be more underrated, but I like Slanted and Enchanted more.

[@norlanderduwallis9074]

SlimVeggie I'm a big brighten the corners kinda guy

[@Hardbody94]

Spiderman's ButtonUp games same, fin is great

[@jacksonforrester3496]

No pavement album exists that hasn’t been my favorite at one point

[@patriciosotelo9007]

Terror Twilight is a underrated album. Platform Blues, The Hexx, Spit On a Stranger, Major Leagues, Carrot Rope

[@tekkenchampion832]

Okay cowards, now do Sparklehorse's Vivadixiessubmarinetransmissionplot

[@solomonsomers7033]

That would be a tough one

[@tekkenchampion832]

Really would be, I'd like to see Pitchfork dig deep for this gorgeous album. Deserves so much recognition, deserves a wider audience. Pitchfork wrote a pretty lengthy and eye opening piece on Mark Linkous in 2015.

[@josht130]

oh lord

[@kaisamsa]

They reviewed Good Morning, Spider last year, i think. Hope they'd do Vivadixie as well.

[@calwiggums3319]

Warning! Stop reading now if a minute or so single-spaced read is too much for you to digest. You've been warned. Here goes: Mark Linkous' debut Sparklehorse album is truly the work of a genius. I always loved the fact too that vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot remained available on vinyl through Slow River (Rykodisc distributed boutique label) for $6 or $7 bucks postpaid through mail order for almost a decade (extra bonus track included!) after it's original release!?! But then again, up until maybe 10 or so years ago almost every American indie label (Drag City, Matador, Merge, Thrill Jockey, kranky, Touch & Go, et al.) sold most records for $8 bucks, oftentimes postpaid. I really miss buying records blind (meaning unheard), just based off maybe reading a good review in a 'zine or even just based off the LP jacket design aesthetic & song titles. I'll never forget hearing the tale of how Linkous passed out in his hotel room, almost dying the _exact day before_ he was scheduled to open for Radiohead on tour. Such overwhelming sadness & dismay. I can't fathom being that close to possibly achieving stardom. They say in life there are few happy endings. But so it goes.. Mark Linkous was one of the greatest songwriters, imho. It's kind of a bummer though that he had to de-map himself in the manner in which he chose. "But thou shalt not judge." Nobody knows the pain he lived with. The man may be gone, but we still have plenty of fond memories & a great back catalog. Though I'm honestly surprised a "new" Sparklehorse collection of demos, rough mixes, etc. has yet to be released. But maybe thats a good thing. For real though, Sparklehorse deserves to still be listened to. I don't think I could ever get those choruses from the "vivadixie.." songs _Cow_ & _Someday I Will Treat You Good_ outta my head even if I wanted to. Such great, sadly beautiful music. To the original poster: Thank You for helping keep Linkous' spirit alive. Peace&JahBless

[@bltvd]

My first time seeing Pavement was on this tour at the Vic Theatre in Chicago…..jealous?

[@Mattgdice]

Nada Surf? Lets Go?

[@thenoodledrop]

Swanky Films I second this.

[@thenoodledrop]

Or Proximity Effect

[@merryn9000]

Do GBV !

[@johnharrington1744]

slanted enchanted is better imo but gold soundz is enough just on its own to make this album a classic

[@Hardbody94]

Jivemore fil is great

[@thebasedgodmax1163]

slanted and enchanted is just as good imo

[@taleofbenjamin]

who else is feeling the gen x ref tho?

[@lololFilip]

no mention of Silence Kit ripping the melody straight from Everyday by Buddy Holly? it's emblematic of the entire record imo.

[@mattmayo2708]

Filip Bergström melody is similar/ the same but it is an entirely different song and could very well be a coincidence. I think pavement/SM proved they are creative geniuses and don’t need to be accused of plagiarism. Emblematic of the whole album??! Delete silence kid they are still and incredible band who never wrote a bad song

[@lololFilip]

Matt Mayo nah, I doubt it's accidental, but don't get me wrong; I don't mind the fact that they used its melody, and when I called it emblematic of the record I meant to say it goes hand in hand with the slacker ethos and vibe of it all. it's a great album!

[@nosferatumann7521]

Fuck yeah!!!!

[@leetorry]

Morbid Angel's Altars of Madness or Covenant, Voivod's Dimention Hatross/Killing Technology, and Alice in Chains Dirt please.

[@sofiapvebejkg7092]

I don't know why every time I put pavement I think that a commercial is playing at some point

[@Breendcodel]

Like Imagine Dragons.

[@shaneharrington3655]

Do OST's Invisible Ink For Sketching Ghosts next!

[@prod.yungskum2751]

Can you do Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division

[@engelbertus1406]

it was titled to honour New York New York

[@nowaveshow]

Mark Ibold was already in the band. He was with the band before the release of S&E. Typical uniformed "p-fork d-baggery".

[@randallpinkfloyd4857]

Do Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

[@astral_plane_crash]

I WANT A RAAAAANGE LIIIIIFE!

[@iankoons9415]

Funeral by Arcade Fire

[@Strimbles]

It was in BROOKLYN, not Manhattan

[@birdsareprettyrad]

Please make a video on analphabetapolothology by capn jazz

[@TJByrnesAudioVisual]

The fact that Pitckfork has to explain Pavement is really sad... YOU DON' HAVE TO EXPLAIN WHY THIS IS GOOD. IF THEY DON'T GET IT THEN THEY ARE NOT WORTHY

[@bow1543]

k e k moment !!

[@Pixie_-sm4dw]

Do die kreuzen's century days

[@meow-zg2fk]

I still think Brighten the Corners is better.

[@duckbrew]

Crooked rain charted higher than purple rain?? yeah o.k...

[@zaphyra-]

they were referring to Slanted and Enchanted

[@xPennyPackerx]

Baggy khakis.

[@devilpizza123]

[@eatthem5829]

Can you do “bee thousand“ next, please?

[@d.b.2812]

👍👍👍👍👍👍♥️