MMT50 - 233

This is so fucking cool. Bob Nastanovich joins me this week to talk about a whack of shit including song 33!!!!

Transcript:

1:00] Loretta Scars. Alex from Portland, how are you feeling about Loretta Scars?

It's a great song. I've got all kinds of thoughts on it, but it's on Flannid

and Enchanted, which is a great album. it's,

Slanted and Enchanted is the least varied album in my opinion like,

most of the songs on it are kind of of one vibe and this is definitely no exception

I think it's a great vibe I enjoy it Hey this is Westy from the Rock and Roll Band.

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[1:40] Pavement and you're listening to The Countdown Hey it's It's JD here back for

another episode of our top 50 countdown for Seminole indie rock band Pavement.

Week over week we're going to count down the 50 essential Pavement tracks that

you selected with your very own top 20 ballads.

I then tabulated the results using an abacus, a bicycle pump,

lotion, and some biscuits for Kevin, my homemade from uni.

How will your favorite songs fare in the rankings? Well, you'll need to tune in to find out.

So there's that. This week we're joined by

pavement superstar bob fucking nastanovich

bob what is up no

okay cool and you're aren't you a toronto person

sure am yeah how are things

there bright blue sunny skies today

about five degrees celsius so that's

like spring weather for us especially yeah that's nice

yeah we've got I don't

mean to show you up Jamie but it's 63

degrees Fahrenheit here with a light breeze and a bright sunshine oh man here

in Paris Tennessee you know like a typical winter day here is kind of gray and

44 but it's especially nice.

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[3:03] Today which is pretty awesome that sounds about right

that sounds like good you know good walking weather

so yeah how are you doing all right with this

project so far so good i'm like

like people are lining up to do it uh like

i'm caught up through march uh i've

got to do some interviews this week with people so

basically people seem to be like i

was like i don't know how people respond to a top 50 that

they have to listen to every week but i

don't know my numbers are good and um like good

for me you know yeah they'll get into it yeah i

think so and like just a little bit of water cooler debate right

what's that bud just a little

bit of water cooler debate yeah exactly you

know like what if what are you fucking thinking greenlanders like

greenlander was 46 six and

you know people were really pleased that

it made the top 50 but then there's another cohort that are like that's crazy

it should be at least in the top 30 you know or whatever so no that is so weird

i mean i don't um i do know people that love greenlander and i um ineffectively insisted.

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[4:18] On trying to get

it played live in iceland and that would have been cool yeah and um he we sound

checked it and it sounded just fine for about 70 seconds and malchus was.

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[4:43] Like i don't want to do that one you know and then um with him you know his attitude was so.

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[4:53] Sterling in 2022 and 2023 that um you don't and he was willing to play so many,

different songs because in the past like specifically in 2010 um i just think

it's uh i mean i remember his attitude back then was sort of uh.

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[5:18] It's going back to a more juvenile style of songwriting for him, which is more direct,

but I guess maybe it kind of reminded him of certain aspects of his life.

I mean, especially the earlier stuff, pre-Steve West, seems to give him a certain

amount of actual PTSD, which is a word I never use.

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[5:48] Self-reference um just because of um

the stress caused by gary like

i sat next to him when we watched the screening of gary's documentary and

um it he did

not i mean it's a great documentary have you seen it

i did yeah it's a great documentary and

i don't think they really could have done a better job and um

i mean i would have been wildly pleased

with it i know gary was um so cool

that he got to see it before he passed at least right i

can't i can't believe he lived that long i mean no

way you know i mean i mean for

him to make it to 70 um should give us all belief that we can do it too um but

he comes from really supremely great genes in terms of longevity his parents

lived well into their 90s and uh for some reason despite.

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[6:49] Every possible attempt without actua...