{"product_id":"settle-down-tee","title":"Settle Down Tee","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRINTED ON GD1801 CREAM \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTEES. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis item ships immediately. You will always receive your item unless otherwise contacted. All items are final sale. We are not responsible for lost, stolen, or misplaced packages.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormed in 1989 in Stockton, California, Pavement—back then, just childhood friends Stephen \"S.M.\" Malkmus and Scott \"Spiral Stairs\" Kannberg—got an inauspicious start at open-mic nights. \"Pavement was originally a pathetic effort by us to do something to escape the terminal boredom we were experiencing in Stockton,\" Malkmus later told Melody Maker. They recorded their first songs at local musician Gary Young's Louder Than You Think studio (legend has it that Young claimed to have funded the place by selling marijuana). Young ended up playing drums on this and subsequent recordings until he was fired in 1993.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt's not like the \"band\" had grandiose visions. After making the EP, Malkmus disappeared on an extended trip to Europe and the Middle East. Kannberg was left to figure out how to get the record released, something he later revealed to have had no clue about. As Kannberg told the band's biographer Rob Jovanovic, \"I'd send off these little notes to my favorite labels like SST and Twin\/Tone and ask, 'How do I do this?'\" He managed to get it pressed by a local company but a record label wouldn't come for a while. \u003c\/span\u003eIn 1992, alternative radio—and grunge, especially—had become the mainstream. But college radio was still the place to find the real underground, and Pavement created a sensation on it with their debut LP on Matador.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/2802\/6318\/files\/pavementimg.jpg?v=1778447908\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's full of truly excellent songs that now stand as hallmarks of the era and have influenced countless future bands: \"Summer Babe (Winter Version),\" \"Trigger Cut\/Wounded Kite at :17,\" \"No Life Singed Her,\" \"Loretta's Scars,\" \"Here,\" \"Our Singer.\" Even Kannberg's chugging \"Two States\" is now seen as an anti-anthem for the times. CMJ called the album \"quite likely the first and last word in American indie rock for 1992.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePavement borrowed from and often got compared to The Fall (bellowed lyrics), Sonic Youth (noise), the Velvet Underground (the ultimate nonchalance), and early REM (sweetly off-kilter melodies and mumbling), but really sounded nothing like any of those bands (Kannberg said he preferred The Replacements anyway.) That didn't stop Mark E. Smith, the notoriously cantankerous frontman of The Fall, from calling Pavement a \"rip-off.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/2802\/6318\/files\/pavement.jpg?v=1778447922\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd then there was the \"slacker\" label that Pavement—like Sebadoh and Dinosaur Jr. and others who favored lo-fi, fuzzed-out insouciance over the gravely serious ker-chunk of so much of grunge—was often saddled with, even if there was some truth to the designation. We've actually spent less than 100 hours on Pavement—playing, recording, and practicing. We've had six practices,\" Malkmus told Option magazine. \"We don't even play together as a band when we record. Basically I send the guys into the studio and I sit there with a microphone and sing along and I have an idea of where I want them to stop. That's where I put the guitar.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile the band might have been portrayed as a boatload of slackers, they could no longer tolerate Young's shambolic, show-derailing presence and replaced him with Steve West. (Young, who admitted to having alcohol abuse issues, has told Vice: \"I'd do headstands while Malkmus would perform these beautiful solo songs … The crowd would cheer for me up until I lost balance. That must have pissed Malkmus off.\")\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/2802\/6318\/files\/PS2M5ADXBZFGTI73BDNHCYHWLM.avif?v=1778447935\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt wasn't the only big change, as the band eased away from its lo-fi past toward a bigger, more streamlined sound while playing around with genres on this release. There are moments of canyon country (\"Elevate Me Later\"), free-jazz (\"Newark Wilder\"); the outro to the intense ballad \"Stop Breathin'\"), Cure-style gothic sunshine (\"Gold Soundz\") and shiny happy alternative (\"Cut Your Hair\").\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut the song that got everyone talking was \"Range Life,\" which some saw as bratty and others as hilariously cutting through the noise of alternative radio. \"Out on tour with Smashing Pumpkins … , they don't have no function\/ I don't understand what they mean\/ And I could really give a fuck,\" Malkmus sings over a Flying Burrito Brothers-esque groove. \"Stone Temple Pilots, they're elegant bachelors\/ They're foxy to me, are they foxy to you?\/ I will agree they deserve absolutely nothin'\/ Nothin' more than me.\" It got the band kicked off Lollapalooza 1994, as the Pumpkins' Billy Corgan—not exactly a man known for his sense of humor—threatened to cancel if Pavement played.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Enter the Night Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Small","offer_id":43518221353166,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium","offer_id":43518221385934,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large","offer_id":43518221418702,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"XL","offer_id":43518221451470,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XXL","offer_id":43518221484238,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"3XL","offer_id":43518221517006,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/2802\/6318\/files\/pavementfront_beb549ea-45ff-4507-bab8-637fd09638e7.png?v=1778446044","url":"https:\/\/enterthenightgallery.com\/products\/settle-down-tee","provider":"Night Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}