Word: rain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow will stop the U.S. Postal Service, but it takes whole lot less to slow the University Mail Service (UMS) to a craswl. It would seem, given instances of mail taking over a week to arrive from just 35 miles away, that the UMS is making it as difficult as possible to be a young man or woman of letters...
...normal movement is from rain, to sleet, to snow," he said, warning that there would be more snow before the end of the storm midmorning today...
...pretty disappointed. The songs just didn't seem as strong as on previous records (all of their stuff prior of Slanted is now available on a Drag City CD called Westing, By Musket and Sextant), and the whole dynamic seemed changed, for the worse. The Pavement of Crooked Rain is indeed a very different animal from past records. Until now every Pavement record was the product Malkmus and his partner Spiral Stairs, plus drumming by a crazy and amazing hippie named Gary. They played all the instruments, and in most cases there wasn't even a bass guitar. This...
...Crooked Rain, two fundamental changes have taken place: first of all, Gary is gone, supposedly amicably, replaced by a less flamboyant drummer named Steve West. And other musicians who previously only accompanied the three on live tours are now given performance credit. There's no reason why this must be a change for the worse, but the songs seem to lack the focus of earlier work. At times they should half-hearted; I wonder if a dispersal of creative control has led to this...
...friends seem to be having the same experience. (One just walked out the room, saying, "This has grown on me, a ton.") Malkmus has become addicted to REM (covering "Camera" on a b-side and writing a silly tribute to them for No Alternative) and Crooked Rain features a few gorgeous pastoral tunes--"Range Life" and "Gold Soundz" in particular--that are a million times better than anything Mssrs. Stipe, Buck, Berry and Mills have produced in years. The excellent opener, "Silence Kid," a message to a shy little boy who shouldn't listen to his grandmother's advice, seems...