MMT50 - 249

jD is joined by Dan from London to discuss and dissect the 49th song on the Top 50 countdown.

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[0:02] Hey it's jd here back for another episode of our top 50 countdown covering seminal indie rock band pavement week over week we're going to count down the 50 essential pavementtracks that you selected with your very own top 20 ballads i then tabulated the results using an advanced abacus and some test tubes and all that's left for us is to reveal this week's trackhow will your favorite song fair in the rankings?

Well, you'll need to tune in, or whatever the podcast equivalent of tuning in is, to find out.

This week, we're joined by a Pavement superfan, Dan from London. So there's that.

Dan, how you doing, motherfucker?

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[0:46] Hi, JV, I'm doing okay, thanks. Yeah, all is good here, I think.

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[0:50] Nice to talk to you again.

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[0:52] Yeah, it's good to be back on.

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[0:54] Yeah. So, um, let's get right to it.

Talk to me about your experience or your pavement origin story.

Like what was that experience like?

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[1:09] I think when I was at art college, a lot of people were playing snippets of pavement stuff, you know, I didn't necessarily know what it was.

Um, I remember hanging out with a guy in his car and he used to have like speakers off an actual stereo in the back of his car, you know, like speaker cabinets, wooden speaker cabinets.

And I remember him blasting, um, a bit of Westing through there as well and feeling pretty interested in that.

But it was really when i went to university and i was at um i was at this girl's house you know and we'd been sort of drinking all night and she put on this tape and one side was gentlemenby afghan wigs and the other side was crooked rain and crooked rain just blew me away you know i think that that had impacted me on first listen more than any other record ever has ithink you know holy shit yeah i think that just the the way it builds up those first two tracks are are just amazing you know there's nothing else like it and then of course it goes into stopbreathing and it's like oh my god okay this is too much man yeah um but after that i actually um.

[2:14] I got back into them and had a load of stuff on tape and i was playing along with it on my as well but i actually worked at um glastonbury in 1999 just so i could see pavement aswell you work um yeah yeah yeah so what were you like a usher or something uh yeah you you work on the the gate so you take people's you know tickets and exchange them for thewristbands and then in the evening well it was actually um ultra violet sort of um stamped and um yeah you know and then you'd have to check people in and out at the at the night timeyou do three eight hour shifts so you do 24 hours at the festival but my shifts lined up nicely so that i got out of went pavement wrong and um perfect it was it was it was a crazy goodafternoon yeah yeah yeah, Um, and then after that, yeah, say I saw them on the reunion tour and then, uh, the rest is when I kind of saw them with you, basically Primavera London. Yeah.

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[3:13] That was great. Talk to me a little bit more about, talk to me a little bit more before we go into the London shows.

Cause those were really special, but talk to me a little bit more about Glastonbury.

Like what was the set like for that? What I was 99. So they were on the last leg sort of, of, of terror twilight.

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[3:32] Yeah yeah yeah so there was there was a lot of terror twilight i mean um i can't find any footage of this but basically when they when they came on stage they were introduced bythis dude it just came on was a friend of theirs and i think he was like either like a pub landlord or like some, bookmaker from brixton you know this random guy that they loved and heintroduced the band, and they came on um yeah i think it was it was there was a mixed bag but it was it was quite very twilight heavy but i just remember the outstanding thing from thatwas just like folk jam was amazing really i've i've a folk jam or platform blues yeah i still i need to look at that set list now and just to remember but the thing about that is that i um i stillhave the 35 uh millimeter sort of camera film undeveloped from that western experience yeah it's been sitting there for what nearly like 24 years now so i've still got to get that done so ihave Where do you even get film developed now?

Places will do it, but I just never got around to it. I've got about 14 rolls of camera film from my life.

I get to look. Yeah, well, it's a time capsule, yeah. But I'll do that, yeah. I'll do that.

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