Pavement - Range Life

From Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain's album

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Music

Tags:

• Pavement
• Range
• Life
• Stephen
• Malkmus

[LP4ever13]

Is it the indie rock anthem or it's just me?

[JasonVS2011]

Does the fruit eating, hair stroaking, dominatrix shenanigans of mark Ibold and Stephen Malkmus make anyone else feel like giving gay a go??. Or is it just me??

[LionsLinden]

It's like coming home ...

[Hefenstahg]

@Margatroid is that an insult to this song or cakes?

[ChildFlowwwer]

"If I could settle down, then I would settle down.."

[TheEnchantingWizard1]

@Margatroid I think you've got that reversed, bud.

[Margatroid]

This song is like Cake's "Rock and Roll Lifestyle" if it were more boring and gay.

[MrSKINFLICK]

@EctInc:

I watched it in the 90s first (120 minutes, English MTV, which was aired in Germany)+at that time the bleep was also already on the video track ! Who knows, i only thought so, because Pavement have such a bizarre humor anyway. But MTV back then wasn´t so prude about fucks, they often featured a comedian named Dennis Leary with "anarchic" clips of several minutes, deriding pathetic rock+rap musicians with sharp satire & his noisy band + his videos had enough four letter words...

[EctInc]

@MrSKINFLICK That's a very interesting point. I agree, there's a lot of hypocritical puritans on this side of the pond (granted, at least in my area we get a lot of fucks on the radio. depends on the station, obviously). But I think that might not be the reason, because the bleep wasn't on the album.

[MrSKINFLICK]

@EctInc:But we´re quite aware in Europe,that certain Americans like to use"fuck"etc.with lots of pleasure,as long as there is no media man with a microphone in sight.Now this is a very hypocritical attitude,that the word is used in everyday life, but they don´t want to hear it on TV/radio so that the oh so sensible youngsters(who can hear it often from adults in everyday life)don´t get"seduced"to use it.

Of course the word is also very rarely used on European TV,but it is not prohibited.

[MrSKINFLICK]

@EctInc:I wrote i guess it,not that i´m convinced.But parodies of censorship have a long tradition in rock´n´roll.There is a version of"All Over Your Face"by gay rapper Cazwell here on YT which is"censored"+one which is not censored.Either he did it for strategy reason or he wanted to mock about U.S.censorship.Most Europeans+other parts of the world laugh about Anglo-Saxon four letter words on TV/radio(+the prude reactions to them),we don´t have them+hope they will never be introduced.