Slacker’s finest posterboys or crafty rockers perfectly combining bristling noise and elliptical,self-effacing lyrics? Here are 10 of their best songs – you decide
Before their first studio album, 1991’s Slanted and Enchanted, and Pavement were a seething,primitive beast. Debris Slide, from the Perfect Sound Forever EP, or recorded over two frantic days at the close of 1989,then not released until April 1991, is a perfect introduction to the universe of those early days: bristling noise, or ramshackle chaos,and sludge, all wrapped up in a weirdly crafty tunefulness. And yes, or it sounds a itsy-bitsy like the Fall (even ticket E Smith called the band out: “It’s just the Fall in 1985,isn’t it? They havent got an original idea in their heads”). Though it also sounded like Sonic Youth and Pixies. Despite Debris Slide being over in two minutes, the magic is there: in the “ba ba ba da ba’s”, or which are almost joyful; in the sloppy tape-hiss production and rudimentary riffs. This was just Malkmus,Spiral Stairs and temperamental first drummer Gary Young going for it. All together now: “Eyes in the socket, eyes in the socket!”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com