 | Pavement Brighten the Corners
3.9
excellent
| Ranking: #132 for 1997 | |
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| 4.5 superb | Two-Headed Boy | October 22nd 06 |
Pavement's second best album. Boasting a smoother, more song-oriented sound, BtC is a song album above anything else. There's still the little pleasures in SM's boyish vocals and jaw-droppingly pretty choruses, but Pavement also show they can rock. The closer "Fin" boasts one of indie's few respectable guitar solos, "Embassy Row" stretches out into a down south rockabilly detour and "Starlings of the Slipstream" the resident pretty ballad. Pavement at their most accessable, which is neither a fault or succession.
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| 4.0 excellent | lz41 | December 5th 13 |
The only time Pavement ever made cohesive sense in their lyrics was on ' Crooked Rain' , which (ironically enough) made a mockery out of the petty, self-indulged world of fame. Seemingly, non-sequiturs are the only way to make sense in an inexplicable world, which is why 'Brighten the Corners' opens with the line "Pigs they tend to wiggle when they walk/The infrastructure rots and the owners hate the jocks." Happy, woozy, melodic and totally subjective in its bafflingly mysterious word play.
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| 4.0 excellent | TRMshadow | January 31st 12 |
Perfectly relaxing and blissfully majestic. A great album by one of the bands that best exemplifies the "Indie" genre. 3.9/5
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| 5.0 classic | zoso33 | December 13th 14 |
Does this actually need an explanation?rFine "This CD really spake to me as a person blasting" r("WHAT ABOUT THE VOICE OF GHEDDY LEE? HOW DID IT GET SO HIGH?")-Malkmus at his finest and I'm allowed to blast Pavement....and I do.
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| 4.0 excellent | TheManMachine | August 24th 12 |
A more reserved, mature, wordy, polite-sounding Pavement - but still undeniably Pavement.
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| 3.7 great | A.R.O. EMERITUS | September 7th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | KuyJuk | June 27th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | platttt | April 8th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | doofy | January 7th 24 |
| 4.5 superb | CamiloG | September 11th 23 |
| 3.5 great | HalapenYo CONTRIBUTOR | April 8th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | tancrni | February 5th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Timmy | January 18th 23 |
| 4.2 excellent | Rowan5215 EMERITUS | May 30th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | random | April 15th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Yep321 | January 20th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jerrad | July 6th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Cormano | April 17th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Medonie | January 29th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ronike | November 2nd 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Trundle | September 7th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Collis | August 25th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | BigHans | March 3rd 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Stakis83 | February 10th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Josh | December 4th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | Turns13 | November 2nd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lassie | September 22nd 19 |
| 5.0 classic | kb3984 | September 21st 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | vil1 | September 8th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | JNow | August 6th 19 |
| 3.5 great | YayoG1 | April 17th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Abax | March 22nd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Nikolai | February 2nd 19 |
| 3.5 great | Corney | December 17th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Raqinq | November 27th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | GabBlack | November 25th 18 |
| 3.5 great | Juca89 | November 11th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jrpuri2 | November 8th 18 |
| 3.5 great | Juanpa | June 12th 18 |
| 2.5 average | skronk | March 28th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | atomrock | November 21st 17 |
| 4.5 superb | Filas | September 27th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Gueero | August 26th 17 |
| 3.5 great | bentl | July 31st 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | tofue | July 10th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Alexxx | June 21st 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | bSmith | June 12th 17 |
| 3.5 great | PaabL | April 30th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | El Olam | December 31st 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | ramoncd | December 6th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Preston | November 28th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | DazSkunk | November 20th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | marggy | October 16th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Lord3 | August 1st 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lanas | July 24th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | Jordan M. EMERITUS | November 1st 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | mann28 | August 17th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Djang0 | August 3rd 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | JGWP | March 19th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sithese | January 3rd 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | fuzzbutt | December 29th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | Drexel | September 30th 14 |
| 3.5 great | Jackus | July 22nd 14 |
| 4.5 superb | Ruga | June 21st 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | modulor | June 16th 14 |
| 3.5 great | ethos | April 29th 14 |
| 3.5 great | Skoj | April 9th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | jmh886 | February 12th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | jtswope | January 25th 14 |
| 3.5 great | seanes | January 16th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | arnnnau | December 6th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | unkle | November 7th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Playm | October 1st 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | craven | September 24th 13 |
| 3.0 good | llll | September 3rd 13 |
| 4.5 superb | cb123 | August 17th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | lou1000 | August 11th 13 |
| 3.5 great | indo | July 21st 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Yay | June 21st 13 |
| 3.5 great | fev | May 13th 13 |
| 5.0 classic | Meruem | April 15th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | ktlaz | March 6th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | fg89 | March 5th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | zakalwe | February 20th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Surette | February 1st 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Zamora | January 28th 13 |
| 5.0 classic | kujoalt | December 25th 12 |
| 3.5 great | urzadek | December 17th 12 |
| 4.5 superb | Penlord | November 17th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Zeneren | October 27th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Simon K. STAFF | October 7th 12 |
| 3.0 good | GB7 | September 20th 12 |
| 5.0 classic | foxxxy | September 12th 12 |
| 5.0 classic | foxxxy | April 27th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Yotimi | April 25th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | nwagner | March 7th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | measel44 | February 22nd 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | irkalla | February 10th 12 |
| 4.5 superb | Gapwick | February 4th 12 |
| 5.0 classic | 4Train | November 30th 11 |
| 5.0 classic | Amoores | November 3rd 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | divoz | October 20th 11 |
| 2.5 average | jlech | October 17th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Olson | August 29th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | perlox | August 22nd 11 |
| 3.5 great | krkat | June 17th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | sehguh | May 5th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | toozee73 | December 11th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Arpeggi | November 11th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Graven | October 8th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | ti0n | September 26th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Kiran EMERITUS | September 19th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Leyland | September 18th 10 |
| 3.0 good | IAJP | August 14th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | hewlett | July 13th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | kam0825 | March 31st 10 |
| 3.5 great | Gogol | March 25th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | danwar | February 16th 10 |
| 3.0 good | Thef | December 19th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | NigelH | November 10th 09 |
| 4.5 superb | kovacs | November 1st 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | aris19 | October 13th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | samr4563 | September 8th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | tom79 | June 11th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | Janson | June 8th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | cody72 | April 28th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | MrKite | January 31st 09 |
| 4.5 superb | Matski | January 22nd 09 |
| 4.5 superb | Garito | August 21st 08 |
| 4.5 superb | Photon | July 17th 08 |
| 3.5 great | Regole | August 29th 07 |
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