MMT50 - 248

jD is back and he's joined by Patrick from middle America to discuss the 48th song on the Top 50 countdown.

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[0:00] Previously on the pavement top 50 track number 49 best friend's arm dan what are your thoughts, oh man well this um this this this track was really my introduction to wowie zowieum i didn't own it at the time and um my friend andy used to have it and uh out of all the tracks i used to make this and put this on repeatedly uh say we used to sit on the floor and listen toit and i I used to roll around kind of, I wasn't exactly laughing, but it's just like, I just couldn't get over how mad and how fun that track is.

Welcome.

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[0:43] Nustanovich from Pavement and now on with a countdown.

Hey, 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 ballots.

I tabulated the results using an advanced abacus, and all that's left is for us to reveal this week's track number 48.

How will your favorite track fare in the ranking? You'll need to tune in, or whatever the podcast equivalent of tuning in is to find out.

This week we're joined by pavement superfan patrick from middle america so there's that, how are you doing motherfucker i'm doing so well thank you so much for having me uh youryour podcast helped me through the pandemic for sure so oh dude that's so nice to hear you say uh you know sometimes i feel like i'm just talking into a microphone because it's i don'thave a i I don't have a co-host for this podcast, but now I do now with the top 50, I've got a different pot, a different podcast co-host every week.

And that's kind of cool that I'm getting to meet some people, but I appreciate that.

Happy to be here. I like your beanie.

[2:00] I'm wearing a black one. You're wearing a bright, like it's almost a few shop. Is it red? It's orange.

It's orange. Yeah. Orange. Yeah.

I like it. I have several because I live in cold areas. so.

[2:16] So whereabouts in middle America do you hail, if you want to reveal it?

Yeah, currently I'm in Des Moines, Iowa.

Oh, okay. I recently just vacated from St. Paul, Minnesota.

So I was tricking myself into believing I could have an apartment in two different towns.

[2:38] So now I'm just in Des Moines right now. But Minneapolis, St.

Paul is probably where I would want to be, I guess. Yeah, it's a nice city.

Yeah, nice twin cities, I suppose.

It's the best up there. So but I'm in Des Moines currently. Is Des Moines where Bob was? Yeah, former home of Bob Nesanovic. Yeah.

Okay, I thought he was from there. Yep, I was. I've been, you know, if you're a pavement fan and you're in Des Moines and you're running sound at a music venue and you go down thestairs and then you see a guy from your third favorite band standing at the bar uh you uh you definitely go and buy him a beer and then if you buy yeah if you buy bob mistanovich a beernext thing you know you're over at his house hanging out and he's telling stories about the beastie boys or something so i have no fucking way yeah yeah so um yeah my origin story withpavement is strange because they were my favorite band when I was 16 years old.

And then, you know, when I was in my lower thirties, we were getting to open for them on their reunion tour.

And Bob's singing on my old band Seven Inch because he just is in Des Moines.

And if you're a Pavement fan in Des Moines, you're bound to bump into Bob and then you're bound to be buddies with him.

[4:02] Dude, you got to tell me more about this. Let's go. Dig in. All right.

You're opening for Pavement.

Let's talk about this. And he's singing on your seven inch. Let's talk about this.

Okay. Uh, well, I, when, like I said, when I was 16 years old, 15, 16 in the mid nineties, uh, you know, payment was one of my favorite bands.

You know, they've, they've always been in my top three favorite bands ever.

And I finally got to see them on the last tour in 99 at the Vic theater in Chicago.

Chicago, and I drove from Ames, Iowa of, and I was seven hours early to the show, hoping that I could be, uh, first in line.

Uh, I was not first in line. I was third in line.

Uh, but I met some really cool people, uh, standing in line for seven hours and I got to meet everybody in payment cause they were walking out from their soundcheck and everything.

So, uh, but it was hilarious. I was just telling this story the other day to somebody, buddy.

The girl who was first in line had just gotten a star tattoo, like the stars that are on like the terror twilight, uh, album cover on the inside.

[5:13] And so she had a star idea. And of course, ...