Album Rating: 3.0
You’ve well and truly crossed the line Doof son. The lyrics to cut your hair are brilliant. A sarcastic attack delivered with aplomb.
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Album Rating: 4.5
'Cut Your Hair' is perfect yeah, better tune than 'Heavy Metal Drummer' - just saying both songs do the same sort of job on each album, esp musically.
Plus 'Heavy Metal Drummer' is supposed to be slightly tongue in cheek too, I just wouldn't say I'm totally in love with the lyrics enough to quote them.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Funny you bring up Cut Your Hair because I just listened to Heavy Metal Drummer on YouTube and saw a lot of commenters mentioning Cut Your Hair, hadn’t heard the song before so I had to try it - admittedly I don’t really see the similarity and sorry but HMD is a miles better tune :-/
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Album Rating: 4.5
'HMD is a miles better tune'
No way, I do find HMD a bit saccharine - I mean i know that's the joke and it's meant to be dumb, plinky plonky and 'twinkly' but it is borderline annoying for me sometimes. Sort of Grandaddy meets Wilco and worse than the combo reads.
'Crooked Rain' is a legendary album and 'Cut Your Hair' is an essential track from it - honestly the songs have a lot in common in tone, the sarcastic cooing backing vox, and if you listen to both albums they sort of feel a bit like outsiders to what surrounds them. I'd be very surprised if 'Cut Your Hair' wasn't a reference to Tweedy when writing that tune, at least 'cultural reference' if not an out and out musical one.
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Album Rating: 5.0
I’ll admit I’m not really comparing on fair grounds as I’ve heard HMD dozens of times, have a lot of nostalgia for it and Wilco is one of my top 3 bands whereas Cut Your Hair is by a band I’ve never heard anything else from before. You’re probably right about the influence thing it just didn’t stand out to me in any obvious way.
Regardless though I consider Heavy Metal Drummer a more or less “perfect pop song” and I think its placement in this album is genius.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Yeah, I'll agree it's tonally a really good inclusion of the album and I like it being there - as a standalone track I rarely spin it.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Also Wilco have covered 'Cut Your Hair' I see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwHqRi468ic
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Album Rating: 3.0
Saw 20 seconds of it before seeing the real deal do it and blowing everything else out the water. Pavement were the fucking best.
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Album Rating: 4.0
idk why but Crooked Rain never fully clicked with me, I really enjoyed some of the stuff on it but I think this record is far better, Radio cure is insaaaaaaane
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Album Rating: 5.0
Someday I’ll check em put properly
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Album Rating: 3.0
Pavement are the embodiment of a band doing things on their own terms. Not giving a fuck, ramshackle genius with well crafted songwriting talent.
I haven’t spun them for ages but I’ve always loved ‘em although even I’ll admit that when I first ‘properly’ listened to them (wowed zowee era) I thought it was shite.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I haven't listened to Wowee Zowee in full but Grounded is probably my favourite track I've heard by them.
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Album Rating: 3.0
It’s my fave album of theirs now despite my initial misgivings back then but it’s all essential except terror twilight which is still well worth a listen
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Album Rating: 4.0
might have to give them another chance at some point I guess.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Slanted and Enchanted > Yankee Hotel Foxtrot > Wowee Zowee > Being There > Crooked Rain > Summerteeth
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Album Rating: 3.0
At this particular moment in time I’d have Being There above the lot.
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Album Rating: 4.0
HMD is one of my favourites on this, so damn fun.
yankee
hotel
foxtrot
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Album Rating: 4.0
might have to give slanted a listen then
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Album Rating: 4.0
do it
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Album Rating: 4.0
it's not on Spotify in Australia so annoying
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