#stephen malkmus

[kenneldistricts]

Best mates Damon Albarn and Stephen Malkmus at V97 Festival ‘97 🫶

[yeats-infection]

some malkmus / pavement screengrabs from 1992-4

frankfurt 1994 - reading 1992 - australia 1993 - london 1992 - rennes 1992 - bielefeld 1992

[the-90s-music-colosseum]

Round 2 Group D Match 6

expand for propaganda! (major wall of text warning)

Henry Rollins:

"Honestly, Johnny Mnemonic Henry with the glasses and the lab coat was pretty hot"

"A wonderful physical specimen. Plus he’s really funny and weird….best hot ones interview of all time."

"I want him to run me over with a bus"

Stephen Malkmus:

"i can't even stand stephen malkmus but there's a very special girl out there who needs this win"

"My perpetually stoned, nonsensical girlfriend...if we don't invent the time machine soon I might die. He's like 6 ft tall so unfortunately I'd be like one of those birds that ride on giraffes and eat bugs out of their fur. And then I'd die in a weed accident during the recording of Wowee Zowee? Before that though I'd spend 25 hrs a day in bed with him. Alright thanks"

"Stephen Malkmus chronically addicted to moaning and gasping in Pavement songs like he’s getting the best dicking down of his life in the back of the tour bus while everyone else is asleep"

"This is the indie-label match, right? Then it has to be Malkmus, he *made* the scene. And he's still releasing excellent music today. He's just the most influential rockstar of the 90s."

"my gay pavement fan uncle gets out of prison tonight and he knows you ratted him out in '06. the only way to make this right is to vote for stephen"

"Pretty please vote for him, my friend loves him and he really wants him to win"

""There were times he refused to speak to his bandmates, pulling a jacket over his head and referring to himself as "the little bitch"." I have also heard him refer to himself as a brat, a queen, a primadonna, a sociopath, and a narcissist. All of these descriptors have made me want to slam him against a wall and turn his neck fun new colors."

"I mean, Pavement is THEE indie band of the 90s. The lowkey snark, Koreaaaa, so much style that it's wasted. And Malkmus is an understated cool rockstar: the hair, the face, Silver Jews! He never ever sold out. He's the 90s."

"the most beautiful man ever he looks like a gorgeous fairytale prince. he has been hot since he emerged on the scene and continues to be so as their reunion tour comes to a close. stephen forever"

"we have to consider the autism swagger. find me a pavement write up that doesn’t spend three paragraphs waxing lyrical on his inability to make eye contact. find me a YouTube comment section that doesn’t have hoards of moms swooning over his flat affect. his refusal to wear anything more formal than a flannel for the first decade of his career? genuinely culturally influential. 30 glorious years of expressionless performances. sunglasses in the dark. so many straight men falling over themselves for him they made a joke about it in the Barbie movie. raw tbh sex appeal. and he’s got a great nose"

"he had a couple of unfortunate haircuts during this period but highkey i would break both of my arms to just be able to make out with him. please vote for SM my life is in danger if you don't"

[holdoncallfailed]

stephen malkmus for apple's famous "think different" advertising campaign, 1997

[malkmusian]

Stephen Malkmus in Range Life MV (1995) by Pavement

[tourdion]

[camdencommunism]

Me when I don't talk to my friends about whatever "underground garbage" rock artists I'm into at any given time:

[marielism]

making a zine ☹️

[krispyweiss]

Pavement Co-founder, Former Drummer Gary Young Dies at 70

- “Without Gary, many people would not have noticed us,” band says

Gary Young, the co-founding Pavement drummer who was with the band from 1989 to 1993, has died, Stephen Malkmus said.

“Gary Young passed on today,” the Pavement frontman said Aug. 17 on social media without giving a cause.

“Gary’s Pavement drums were one-take-and-hit-record. Nailed it so well.”

Young appeared on four EPs and Pavement’s debut long-player, 1992’s Slanted and Enchanted before leaving the group.

“Without Gary, many people would not have noticed us,” Pavement said in a statement. “In all of the best ways, he was a freak show. He was magnetic. He was magical. He was dangerous. We could think of him as an uncle, an older brother that none of us had.”

Young’s post-Pavement activities included recording three solo albums under the Gary Young’s Hospital banner.

“Gary had FUN, and those of us who got to hang with him will never forget this amazing cat … what an honor and what a gift sweet Gary was,” Thurston Moore said on social media.

8/18/23

[malkments]

video description:

Stephen Malkmus plays the ending of Our Singer while looking up to the ceiling, trance-like. The song ends, and he mouths "wow".

the khyber pass, 1992

[guerrilla-operator]

SILVER JEWS

[fuckyeah-pavement]

 Presbyterian is a really popular church in America. There’s a lot of members dude.

-Stephen Malkmus

[the-90s-music-colosseum]

Did you think I was done with these? Because no I'm not

IIRC this matchup was specifically requested by an anon who called it the "stickbug fight". Anon, you hit the nail on the head.

[recordbodycount]

self-indulgent sketch of sm i did a couple weeks ago

[tourdion]

next round in the competition!

[miedkha]

Pavement :: Album Covers