Crooked Rain Crooked Rain by Pavement

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

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Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

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Audio CD (June 23, 1999)

Original Release Date: 1994

Number of Discs: 1

Label: Matador Records

Reader Reviews
1. Silence Kit "Conduit For Sale!" was music for driving through the one-story cement chain stores of America. "Silence Kit" is music for cruising down Highway 1, cliffs on your left and the Pacific Ocean on your right. 2. Elevate Me Later Yet another "girl left me and moved to Los Angeles" song, but Pavement does it with more poetry than, say, Reel Big Fish's "She's Famous Now". Some great lyrics in here: "Does he sleep with electric guitars/Range roving with the cinema stars/And I wouldn't want to shake their hands/Because they're on such a high-protein plan/And there's 40 different shades of black/So many fortresses and ways to attack" 3. Stop Breathin' A slow song about death. Weird lyrics. Not great, not bad. 4. Cut Your Hair Pavement's only "hit" song. Definately more pop than what you'd find on Slanted and Enchanted and Wowee Zowee, but the lyrics are definately Malkmusian. Speaks of people's shallow judgement of music, referencing how before they got big, all anyone talked about was their hippie drummer's long hair. 5. Newark Wilder Creepy, uneasy jazz. You could see Christopher Walken walking through a rainy city on his way to kill somebody to this song. 6. Unfair A song declaring Northern California's supremacy over Southern California over distorted punkish guitars, comparing our Shasta Gulch and Tahoe Lake to their "manmade deltas and concrete rivers". Sort of a continuation of Slanted's "Two States". 7. Gold Soundz In a sort of pre-emo song, Malkmus sings of angst and self-loathing over heartfelt guitars with an intelligence and way with words that a modern emo band like Death Cab For Cutie could never duplicate. 8. 5-4=Unity Very un-Pavement, an instrumental piano-centered jazz song. 9. Range Life Chill country rock that references 1994 youth culture: skateboards, Walkmen, the Stone Temple Pilots and Smashing Pumpkins. 10. Heaven is a Truck The companion to "Range Life," another country ballad, with a little bit more of a late night edge to it. 11. Hit the Plane Down People say that they sound like The Fall on this song. I'm gonna come right out and say that I've never heard anything by the Fall. A repetative guitar riff plays as a man who isn't Steven Malkmus sings weird lyrics about crashing a plane. 12. Fillmore Jive An amazing song. A six minute epic about the future of music. The first minute just has Malkmus singing over a single guitar, with lyrics that develop into the refrain "I need to sleep," which is complimented by a burst of music (drums, bass, and guitar). The following verses reference a music scene featuring glum "kids on vespas", streets full of punks, rockers with their long curly locks, all saying good night to the rock and roll era. The song has a melencholy optimism to it, like the band is saying goodbye to an era of music, while welcoming a new era in, one that filled with drug addicts, skinny arms, and the "dance faction/a little too loose for me".

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