Pavement - Brighten The Corners (Advance Copy)

Pavement: lo-fi or hi-fi.

any news on re-issue? i'm purging my collectio and i think i'll just sell my copy now.. in anticipation.

November 18 will see the release of Mark IV in our series of deluxe reissues of the original Pavement albums. Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Ed. sports the amazing packaging and deep contents that you’ve seen in our previous three deluxe editions. Like the first three editions, released every 2 years since 2000, this package treats Pavement’s fourth album right, with two CDs containing the entire 1997 record, remastered from the original tapes, plus all the B-sides and compilation tracks from that period, and a plethora of unreleased live and studio tracks as enumerated below. The CDs come in an embossed slipcase with a 62-page perfect-bound book containing photos, ephemera, writings and more. (The record will be out on Domino in Europe and Matador everywhere else.)

Matador will be doing a Buy Early Get Now promotion for this record, and the extras will be very special indeed. We’ll be announcing that shortly, so keep your eyes on this space.

DISC ONE

Original Album (Remastered) - Tracks 1-12

1. Stereo
2. Shady Lane / J Vs. S
3. Transport is Arranged
4. Date w/ IKEA
5. Old to Begin
6. Type Slowly
7. Embassy Row
8. Blue Hawaiian
9. We Are Underused
10. Passat Dream
11. Starlings of the Slipstream
12. Fin

13. Westie Can Drum - Stereo B-side
14. Winner of the… - Stereo B-side

15. Birds In The Majic Industry - UNRELEASED VOCAL VERSION WILL TAKE PLACE OF RELEASED INSTRUMENTAL ‘STEREO’ B-SIDE VERSION

16. Slowly Typed - Shady Lane B-side
17. Cherry Area - Shady Lane B-side
18. Wanna Mess You Around - Shady Lane B-side
19. No Tan Lines - Shady Lane B-side

21. Harness Your Hopes - Spit On A Stranger B-side
22. Roll With the Wind - Spit On A Stranger B-side

20. And Then… - A MUCH SHORTER VERSION OF THIS APPEARED ON THE Spit On A Stranger 7″ B-side BUT this is the full 7-minute+ version

DISC TWO

BBC Radio One Evening Session, January 15, 1997

1. Then
2. Harness Your Hopes
3. The Killing Moon
4. Winner of the…

5. Embassy Row Psych Intro - UNRELEASED INTRO – BTC SESSIONS OUTTAKE
6. Nigel - UNRELEASED SONG – BTC SESSIONS OUTTAKE
7. Chevy (Old To Begin) - UNRELEASED VERSION – BTC SESSIONS
8. Roll With The Wind (Roxy) - UNRELEASED VERSION – BTC SESSIONS

VPRO Loladamusica TV show, April 4, 1997

9 . For Sale! The Preston School of Industry — UNRELEASED SONG

10. Oddity (from the ‘God Save The Clean’ compilation)
11. Type Slowly (live) (from the ‘Free Tibet’ compilation)

KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic, February 25, 1997

12. Neil Hagerty Meets Jon Spencer In a Non-Alcoholic Bar - UNRELEASED SONG
13. Maybe Maybe - UNRELEASED VERSION

BBC Radio One John Peel Live Session August 21, 1997

14. Date w/ IKEA
15. Fin
16. Grave Architecture
17. The Classical

18. Space Ghost Theme I - UNRELEASED SONG - RECORDED LIVE AT WFNX, Boston, February 12, 1997
19. Space Ghost Theme II - UNRELEASED SONG SONG - RECORDED LIVE AT WFNX, Boston, February 12, 1997

20. Beautiful as a Butterfly - UNRELEASED SONG – BTC SESSIONS OUTTAKE
21. Cataracts - UNRELEASED SONG – BTC SESSIONS OUTTAKE

The first MP3 will be available soon as part of our Fall Intended Play digital zipfile. Again, keep your eyes on this space.

sweet, underrated album!

Neil Hagerty Meets Jon Spencer In a Non-Alcoholic Bar

lolz

Lot of good stuff on here. The only version of "FS:TPSoI" I have is an mp3 recorded off a .mov of that Dutch TV show.

Brighten the Corners is a huge underrated album. Lot of hate from some since it was Spiral Stairs who arranged the tracks and what not, but it's probably their best put-together album altogether.

Don't think I'll be around for the Terror Twilight reissue.

tis pretty clear from this tracklisting that there won't be a terror twilight reissue.

I'm not sure this album has ever been underrated; but, yeah, I'm looking forward to the reissue.

"No Tan Lines" is a pretty great b-side.

neato! looking forward to this. all of those b sides/radio sessions are pretty ace, and the stuff i've never heard looks nice. re: a terror twilight deluxe edition, i be they could do it. i think they tried recording a bunch of that stuff before hiring nigel godrich for the final album. might be interesting to hear those songs w/o the radioheadish touches.

i BET they could do it, durr

I'd be interested in liaising via gmail with someone for Pavement b-sides.

9 . For Sale! The Preston School of Industry — UNRELEASED SONG

Ah, good memories of this one! Pavement were in this 45 odd minutes show, Loladamusica. They were given the assignment to write a song in those 45 minutes, and this one was the result. I remember taping it from my video'd show through headphones-out onto cassette. Very nice song, this one.

info/tracklist changes over at www.matadorrecords.com/matablog. looks like the buy early thing is a vinyl only issue of the live album they prepared for 1998 but never released! coooooool. also, more of the kcrw sessions have been added.

Yay finally! This is the Pavement album I've been hearing the most lately, not with this in mind.

I think there might still be a Terror Twilight reissue, since there are no Major Leagues Ep tracks on this?

Mmkay, 'For Sale! The Preston School of Industry' seems to be cancelled then? Well shucks.

xp
My bad, Matador added some tracks on the website... It's a Rainy Day Sunshine Girl!?

Yeah, that's pretty freaky

looks like there are a couple mp3 bonus tracks too, so maybe "preston" is one of 'em.

i will probably buy this just to get the live lp.

Why even offer a 128k stream preview on a remastered album?

I'm still waiting for that Terror Twilight reissue, myself. To 2010!

20. And Then… - A MUCH SHORTER VERSION OF THIS APPEARED ON THE Spit On A Stranger 7″ B-side BUT this is the full 7-minute+ version

That sounds extremely cool.

just leaked

fluxglog

i ordered the 2cd/lp thing. coming in early december i beleive

believe*

got mine today. the lp cover is in swedish!

did they ship it to you early? it doesn't come out til next week, right?

Oh, I saw allthe Pavement 'deluxe's', and wondered why BTC was the only one not 'specialled'

xp yeah I pre-ordered a while back, release is December 9 I think

yeah it's coming soon. some people have already gotten theirs

Got mine through Other Music in NYC - no crazy matador shipping rates and we got our LP's early!

Oh, I saw allthe Pavement 'deluxe's', and wondered why BTC was the only one not 'specialled'

They've actually been releasing these one at a time for the past several year, BtC is just the latest addition.

years obv

Ha I remember buying the Shady Lane CD single and Goodier announcing on the Sunday....no 40 with a bullet!

There's some funny handwritten stuff in the inside cover about Sutton United or Brighton or something...it seemed very 'Pavement' to head straight for the lower divisions

"I think there might still be a Terror Twilight reissue, since there are no Major Leagues Ep tracks on this?"

Couldn't they fill an extra disk with versions of the hex?

the live lp is A+++++. great guitar and kula shaker gets dissed.

forgot how great "Harness Your Hopes" is.

yes, the live LP should put to rest any doubts about pavement being an excellent live band. not exactly "tight" but, uh, some kind of wonderful. a lot of the BTC tracks are definitely improved upon here. That said, the deluxe edition proper is great, too. I'm definitely a Pavement nerd, so that might have to be taken with a grain of salt. But the b-sides here are all very good, and the radio sessions (esp. the KCRW one) are fun as hell.

Agreed about the Pavement live album, although they could turn in a real stinker of a show. Is the live album taken from different shows? By the way, the banter between songs in the KCRW session was really funny, they should have included it....anybody have that or the live album in mp3?

I think you can still find it here: http://stephenmalkmus.com/punbb/upload/viewtopic.php?id=8738&p=1
along with about a bazillion other pavement live recordings ...

i too really enjoyed my live LP (i actually have two, as the first one arrived severely bent). "father to a sister of thought" is v pretty on it, and there's a great ad lib that i forget now

https://i.imgur.com/pwe9iWr.png

Conan looks greasy. Funny to remember that talk show hosts held up CDs in those days; I’m so used to them holding up LPs today.

there are some good clips on YouTube of Letterman (and probably others) holding up the old CD longboxes

lol i just googled "letterman longbox" and this popped up:

Hey would anyone be interested in a Tumblr of David Letterman holding up longboxes? pic.twitter.com/VTUTqhGICb

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