MMT50 - 237

jD is joined by Pierce from Detroit to discuss his Pavement origin story and wax poetic about song 37 on the countdown. Enjoy!

Transcript:

[0:00] Hey, it's JD here, and I just wanted to throw something down, somewhat of a challenge to all you musically inclined folks out there.

We are going to be doing a pod list again this year, and a pod list is simply a podcast playlist.

It's a pod list. The previous four pod lists have consisted of talented members of our Pavement community submitting songs that they have covered from the Pavement oeuvre.

Pavement adjacent songs are also welcome. So you could do PSOI, you could do Jicks, you could do Malcolm is Solo.

Anything is fair game, truly. So get your band together or grab an acoustic guitar and just play your fucking guts out.

From there, submit the song to me by email and we'll go from there.

So please submit those songs, jd at meetingmalkmus.com, or even better, use wetransfer.com if it's a big WAV file. And WAV files are what I prefer.

That will work out just magnificently. That's what she said.

Podlist 5 coming July 8th. So get those songs in and be a part of something special. Thanks so much.

Now, on with the show. Previously on the.

Track 2:

[1:26] Pavement Top 50. Without further ado, number 38, Date with Ikea.

Daniel from Chicago. Hey.

Talk to me about your experience with this song. Well, it was the first Pavement album that I was able to buy on its release date.

So it has a special place.

It was released, I think it's April 17th, 1997.

And I went to my local mall and walked in and bought this album.

Hey, this is Westy from the Rock and Roll Band Pavement.

Track 4:

[2:13] And you're listening to The Countdown. hey it's jd here back for another episode of our top 50 countdown for seminal indie rock band pavement week over week we're going tocount down the 50 essential pavement tracks that you selected with your very own top 20 ballots i tabulated the results using an abacus and a small group of children in the fourth grade,How will your favorite song 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 superfan, Pierce from Detroit.

[2:47] Pierce, how you doing, motherfucker? I'm good, I'm good. It's good to be here.

Oh, it's great to have you, man.

[2:54] How's the weather in the city right now? It's been unseasonably warm yesterday.

We got close to 60. I think we got to 60.

So you know every people in shorts and uh it's not going to be here forever it's going to be nice today again and then it's going to go you know it's uh we're still in february so.

[3:16] It it's going to be some jacket weather before you know it yeah i bet yeah how about you how what's the what's the weather like there it's been the same here it's been unseasonablylike i wore a vest yesterday instead of a jacket right like kind of nice yeah i mean you know aside from the existential dread but we won't go there yeah i suppose you're right yeah so let'slet's get right to this let's talk about pavement uh you mean my favorite band your favorite band of all time yeah oh man yeah i uh i you know i i kind of i listened to a uh previous episodeand then i you know got my mind you know i'm always jump chomping at the champing at the bit to uh relay my pavement origin story.

So, I mean, I don't even know if it's like, it's not anything spectacular, but I mean, I guess the thing that really strikes me is just how much the band means to me and how much musicmeans to me.

And, you know, so I'm always, you know, looking to knock on somebody's door and tell them about pavement.

[4:26] So where did it all begin? Well, I mean, um, you know, so I came, I found pavement, um, in high school um i uh you know i i was really into just like a lot of corporate rock youknow i was all about like you know back and bc boys which are still i i still like and value those but uh you know i mean it's listening to like the sublime and 311 and you know all thatand And not to say that that's not, if that's your bag, that's your bag, you know, but like I, I, uh, so then in my sophomore year, a friend got me into fish and, um, and so like fish, you know,I, I've had like, I've kind of estranged myself from fish.

Um, and I realized that, uh, starting at the top of a pavement podcast, talking about three 11 and, uh, and fish, I don't know if that's the coolest start, but, uh, you know, so I remembervividly, I got an entertainment weekly fish feature magazine and, uh, I guess the summer of 2000.

[5:45] Summer of 2000 and just going just before going into my junior year in high school and uh there was a fish a to z and key they had uh like a little cartoon of the guitarist treyworshiping at this pedestal with slanted and enc...