Pavement Range Life Lyrics

Pavement are an American indie rock band that formed in Stockton, California

Biography

Pavement are an American indie rock band that formed in Stockton, California in 1989. For most of the period to 1999, the band consisted of Stephen Malkmus (vocals, guitar), Scott "Spiral Stairs" Kannberg (guitar, vocals), Mark Ibold (bass), Steve West (drums) and Bob Nastanovich (percussion, vocals). During that period, and since, they have frequently been described as one of the most influential bands to emerge from the American underground of the '90s. While their split in 1999 was reportedly rather acrimonious, they undertook a well-received reunion tour during 2010.

Pavement formed in Stockton, California, in 1989 as a studio project of guitarists and vocalists Stephen Malkmus and Scott Kannberg, known originally only as "S.M." and "Spiral Stairs", respectively. Their debut EPs were extremely lo-fi releases titled Slay Tracks (1933-1969), Demolition Plot J-7, and Perfect Sound Forever. They were recorded at Louder Than You Think, the home studio of infamous Stockton local and former hippie Gary Young. The eccentric and aging hipster also provided drums. Upon first hearing the duo's songs, Young was quoted as saying, "this Malkmus idiot is a complete songwriting genius".

Pavement's most obvious influence during this time was English rock band The Fall, although Kannberg stated in a 1992 interview that he preferred The Replacements to The Fall. The Fall's primary member, Mark E. Smith, would often angrily claim through the years that Pavement was a "rip-off" of his band and that they didn't "have an original idea in their heads". However, some of the other members of The Fall actually enjoyed Pavement.

album: "Slanted And Enchanted" (1992)

Summer Babe (Winter Version)

Trigger Cut / Wounded-Kite At :17

No Life Singed Her

In The Mouth A Desert

Conduit For Sale!

Zurich Is Stained

Chesley's Little Wrists

Loretta's Scars

Here

Two States

Perfume-V

Fame Throwa

Jackals, False Grails: The Lonesome Era

Our Singer

EP: "Watery, Domestic" (1992)

Texas Never Whispers

Frontwards

Lions (Linden)

Shoot The Singer

compilation: "Westing (By Musket And Sextant)" (1993)

You're Killing Me

Box Elder

Maybe Maybe

She Believes

Price Yeah!

Forklift

Spizzle Trunk

Perfect Depth

Recorder Grot (Rally)

From Now On

Angel Carver Blues / Mellow Jazz Docent

Debris Slide

Home

Summer Babe

Mercy Snack: The Laundromat

Baptist Blacktick

My First Mine

My Radio

album: "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain" (1994)

Silence Kit

Elevate Me Later

Stop Breathin

Cut Your Hair

Newark Wilder

Unfair

Gold Soundz

5-4=Unity

Range Life

Heaven Is A Truck

Hit The Plane Down

Fillmore Jive

EP: "Rattled By La Rush" (1995)

Rattled By The Rush

Brink Of The Clouds

False Skorpion

Easily Fooled

album: "Wowee Zowee" (1995)

We Dance

Rattled By The Rush

Black Out

Brinx Job

Grounded

Serpentine Pad

Motion Suggests

Father To A Sister Of Thought

Extradition

Best Friend's Arm

Grave Architecture

At & T

Flux = Rad

Fight This Generation

Kennel District

Pueblo

Half A Canyon

Western Homes

album: "Brighten The Corners" (1997)

Stereo

Shady Lane

Transport Is Arranged

Date With Ikea

Old To Begin (Silent Father)

Type Slowly

Embassy Row

Blue Hawaiian

We Are Underused

Passat Dream

Starlings Of The Slipstream

Fin

No Tan Lines

EP: "Shady Lane" (1997)

Slowly Typed

Cherry Area

No Tan Lines

album: "Terror Twilight" (1999)

Spit On A Stranger

Folk Jam

You Are A Light

Cream Of Gold

Major Leagues

Platform Blues

Ann Don't Cry

Billie

Speak, See, Remember

The Hexx

...And Carrot Rope

album: "Spit On A Stranger" (1999)

Spit On A Stranger

Harness Your Hopes

Roll With The Wind

Porpoise And The Hand Grenade

Rooftop Gambler

EP: "Major Leagues" (1999)

Major Leagues

Your Time To Change

Stub Your Toe

The Killing Moon

The Classical

other songs:

Birds In The Majic Industry

Black Walls

Far From You

Feed Them To The Lions (Linden)

Game Of Pricks

Greenlander

He Reigns (The Medley)

Infinite Spark

Kentucky Cocktail

Love Is Lies

So Stark (You're A Skyscraper)