Pavement : Coming To A Town Near You (If You Live Near A Big Town) In 2010
(via Matador Records)
trying to stay jaded and snide about this on the exterior.
my inner nineteen year-old is weeping quietly with excitement.
i hope people set their expectations at a reasonable level for this. i mean, Pavement are cool and all, but they were never the greatest live band. of the three times i saw them (94,95,99) one was awful, one was ok, and the other was pretty fucking amazing. i don’t mean to piss in everyones cereal on this one, i really hope the band plays nothing but awesome shows, but consider my expectation set very very low.
the thing that i thought was great about Pavement was that they were a bunch of dudes that hardly knew what they were doing, would take the stage stoned out of their gords or drunk as hell and sometimes be a complete fucking train wreck one time and the next time be the best band on earth. they had this shoddy charm of being held together by weed and bubblegum and through the show you kind of rooted them on hoping they would pull a rabbit out of their hat. sometimes they would and sometimes they wouldn’t. i can’t imagine that charm existing in a polished one off nostalgia tour. i guess many people will be happy just to see Pavement together on stage good, bad, they will think it was great just to see Pavement on stage. I feel pretty much like Pavement’s ethos: whatever.
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