Stephen Malkmus vs. Preston School of Industry

PSOI, no doubt. "All This Sounds Gas" is something like a million times better than the Malkmus record (which is good but I've gotten hella sick of it since last spring). Better live show. S. Kannberg is nice vs Malkmus is a dick. Better band name plus less annoying people in the band. Etc.

What I've heard of PSOI sounded like bog-standard indie rock. The Stephen Malkmus album is pretty decent but nothing fantastic. "Church on white", "The hook" and "Pink India" would be good enough to fit on any Pavement album tho'.

saw both of them on their last respective tours and would have to say that PSOI has twice the song, half the annoyance. Malkmus played too many shitty solos and was too hyped on whatever. also PSOI is much more of a 'band' than SM and the Jicks will ever be. the jicks played like they were second tier and, in reality, they were when compared to malkmus' big show.

I see that the word annoying is coming up a lot in describing Malkmus's band , are guys referring to his girlfriend, or now ex- girlfriend? He dumped her.

Malkmus. Can't remember any PSOI songs after five listens, still playing SM with pleasure a year later.

Upon their initial releases, I liked PSOI better than Stephen Malkmus. However, I think that a year removed, the Malkmus debut has more memorable songs, though "Falling Away" is the best track of either albums. I also saw both of their shows within weeks of each other and it's weird how compared to the last Pavement show I saw five years ago, Malkmus changed (he actually looked *happy* to be there) whereas Spiral Stairs didn't (he still fusses over details with the sound engineer or whatever between almost each song).