Best Line in "We Dance"

Pick out some brazilian nuts for your engagement

but see it's made better by the line that follows so idk

yeah i almost wanted to make those three lines one option. i cheated with check that expiration date as it is.

This song is the poem David Berman writes only occasionally.

ok if i'm going to show some restraint about trolling the pavement poll thread i'm definitely gonna have troll this one ok?

tbf i have totally lost my mind due to the pavement poll thread so i am basically asking for it

either "You can't enjoy yourself" or "'Cos I don't have a clue anymore"

Aww horseshoe, you followed through! <3

Torn between

But I won't be there to leave you ah-ah-ah

and

Maybe we could dance, maybe we could dance, maybe we could dance together

[ /firstworldproblems ]

in this zany town otm

chim chim chim

fuck this song makes me fuckin emotional. it's the only song ive ever known how to play on guitar, strangely enough!

chim chim chim

i guess "'Cause I don't have a a clue anymore" seems like the thesis line for me, so ill go with that one. but let me qualify by saying that this is one of my five favorite pavement songs, and that every lyric is supportive of its status thus.

i remember reading a live review of a gig where he sang "check the expiration, DAMON!"....around the time of Blur´s self titled album

did pavement ever really think about blur that much

or does DATEMAN just sound like DAMON

sounds like the reviewer thinks about blur tbh

didnt they hang out for a while?

in a chair you will be with me

check that extra jason bateman

did pavement ever really think about blur that much

― 69, Tuesday, June 14, 2011 4:47 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

if he sang about kula shaker...

did pavement ever really think about blur that much

― 69, Tuesday, June 14, 2011 8:47 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

yes

http://www.vblurpage.com/news/2001/0412.htm

cool

Isn't "In a chair" logically part of "There is no castration fear"? I always took it that way - despite the suspenseful pause in between the two lines. "There is no castration fear... in a chair." ie., mocking those afraid to dance - it's safer to stay in a chair, but we'll dance anyway.

http://www.evrimicoz.com/Blog/chinese-garden-embassy-suites-wedding_32.jpg

hahaha

Isn't "In a chair" logically part of "There is no castration fear"? I always took it that way - despite the suspenseful pause in between the two lines. "There is no castration fear... in a chair." ie., mocking those afraid to dance - it's safer to stay in a chair, but we'll dance anyway.

― o. nate, Tuesday, June 14, 2011 5:03 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i have never heard it this way! i've always heard it as "there is no castration fear" full stop, which is a lovely sentiment with which to begin a song, and then, he and the girl are sitting in a chair together. i guess i am kind of literal-minded.

omg maybe i have been all wrong

Like most Pavement lyrics, it probably could support multiple interpretations.

"Ahhh-ah-ah" ftw imo

The demo says:

"In a race
You will be with me"

A review at the time said this sounded like Suede. I don't hear it...?

lol what

seems more like Palace/Oldham to me

(altho I've always thought Pavement's REAL Oldham homage was that "Saginaw" song)

Sounds like a Bowie ca. Hunky Dory song I can't place, or maybe Ray Davies imho. lol @ Suede.

yeah it sounds like Bowie to me

some reviewer said it was very kinks at the time

hmmm good pt - "chim chim chim" is totally something Bowie would put in a lyric

xp

Some reviewer at the time said this sounded like Pavement.

it sure does

I don't consider myself a racist, but I can't hear the words "Brazilian nuts" without another phrase popping into mind. Not just Pavement, but everywhere.

"brazil nuts"?

"brazilian wax"?

"Bertholletia Excelsa"?

"you can new jack swing on my"

oh well might as post this here too. maybe the best version:

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

should've polled the version from the guitar tab i just found:

Chim-chim-chim sings some praise
For your elders
They're in the bag.

hey whatever works

Malkmus and Albarn kinda shared Justine Frischmann for a while iirc

I didn't look at the Pavement poll results until just now so when I saw this had its own poll I thought it must be done and this was #1

this pleased me because if I'd voted I would have voted for it

in retrospect it seems kind of improbable but you guys have tricks up your sleeve iirc so

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Malkmus and Albarn kinda shared Justine Frischmann for a while iirc

― in a fog of subpar wings (rip van wanko)

iirc? If rubbish NME rumours are correct? - irnmerac

btw - HOT!

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Reading the poll result in order and hearing those lines sung by Malkmus in my head makes for a very odd mash-up or remix of the song.

Glad to not be alone on the dance-floor in this poll. Maybe we can dance?

the marvelous thing about this song is that Malkmus could have sung these verses in THIS order and still made it work.