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* TheAlcoholic: Gary Young was kicked out of the band because of his drunken antics (doing hand-stands, failing to stay on his stool during live performances, running around the stage while the band played, handing out cabbage and potatoes to fans).

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* TheAlcoholic: Gary Young was kicked out of the band because of known for his drunken antics (doing hand-stands, failing to stay on his stool during live performances, running around the stage while the band played, handing out cabbage and potatoes to fans).fans). According to Stephen Malkmus, the reason Bob Nastanovich was originally brought into the band was to cover for Young in case he passed out.
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* UncommonTime: "5-4=Unity" is obvious; it's an AffectionateParody of Music/DaveBrubeck's "Take Five" so naturally it's in 5/4. But it's not their only example:

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* UncommonTime: "5-4=Unity" is obvious; it's an AffectionateParody of Music/DaveBrubeck's "Take Five" Five", so naturally you'd assume it's in 5/4. But 5/4, but actually, it's a slight variant: it's mostly in (5+5+5+6)/4, with a few measures at the end of each phrase in plain 6/4... but close enough. In any case, it's not their only example:
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* RearrangeTheSong: Live arrangements frequently differed substantially from their studio versions. "Here" from ''Luxe & Reduxe'' and "Best Friend's Arm" on ''Sordid Sentinels Edition'' are probably two of the best examples.
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* {{Instrumentals}}: "5-4=Unity", "Strings of Nashville (Instrumental)", and "Instrumental", among other tracks. "Pueblo (Beach Boys)" could be considered this as well if wordless vocals count.
** "5-4=Unity" originally had seemingly improvised vocals, but it was decided it worked better as an instrumental: The WithLyrics version, "5-4 Vocal", was released as a BSide.

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* {{Instrumentals}}: "5-4=Unity", "Kneeling Bus", "Strings of Nashville (Instrumental)", and "Instrumental", among other tracks. "Pueblo (Beach Boys)" could be considered this as well if wordless vocals count.
** "5-4=Unity" originally had seemingly improvised vocals, but it was decided it worked better as an instrumental: The WithLyrics version, "5-4 Vocal", was released as a BSide. Similarly, the WithLyrics version of "Kneeling Bus", "Rug Rat", can be found on ''L.A.'s Desert Origins'' (alongside "Kneeling Bus", "5-4 Vocal", "Strings of Nashville (Instrumental)", and "Instrumental", incidentally).
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...could have sworn there was a page for Reckoning. guess not


** Another particularly noteworthy instance occurs in the second chorus of their otherwise fairly reverent cover of Music/{{REM}}'s "[[Music/{{Reckoning}} Camera]]", in which Malkmus lets out a series of screams so intense his voice eventually breaks. For bonus points, this is overdubbed over a subdued vocal line sung an octave lower, just as it was in the original song.

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** Another particularly noteworthy instance occurs in the second chorus of their otherwise fairly reverent cover of Music/{{REM}}'s "[[Music/{{Reckoning}} Camera]]", "Camera", in which Malkmus lets out a series of screams so intense his voice eventually breaks. For bonus points, this is overdubbed over a subdued vocal line sung an octave lower, just as it was in the original song.

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** Another particularly noteworthy instance occurs in the second chorus of their otherwise fairly reverent cover of Music/{{REM}}'s "[[Music/{{Reckoning}} Camera]]", in which Malkmus lets out a series of screams so intense his voice eventually breaks. For bonus points, this is overdubbed over a subdued vocal line sung an octave lower, just as it was in the original song.



* EruditeStoner: WordSaladLyrics aside, their lyrics are often literary and allusive, but there's no doubt what some of their pastimes included.



* GreatestHitsAlbum: ''Quarantine the Past: The Best of Pavement'', released in 2010 to coincide with their reunion.

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* GreatestHitsAlbum: ''Quarantine the Past: The Best of Pavement'', released in 2010 to coincide with their reunion.reunion, and titled after a line from "Gold Soundz".



* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Anywhere from 1 to arguably a 9 or 10, often shifting on a dime.



* MusicalPastiche: Beyond the ones above, there are several other examples. "Kennel District" might have listeners wondering, "What is this 1988-era Music/MyBloodyValentine song doing on a Pavement album"? The next song, "Pueblo", sounds more than a bit like ''On the Beach''-era Music/NeilYoung.



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* TheNinetiesTheNineties: Arguably ''the'' defining indie rock band of the decade.
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* EitherOrTitle:
** A strange example with the same song being given two names in the packaging to the album: "Elevate Me Later" is referred to as "Ell Ess Two" in the track listing in the interior booklet of ''Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain'' (possibly implying it to be a sequel to "Loretta's Scars", or else commenting on the similarity between their chord progressions). There is also a demo recording of the song with this title, perhaps implying that its title was changed late in the album's recording process.
** Another strange case occurs across two releases of the same album: The same track is referred to as "Fin" on U.S. pressings of ''Brighten the Corners'' and "Infinite Spark" outside the U.S.
** Either averted or ZigZagged with "Silence Kid": It is erroneously known as "Silence Kit" due to a misprint in the artwork, despite Malkmus clearly singing "Silence kid" several times in the song and the phrase "Silence Kid" occurring several times in Malkmus' own handwriting in both the original release of the album and the ''L.A.'s Desert Origins'' re-release. However, it also appears that the misconception about the song's title has become so prevalent that the band themselves now refer to the song as "Silence Kit" in setlists.
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* XtremeKoolLetterz: "Gold Soundz", "False Skorpion".

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* XtremeKoolLetterz: "Gold Soundz", "False Skorpion".Skorpion", "Kris Kraft" (the last of which is named after Chris-Craft, a manufacturer of boats).
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: The final line of "Silence Kid" has the narrator engage in this while coming off an ecstasy high.

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* BreatherEpisode:
** "Zürich Is Stained" and "Here" serve this purpose on ''Slanted and Enchanted''.
** "5 - 4 = Unity" serves a similar purpose on ''Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain'', though it should be emphasized that the album is a lot more laid back than its predecessor anyway, and several other tracks could also be considered to qualify.
** ''Wowee Zowee'' has several as well, though "Grounded", "Father to a Sister of Thought", and "Pueblo" particularly stand out on this count.
** By the time of ''Brighten the Corners'', their sound had gotten light enough that this trope arguably no longer even applied.



* LighterAndSofter: In general, they tended to progress in this direction as their career moved along. Their last two albums are definitely this to the material that preceded it, as are their first three albums to their early [=EPs=].

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* LighterAndSofter: In general, they tended to progress in this direction as their career moved along. Their last two albums are definitely this to the material that preceded it, as are their first three albums to their early [=EPs=]. It should be pointed out this is a general trend, however; they have some light material on their early records, like "Here" and "Zürich Is Stained" from ''Slanted and Enchanted'' and "Secret Knowledge of Backroads" from a John Peel session from the same period.


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* TriumphantReprise: The band's first John Peel session closes with an electrified version of "Here" that, in the sequence of ''Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe and Reduxe'' (on which it closes out the first disc), essentially qualifies as this when contrasted with its subdued studio arrangement.

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* CarefulWithThatAxe: According to the liner notes of the ''Sordid Sentinels Edition'' of ''Wowee Zowee'', the reason Stephen Malkmus screamed "My God, I can't believe I'm still going" in "Half a Canyon" was out of genuine disbelief; he recalled feeling lightheaded recording the track and thinking he was going to faint or at least lose his voice after all the screaming.

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* CarefulWithThatAxe: BrokenRecord: Several songs. "Flux = Rad" uses this as part of its AffectionateParody of Music/{{Nirvana}}. "Jackals, False Grails: The Lonesome Era", "Chesley's Little Wrists", "Best Friend's Arm", "Loretta's Scars", "Nothing Ever Happens", "Sue Me Jack"... honestly, close to about half of their earlier material.
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According to the liner notes of the ''Sordid Sentinels Edition'' of ''Wowee Zowee'', the reason Stephen Malkmus screamed "My God, I can't believe I'm still going" in "Half a Canyon" was out of genuine disbelief; he recalled feeling lightheaded recording the track and thinking he was going to faint or at least lose his voice after all the screaming.



** Malkmus lets out some pretty epic screams in the bridges of "No Life Singed Her". The website Genius describes it as "an unhinged, brief, chaotic track veering back and forth between normal rock and DeathMetal screaming (and in only about 2 minutes)".



* LimitedLyricsSong: The entire lyrics of "Jackals, False Grails: The Lonesome Era" are: "I've got one holy life to live / I've got one holy life to give", repeated several times. "Chesley's Little Wrists" has only "I'm bogged down" and variants thereof. "Baby Yeah" has... well, basically, the title repeated several times.

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* LimitedLyricsSong: The entire lyrics of "Jackals, False Grails: The Lonesome Era" are: "I've got one holy life to live / I've got one holy life to give", repeated several times. "Chesley's Little Wrists" has only "I'm bogged down" and variants thereof. (Well, there's some gibbering at the end of the song, but it's not likely that Malkmus is actually singing/saying anything resembling words there.) "Baby Yeah" has... well, basically, mostly the title repeated several times.times, though there are a couple of other lines too.
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…I say that, and still


* [[TropeMakers Trope Maker]]: For the genre known as lo-fi, along with Guided by Voices. By the time of their first album, however, they stopped completely relying on lo-fi recording equipment, and by the time of ''Crooked Rain'' they'd pretty much abandoned it entirely. The only remnant of lo-fi on anything after their early [=EPs=] is occasional lo-fi vocals (e.g., on "Half a Canyon" from ''Wowee Zowee'); the instruments on most of their records, including ''Slanted and Enchanted'', are generally well recorded, and the album is mixed clearly enough for listeners to distinguished the individual musicians' parts.

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* [[TropeMakers Trope Maker]]: For the genre known as lo-fi, along with Guided by Voices. By the time of their first album, however, they stopped completely relying on lo-fi recording equipment, and by the time of ''Crooked Rain'' they'd pretty much abandoned it entirely. The only remnant of lo-fi on anything after their early [=EPs=] is occasional lo-fi vocals (e.g., on "Half a Canyon" from ''Wowee Zowee'); Zowee''); the instruments on most of their records, including ''Slanted and Enchanted'', are generally well recorded, and the album is mixed clearly enough for listeners to distinguished the individual musicians' parts.
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** The main lyrics people are likely to know for "Conduit for Sale!" are "I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying… Imagine if, you will, Herr Proctor, something something, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying… something something… between here and there is better than either here or there! I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying…" It's not that the other lyrics are indecipherable; they're just delivered so quickly that it's difficult to commit them to memory.
** "Best Friend's Arm" is an even more extreme example, since the only easily decipherable lyrics are "I can see, I can see, I can see, I can see" and "Keep it under your best friend's arms".

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** The main lyrics people are likely to know for "Conduit for Sale!" are "I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying… Imagine if, Imagine, if you will, Herr Proctor, something something, something… I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying… something something… between here and there is better than either here or there! I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying…" It's not that the other lyrics are indecipherable; they're just delivered so quickly that it's they're difficult to commit them to memory.
** "Best Friend's Arm" is an even more extreme example, since the only easily decipherable lyrics are "I can see, I can see, I can see, I can see" and "Keep it under your best friend's arms". It's anyone's guess as to the others.



* [[TropeMakers Trope Maker]]: For the genre known as lo-fi, along with Guided by Voices. By the time of their first album, however, they stopped completely relying on lo-fi recording equipment, and by the time of ''Crooked Rain'' they'd pretty much abandoned it entirely.

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* [[TropeMakers Trope Maker]]: For the genre known as lo-fi, along with Guided by Voices. By the time of their first album, however, they stopped completely relying on lo-fi recording equipment, and by the time of ''Crooked Rain'' they'd pretty much abandoned it entirely. The only remnant of lo-fi on anything after their early [=EPs=] is occasional lo-fi vocals (e.g., on "Half a Canyon" from ''Wowee Zowee'); the instruments on most of their records, including ''Slanted and Enchanted'', are generally well recorded, and the album is mixed clearly enough for listeners to distinguished the individual musicians' parts.
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i need to learn to proofread my edits before submittingt hem


** The main lyrics people are likely to know for "Conduit for Sale!" are "I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying… Imagine if, you will, Herr Proctor, something something, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying… something something… between here there is better than either here or there! I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying…" It's not that the other lyrics are indecipherable; they're just delivered so quickly that it's difficult to commit them to memory.

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** The main lyrics people are likely to know for "Conduit for Sale!" are "I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying… Imagine if, you will, Herr Proctor, something something, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying… something something… between here and there is better than either here or there! I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying…" It's not that the other lyrics are indecipherable; they're just delivered so quickly that it's difficult to commit them to memory.

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* IndecipherableLyrics: Stephen Malkmus has gone on record to say not even he knows what he's yelling about in the studio version of "Best Friend's Arm." Most lyric sites replace a majority of the lyrics with question marks.

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* IndecipherableLyrics: Stephen Malkmus has gone on record to say not even he knows what he's yelling about in the studio version of "Best Friend's Arm." Most lyric sites replace a majority of the lyrics with question marks. [[https://genius.com/Pavement-best-friends-arm-lyrics Genius]] has an attempt to transcribe the whole song, but who knows how correct it is.


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* SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein: Due to the IndecipherableLyrics in some of their songs, or to Malkmus' fast delivery in others, this can occur in a few cases.
** The main lyrics people are likely to know for "Conduit for Sale!" are "I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying… Imagine if, you will, Herr Proctor, something something, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying… something something… between here there is better than either here or there! I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying…" It's not that the other lyrics are indecipherable; they're just delivered so quickly that it's difficult to commit them to memory.
** "Best Friend's Arm" is an even more extreme example, since the only easily decipherable lyrics are "I can see, I can see, I can see, I can see" and "Keep it under your best friend's arms".
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* MotorMouth: Malkmus at times can get this way. Some of the best examples in their discography are on "Conduit for Sale!" and "Best Friend's Arm".
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* MindScrewdriver: Malkmus has sometimes written explanations of his WordSaladLyrics, though the explanations themselves frequently go into {{Cloud Cuckooland|er}} themselves, unsurprisingly. [[https://abrahamriesman.com/post/406114262/a-thing-stephen-malkmus-wrote Here’s an example]] for ''Wowee Zowee''.

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* MindScrewdriver: Malkmus has sometimes written explanations of his WordSaladLyrics, though the explanations themselves frequently go into {{Cloud Cuckooland|er}} {{Cloudcuckooland}} themselves, unsurprisingly. [[https://abrahamriesman.com/post/406114262/a-thing-stephen-malkmus-wrote Here’s an example]] for ''Wowee Zowee''.

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* MindScrewdriver: Malkmus has sometimes written explanations of his WordSaladLyrics, though the explanations themselves frequently go into {{Cloud Cuckooland|er}} themselves, unsurprisingly. [[https://abrahamriesman.com/post/406114262/a-thing-stephen-malkmus-wrote Here’s an example]] for ''Wowee Zowee''.



** "Robyn Turns 26" from the compilation ''At Home With The Groovebox'': Stephen Malkmus raps about the life of a 26 year old Portlandian slacker/hipster, to the backing of vintage drum machines and synthesizers.

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** "Robyn Turns 26" from the compilation ''At Home With The the Groovebox'': Stephen Malkmus raps about the life of a 26 year old Portlandian slacker/hipster, to the backing of vintage drum machines and synthesizers.
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* {{Greed}}: "Grounded" is a subtle ProtestSong about greed and its effects on the American medical system. Malkmus commented at one point: "Only 10% of our doctors went into it because they wanted to help others. The others did it for the money. Written for my personal physician and his cadre of German automobiles."

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* {{Greed}}: "Grounded" is a subtle ProtestSong about greed and its effects on the American medical system. Malkmus commented [[https://abrahamriesman.com/post/406114262/a-thing-stephen-malkmus-wrote commented]] at one point: "Only 10% of our doctors went into it because they wanted to help others. The others did it for the money. Written for my personal physician and his cadre of German automobiles."
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* {{Greed}}: "Grounded" is a subtle ProtestSong about greed and its effects on the American medical system. Malkmus commented at one point: "Only 10% of our doctors went into it because they wanted to help others. The others did it for the money. Written for my personal physician and his cadre of German automobiles."
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* XtremeKoolLetterz: "Gold Soundz"

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* XtremeKoolLetterz: "Gold Soundz"Soundz", "False Skorpion".
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Pavement broke up in 1999 due to intra-band conflict (especially between the others and Malkmus), and reunited pretty epically in 2010. However, Malkmus has said that no further tours are planned, and Nastanovich ruled out the possibility of new material, saying Malkmus no longer writes "songs in the Pavement mindset." They haven't ruled out the possibility of more performances at some point in the future, but said it wouldn't be anytime soon because they wanted to "keep it fun" and didn't want people who saw them in 2010 to feel ripped off that they had a second reunion so quickly. Some of the other members (Kannberg and Young, specifically) have joined Malkmus onstage at various solo shows, but there hasn't been a full reunion.

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Pavement broke up in 1999 due to intra-band conflict (especially between the others and Malkmus), and reunited pretty epically in 2010. However, Malkmus has said that no further tours are planned, and Nastanovich ruled out the possibility of new material, saying Malkmus no longer writes "songs in the Pavement mindset." They haven't ruled out the possibility of more performances at some point in the future, but said it wouldn't be anytime soon because they wanted to "keep it fun" and didn't want people who saw them in 2010 to feel ripped off that they had a second reunion so quickly. Some of the other members (Kannberg and Young, specifically) have joined Malkmus onstage at various solo shows, but there hasn't been a full reunion.
reunion. Two 30th anniversary shows are planned for 2020, but the band have confirmed nothing after this is in the works.
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* {{Instrumentals}}: "5-4=Unity", "Strings of Nashville ([[CaptainObvious Instrumental]])", and "[[CaptainObvious Instrumental]]", among other tracks. "Pueblo (Beach Boys)" could be considered this as well if wordless vocals count.

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* {{Instrumentals}}: "5-4=Unity", "Strings of Nashville ([[CaptainObvious Instrumental]])", (Instrumental)", and "[[CaptainObvious Instrumental]]", "Instrumental", among other tracks. "Pueblo (Beach Boys)" could be considered this as well if wordless vocals count.



* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere: "[[CaptainObvious Nothing Ever Happens]]".

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* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere: "[[CaptainObvious Nothing "Nothing Ever Happens]]".Happens".
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* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere: "[[CaptainObvious Nothing Ever Happens]]".
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** "Robyn Turns 26" from the compilation ''At Home With The Groovebox'': Stephen Malkmus raps about the life of a 26 year old Coloradoan slacker to the backing of vintage drum machines and synthesizers.

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** "Robyn Turns 26" from the compilation ''At Home With The Groovebox'': Stephen Malkmus raps about the life of a 26 year old Coloradoan slacker Portlandian slacker/hipster, to the backing of vintage drum machines and synthesizers.
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** "Robyn Turns 26" from the compilation ''At Home With The Groovebox'': Stephen Malkmus raps about the life of a 26 year old Coloradoan slacker to the backing of vintage drum machines and synthesizers.
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** As for the original releases of their albums, many were released before the time this trope really started to get bad. By the time of ''Brighten the Corners'' and ''Terror Twilight'', it had started to become a widespread problem, but while ''Terror Twilight'' is slightly clipped, it still comes out to [=DR9=] overall, which was quiet and dynamic by 1999 standards, let alone today's.

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* TheSomethingSong: "The Sutcliffe Catering Song"

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* TheSomethingSong: "The Sutcliffe Catering Song"Song", which was later renamed to "Easily Fooled" (presumably to avert NonAppearingTitle and RefrainFromAssuming).
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* StepUpToTheMicrophone[=/=]VocalTagTeam: Scott Kannberg's turns at lead vocals fall somewhere between the two: He has the sole lead vocals on one or two songs on every full-length album except for ''Terror Twilight'', but Stephen Malkmus still definitely has the majority of vocals. In addition, "Painted Soldiers" is the only Kannberg-sung track to have a music video, and even then it wasn't officially a single. Meanwhile, "Carrot Rope", the final song on ''Terror Twilight'' is partly sung by Stephen, partly by Scott, and partly by bassist Mark Ibold, which is his only lead vocal on a Pavement album.

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* StepUpToTheMicrophone[=/=]VocalTagTeam: Scott Kannberg's turns at lead vocals fall somewhere between the two: He has the sole lead vocals on one or two songs on every full-length album except for ''Terror Twilight'', but Stephen Malkmus still definitely has the majority of vocals. In addition, "Painted Soldiers" is the only Kannberg-sung track to have a music video, and even then it wasn't officially a single. Meanwhile, the verses of "Carrot Rope", the final song on ''Terror Twilight'' is Twilight'', are partly sung by Stephen, partly by Scott, and partly by bassist Mark Ibold, which is his only lead vocal on a Pavement album.album; however, Stephen sings the chorus himself.
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* LongSongShortScene: "Nothing Ever Happens" was left off ''Slanted and Enchanted'', but the song's riff became a 30 second instrumental postscript to "Trigger Cut / Wounded-Kite at :17". The full two and a half minute song, with vocals by Spiral Stairs, finally saw release on ''Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe And Reduxe'', ten years after the release of the original album.
** Similarly, "Dark Ages" was left off of ''Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain'', but the final minute of the song was turned into an introduction to "Filmore Jive". All 2:40 of "Dark Ages" appeared on ''Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: L.A.'s Desert Origins''.

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* LongSongShortScene: "Nothing Ever Happens" was left off ''Slanted and Enchanted'', but the song's riff became a 30 second instrumental postscript to "Trigger Cut / Wounded-Kite at :17". The full two and a half minute song, with vocals by Spiral Stairs, finally saw release on ''Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe And and Reduxe'', ten years after the release of the original album.
** Similarly, "Dark Ages" was left off of ''Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain'', but the final minute of the song was turned into an introduction to "Filmore "Fillmore Jive". All 2:40 of "Dark Ages" appeared on ''Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: L.A.'s Desert Origins''.



* StepUpToTheMicrophone[=/=]VocalTagTeam: Scott Kannberg's turns at lead vocals fall somewhere between the two: He sings one or two songs on nearly every full length album except for ''Terror Twilight'', but Stephen Malkmus still definitely has the majority of vocals. In addition, "Painted Soldiers" is the only Kannberg-sung track to have a music video, and even then it wasn't officially a single.

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* StepUpToTheMicrophone[=/=]VocalTagTeam: Scott Kannberg's turns at lead vocals fall somewhere between the two: He sings has the sole lead vocals on one or two songs on nearly every full length full-length album except for ''Terror Twilight'', but Stephen Malkmus still definitely has the majority of vocals. In addition, "Painted Soldiers" is the only Kannberg-sung track to have a music video, and even then it wasn't officially a single. Meanwhile, "Carrot Rope", the final song on ''Terror Twilight'' is partly sung by Stephen, partly by Scott, and partly by bassist Mark Ibold, which is his only lead vocal on a Pavement album.
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** As for the original releases of their albums, many were released before the time this trope really started to get bad. By the time of ''Brighten the Corners'' and ''Terror Twilight'', it had started to become a widespread problem, but while ''Terror Twilight'' is slightly clipped, it still comes out to [=DR9=] overall, which was quiet and dynamic by 1999 standards, let alone today's.

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