PAVEMENT • TRAX • POLL

I'd mentioned this in the wake of the Blur poll, but decided not to...but now have decided to. Identical set-up to NBS's poll; in fact I'm copying the rules verbatim:

No need for nominations, just pick your favourite Pavement tracks from any of the albums or singles or whatever. Choose your top twenty-two (why not?) tracks and they'll score as follows:
1:40, 2:36, 3:33, 4:30, 5:28, 6:26, 7:25, 8:24, 9:23, 10:22, 11:21, 12:20, 13:19, 14:18, 15:17, 16:16, 17:15, 18:14, 19:13, 20:12, 21:11, 22:10.
Please send your ballot to: johnnyilxfever (AT) gmail.com (except obviously without the spaces and using the @ symbol) by June 12 (that's a week from tomorrow).
In the meantime, use this thread for bigging up tracks you want people to vote for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kffacxfA7G4

lol wut

pavement pavement pavement ooohh

btw, that's midnight on June 12 EDT (like, the END of the day). I'm gonna tabulate as I go along so I can roll it out for that Monday (June 13).

hope carrot rope gets some love in this

Special love for:

Grounded
Raft
Box Elder
Billie

Here's what amounts to a nomination list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavement_discography

If anything is missing from that, and it's legit, vote for it anyway.

if we're going to keep doing these can the next please be a) an artist that had an active recording career for well over a decade and b) not a '90s rock act

Fine, but I went with Pavement simply because they're the American mirror image of Blur (lots of stray songs, songwriters w/in the band with very different styles, etc). Also, they're one of those bands who inspire spirited discussion for one reason or another.

also each a terrible influences on their home country's rock bands

I pine for a Pavement cover of "There's No Other Way."

That's certainly a matter of opinion. I'd argue that Oasis and Weezer did far more damage.

Also, this is a little thing, but when voting it would make my life easier if you'd put the points for each song after the song itself:

Example Song - 40
Example Song - 36
Example Song - 33

Since I'm doing this manually, I can just add them right from the ballot instead of figuring out how many points go to what placement by cross-referencing the rules every time. :)

who are the shitty rock bands influenced by pavement? honest question.

their clothes were influential

and is anything strong enough to knock out Gold Soundz?

lol cr?m

is anything strong enough to knock out Gold Soundz?

My ballot's the only one counted so far and Gold Soundz isn't on it.

As long as Cut Yr Hair doesn't win I'm in. Promise?

shish - too many awesome songs.

What is wrong with Gold Soundz?
(It's going to fucking win btw)

I like Gold Soundz fine, I guess. It just didn't make it into my top 22.

Hope "space ghost jam" gets some votes

I have never understood the abiding love for Gold Soundz. Like it fine but not even close to their best.

The only Pavements I listen to now are Watery Domestic Ep and Westing By Musket. Call me old fashioned.

Three ballots now, 43 tracks voted for.

(only 7 of those have appeared on all three ballots.)

Hope "space ghost jam" gets some votes

belongs on a beatles trax poll iirc

nearly voted 'space ghost' on pure memories - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJplZscUO-4

nostalgic thumb pretty heavy on the scale w/ my ballot as is. 'gold soundz' is on there, had no problem w/ it @ #1 in pfork's rundown, but it is weird to see comments about it as a heavy favorite to win, like if ppl were all 'driver 8's gonna take this easy' on a rem poll. that said there's about 6 tracks i would guess could/would win this and 'gold soundz' is one of them.

Thank you for doing this! I am very excited.

Space Ghost Jam is pretty tight.

yes, thanks for posting, it's not half bad!

this is going to be fun/infuriating

That's precisely why I picked Pavement over some other bands. I know how people get really...er, enthused...about them.

mine is in. 6 each off the first 3 records, 4 westing tracks. 1 scott

Five ballots now, only 4 unanimous tracks among them.

range life, summer babe, here, ?

nope, nope, nope, depends

Listening to it again, I already regret not giving Fillmore Jive more points.

Sixth ballot just shook up the top 10 and now only 3 unanimous tracks remain.

(I'm not going to keep doing these updates all week. Just right now, while I can tell what's going on as it happens.)

im spinning all these again in honor of this poll. Serpentine Pad, you just made the cut!

Not my favourite song but "mandrake versus the snake, I got it on the camera for posterity" is such a great line 'Platform Blues' makes the cut.

All about motion suggests. But yeah I always think of range life as the standout choice from crooked rain, not gold soundz.

Will do this later on today (maybe)...

slightly aggrieved i haven't got to know the extra material on the re-releases in time for this.

Done! Spent a while agonizing over the 22, less time on the order. Thx JF!

I think 'Robyn Turns 26' could be a dark horse in this poll. (lol i made a joke)

must our lists be ordered?

'Give It A Day' is such a good song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbQxGtqSnQk

I voted! Surprised by how many tracks I picked from Terror Twilight.

4 B Sides
1 Slanted (a second one only just missed the cut)
4 Crooked
3 Wowee Zowee
5 Brighten
5 Terror Twilight

Very strange - plus I voted for an overwhelming number of ballads.

wasn't my intention to put that many b-sides/etc on it. guess it's just easier to think of those as individual songs.

yeah i'm having that experience, too. s+e and wowee zowee are particularly hard for me to break up into individual tracks.

51 ballots, 116 different trax with votes. Approx 10.5 hours left to vote!

51 ballots has gotta be some sort of record for a non-eoy poll, right? The results are gonna be very interesting.

Decade polls usually have in the 70-90 range ballots-wise, but I definitely wasn't expecting this many for a single band poll.

that bieber song at the top of the thread is p good huh

Are you going to do them all over 1 or 2 days?

that bieber song at the top of the thread is p good huh

― lebroner (D-40), Sunday, June 12, 2011 1:35 PM (4 minutes ago)

my favorite bieb actually

xp over three days, M-W

Like tomorrow, Monday?

Yeah.

Snappy work!

more ballots than a hoy hoy's rap poll?

not sure I shoulda picked "Angel Carver Blues/Mellow Jazz Docent."

― thewufs

i am very sure that you shoulda picked "angel Carver Blues/Mellow Jazz Docent."

Just listened to slanted and enchanted walking home with the sun only just up - literally terror twilight - I think I'm converted. This is a really great collection of songs

― The Boy Who Can Go Inside The TV (dog latin), Saturday, June 11, 2011 9:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

^ RT

Well, I sent 22 tracks in a semi-random order and could probably have thought of another 22. In fact, I'm probably going to wake up at 4am with terrible regret for missing at least another 3 or 4. But, psyched for the results, etc...

first attempt at a ballot has 37 songs :/

Progress! Only 15 more to axe.

just sent mine in.

S&E - 7
CRCR - 5
WoZo - 2
BTC - 1

+

you're killing me
she believes
easily fooled
box elder
from now on
recorder grot

just missing out:

lions
shoot the singer
grounded
debris slide
baptiss blackstick
perfume - v
stop breathin
jackals, false grails
unseen power of the picket fence

sent! i switched out circa 1762 for kentucky cocktail at the last minute. also feel like a criminal for leaving off summer babe and loretta's scars.

this thread has done more for reviving my interest in listening to pavement than the reunion tour ever did.

i know, right? terror twilight isn't so bad, as it turns out.

just missing out:

lions
shoot the singer
grounded
debris slide
baptiss blackstick
perfume - v
stop breathin
jackals, false grails
unseen power of the picket fence

disqualified

I can't grasp how 'Grounded' wouldn't be in anyone's top 22 tbh o_O

lip balm on watery clay
relationships hey hey hey

Just 4+ hours left to vote.

one more that made it: forwards

two more that just missed: carrot rope & spit on a stranger

yeah, fine, those can go

"grounded" would have easily made it for me back in the day. It was one of my favorites live as well. It's just slipped a bit for me over time.

We're not talking about our picks yet are we?

You guys are worse than kids at Christmas!

yeah, save 'em!

54 ballots, 118 tracks have received votes.

I can't grasp how 'Grounded' wouldn't be in anyone's top 22 tbh o_O

Because I don't smoke marijuana anymore.

Fighting talk!

Haha, fair enough PP

Which, to be fair, the 22 I submitted would have been much different than the ones I would have wrote in 10-15 years ago.

And to that, I'm just as surprised as anyone that more Terror Twilight songs didn't show up in my ballot. If a 37-year-old father of two can't get into those party barge rock tunes, then I don't know who can.

too late to send off a ballot?

3 more hours.

Why do so many people prefer "And Then" to "The Hexx," anyway?

It's heavier, with a better vocal performance and the guitars are just huge.

Slanted 6
WZ 4
TT 4
CRCR 3
BTC 3
comp 1
watery 1

this thread has done more for reviving my interest in listening to pavement than the reunion tour ever did.

Really wishing this thread had happened first. I'm so primed for this band right now!

something about "The Hexx" thats a bit more blank and deady eyed which I prefer. Nice song but I didnt vote for it.

get in your last minute votes for "Circa 1762"

Or for "Shoot the Singer"

i voted for it

ONE HOUR LEFT TO VOTE

voted. thanks P!

Voting is closed!

did a guy named (Mr.) Jay Batman get a ballot in?

Yeah, the Hexx is pure vampire music.