TheCunningStunt

You like Pavement? I like you more and more with each post.

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downwardspiral

I absolutely love Pavement. Although the first couple of times I listened to them I couldn't grasp it, then fell in love with them over night. They were astonishing at Brixton and it made me like them even more.

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TheCunningStunt

What stuff did you first listen to?
I imagine if you listen to Slanted, you might shy away from them.
If you listen to Crooked Rain, you're more likely to be into them.
I find Crooked Rain to be not only their best album, but their most accessible.
When did you see them at Brixton?

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It was indeed Slanted, also listened to Wowee Zowee. Just 'cause my friend Rob had physical copies of them and just borrowed them to me. Wasn't feeling it and then went back about a month or so later and listened to CR, CR. But yeah, Crooked Rain definitely sold them to me and then paved (lol pun) the way for all of their other stuff and I was just like.. this band are insanely good.

And I saw them in May with Wooden Shjips <3 couple days after Dinosaur Jr.. two of my favourite ever gigs within the space of a week. My head was battered.

This is the set they played Pavement Concert Setlist at O2 Academy Brixton, London on May 11, 2010 | setlist.fm

Honestly, pefect for me. People were bitchin' 'cause they didn't play Range Life but I couldn't give a monkeys anyway, I don't rate that song. Grounded <33333

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TheCunningStunt

I thought days of the physical copy being lent out (He lent you them, He didn't borrowed them to you. You scouser.) were well and truly over, I haven't lent an album off someone for years. I think the first half of Slanted is some of the best stuff they've ever done, I like all their albums in one way or another. But Crooked Rain is by far their best, from top to toe. Good job you didn't give up after you listened to Slanted.

Pavement followed by teh Dinosaur, that'd be immense. I've heard good things about Wooden Shjips as well, but when I heard good things off people they didn't even have an album out. Have they released an LP yet?

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Haha sorry, my grammar is to be desired at times, well not really but I always make the borrowed/lent mistake. No need to diss me though. Also, I buy a fuckton of cd's. I do download a lot but I buy a lot too.

And yeah I'm happy I decided to listen to Crooked Rain. Speaking of which, I bought the deluxe version the other day with the second disk and the booklet in. It's so good. That week was amazing for me cos I also went to see Hole (soz h8ers) even though it was for the second time and they're one of my favourite bands also. But they didn't even come anywhere close to how good Pavement or Dino were. I can't even explain. I mean, I saw J Mascis in Moho last year who absolutely blew my mind (and also played Blowing It which is one of my favourite Dino tracks) but I can't tell you how good the Jr. were, ahhh.

Wooden Shjips had only released an EP up until this year, their album Escape was out earlier in the year I think but I'm yet to listen to it.

Do you not go to many shows yourself?

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TheCunningStunt

I think it's a Scouser thing, I had a scouse friend and they were like "can a borrow that off yer", while we're on the whole grammar thing... there's no apostrophe in CDs.

I don't buy CDs anymore, I just download. I have about 100 at home, I really need to buy a few favourites. Doolittle, In An Aeroplane Over The Sea, VU&Nico, George Best all spring to mind. I buy films a hell of a lot more than CDs, I find it too much effort to get up, go to the stereo, put on a CD, listen to it, get up again, take that CD out and put a new one in. Digital <3

I'm a Hole h8er, but different strokes for different folks. Even mentioning Hole and Dino in the same breath is criminal. They're a class apart.

I like Wooden Shjips' name, so I want to listen to their LP simply on that premise. I never go to shows, I always think right I'ma get tickets and then I just... don't. No idea why, I go to football and the cinema more than Rock concerts. I should go to more but I just don't

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It probably is a Scouse thing. Much to my despair, a lot of people round here use the slogan "we don't speak English, we speak Scouse" and I just want to punch the universe. Honestly. This city is rad but too many people in it don't deserve working organs.

To be honest with cds I'll hardly ever buy one which I've not listened to before, they're mostly albums I've downloaded previous and decided to then buy. Digital is way more convenient, agreed, but I just like to have the physical copies as well. I like to have something to hold so I can feel like I've actually purchased it, even legally downloading something straight onto my laptop is just unfulfilling. YES buy Doolittle <3. You definitely need to go to more shows, bias because it's all I ever seem to do but I couldn't think of anything better to spend my money on. I used to be a bit of a twat and just go to EVERY SHOW EVER just for the sake of it, but then it started feeling like a chore as opposed to a hobby. But it was also because my friends have crap taste and everything they ask me to go to I will (hence why I've seen Katy Perry, ACDC, and a host of other artists I'm not into). Now I just go and see bands I really dig.

If Pixies/Dinosaur Jr. decide to play over here, you will go. And I will see you there.

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TheCunningStunt

You're all doing your own thing, I've made my peace with that.

I can understand the whole having something to hold thing, I was like that a while back. Hence why I have every Oasis album (err), every Smiths album. But I found I was spending money on something I really didn't use often. Digital is just so much easier, I buy an awful lot of films and I think I get more use out of them. I like shows, but I don't like being in crowded places. I hate clubs, and my friends love them. I just feel really out of place, the first concert I went to I felt that way. I actually had to punch someone just to get them off me. (Though to be fair, it was an Oasis gig... so cunts are gonna turn out on force to that one.)

If Pixies came over here, I'd seriously have to consider going.

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Oh man I hate being in crowded places as well, when I was a bit younger and had just started going to shows it used to be "OMG wanna get on da barrier or der is no point in cummin!!!!!!". Now, I just stand to the back where there's room to move and dance and actually enjoy it without people knocking you all over the place. Some people like that, I don't. At Pixies I stood way back and was dancing with this guy and his wife (they were about mid 30s) and it was just so much better. I also hate clubs as well, I do go to them but trips to clubs for me are very few and far between cos there's too many idiots in one place for me to comprehend.

As if you punched someone though. Typical Oasis fan. xx I'd be gutted if someone punched me I think, especially in the nose.

But I've been to see Oasis twice and one of those times was in Manchester, and I have genuinely never seen a crowd filled with as many cunts in my life. It was just a sea of knobheads, probably the worst day of my life so far.

And YES you will go, not consider, will. I want them to play Manchester Apollo <3 plus, at gigs like Pixies, Pavement, Dino, you get all the older fans who were into them back in the day so the atmosphere is so nice and filled with people who are actually there for the music, which is so rare these days.

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