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Uber Ritter:
The Thread wherein we clueless masses ask for the musical cognoscendi to explain what makes a famous/legendary* band that we haven't gotten into so amazing.

Maybe someone has already done this, but I feel like it would be hard to search for.

I'll start.  What's the deal with Pavement?  I listened to Terror Twilight and liked it, but it didn't seem, I dunno, amazing to me, and I don't remember being partiularly impressed by Slanted and Enchanted or their other stuff.


*groundbreaking/noteworthy/epochal/whatever...any band that people shit themselves over, basically

De_El:
What's the deal with the Beatles?

Nodaisho:
De_El, that is a very easy to answer one. Their music is very cheerful, with exceptions, of course, but even their song about a murderer is cheerful, and the cheerful sound transfers senseless happiness to the listener.

Johnny C:
So this is a band to try and help people "get it"?

Hrm, I dunno how well this will work.

Pavement's deal were that they played catchy pop songs with a lo-fi "slacker" aesthetic that said, "We don't care about the music industry." Coupled with genuine instrumental talent, you essentially had a band writing good songs and albums with little or no regard for mainstream success in a time when alternative music was becoming big on MTV. Pavement stood out as the antithesis of that, along with bands like Guided By Voices. If you listen to the mix there's generally a lot going on behind it but it's buried within squalls of feedback.

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain is actually probably my favourite Pavement album, partially because they got a drummer who could keep decent time.

KvP:
So what's the deal with Slint?

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