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February 13, 2008
Retrohump: Brightening Our Corner
Was feeling a bit basic today, and that usually leads me to either Bowie, Roxy Music, or Pavement. So below we have two clips of the third option playing album cuts from their overshadowed little sister album, Brighten the Corners. Hearing these songs makes me feel like a crime scene psychic, given a swatch of ripped cloth and then overwhelmed by unstoppable images. Only I'm shot immediately back into my own freshman dorm room. "I see...a Trainspotting poster! And an empty pizza box...and there's...yes..laundry that needs to done!...Good God it's horrible!"
These songs are rad though, obviously. I'll present them with minimal personal nostalgia so that you can wallow in your own...
Pavement - "Transport is Arranged"
(live @ Bizarre Festival, Cologne, Germany 1997)
Oh, how they rope-a-dope! It's pretty sleepy and fantastic for the first minute-thirty, but then it's suddenly revenge of the Fender Jazzmaster!
Pavement - "Transport is Arranged"
Pavement - "Fin"
(live @ Bizarre Festival, Cologne, Germany 1997)
Two drummers were pretty unnecessary at this point, but Nastanovich had booze to pay for, I guess. And judging from the false start on this one, he probably wasn't hoarding it...
Posted by Jeff Klingman at February 13, 2008 05:45 PM
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