PAVEMENT – SHADY LANE
(DOMINO)
Riding a fine line
between the country rock of “Range
Life” and the laidback summer gestures of Wowee
Zowee, “Shady Lane
“We went Dutch Dutch
Dutch”.
While not being the
most dynamic and exuberant of Pavement songs it does house some of my favourite
Malkmus lines in: “you’re so beautiful to look at when you cry” and “you’ve
been chosen as an extra in the movie adaptation of the sequence to your
life”. The latter line is quite the
tongue twister for him to deliver while maintaining quite the flow.
I know exactly what is
meant by saying there is beauty in crying.
Many years ago when I dated Bella,
the first true loved of my life, I actually told her “I like it when you cry”. Eleven years later a boss would give me the
advice “never trust the tears of a woman” but in the meantime I would like to
interpret/decode it as being a moment when she genuinely cared.
The seven inch was the
version of the record to purchase because it came with “Unseen Power Of The
Picket Fence” on the other side and their tribute/ode to REM, which originally/previously appeared on the No
Alternative compilation that secretly housed a Nirvana track. It’s a majestic fawn.
A casual stroll.
Thesaurus moment:
perambulation.
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