01. The Charlatans “Alabama Bound” (The Amazing Charlatans, 02)
This is the Charlatans playing “The Shadow Knows”, but has a couple pics of them & the Red Dog Saloon.
02. Pauline Murray & The Invisible Girls “Mr. X” (Pauline Murray & The Invisible Girls, 10)
Incomplete promo clip. Wish there was more, as it’s really a perfect visual accompaniment.
03. Dungen “Gör Det Nu” (Tio Bitar, 03)
A drummer jams along…
04. Santogold “Unstoppable” (Santogold, 09)
Live somewhere.
05. Sloan “Ana Lucia” (Never Hear the End of It, 11)
Fun informercial for Never Hear the End of It.
06. The Who “Heaven and Hell” (Live at Leeds, 01)
Live in London 1969, great perf.
07. Bat for Lashes “Trophy” (Fur and Gold, 02)
Live in Hoboken 2007, very nice.
08. Beck “Chemtrails” (Modern Guilt, 03)
From Austin City Limits Music Festival 2008, taped off a screen.
09. Black Moth Super Rainbow “Sun Lips” (Dandelion Gum, 06)
Music video, with much more roadkill than I had anticipated.
10. Donovan “Hi It’s Been a Long Time” (The Hurdy Gurdy Man, 06)
Couldn’t find a video for my mix song, but there is one for “The Hurdy Gurdy Man”.
11. Yeasayer “2080″ (All Hour Cymbals, 03)
Live on Jools Holland’s show 2008.
12. The Replacements “Unsatisfied” (Let It Be, 07)
Paul Westerberg solo in Brooklyn 2002.
13. Public Nuisance “America” (V/A – Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 (Disc 2), 16)
Some stills…
14. The Waterboys “I Will Not Follow” (The Waterboys, 06)
No sign of any video footage, so here they are live in 2003 playing “A Bang on the Ear”.
15. Luna “Beautiful View” (Pup Tent, 02)
I’m fairly surprised I can’t find any footage of this song. So instead here’s the trailer to the Luna doc.
16. Moby Grape “Looper (demo)” (Truly Fine Citizen, 16)
Couldn’t find “Looper”, but here’s “Omaha” and “8:05″ on TV. Time warp city…
17. Pearls Before Swine “Another Time” (One Nation Underground, 01)
Couldn’t find a video for this one.
18. Shocking Blue “Send Me a Postcard” (Singles A’s and B’s, 03)
Footage of them playing something.
19. Les Savy Fav “Brace Yourself” (Let’s Stay Friends, 06)
Official music video.
20. Pavement “Cream of Gold” (Terror Twilight, 04)
Live at Coachella 1999. They start into “Gold Soundz” before hitting this one, although Malkmus does not approve.
21. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young “Everybody I Love You” (Déjà vu, 10)
Yes, this is a cover.
Considering the barrage of music you have laid on us this month, there was bound to be something that didn’t connect. I had trouble getting through this pile of youtube.
Dig the LSF. Great Moby Grape video (introduced as “the moby grapes” ha! what a drum set, four cymbals and two drums). That last video is gay in all the right ways.
When Pavement came out, I had trouble mustering up interest. The blah-ness is yet again confirmed. The bassist’s outfit alone is enough to attempt a cyber attack on youtube.
Black Moth Super Rainbow – awesome.
I have a hard time with so many videos too, so i skipped several of them. But have to agree with FinA (!) on the moby grape and pavement. with pavement, i’ve never been able to feel anything beyond that if i ran into any of them i’d probably yell at them, if drunk i might slap them. i hold them largely responsible for the barrage of cleverer-than-thou rock bands that generally act like they are laughing at general audiences for “not getting it”. And trust me, i’ve done plenty of that in my time, doesnt mean i dont find it contemptible. That being said, there are one or two Pavement songs I can manage, but generally speaking, ugh.
I hold them largely responsible for the barrage of cleverer-than-thou rock bands that generally act like they are laughing at general audiences for “not getting it”.
I also hold them responsible for this and the associated barrage of lazy music that came after them. I think we have the beginnings of a gang forming here. We should work out gang signs or something.
Huge fan of Pavement though I am, I concede this point. Like REM, they inspired hundreds of awful bands, and hardly any good ones.
I also concede the lazy point. As good as they were, they could actually have been a lot better.
I feel a month-long Pavement series coming on…
Oh crap.
Not that I’m much younger, but I wonder if it might be in part a generational thing. Pavement’s “Slanted & Enchanted” came out right at the end of my senior year of high school, and I think a friend of mine heard it and gave me a copy that summer. Anyway, it was a total musical watershed event for me and many people I knew, such a weird, cryptic, and raw, but also emotional and compelling album that seemed to open all sorts of possibilities. I’ve never felt that they were ever laughing at the audience, and I don’t think you can really hold a band responsible for the output of people influenced by them. BTW, don’t know if you watched it to the end, but Malkmus says, “sorry, that really sucked”. There were some first song issues etc, but I don’t entirely agree with him.
maybe. i’m thinking maybe it had to do with which direction you were coming at it from. I was coming from Pussy Galore, Butthole Surfers and Sonic Youth (Daydream Nation and prior), so Pavement just sounded contrived and flat and unemotional to me. To be fair the comment about their supposed cleverer-than-thou attitude was not something i thought about until i saw pictures of them, i didnt get that from the music itself, but once i saw pictures of them, i can’t help but hear it in the music too. it’s weird, but they just looked to me like snotty brats, again, something I’m quite capable of being, so maybe i’m just projecting my own faults unto them, but still, thats what i get. As an added point, many of my friends who came from the same musical direction as i did, loved them. So who’s to tell. sometimes you just don’t like something… and true, can’t blame them for what followed, but sometimes its hard to ignore the followers. Followers have ruined many a band for me, at least for certain periods of time, until the followers fade out and the original still rings true.
It is an interesting idea, maybe I was only able to appreciate them because of my ignorance of those other bands at the time.