so i’ve just finished the third revision of my top 100 albums list — which to avoid confusion/arguments is a personal selection, not an attempt at a best of all time list — and to build some interest/excitement in the list beyond myself and the 1-2 other people that have traditionally cared about this i’ve [...]

i’ve slowly begun working on the third revision of my personal top 100 albums list. as planned, this year i am making the transition to a one album per artist limit… which has automatically disqualified twenty excellent albums from last year’s list (see below). this has been a hard step for me to take, but [...]

note: this is not the record store day release… same graphic on both, but purple vs. orange, different shows.
i don’t believe matador has any plans of releasing this excellent brighten your corners era pavement show to a wider audience than those that participated in the brighten your corners: nicene creedence ed. preorder.  so with that [...]

i got the brighten the corners deluxe reissue in the mail today, including that never before released live album on vinyl (pictured above)… pretty freaking sweet. that’s really it… super happy with my purchase, just felt like bragging.
some classic pavement videos, via matablog.
video: pavement – shady lane (directed by spike jonze)
video: pavement – stereo (directed [...]

mp3: pavement – blue hawaiian
last week i mentioned the upcoming deluxe reissue of pavement’s 1997 album brighten the corners. along with an updated tracklist, matador recently released the details on the buy early get now promotion for the release.
in addition to the standard stuff you might be expecting — early stream of the album, couple [...]

mp3: pavement – blue hawaiian … [buy it]
pavement’s brighten the corners is the next in line for the deluxe reissue treatment and matador’s recently coughed up the details on the copious extras that will be tacked on to reissue. it should be no surprise now 4 albums in, but the amount of bonus [...]

i’ve finalized volume two of my top 100 albums list at last! check out the opening tracks of my top ten albums below and then check out the full list… plain text here… and/or a graphic version here (pdf, 3.8mb).

1) the natural bridge (1996) — [buy it]
mp3: silver jews – how [...]

from flickr
mp3: casey dienel – cut your hairfrom her daytrotter session.
mp3: mountain goats – cut your hairmp3: pavement – cut your hair ….. [buy crooked rain x 2]
this song is from a daytrotter session that is now a good two years old. i bring it up only because i had completely forgotten it existed until [...]

so i finally found that recording of “lucky” i was looking for. continuing on yesterday’s post, a selection of r.e.m. related covers.
mp3: radiohead (w/ michael stipe) – lucky [link expired]i hadn’t listened to this in years before rediscovering it today and i’d forgotten just how nice it is.. i like hearing stipe sing the [...]

mp3: preston school of industry – two states (live) [link expired]
only one more day til the month of covers is finished. check out this live recording of preston school of industry playing “two states” from pavement’s slanted and enchanted. psoi leader scott kannberg, aka spiral stairs, was a founding member of pavement and [...]