Pavement - Stereo (Official Video)

[@simonemarcenaro8377]

when sloppiness meets perfection.

[@Isengard2626]

"Pigs they tend to wiggle when they walk" What a way to begin a song. Just brilliant.

[@muskratwiser4700]

The infrastructure rots and the owner hates the jocks with their agents and their dates

[@daysilange5930]

Chill, dude.

[@samuelbowie1]

What a way to begin an album

[@JaiPritchett]

The infrastructure rots

[@headass9373]

I love the way he says it

[@peachy-wd6ci]

i love how lazy and careless they initially sound but the lyrics are always so genius it’s just perfect

[@Jannan44]

Pigs, they tend to wiggle when they walk The infrastructure rots And the owners hate the jocks With their agents and their dates If the signatures are checked You'll just have to wait And we're counting up the instants that we save Tired nation so depraved From the cheap seats see us Wave to the camera It took a giant ramrod To raze the demon settlement But high-ho silver, ride High-ho silver, ride Take another ride to see me home Listen to me I'm on the stereo stereo Oh my baby baby baby baby babe Gave me malaria hysteria What about the voice of Geddy Lee How did it get so high? I wonder if he speaks like an ordinary guy? (I know him and he does) And you're my fact-checkin' cuz (Aww) Well focus on the quasar in the mist The Kaiser has a cyst And I'm a blank want list The qualms you have and if they stick They will drown you in a crick In the neck of a woods That was populated by Tired nation on the fly Everybody knows advice That was given out for free Lots of details to discern Lots of details But high-ho silver ride High-ho silver ride Takes another ride to make me Oh, get off the air I'm on the stereo stereo Oh my baby baby baby baby baby babe Gave me malaria hysteria

[@BasqueNYC]

" what about the voice of Geddy Lee how did it get so high? I wonder if he speaks like an ordinary guy" haha I love that line.Pavement are big Rush fans stated in interviews,influences and I saw them wearing a 91 tour shirt once on stage

[@barrypotter5751]

Rattled by the rush

[@davidnicholson6680]

The most 90s of 90s bands. Slackers.

[@thedirtybubble9613]

Pavement is such an underrated band. Man were they talented.

[@johnrae4529]

I listen to this song every day when I get out of work.

[@dinnerbone444]

do you still do that

[@shanearnold7781]

I love the fact that Bob is basically a Wild Card for what he'll be doing in any given song; from lugging around the band's cash bag (his first job with them), to being their unneeded second drummer, to his random guitar appearance here, to his awesome vocal appearances. He's simultaneously the most and least important member of the band, and the best mascot for any band ever.

[@johnybaltimore3687]

almost like he's in Phish.

[@scherryvalentine9673]

Shane Arnold The transient tambourine man for Foxygen was pretty good mascot.

[@ohfoolishworkerbee]

You forgot keyboardist!

[@TheFibreman]

Erotic Volvo / Misty's Big Adventure though

[@kingdowner2112]

@@scherryvalentine9673 Bez from Happy Mondays was a pretty good mascot too his job was basically to take Ecstasy and dance

[@BrandonGates]

man if i had youtube back in 97 you how many hours of watching MTV i would have saved. I remember watching alternative nation for hours just praying they would play this video lol.

[@myuhlz]

Brandon Gates same here, but hoping to see Aphex Twin Windowlicker :)

[@arnoldme3120]

yep, but you'd have missed lots of other intersting bands, would'nt you?

[@theweirdo8622]

@@myuhlz Great taste x

[@theweirdo8622]

I know how that is. MTV here was run by another company until 2013 and they still had music until the end. I watched the clips for hours and waited until my fav artists came up.

[@rev245]

Amazing still. Love that they sound like they don’t practice very much and yet sound amazing. Forever one of my favorite bands.

[@voce_simul]

This is as far as "tongue-in-cheek" gets. Love it.

[@pippywondergirl]

nice pfp

[@TheColourflies]

This is the Greatest example of not giving a shit, and being awesome I'm ever seen

[@sunkintree]

The bass line is just so surreal

[@WayneBoucaud]

The arrangement on this is incredible…

[@jessejafrnd]

This is one of those songs you have to see through the randomness and humour for a while then you start noticing these are really clever guitar parts and smart musicians. Really takes me back to when most of what was played on rock stations was good in the early/mid 90s.. by the late 90s people like me were really disappointed and frustrated with the nickelback and 3 doors down type bands. The cool phase was already phasing out way too fast. I'm so glad I was a teenager for that era.

[@jmgmarcus808]

Jesse Allan Friend Guitar Yup, there was so much good stuff going on and the big bands after 94 were Creed, Limp Bizkit, Korn and a bunch of other whack ass corny fake ass corporate new metal. I remember hearing the first J. Mascis record on the radio in the southern states in 95 thinking I hope this lasts forever.....it didn't. A lot of good music happened in the 90s nobody even knows about. Sad.

[@Dumb_Killjoy]

@@jmgmarcus808 Korn isn't that bad, but Limp Bizkit is just the poor man's Linkin Park.

[@zenunderground]

@@jmgmarcus808 Imagine, coming of age and creed+korn was the standard for rock(98-2003)...all I could do was say, "now that it's my turn what the hell happened??" I'm still mad.

[@Slickmickyoyo97]

Amen my friend. Even with heavier bands, the change was palpable and depressing. Like when Tool somehow morphed into Chevelle. It was obvious the fun was over, the freshness was gone, and things were just getting lame.

[@Slickmickyoyo97]

@@Dumb_Killjoy Yeah not my favorite but Korn's first two albums were pretty fresh and unique, they didn't sound like much we had ever heard before and there is something to be said for that.

[@ElBloeTigre]

Been looking for this song for 25 years.

[@Arguinghen]

Even though I was born way past the golden age of Alt rock, I've always admired the feelings evoked by the bands between the 1990s and 2000s. There's a sort of expression that encapsulates a form of frustration that I find punk rock expresses too angrily, and a resolve to that sort of frustration in song writing.

[@Urlocallordandsavior]

I think its' more the isosteric expression of rage instead of the directness of heavy metal/hard rock/punk.

[@cutiepiecatloveallanimals6602]

If you would have been around you would have realized the golden age of alt rock was 1980’s-1990’s

[@calvinbaII]

@@cutiepiecatloveallanimals6602 With hindsight I'd argue the early-mid 2000s was better than I remember it. Maybe because the stuff that came after that was for the most part pretty bad and rock music was on its last legs in the cultural zeitgeist. Don't get me wrong, there's still great stuff coming out now but it just isn't the same as it used to be.

[@cutiepiecatloveallanimals6602]

@@calvinbaII I literally said nothing about music in the 2000’s, not sure what you are talking about or why to me

[@ownedbymykitty270]

Because they admitted they were lost middle class suburban California youngsters and that’s what they played on. Nothing traumatic to be angry about - more of a sort of things kinda suck but they also don’t so like whatever.

[@M0rr15she]

This song never fails to make my face happy. I love you pavement.

[@kittythegranddreamer2840]

Holy Crap! A talking Squirrel! Best music video ever.

[@JavierKaleb]

The best 90's song. I love it

[@Stookvogel]

Yo, we're a band called Stookvogel. If you like bands like Pavement, maybe you'll enjoy our music too.

[@zaphyra-]

not even the best Pavement song

[@ruthdixon7807]

an art-rock jam guaranteed never to bother the charts.

[@daltonsilver9826]

i KnOw hiM aNd hE dOEs

[@andydushane8565]

And you're my fact checkin' cuz (aww)

[@albertandrews130]

@@andydushane8565 Darnit I wanted tosay that!

[@rufousyates4629]

@@albertandrews130 Fat Checkered Cuz was my mistake !

[@allitinglz]

-SqUiRreL (?????!!!!!!!!!!)

[@allitinglz]

always consider the source 🐿️🐿️🐿️

[@TristanDeCunha]

this reminds me of college. but i went to college between 2005 and 2009. but i went to bard, so it was like 1995-1999.

[@samshapiro5951]

I went to bard from 2009-2013, so it was like 1999-2003

[@levimakula2625]

How is Pavement this awesome?

[@TonyPlato-t1d]

I don't know. It seems like magic. Malkmus didn't realise what he was leaving. A once in a lifetime gestalt.

[@EnricoSalvatoreRizzo]

The Blue Album, Slanted and Enchanted, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain and Pinkerton are some of the best albums of the 90s.

[@vance7659]

Enrico Salvatore Rizzo Slints Spiderland has to be up there

[@eatthem5829]

Enrico Salvatore Rizzo bee thousand

[@birdsareprettyrad]

this song is from brighten the corners

[@marcobazan4187]

Wowee Zowee is the best pavement album tbh

[@cometcourse381]

Don't forget LP5 by Autechre, probably the best album released that entire decade.

[@magneto44]

great freaking song

[@cranberrie72]

Such a great album.

[@tml-]

i love how tongue-in-cheek this song feels.

[@kasai0555]

I don't get your comment, but I love your pfp.

[@dayflowermusic]

I love how this video starts with Stephen Malkmus sticking his gum to a polystyrene rock and yet somehow being indescribably cool.

[@pythonbyte]

where would Pavement have been without Bob's guitar playing?

[@TarzansMom]

Hi-ho Silver ride from 2:26, the way those 5 syllables’ notes go up and down just sends me. And then the little guitar riff at 2:30. The best couple of minutes of music, and we get it twice in this song.

[@MrYikes-dk2mb]

This song is the soundtrack to my life! 🔥🙌🔥

[@timtim6554]

This song is a follow up to "Cut Your Hair." The singer is letting you know that whatever success his band has had, he wears it lightly. Both the singer and the other guitarist turned 30 when this album was recorded, and they start it off by showing that they are just as brilliant as ever, but in no danger of growing up. If you watch the Conan version with its free-form solo interludes and even more out-there back-up vocals, you will see that they are more serious than ever about just messing around.

[@douglasfairmeadow]

They were never really had real 'success' tho. WZ which came out between the albums you mention was kinda considered commercial suicide at the time. By Brighten they were just dgaf like always.

[@curly_wyn]

And Carrot Rope is that person losing their fame and committing un-life.

[@motionsuggests]

@@douglasfairmeadowwhat defines success, anyways? they definitely veered away after Crooked Rain, (good, i wouldn't want them to prioritize that radio friendly vision of Cut Your Hair) but they got to play live on multiple tv shows (then and now), had two popular reunion shows. Malkmus has since been able to live well with his solo projects - just to be able to live with the career as 'artist' is a win in my books

[@ownedbymykitty270]

I remember one of my college friends back in ‘93/94 saying to me “You and your Pavement!!!!” in regards to my obsession at the time 😂

[@maack633]

pavement's discography is a true testament to the power of a bunch of weird nerds

[@ThePavementBsb]

Best band ever!!!!

[@joejones9520]

to me this is still new experimental music i havent gotten used to yet even though ive heard it since it came out

[@spacealienjesus709]

I wish they would reform ..if even just for a tour..easily one of my favorite bands that I never got to catch live..

[@edmundau-yeung9598]

And they are doing it in 2022

[@nimrod593]

are you happy now

[@Dean444ful]

I usually hate this type of music but I don’t know what it is about this band that I love. What the hell someone help me...

[@mikehemens9359]

Great band.

[@music-radar]

#MTVAlternativeNation 🎸🎹 aired 24.07.2024 📡 @MTVGermany sent me here 2:28 🔊

[@madamefeast4824]

I would of never picked up a guitar if it wasn't for steve malkmus. I was amazed. I grew up on Kinks and VU and Beatles. But i heard Pavement and it clicked. Like, oh wow. Hes literally a genius. You can do whatever you want. I first heard them in 2007 at age 23. And started my band a week later. And i got to see the reunion show in 2010. It was the best concert i ever attended

[@jlouis4407]

This is my favorite video ever

[@BJB1122]

Pavement. So underrated and carrying you this whole time.

[@grendelwasajedi]

that riff is so heavy

[@EricJohnson-gm3dn]

What a criminally underrated track, mind boggling this hasn’t hit 1 million views

[@andylindsaytunes]

Just to keep you posted: it has now.

[@waffles9733]

You were sayin

[@mikestavisky8009]

1.1milly. . Just takes time I guess. But, with that considered, it's even more of an achievement ;all things considered....

[@davidporter2656]

in my opinion my fav of past 20 years

[@fernandosantosii5276]

Bass, bass, bass!

[@tony0000]

Guitars so crunchy!

[@jtconner7599]

The *only* rock band officially endorsed by Cheerios

[@frankpeter6851]

Now I'm craving them.

[@mojopin1997]

This is Pavements best song in my opinion

[@PaleBloodHunter]

this song deserves 80M views

[@gregoryjones8014]

What an Indie Rock Video 🎸🎞

[@Spookytoof]

bass giv me bonar

[@andre3st311]

1:43 if you've heard the song "danny nedelko" by idles, there's a reference to this where the guitarist says "I know him and he is"

[@poopoolarson333]

YES!! And someone from Idles verified that it was a reference to Stereo by Pavement. They are fans.

[@poopoolarson333]

A reference of a reference.

[@Isengard2626]

@160ofthe90s Too right! You've just got to Love it! : )

[@5maggioboysoccal244]

Great great great!!!!

[@vvoozer]

This is what Dallon Weekes introduced me to. I love it.

[@davidporter2656]

fav band

[@claudemir297560]

putz esse som é demais curto muito

[@berlinsaintclair9100]

I love Pavement and piggies. When I first heard this album and heard the "Pigs they tend to wiggle when they walk" part I just blew up with happiness!

[@buddyfishduck]

Pavement make me so damn happy C:

[@SirRHGentry]

That was fun. So were the 90's. So are you. I think the 90's influences are great in today's music. When you can find them..

[@laurentpetijon9820]

Pavement trop trop bon 👍👍👍👍

[@birdy1numnum]

*Spiral on POINT*

[@memetastic5203]

this kinda reminds me of once in a lifetime by the talking heads

[@EricJohnson-gm3dn]

Not even 1 million views?! Criminally underrated!

[@goodbuggg_]

Favorite thing ever ever ever

[@Oxycontent]

SWEET TUNE

[@Theo.Sanches]

Uma das melhores bandas de 1990

[@petrellad]

Best song on the album, love it.

[@winbug3117]

I love this band. Yaa

[@calesfer]

Not only a great song, who else here uses it also to check if your audio setting is in stereo or mono??

[@SuttonSantiniPaulo]

The Geddy Lee reference can now be applied to the singer of Silver Sun Pickups...

[@gravitytwins1921]

"what about the voice of geddy lee how did it get so high I wonder if he speaks like an ordinary guy" 'i know him and he does' will live in my mind forever

[@jlouis4407]

I used to be obsessed with this video not too long ago.

[@choosetylernol]

pavement ist rad.

[@ohyeahapples]

I really love this

[@sdoyajdartistwho]

Pavement...👏🏾

[@andrewbeavers7667]

Keep fighting the good fight yall

[@tannerin]

I was 13 when I first found this song and vid and was blown away by the sheer amount of apathy

[@jazzk708]

Pavement is something else

[@idkilikeeggos5261]

This is just a great song

[@rustwolf]

First day this year above freezing had to crank this summer bop

[@indiesoundz7601]

idk. people can play whatever music they want but when they slap an independent label on it they're magically indie.

[@curseoftheegglady]

love those mic passes

[@madmartigan1634]

Takes me back to playing "shareware" video games on my Windows 95 PC

[@Ariel_reymo]

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[@horsservice4820]

Einfach geil (and yes - PAVEMENT are just a footstep behijnd in my own discography)

[@12HHoo]

Brilliant!

[@setthecontrols1810]

Effortlessly cool! Genius!

[@chrisazylum6624]

Happy birthday Stephen!

[@fleursbruyantes4177]

Peek 90s

[@user-hx5xq6tl9f]

you are not helping but you are helping me

[@iaminyourwalls107]

I love how they all sound like they’re on the couch

[@spendlovefamily]

I lol'd heartily at the squirrel

[@Emocat3000]

discovered them by accident and wow

[@markpfeifer1402]

Suddenly this song makes sense.

[@WDHAGN]

CHEERIOS! CHEERIO-OHSSSS

[@drumjod]

Happy to hear they're making good use of stereo channels in this mix.