| REVIEWER | RATING & REVIEW |
 | magellan (153)
05/09/2008 | This band did absolutely nothing for me the first couple of times I heard them. Then, inexplicably, almost overnight, they became my favorite band for the next two years, and now I am cooling off again on them. They have put out some amazing tunes over the years like "Summer Babe", "Loretta's Scars," and of course the poppy "Gold Soundz." You either love them or hate them, or love them and hate them. Weird.
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 | fb700624847 (0)
11/11/2007 | Almost perfect - perhaps the band I would want to be! Stephen Malkmus' lyrics and singing seem so effortless, but engaging - the musicianship is spot on for what is required for the songs. Some later songs may be a bit dull (or incomprehensible) - but I look past that. Recommended song and album: "Gold Soundz" and "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain".
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 | Loerke (46)
12/09/2006 | I can't believe someone would call this band "pretentious." That comment must be coming from a person who has never heard the band, but knows that critics tend to like them. If you want to call Sonic Youth or the Kronos Quartet or Patti Smith pretentious, fine. But Pavement was just a bunch of guys without any cares in the world backing a lead singer whose crazy words served as the perfect lead to their music. Those crazy lyrics take the listener through a maze of feelings. The words usually don't make sense and, therefore, could not possibly have any arty pretentiousness about them. But they work incredibly well as *songs* that you want to hum to yourself. One of my favorite bands ever.
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 | kingguiness (11)
05/16/2005 |
A pretentious bunch of slackers with major musical deficiencies. I'd still rather listen to these guys than Three Doors Down.
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 | Skizero (13)
01/26/2005 | the quintessential indie band. every album by these guys was a sloppy work of art.
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 | StanUzbeck (14)
08/05/2003 | These fools are the darlings of the indie scene (as if such a thing could exist). I guess people look at their lo-fi approach and lack of musicianship and think that these are marks of genius. Probably loved by the kind of porcelain-skinned white girl in horn-rimmed glasses who wears too strong a lipstick for her complexion and wears gingham miniskirts over full-length leg warmers and considers herself intellectual. I can't stand most of the stuff on the radio, but these guys don't have an excuse, they just suck.
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 | MedgarEvers (14)
06/25/2003 | The Television of the '90s? I see it. And I dig it. Buzzing guitars, lyrics that almost make sense, but just don't; the perfect balance of musical know-how and just having fun. Undeniably some of the finest songwriting of the past ten years. And one of the finest bands. I only have "Brighten the Corners" but I want more more more!
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| WilShakes1 (0)
01/16/2003 | Critics adore 'em; lord knows why. Their lyrics are occasionally clever, but I've heard cleverer; sometimes they're funny, but I've heard funnier (cf. Frank Zappa). I'm pretty broadminded in my musical tastes and can listen to almost anything -- except Stephen Malkmus's voice. Combine that with an almost constant stream of bent notes and fractured harmonies (techniques that are fine when used judiciously, but not as the dominant mode of an entire album, e.g. CROOKED RAIN CROOKED RAIN) and the result is grating enough to drive me screaming from the room after four or five tracks. I don't want to appear a fool, it seems to me the critics are dressing up Pavement in the Emperor's magical clothes. No one wants to point out that the music sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard for fear of being branded unhip: "Oh, you just don't GET IT." I get it, all right. I'm just not impressed.
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 | Shafty (2)
11/02/2000 | I think it is always a good sign when you cannot easily categorize a band or say that they sound like so and so or whatever. Pavement definitely does not fit in cleanly with any real style of music. Lead singer Steven Maulkinas (sp?) is the force behind the band and could and probably will embark out on his own somewhere down the line. Great songwriting, catchy tunes with a bunch of screams and wails and guitar feedback thriwn in there. Pick up 'Crooked Rain Crooked Rain' or 'Slanted and Enchnated' in the used CD bin and you are only spending $7 on the possibility that you will discover a great band.
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| jgre8003om (0)
06/30/2000 | My favorite songs all seem to be Pavement songs. This band was all I listened to while recovering from heart surgery. They helped me forget about the pain I was feeling. If you take the time to listen to them you will definately like them. It is impossible to deny their influence on music everywhere today. Plus they like the Northwest and always put on great shows in Seattle.
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| dan_673om (0)
11/01/1999 | If you're looking you know why
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