Pavement Range Life Lyrics

Pavement are an American indie rock band that formed in Stockton, California in 1989. For most of the period to 1999, the band consisted of Stephen Malkmus (vocals, guitar), Scott "Spiral Stairs" Kannberg (guitar, vocals), Mark Ibold (bass), Steve West (drums) and Bob Nastanovich (percussion, vocals). During that period, and since, they have frequently been described as one of the most influential bands to emerge from the American underground of the '90s. While their split in 1999 was reportedly rather acrimonious, they undertook a well-received reunion tour during 2010.

Pavement formed in Stockton, California, in 1989 as a studio project of guitarists and vocalists Stephen Malkmus and Scott Kannberg, known originally only as "S.M." and "Spiral Stairs", respectively. Their debut EPs were extremely lo-fi releases titled Slay Tracks (1933-1969), Demolition Plot J-7, and Perfect Sound Forever. They were recorded at Louder Than You Think, the home studio of infamous Stockton local and former hippie Gary Young. The eccentric and aging hipster also provided drums. Upon first hearing the duo's songs, Young was quoted as saying, "this Malkmus idiot is a complete songwriting genius".

Pavement's most obvious influence during this time was English rock band The Fall, although Kannberg stated in a 1992 interview that he preferred The Replacements to The Fall. The Fall's primary member, Mark E. Smith, would often angrily claim through the years that Pavement was a "rip-off" of his band and that they didn't "have an original idea in their heads". However, some of the other members of The Fall actually enjoyed Pavement.

album: "Slanted And Enchanted" (1992)
Summer Babe (Winter Version)
Trigger Cut / Wounded-Kite At :17
No Life Singed Her
In The Mouth A Desert
Conduit For Sale!
Zurich Is Stained
Chesley's Little Wrists
Loretta's Scars
Here
Two States
Perfume-V
Fame Throwa
Jackals, False Grails: The Lonesome Era
Our Singer
EP: "Watery, Domestic" (1992)
Texas Never Whispers
Frontwards
Lions (Linden)
Shoot The Singer
compilation: "Westing (By Musket And Sextant)" (1993)
You're Killing Me
Box Elder
Maybe Maybe
She Believes
Price Yeah!
Forklift
Spizzle Trunk
Perfect Depth
Recorder Grot (Rally)
From Now On
Angel Carver Blues / Mellow Jazz Docent
Debris Slide
Home
Summer Babe
Mercy Snack: The Laundromat
Baptist Blacktick
My First Mine
My Radio
album: "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain" (1994)
Silence Kit
Elevate Me Later
Stop Breathin
Cut Your Hair
Newark Wilder
Unfair
Gold Soundz
5-4=Unity
Range Life
Heaven Is A Truck
Hit The Plane Down
Fillmore Jive
EP: "Rattled By La Rush" (1995)
Rattled By The Rush
Brink Of The Clouds
False Skorpion
Easily Fooled
album: "Wowee Zowee" (1995)
We Dance
Rattled By The Rush
Black Out
Brinx Job
Grounded
Serpentine Pad
Motion Suggests
Father To A Sister Of Thought
Extradition
Best Friend's Arm
Grave Architecture
At & T
Flux = Rad
Fight This Generation
Kennel District
Pueblo
Half A Canyon
Western Homes
album: "Brighten The Corners" (1997)
Stereo
Shady Lane
Transport Is Arranged
Date With Ikea
Old To Begin (Silent Father)
Type Slowly
Embassy Row
Blue Hawaiian
We Are Underused
Passat Dream
Starlings Of The Slipstream
Fin
No Tan Lines
EP: "Shady Lane" (1997)
Slowly Typed
Cherry Area
No Tan Lines
album: "Terror Twilight" (1999)
Spit On A Stranger
Folk Jam
You Are A Light
Cream Of Gold
Major Leagues
Platform Blues
Ann Don't Cry
Billie
Speak, See, Remember
The Hexx
...And Carrot Rope
album: "Spit On A Stranger" (1999)
Spit On A Stranger
Harness Your Hopes
Roll With The Wind
Porpoise And The Hand Grenade
Rooftop Gambler
EP: "Major Leagues" (1999)
Major Leagues
Your Time To Change
Stub Your Toe
The Killing Moon
The Classical
other songs:
Birds In The Majic Industry
Black Walls
Far From You
Feed Them To The Lions (Linden)
Game Of Pricks
Greenlander
He Reigns (The Medley)
Infinite Spark
Kentucky Cocktail
Love Is Lies
So Stark (You're A Skyscraper)