Word: malkmus
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Dates: during 1994-1994
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...like bands like The Velvet Underground. I'm not the only person who felt this way, however: it sold many thousands of copies and made Pavement the band to beat for a million aspiring rock bands (including mine). Major labels have been courting Pavement's songwriter and lyricist, Steven Malkmus, for the past few years because, in the words of an industry insider, "they have realized that he can write songs like Tom Petty if he wants...
...friend of mine recently said that Malkmus was a Bob Dylan for our times: "Every night he goes out on stage and sings different words, and every time it's just as great." He has been accused of singing nonsense; the liner notes in his records include lists of words which have no relation to one another aside from sounding similar ("Close Shave. Chess Leave. Clove Leash." etc). But it doesn't sound like nonsense to me. While any one song might not have a coherent "plot," such as boy-meets-girl or man-hit-the-road, which...