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The Dream Pavement Set List!
SPIN editors select the songs we hope to hear when the indie legends reunite for live gigs next year.
By David Marchese 09.17.09 9:42 AM
Pavement
This is just really great news. Nearly a full decade after the band's last show, it's been announced that indie-rock icons Pavement will be reuniting for a world tour in 2010, with their first "announced" gig going down in New York City September, 21, 2010.
MORE PAVEMENT ON SPIN.COM:
>> Pavement 'Reunite' as Wedding Band
>> Stephen Malkmus on Pavement's "Funky" Tune
>> Pavement on Reunion: "If the Price is Right"
Given that this news was, you know, just made official, we're probably already past due for some speculative wishful thinking. Below, SPIN's editors have compiled a list of the songs we hope Stephen Malkmus and Co. see fit to play when they next take the stage.
Agree? Disagree? Post your thoughts and your own set lists in the comments section.
SPIN's Dream Pavement Set List:
"Summer Babe"
"AT&T"
"Fame Throwa"
"Loretta's Scars"
"Spit on a Stranger"
"Rattled By the Rush"
"Black Out"
"In the Mouth a Desert"
"Range Life"
"Unseen Power of the Picket Fence"
"So Stark (You're a Skyscraper)"
"Box Elder"
"Shoot the Singer"
"Stereo"
"Here"
"Pueblo"
"Frontwards"
"Kennel District"
"No Life Singed Here"
"Stop Breathin'"
"Cut Your Hair"
Encore:
"Zurich is Stained"
"Gold Soundz"
"Grounded"
You're going to make them play "Stop Breathin'" twice?! Cruel. Gotta get "Harness Your Hopes" in there.
I demand to hear "Fight This Generation"
THE HEXX
stop breathin'
stop breathin'
stop breathin'
stop breathin'
stop breathin'
stop breathin'
stop breathin'
stop breathin'
stop breathin'
stop breathin'
stop breathin'
encore:
stop breathin'
stop breathin'
stop breathin'
Unfair
Strings of Nashville
Texas Never Whispers
Killing Moon
Shoot the Singer
Greenlander
2 votes for The Hexx!!!
Newark Wilder! Transport Is Arranged!
shady lane!!!!!
Grave Architecture
The Hexx...the live version...not the album one
PERFUME V
SILENCE KID
TRIGGER CUT/WOUNED -KITE AT :17
other than that good list
You have to add their cover of The Killing Moon and Shady Lane in there. Maybe You Are a Light and Give It a Day, too. Also wouldn't mind hearing a few Malkmus songs thrown in. Now that Pavement's reuniting, maybe this means The Jicks are taking some time off. If so, Janet needs to get in contact with Carrie and Corin and talk about a Sleater-Kinney reunion.
Yeah, totally Shady Lane. But if they don't play Elevate Me Later, Debris Slide, Perfume-V or Fillmore Jive, I will moon the band. And believe me, no one wants that to happen.
I clicked on this link, fully prepared to argue the merits of your "dream" set list.
But yeah, I would be pretty happy to hear them run through these songs, in this order. No arguments, and closing it out with "Grounded" would be great. I know I'm not alone in thinking that's Pavement's best song.
Fortunately for me, I saw Pavement play in 1994, 1995 and 1997, so I've heard most, if not all, these songs in concert already. If the reunion shows suck, I'll always have the memories of these three great shows.
And oh yeah, I've seen Malkmus+Jicks once, in 2005. So even if I don't make it to one of the reunion shows, I can still die happy.
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