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"Shady Lane" is a song by American indie rock band Pavement that appears on the album Brighten the Corners. It was also released as a two-part single and as an EP, which collects the B-sides from both the British singles. The single was accompanied by a video directed by Spike Jonze. [4] "Shady Lane" would become a top 40 hit in the UK for the ...
The album contained two of the band's best known singles in "Stereo" and "Shady Lane". It was the only Pavement album to include a lyric sheet except Slanted and Enchanted and sold better than its predecessors. Despite increased success, the band continued to fragment, with its members focusing more on other musical projects or on raising families.
Pavement was formed in 1989 by Stephen Malkmus (guitars, vocals) and Scott Kannberg (guitars), although Malkmus stated that at this stage they "weren't a real band". [1] Pavement's debut, the 1989 EP Slay Tracks: 1933–1969, was recorded in a day with drummer and producer Gary Young [2] and released on Kannberg's self-owned label Treble Kicker ...
Brighten the Corners received very positive reviews from critics and was ranked No. 10 in The Village Voice ' s 1997 Pazz & Jop critics' poll. [16] In the poll's accompanying essay, Robert Christgau referred to the album as one of his "favorite albums of the year, easy", alongside those by Yo La Tengo, Sleater-Kinney, and Arto Lindsay.
Pavement set off on their first tour in 1990 and sullenly staggered to an infamous final show in London in 1999. In the years in between, Stockton, Ca., native Stephen Malkmus led one of the 1990s ...
Brighten the Corners: Nicene Creedence Edition is a compilation album by Pavement released on December 9, 2008. It contains the band's 1997 album, Brighten the Corners, in its entirety, as well as outtakes and other rarities from that era, some of which had previously been unreleased.
"Stereo" is a single by the band Pavement, taken from the album Brighten the Corners. It was released by Domino Records in 1997. The catalogue number for the single is RUG-051. It contains two B-sides: "Westie Can Drum" and "Winner of The." It was released at the same time as the 7" version of the single, which contains a different B-side.
On January 5, 2010, Matador Records announced that a greatest hits compilation titled Quarantine The Past: The Best Of Pavement would be released on March 9 on CD and double LP. The compilation would contain 23 tracks from Pavement's entire career, including “the scratchy and mysterious sounds of their early vinyl-only releases to the rich ...