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While Pavement's last LP, Slanted and Enchanted, did not make them a household name, or even crack the top 40 for that matter, it was a pretty seminal event in the indie rock world. I personally think it's the best LP released to date this decade, and I probably listened to it three or four times a day for seven months after it came out. You want to get a hold of that record if you like bands like The Velvet Underground. I'm not the only person who felt this way, however: it sold many thousands...
Pavement, the musical phenomenon you may or may not have heard of, has just released its second LP, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. This event is sort of a smaller version of the release of In Utero or Vs. earlier this fall. How would these laid-back rockers respond to the crazed success heaped upon them by the musical industry and the American public, we wondered? Would there be another "Smells Like Teen Spirit...
...pieces are really the "Sister Ray" and "The Gift" of the TKP catalog, the songs themselves being New Zealand's lonely, anguished closest answer to the Velvet Underground; in all honesty, anyone who thinks she or he likes VU would do well to check out these records. The double LP costs the same as the CD and has a very cool foldout lyric sheet; if you can't find either one, send $9.75 to Ajax, P.O. Box 805293, Chicago IL 60680-4114. They also run an illuminating and well-stocked underground rock mailorder business...
...involved tuning the guitar in straight fourths and tapping the fretboard with two hands to produce pianistic-type lines. The story goes that he eventually took this novel act on to the streets of New York, 48th Street to be precise, playing and selling copies of his self-produced LP Touch Sensitive. He even had a weightlifter friend act as bodyguard, fending off hustlers...
...been planning to use this week's space for the new Pavement LP, since it's already on the tip of everyone's tongue here in the Rock Music Underground, and since I also happen to like it a lot. FM, however, has told me that I should not do that, because a member of Betty Please is already writing, or has already written, at length on Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain for next week's magazine, and there's no reason for this here "underground music column" to duplicate his work before it even appears. Which I took as meaning...