Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Gardenia

[Ghoopty]

By the way, this song is bliss.

[LoughlinSydney]

If you're a musician it's always great to come back to Malkmus... Reminds me not to take myself too seriously.

[NoelleNabob]

Is he, or one of the Bashers the one who blew off his arm with the pipe bomb?

[ThePoorhillbilly]

hé s a brilliant muscian and lyricist. and doesn't sell out ever. piss off inde wankers

[Ghoopty]

@ThePoorhillbilly Actually, I saw a Sears commercial with one of the songs off his first album (Phantasies). It was very disheartening.

[ThePoorhillbilly]

@Ghoopty yeah well that album wasn't his best. I think his new album is pretty good

[ThePoorhillbilly]

@Ghoopty Sears is hardly mass consumerative like McDonalds though

[Ghoopty]

@ThePoorhillbilly Yeah, it's still selling out, no matter how you slice it. Then again, it seems every musician besides Neil Young is doing it these days. That's why I fucking love Neil. My favorite Malkmus album is possibly Pig Lib.

[ThePoorhillbilly]

@Ghoopty yeah fucking lou reed is doing stuff with metallica. but I the 90s pavement stuff was indie. you know.I don't if you could even last like that for that long. he's obviously being nice and they asked for his music. poor guy

[BenYouSuaveFuck]

this is one of the best albums of the decade, top to bottom. brilliantly coherent from top to bottom. one of the most powerful openings (dragonfly pie) all the way to the final sounds. a masterpiece. black sabbath, kinks, alman bros... this sits with anything they have done. truly remarkable lyrically and musically. yes.

[aegis666420]

jesus this dude sucks. how the fuck do this guy's bands make enough money to record? shocks me

[FungusMossGnosis]

@aegis666420

I'm rather shocked monkey's can type. The more people like you out there, the more I'll have to get used to this.

[aegis666420]

@FungusMossGnosis Well I'm glad you're deaf and can't actually hear this horrid tragedy. Trust me it's so bad i stuck a pencil in my ear and just kept pushing into my brain, and you know what? It didn't help so i stuck a pencil in my other ear. Now my fucking headphones won't fit, so I can no longer hear this waste of time and air pollution. Whatever it takes.

[shelbithefro]

@aegis666420

that explains a lot.

[MrSirSnoozealot]

Real Emotional Trash is a great CD @GlueyPorch but I have to disagree that it's his best material since Pavement--his 2001 release is almost perfectly Malkmus from start to finish, and Pig Lib starts strong, lulls, and then has a great finish with Craw Song. Face The Truth starts off on the wrong foot with tracks like Pencil Rot and I've Hardly Been but after that is fully redeeming.

Real Emotional Trash reminds me of Terror Twilight, when Pavement became a bit too powerpop for their own good.

[SubconsciousGatherer]

Who else could make a line like "they're operating at significant loss" work in a pop song? SM is genius.

[Petorian2012]

i like pig lib stuff, but man u can beat 'cold son', and real 'emotional trash'-the song i mean

[jlsndssntsl]

Great!!!!!

its remind me belle and sebastian...

[sexfreak77]

fuck indie people.

[CyberAlmey]

@sexfreak77 indie people fuck you ;)

[cheulpetteman]

why i didn't meet anybody in the reality who listen to him and pavement ?

[navarino94]

ja lanet is great im so in love with her,married me janet please i play music too

[mancdamtramtank]

what is this?

i have always quite liked Pavement, but Kyuss shit all over this.

[johnnyknoxville08]

haha this is a great song...but you should totally call it a (slow) slideshow not a video!

[bmxgoodall123]

Fucking Dickheads

[MultiGonsalo]

com certeza esse som vai ficar entre os melhores em q o stephen ja fez

[MultiGonsalo]

basta 15 segundos para descobrir um som very good

[madmaninblack]

I think Steve kinda looks like Kyle Maclachlan...circa twin peaks

[James1803]

I cant find one percent of one :(

[Comingtoyaaahaaa]

the song ramdom rules, of the album american water by the silver jews is malkmus best song, even from when he was pavement... if you like his music, get that song...

[Savedleech]

I completely agree.

[Skullrik]

I love Janet Weiss, from her SleaterKinney days. She makes this band, yes?

[darkdante23]

I love Malkmus

[RacerEckss]

I want that SHIRT!!! Where in the hell can I score one of those!!

[narutothedobe]

i got into pavement after they broke so im glad i still have stephen's tallent

[pavement27]

Me too...I was like 12 when they broke up....So I was kinda screwed...haha

[My6thAccount]

Haha same deal... Just got crooked rain, crooked rain.. . the two disc one... god i love it!

[pavement27]

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain is my absolute favorite album of theirs...I've still yet to get the two disc version of it though sadly...I have 2 disc version of almost all the other though...So freaking worth it...Especially Slanted And Enchanted's double disc...

[My6thAccount]

Dude check out the songs Same Way of Saying and the Sutcliffe Catering song... They're on the second CR disc, two of my favourites... I need to get the slanted and enchanted one

[jonbeme]

i saw them play at the siren music festival and they definitely were the best in show. though, beach house comes in at a pretty close number two.

[mattypark]

This reminds me of So It Goes by Nick Lowe.

[pigeonfeatures]

i wouldnt judge him on this song.the cribs are a joke.. compared to malkmus. some of his other stuff is quality

[biscant]

There's going to be a video for this with The Cribs in it! :D

[rotator]

I was a HUGE HUGE Pavement fan..Kinda gave up on Malkmus when he started his solo career ---was kinda made he killed Pavement (and put out a pretty sub par swan song LP) but I gotta say --been checkin out his solo video stuff, and Im likin what Im hearin...maybe time for a second look at Mr M.s second career....

[jonbeme]

i too am a huge paement fan, and while this isn't as good as pavement, it is a really really good album. i think you won't be disappointed.

[GlueyPorch]

Cool stuff, Real Emotional Trash are his best songs since Pavement.

[snuegliffer]

I had no idea this was even out. I don't know how I found it.

[AKALucifer]

Stephen really need to make some proper music videos.

[TallFastLoud]

Such a great pop song.

[McGuinty1]

Where else are you going to hear a song whose chorus goes:

You are a gardenia,

Pressed in the campaign journal in

The rucksack of an Afrikaaner

Good video, liked the more recent photos with Janet Weiss. Now he's got a drummer that can stomp it out with the best of them, here's hoping she sticks around for at least another album

[mogsa6873]

I LOVE this song. SM is soo lovely.

[FirstCraptistChurch]

Nice curb appeal.

[coldbrains1]

nice little tribute to the greatest musician of all time

[nightfall91]

He is a really awesome musician. First time hearing his solo stuff after becoming a big Pavement fan, glad he hasn't lost the unique sound.

[chrisocony]

i love this song, too; the Jicks are great, I think Malkmus benefits a lot from them (and vice versa obviously)

[kanyonx]

I mean, "Great shots of Janet in there. Richard Avedon... Richard Avedon would surely approve."

[kanyonx]

Great shots of Janet in there

[walker1921]

i absolutely love this song.