Pavement - Summer Babe (Winter Version)

[FoldingTeaLeaves]

I was called a "hipster" for simply having this album in my vehicle.

That term didn't exist in 1992 when this album was produced.

People are so quick to judge and label things unfamiliar to them.

[edwolf1127n]

I want this video on my VK500 phone.

[TheAbielBeluts]

"I'll be waiting forever, I'M WAITING WAITING WAITING WAITING WAITING WAITING WAITING WAITING!"

[MatthewTv1000]

This album is unmatched, unparalleled and a true masterpiece.

[hollabackitsobi]

THERE'S A BRIMFUL OF ASHA ON THE...oh, wait.

[160ofthe90s]

@hollabackitsobi Haha they're pretty similar. Brimful of Asha is a good song but this song is way better.

[chrissozombie222]

these things seem important when you're young. when i was young i got pissed off that radio wasn't playing clash and elvis costello but now i see that it doesn't matter and one day you will laugh at radiohead v pavement comments

[aphexaic3213]

two moronic comments: one being that "radiohead sounds like pavement"

two: that radiohead sucks

they're completely different bands. radiohead is legendary and yes, they get a hell of a lot more recognition. and you know what? deservedly so. they successfully reinvent themselves in every album.

pavement is a great band too

no need to hate... isn't pavement a fun band?

[gunsnroses0000]

@aphexaic3213 uh bro, it's called opinions. radiohead isn't everyone's cup of tea, if someone thinks they suck so be it

[ThisMortalCoil64]

@aphexaic3213 Massive agreement.

[coulddone]

I want to sell but not here babe tokyooooo

[Apanzon]

One of the greatest songs from the 90s.

[eminemdisstopia]

These guys are nothing like radiohead, radiohead sucks

[eminemdisstopia]

I love how Malkmus is making fun of Vanilla Ice's big hit in the first line of this song. classic

[velvetjosef]

I just searched and listened to the bands that have been mentioned in the top comment. Bands that I'm not aware of and even though they're all from the 90' - that's where the similarties end. Pavement sounds years ahead of their time, years ahead of any band mentioned in the top comment. I'd go as far as saying they're as good as Nirvana, they just never got what deserved. Point is Pavement are much more than the run of the mill 90's band. They're gold.

[jackwearing]

@velvetjosef Pavement are far better than Nirvana... As are most of the bands referenced in the top comment...

[mohammad5]

@velvetjosef you're gold.

[KyuubiKris]

I'm sorry but... THIS BAND IS NOTHING LIKE RADIOHEAD!!!!! They're awesome yeah like Radiohead but they're totally different!

[remindmetobreathe]

@KyuubiKris so they are something like radiohead...

[KyuubiKris]

@remindmetobreathe Fair comment

[MrMeyer900]

@KyuubiKris Who said Pavement sounded like Radiohead?

[guardianlink12345]

this was a band that started the popularization of lo-fi. huge innovators.

and don't dare try to tell me that they are part of the alternative boom because they only had ONE song with any substantial radio play. they really were an INDIE alternative band, albeit a popular one. they aren't part of any boom, so shut your goddamn pretentious mouths or unwrap them from whatever phallic object you can't seem to pull out.

[coooliox27]

I'm sorry, I just don't really understand why this album is so acclaimed by everyone with ears. It's a good album, no doubt, a nice mixture of lo-fi, grungy instrumentation with pop melodies and oddball lyrics, but it sounds like what a lot of early to mid 90's alt rock sounded like. What was so special about this album? Maybe I had to be there at the time; it did come out before I was born. Can somebody explain this to me?

[Nimno74]

@coooliox27 Maybe you did have to be there. This and many other fine bands emerged from a time when the term alternative wasn't the name of a genre, and this music was a far more drastic contrast to what they were supposed to be an alternative to. This album in particular has found a special place in the memory of those alive during that era simply due to it's purity. Just enough production to not sound like shit, but not one iota more.

[monaurallab]

一般的な音楽的にはこれ最悪だと思うんだけど、

良いようんない魅力があるよなぁ。

Maybe, this sound is bad

But I love this song

[sassajen]

fucking great.

[1Lozzix1]

I love the way he laughs and says "drop off" at 2:06

[paganmonkeyboy]

one of the best bands ever...

i've got a lotta things i want to sell...

[Countzir0interrupt]

reminds me of old school swirlies. Love THE SWIRLIES!!! Pancake.

[mezarashii]

these guys were the breast milk of radiohead's teat.

[mnhoops]

@crohns4life i'll listen to more shins, sorta wrote them off as old school wanna bes but that's unfair without a naked listen. love pinkerton, and understand the comments others made on loveless but it's still top 5 to me. neutral milk hotel is far and away the first, should start numbering at 6 after NMH.

If ya'll haven't checked out "Portugal. The Man.,' give 'er a listen, start with Censored Colors & let me know what you think!

[LouisBidmead]

Pitchfork says drop Sublime and take Pinkerton and you're golden.

[shit311]

2:18 tokyooooooooooooooooooooooooo (misheard)

[livershot]

Is it even possible to have true Malkmosity these days?

[nsr4interpol]

lol can't stop playing this!

[evlgenius09]

Pulling into the lollapalooza '95 with this song playing in the car in MA.  Hey, just thanks.

[tinalovely26]

@killratwings, yes you are the only person that thinks this band is boring.

Try the song Cut your Hair or Box Elder those should make you stay awake.

[alvicious]

why is every windows movie maker video of a song have the same old timey film grain effect and a still photo?

[Killratwings]

Am i the only one who thinks this is one of the most boring bands EVER? I've given it an honest listen and the singer makes me want to fall asleep.

[gmx1100]

@Killratwings Are you kidding! Pavement's music is exciting! Well, to each his own. 

[ChristForte]

These guys are like lo fi 90's Sonic Youth :D love em!!!!!

[goipauset]

@ChristForte theyre early stuff was inspired by sonic youth, but sonic youths later stuff was inspired by pavements haha

[MforMarley]

definitely in my top 20 albums of my life (so far)

[bluenoserr]

3 people don't like summer OR winter.

[Dltn97]

@bluenoserr Winter > Summer

[Unremarkable1000]

@bluenoserr har har har!

[ratmankey]

2:00-2:30: one of the most perfect moments in pop music history

[Brambleiah]

I never really liked Pavement that much, but this song is rad.

[kurt23407]

@Brambleiah really?!?!, fair enough... try other songs like frontwards, spit on a stranger, and elevate me later

[fantasmadelalibertad]

best song ever

[SOADownsnubs]

wow listening to this band for the first time is incredible, why did i wait so long....

[luyendao]

i can't help but listen to this song over and over again...

[TheKINGFARTY]

bass very similar to "brimful of asha"....just saying

[johnmkowens]

@TheKINGFARTY yeah fuck you farty get a fucking music education u stupid shit

[TheKINGFARTY]

@johnmkowens ouch....

[platinumluigi]

Was this band actually popular in the 90s? Sorry, I'm only 18 so I was too young to pay attention to musicians at the time.

[luyendao]

@platinumluigi They didn't get much mainstream (radio) air play, but when around the time pavement was big in the indie scene, I was around 18-19, and they got a lot of airplay on indie stations, college radio and that sort of thing.

So yeah i'd say they were popular, just depends who you asked ;-)

[mnhoops]

@platinumluigi your reading list might not include much that gets radio play, outside of nirvana, early weezer and most of jack white's stuff...but here you go:

1. Neutral Milk Hotel: In An Aeroplane Over the Sea

2. Pavement: Slanted & Enchanted

3. Radiohead: OK Computer

4. My Bloody Valentine: Loveless

5. Sublime: Assorted Live

[pushover1]

@mnhoops delete sublime, and you've got a great list

[adartmo]

@mnhoops i'll never understand why people are so into loveless.. honestly my least favorite MBV album due to lack of drums.. compare the drumming in most of the EPs or isn't anything to loveless. renders loveless relatively unlistenable to me. PAVEMENT's the BEST seeing them tuesday in Austin!!! twice in one year!!

[Underchiever007]

@adartmo Because Loveless isn't about drums at all. It's about the guitars. In fact, even if you completely remove the drum tracks from that album it'd still be just as listenable.

[adartmo]

@Underchiever007 i guess that's the basis of my distaste for it.. it's so much more tame than their other material

[warrar1]

@mnhoops

Sublime doesn't belong with the rest....

[foshooooooo]

@warrar1

It does in my opinion. I love every band on that list.

[crohns4life]

@mnhoops Drop Sublime and put in The Shins: Wincing the night away and your list will be complete

[zbwald]

such a great song...im not really into indie rock as much as i was when i was younger but regardless this song is amazing

[getthepoooffmybum]

Soooooo lo-fi haha awesome

[saeptus]

Underground--or "indie rock" as it was called in those days--was blooming in the 90s. Bands like Brian Jonestown Massacre, Hum (perhaps the most underrated ever), Pavement, Slint (noisier and weirder than all), Flaming Lips, Guided By Voices. Check out the 90s UK shoegaze/dreampop or britpop bands like MBV, Ride, Slowdive (a personal fav), Swervedriver (any Creation bands, really), Pulp. Others: The Wedding Present, Nada Surf, Super Furry Animals, Spacemen 3/Spiritualized, Low, Sparklehorse.

[Bagmen3]

@saeptus My Bloody Valentine is the shit, dude. I listen to their EP "You Made Me Realize" pretty much everyday.

[Underchiever007]

@Bagmen3 I can't find the MBV EPs anywhere!

[deSadetheImpaler]

@Underchiever007 My Bloody Valentine?!? =] i found most of my rarities on amazon.strawberry wine was like 30$ but its impossible to find in that condition so well worth it

[Underchiever007]

@deSadetheImpaler Really? I'll try looking!

[sublime8992]

@saeptus Hum = top notch

[popou]

one person dislikes?... fuck 'em

[MetroidFan621]

No dislikes.......AWESOME!!!!

[MetroidFan621]

WHAT?! Indie that actually rocks?!! It actually existed?!  Wow! I guess the 90s were just that awesome.

[Dltn97]

im the only 12 year old listening to real muSIC

[AiC2193]

Only good thing I tunes did for me was show me this band, on the LISTENERS WHO BOUGHT THIS ALSO BOUGHT: Pavement. Thanks I tunes i will listen to the full song on here for free.

[oreomuncher1]

yeah im 20 and felt that for the past years man. but music like pavement is still shaking up the underground universities. in most towns. or it is so in england!

[littlemermayd99]

omg i totally get you! im 17 too and every time people ask me what music i like i say 90s grunge and they just look at me funny!!

[jgood911]

@littlemermayd99 I'm in the same boat. If I play this in my car with friends they look at me like I'm crazy.

[Nuckatron]

Living between Baltimore and D.C., and being 17... shit sucks. Pavement is older than me, and the explosion of awesome music that happened in the 90's just isn't appreciated by my generation. I feel sooo alooooooooone

[chillidogdupree]

Gary Young

[fonzarelli]

My personal favorite band. There shouldn't be so much fighting here, guys. Pavement are a happy band, not a band of conflict and anger. Everybody here should just discuss how rad Pavement is, and stop being assholes.

[phunkyphuck]

@fonzarelli finally someone said it

[arb11player]

this is best

[ihave2]

pixies, pavement and radiohead are all different fish, but all great in there own respects...not a opinion, a fact

[maungarakei]

I love the drumming

[cgmandros]

I used to go to parties at Mark Ibold's house in Lancaster when we were in our teens!

[rebuhsukram]

F******ing shit! They are on tour again! I gotta see them in Vienna, May 21st.

[Bagmen3]

Gotta dig that basslinnneee.

[ironboardking]

Can't explain why but this is one of my favorite song intros ever!

[TheANDY1911]

Its because your a bitch and everyone else who agreed with you is also a bitch.

[deSadetheImpaler]

all these years later,still so fresh..amazing,pure bliss

[MrPDey]

except that this came out two years before radiohead had released an album!

[deadphish09]

@MrPDey

I agree, what that guy said about radiohead was stupid, but pablo honey was actually released in early 1993, and recorded the same year slanted and enchanted was released

[MrPDey]

@deadphish09

i don't see how that makes any difference - unless pavement got their paws on an advance copy just after it was recorded then it still can't be a rip off

[deadphish09]

@MrPDey

no I totally understand what your saying. I wasn't at all implying that they ripped off radiohead, that wouldn't make sense at all. I was really just being nitpicky about your previous comment, when you said it was released 2 years before radiohead released an album. Sorry about being nitpicky, just wanted to correct what you said.

[MrPDey]

ok ok it was released one year before and not two, i stand corrected :-)

[shaqpopcorn34]

@deadphish09 ....if he insulted radiohead then he was right....radiohead is one of the worst bands in the history of the world.....their style is to sing in a constantly sing in a whiny voice or a falsetto voice.....they try to be like the pixies with their lyrics....but radiohead isnt remotely close to the pixies....thom yorke has said so himself

[deadphish09]

@shaqpopcorn34

interesting opinion, but of course it is just that, an opinion.

I completely disagree with you by the way... I find the pixies to be boring compared to radiohead (I like both bands though), and that is also an opinion.

[shaqpopcorn34]

@deadphish09 ....its not an opinion that radiohead is one of the worst bands in history...its a fact....

when your entire style is to sing in a whiny or high-pitched voice,there is a problem....radiohead sucks,accept it....they absolutely suck....just utter garbage

[deadphish09]

@shaqpopcorn34

LOL, okay, nice try Mr. Troll... A valiant effort, but it isn't going to work...

"radiohead is one of the worst bands in history." ..... Yea, thats not an opinion at all, you go ahead and keep thinking that. I'm going to move on with my life now :)

[shaqpopcorn34]

@deadphish09 ...u like the band genesis,so that says it all

[deadphish09]

@shaqpopcorn34

my youtube profile clearly says I like "early Genesis"

Nothing wrong with Peter Gabriel era genesis

[grungesoundsgood]

he kind of has a point. genesis suck ass. but hey, someone has to buy their records right?

[deadphish09]

@grungesoundsgood no, not really. I haven't bought a single one.

[grungesoundsgood]

yeah yeah, i believe you! honestly....

[americathesn]

@grungesoundsgood Great, just what we need.

More useless opinions from "grunge" fans who are too dumb to appreciate albums like Selling England by the Pound and Nursery Cryme.

[grungesoundsgood]

you = gimp

[MetroidFan621]

@americathesn Ouch, as a grunge fan myself, I I'm slightly insulted by that generalisation. I love prog and art rock; and Selling England By the Pound is one of the greats of both. That doesn't mean I don't think Ten is still a great album.

[KyuubiKris]

@MrPDey 1 year!

[Marz2605]

"Every time, I sit around, I find I'm shot"...man i can relate to that line so well. here's to summer babe.

[wcibbt]

love that high hat part "tis, tis, tis".

[darkdante23]

'tis, tis, tis'

[movieman2007]

on small videos like this, you ever wonder who the 6000 other people who've been kickass enough to look up this song are? i just did...

[Teasaveslives]

your right! still, it makes 7000 look like a pretty small number in comparison...

[jfrankparnell]

Fortunately, it's over 9,000 now!

[9eyeh8chu9]

@movieman2007

the people who were buying the albums when they were still current. nostalgia man.

[160ofthe90s]

@movieman2007 Hell yeah. This song freaking rocks. Everybody in the world should hear Pavement in their lifetime

[kurt23407]

@movieman2007 LOL its up to 50,000 now hehe, but i know what u mean, as if no one else knows of them... but this band has gotten alot of fame and fans recently

[deSadetheImpaler]

@movieman2007 ME = kickass ^.^

[clammy000]

@movieman2007

if you honestly think that this is a "small video" and that pavement isn't immensely well-liked (particular by the gaggle of brooklyn hipsters out there) then you're quite naive.

[crassisdead]

@clammy000 That comment was made a year ago, back when the video had ONLY 6000 VIEWS.

[Jn64lover]

Why are people talking about Miley Cyrus on a Pavement song? That's just plain wrong.

[tonyjoetrejo]

I love this song!

[boiswatching]

Tokyooooooooooooo

[harryupscrabble]

okay i just found out that pavement's name could have come from bob dylan's subterranean homesick blues song. in that case.... pavement totally rocks.

[Teasaveslives]

amen to that

[mistermusicpsycho26]

What a song. Not just one of Pavement's best, but one of the best of the damn decade if you ask me.

[harryupscrabble]

okay what's the best damn song of the decade? what kind of name is pavement. maybe that's why they aren't as big as miley cyrus. sucky band name, you have to admit.

[PERSONIFICATIONOFYAY]

Miley cryrus wasn't even born when this song was made.

[harryupscrabble]

yes miley cyrus is probably 2 times younger than stephen malkmus and what's the name of the guitarist and the rest of pavement? but miley cyrus is more than twice (maybe 20 times even) as successful as pavement in terms of people buying her music. her fans are too young to know that she sucks but i bet that they will grow up and say "dayum i had really bad taste in music back then".

[maitlanr]

@harryupscrabble shut up

[ejb72]

it's there best album in my opinion. I didn't like them so much afterwards. Such potential but then the map to the stars arrived. Se la Vi.

[saxerlr]

"c'est la vie "  is how it is spelled

[Laubotje]

exactly what i was thinking

[ejb72]

Non in l'itailano.

[hughbartlett1]

pavement are great! this might be their best song. might be

[freakboy75]

genius...

[TheGodfatherr689]

Great song.