Back of a Car
The Malkmusian Lyrics

@@MB-wk4sb Way to bring down the mood buzzkill

@nicoleleslie4960

Love that sophie thatcher is wearing a YELLOWJACKET

@My.Name.Is.Dark.

I just realized this is sophie thatcher

@My.Name.Is.Dark.

I love this show

@superclarendon8648

I like it. It’s a good representation of what it’s like to be a fan of a now older band, put your hopes in them, and feel like they’re just for you.

@__Listen_to_Solar_Kama_Sutra

THeir music will always be timeless!

@JackieDaytona1

They kinda sound like Marcy Playground

@jackjensen422

Her loving Pavement and inserting herself into their music videos is like how new, young fans in real life have used the internet to engage with their music and tried to experience today what a previous generation experienced when this music was first released

@andiewade5502

Great observation

@hcallahan1963

My now-grown kid didn't need the internet to find Pavement. He grew up hearing and loving them. Whenever we were somewhere with a jukebox that had their songs I gave him the money to play it and then we'd all bask in everybody's positive vibe. Etc. He also plays guitar and knows tons of their songs. Raised right. (I own their first EP and he is constantly trying to get me to give it to him. Nyet.)

@soupdoor

And yet it's still a unique, subjective experience. Astonishing.

@theheartofablackbird2109

You said "inserting" Lol

@arubin226

Ha yea, it’s a sendup of all their original videos 😂

@steadyrhythms9571

this music video is actually really sick, love how it calls back to every other pavement music video. that rules. this is the best way to do this.

@flyingpig5622

i know for obvious reasons they cant have malkmus or anyone else in it but it still feels weird

@virreyumi3546

@@flyingpig5622 what is the reason if you dont mind my asking?

@flyingpig5622

@@virreyumi3546 The band isn't really together any more, although I know they are doing a tour later this year, but they all went their separate ways

@virreyumi3546

@@flyingpig5622 ohh yea ofc. I interpreted that they did not like each other anymore that's why. But okay I see! And yes I will see them in oktober when they come to Sweden this year! :))

@Yaooosteve

I love this concept ! Looking back I haven’t seen a music video going through a bands music like this

@aroom101

Don’t think Pavement fan base was this big back in the 90s but it’s cool to see how their music has aged like fine wine👌

@joedent3323

It aged like cheese - the same as yer mum.

@illDiology

Only saw them twice in the 90's but both shows were sold out. They were about as popular as you could be getting no radio or MTV play.

@xv1distort

Folk Implosion's momentary explosion with Natural One helped, and Shady Lane sure didn't hurt.

Definitely nice to meet fellow fans 😅

@JB-ww4qp

They we definitely popular in the 90s but not mainstream

@whatup6298

Yep - definitely popular. Mainstream was seen as a big negative in thr 90s

@kaggykarr

She's got like the coolest haircut ever

@user-vs8eo9nm7w

REAL

@bee-xt8lw

she’s so beautiful

@vareni4ek169

FOR REAALL

@sayarah24

I went to high school with Sophie, it is so fun to see her making it big ❤

@codiserville593

Neat

@seroquelchamber

I knew her sister via weird Facebook back when people still did that. Very talented artist as well

@alicetkach3890

what was she like?

@BrandonNinja

Who's Sophie?

@Julie10449

@@BrandonNinjathe girl in the video

@matthewwilson2961

No one will ever know why this is Pavement’s top Spotify song, but no Pavement fan will ever care because Pavement fans know that every song is awesome. Very much looking forward to watching this and seeing the boys in Leeds later this year.

@slantedterror

TRUTH!!!

@rockinstroll360

Tik Tok made this song famous for whatever reason it caught on with Gen Z lol

@greyorbit

I got a few people HOOKED on Pavement from this song.

@warlordabdi

Very well said

@mahargllednif2250

its the result of the spotify algorithm

@Iker122

Sophie Thatcher is a beauty and a massive talent

@__Listen_to_Solar_Kama_Sutra

No idea who she is. No I won't google it

@samm6389

​@@__Listen_to_Solar_Kama_SutraThe young actress in this video, she's currently killing it in a horror series called Yellowjackets. Don't knock it til ya try it

@kermitthefrog3424

Book of Boba Fett too.

@Iker122

​@@kermitthefrog3424 Her breakout role was the sci-fi movie Prospect (2018), where she starred alongside Pedro Pascal.. she was amazing there as well

@madisongeronimo6859

my mom worked with her

@WilliamMaranciMashups

pavement doesn't even miss with their b-sides. love it

@drumpros

all their B sides are pretty much as good or even sometimes better than their A sides. a true treat of a band

@theheartofablackbird2109

B-sides the best baby

@achillesfuzier

Their b sides are honestly so good they are hidden gems! Love your mashups btw

@mightguy123456

Kinda like my other favorite band The Smiths!

@hugh-jasole

Oasis is another band where theyre b sides are better than a lot of their main album songs

@areyouconfused7385

The lyrics of this song are incredible, I have no idea how you could be so creative in all the different meanings, I’ve learnt something today.

@limeanimation

I didn't understand one bit😭😭😭 but it sounds great

@areyouconfused7385

@@limeanimation they’re all representatives. Eg: “I won’t kill your parents and roast them on a spit” (inpalement) (I think I spelt that wrong) and “don’t you try to etch it or permanently sketch it “engravement” there’s a lot more

@swagmund_freud6669

And I'm staring at the asses, the assets that attract us

@Smilingpolitely553

@@areyouconfused7385 man I thought that was just a fun nonsense line, had no idea he was suggesting engravement as a rhyme to pavement haha.

@areyouconfused7385

@@Smilingpolitely553 yeah a lot of them are fun nonsense rhymes though.

And that’s just a theory.


A film theory.

@marc-florianvonweber6987

I'm a fan of Sophie from Yellowjackets and found this, such a good song

@dreamingone615

"The freaks have stormed the white house." Life imitates art.

@boxnow8774

White House hasn't even been stormed once since Omar Gonzalez did so in 2014, put down the crack

@ec6169

I was searching for this comment 😂

@Sky.Lukewalker

lol except they stormed the freaks in congress ;-P

@jellydogfish3249

@@Sky.Lukewalker true

@patrykapiezo1650

The freaks actually stormed mostly private businessess and one Kyle Rittenhouse was not enough to stop them all.

@JakeMelvin

I love the fact that you guys are releasing content in 2022 and I really hope we get some new music soon. Thank you!!

@jessebean655

You better harness those hopes.

@steadyrhythms9571

yeah i don’t think Steve would let a new pavement album happen, for good reason imo. i think he recognizes the legacy of the band and wants to leave the discography how it is, not taint it with a new record that people aren’t as happy with. some people may even think terror twilight was that already.

plus Steve’s solo career is pretty good/great so at least we have that.

@TryNSave

@SteadyRythms Dinosaur Jr. pulled it off, and I think Pavement could do it, too. You’re not wrong, but I think his solo career being decent might point to a new album being even more feasible.

Regardless, I wish they’d at least do something like what Ween does: tour more often than once every ten years.

@pandaigdig

@@TryNSave ehh steve already reiterated plenty of times that he wants the legacy of pavement to stay as it is. and it actually resonates pretty well because the band is still highly regarded with an unmatched discography (the previous reissues prove to be a wonderful journey too). this terror twilight reissue is already a miracle for longtime and newer fans alike; everyone is well-aware that this was treated more like a malk pre-solo effort than a pavement one. if you’d like to hear something new from them, then i suggest checking out the jicks (they are relatively active; their 2011 album mirror traffic is more in the vein of wowee zowee imo but i was blown away by sparkle hard, their LP in 2018) and the preston school of industry

@jgp6574

@@steadyrhythms9571 grandaddy (a band i mentally always put in the same kind of category) had a reunion album and it was really good. pavement could definitely do the same if they wanted

@EvanSaltare

Whenever bands do new videos for old songs it makes me feel like I'm living in an alternate reality where the album just dropped.

@theowatchesyt

I've loved this song for over a year and I just watched yellowjackets for the first time this month, and I KNEW THIS GIRL WAS FAMILIAR!!! can't believe it took me so long to figure out that's where I saw her first 😭

@erianadenise3145

literally SAME lmaoo

@coolandepicguy

this song is my life right now. I’ve probably heard this at least a thousand times and I’m not bored of it yet, I love pavement

@wazpoppinmaigai671

Discovered Pavement one day and life has never been the same since. Hyped for this!

@pedrofigueira7279

So true and it keep making life joyful

@pandaigdig

same here but through a friend! they truly are the epitome of perfect sound forever

@gonzalovazquez9607

Bro <3

@nickmoss2046

Just a perfect video paying homage to all of the other perfect videos.

@stellaburzillo2541

Perfect sound forever

@andrevitalpardue5097

Bro, are you on Albumoftheyear? Pfp looks familiar

@yaelgarcia7018

@@andrevitalpardue5097 HEY ANDRE💀

@henryhaas4406

Pavement is great their music is so timeless. Their lyrics and just overall energy is just perfect

@chez4504

I love Pavement.

@erikasmith8894

Me too!👍🏻

@tomallen5837

Too deep man. Come on, this is YouTube just keep it light.

@rat8292

@@tomallen5837 bruh what

@RobertJones-pj2jk

It's better than enslavement. Please don't kill my parents.

@bobthegrinch

In the 90s in the UK (maybe elsewhere I don't know) it was common for record companies to put out 2 versions of a single with different b-sides so fans would buy both and it would chart higher. The version of 'Carrot Rope' I bought had this and a song called 'Roll With the Wind'. It was actually the first Pavement record I bought. I was late to the party but I was only 15 and living in a small English town and there wasn't a lot of places to discover alternative stuff. Saw them on the Jo Whiley show on Channel 4 and MTV2 and read about them in Select magazine.

Subsequently bought Terror Twilight (which I love, pavement snobs who slag it can f**k off) and worked my way back through their albums. Was gutted that they broke up months after I discovered them, but been listening to them and solo Malkmus ever since. Going to see them with my partner later this year and can't wait.

@nathanwilding7343

I love Terror Twilight, it was my first Pavement record I bought, Cream Of Gold is probably my favourite from a very good bunch :)

@sunafukin333

ペイブメントを夢中になって聴いてたのはもう10年以上前なんだけどすごく素敵なビデオに懐かしさと寂しさを感じちゃった🥺

@plathandpinter

There isn't a bad Pavement song or album, that's the gold!!!

@jessebean655

Such a stream of consciousness that needed to be written. That's how all of pavements songs sound to me. If they didn't write them someone would have because they belong in the songwriting annals

@matte8464

'first thought best thought!'

@Alexsobio

This girl is extremely awesome!!!!

@Kitchyyy

Hello! If you are here and just discovering pavement, here are some of their best songs to get started:
Cut Your Hair
Gold Soundz
Spit on a Stranger
Grounded
Black Out
Shady Lane

@gladbag.surgery

Instead how about: Here, Unfair, Fight this Generation, She Believes, and Cut Your Hair.

@siobhanrocks45

thats just your opinion

@voodoochile7267

Summer babe

@JH-kd6hs

@@voodoochile7267 Debris Slide. Dah Dah Dunna Dahhhh!

@Protroblade

Trigger Cut, Two States, In The Mouth A Desert and Stereo

@urmum--

this honestly made me tear up. it's perfect.

@eijlha

pavement is the reason i started playing guitar
i’ve always wanted to learn in the mouth a desert

@robertkeene7909

Save for the intro (also fun to learn) he chords are fairly beginner-level. I've been able to play it in Standard tuning!

@siddthekid5046

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-3z5WU8cJ0 Here's a lesson video I made for it

@Isaacandjed

check out Silver Jews - malkmus plays guitar, all the songs are really fun to play + great lyrics

@matte8464

because of malkmus CGDGBE is my second most used tuning, next to standard. very fun one

@alanbrito5239

yeah me too. Pueblo and Half a canyon have some sick intros

@juliaschierer8361

Sophie is the only reason I came to watch this and I’m so happy about it

@eracli0

it makes me unnecessarily emotional when younger people discover amazing music and broaden their music taste. Enjoy! 🥲

@AirBallers31

What a wholesome feeling
You're very cute

@ttacking_you

Whenever an elder speaks in monolithic terms , I'm " non - plussed "

@tarabagel1600

If we listen to ur music u should listen to our music! I’d recommend car seat headrest, Lucy dacus and mitski if you haven’t listened to them already. And songs I’d recommend from each are destroyed by hippie powers and body’s from car seat headrest, Brando, Christine and really any song from historians by Lucy dacus and Your best American girl, drunk walk home and goodbye my danish sweetheart by mitski.

@anita_daphne_

im 18,i just discovered the pavement,they are my fav band now

@yuutafiles

that bathroom kitchen tile transition was one of the coolest things ive ever seen. love this song and even cooler music video

@Jack-ol6oi

I like the sound and style having Sophie Thatcher in the music video is a plus for me :)

@soheekim74

Pavement's song takes me back to the 90's when I was a college student.

@amber-nz9zz

this song literally brought me back to life

@bezempluijmers

This one is on repeat since two weeks, love it, thank you a lot for the great art.

@fish97826

Already adored this song, such a fitting music video, super fun, I was grinning ear to ear the whole time. Love it!

@richardstill8689

Damn, over 30 years since first heard them and still sounding great

@johnmars5282

As a long time pavement fann this is just so nostalgic.

@joerogan3079

PAVEMENT IS THE GREATEST BAND OF ALL TIME IM NOT JOKING

@robsdianten1

I'm here due to Graham Coxon. Eternally grateful to Pavements for inspiring Blur (under pressure from Coxon) to revamp their music style in the second middle of the 90s

@MedalionDS9

Thank you Pavement for this video with Sophie Thatcher, and keeping the music of the 90's alt-indie scene alive

@yahoobing

Love the concept here—for newer fans who can’t tell, she’s being put in other pavement videos

@avoiddance4395

So sick , I fell in love with this video almost instantly

@oaxacachaka

That's not what's happening.

@hoover728

Except that’s exactly what’s happening.

@oaxacachaka

@@hoover728 Oh, I guess you were being literal.

@ClassicPie

sophie was perfect for this. i’m in awe of her 😍😭❤️

@adiliomoreira2015

Sophie has a "manic pixie dream girl" vibe.

@PinkyJujubean

I can now check off another band on my "heard of them but never heard them" list. Good stuff. Love it

@carlng8438

I'm surprised they made a brand new music video for music like this. I like this song a lot.

@roseshirley8304

love sophie thatcher!! can’t believe i’ve never seen
the video for this song

@sunb1eachedflies

sophie being in this makes so much sense

@elyvenkus7485

This is one of my fav songs

@fluxkit

It is every algorithm's favorite Pavement song.

@BlackAuraCos

watching pavement music vids while high is so fkn awesome

@funlittlefish

Hey you might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like Pavement

@joshb8976

Bro the beginning to this song is so psychedelic.

@severinoballesteros4576

GETTING SOPHIE THATCHER IS SOOOOOOO PERFECT 😍💜💜 THIS ART MADE MY DAY

@megan4377

living for the pavement renaissance u guys fucking rule

@likklej8

Glad you guys are still around and making real boss tunes. Thanks muchly.

@preheatedmusic3179

I’m so glad to see so many people finding out about pavement from this song!! Pavement is forever 💙

@asakawaz

A girl in a laboratory who got some inspiration by reliving past Pavement music videos.Perfect sound forever.

@thelastdictator482

I missed this on original release and my last 20 years are poorer for it. Love the track, love the meta video.

@niceheartwhitesuit

It's hard to overstate how much I needed this video this week.

@kleite777

As someone who grew up with pavement. I love this so much.

@God.first1

Hello! How are you doing today, please pardon me for intruding into your privacy but I just wanted to know if you’re a fan ? Have a great day.Stay Safe!

@chloriel47

Pavement's videos are as awesome as their songs.

@pierredupont1096

This is really cool and heartfelt. As a refreshed Pavement fan I'm in for this and I wish them all a great life.

@emmalanebleiler3398

I didn't realize this was a totally "new" video!! Literally thought it was like 90s video you'd see on mtv or something!!

@terry10tnj

Sophie In a pavement video is perfection 💙

@chargoingfar6671

I just fangirled with my teacher over this haha! Absolutely amazing. I got here only 2 minutes after posting

@giovanniauditoredafirenze7325

Wow, now I’m in love with this song, this band and this girl.

I didn’t know you but I love you now

@elderberries223

This video transcends everything.

@thenaturalworldwithlewismi9920

I literally started listening to this about 20 times a day for the past weeks and was tryna find a music video and now I’m excited :) it’s a really great song guys.

@ianwilmoth

This video is absolutely charming for us gen X fans to see the material being treated so appropriately by the youth. Pavement videos always had a dont give a fuck aesthetic plus high concept quality that actually translates directly into the tiktok generation even if they probably arent cited as a direct influence very often. And this video perfectly carries that tradition on while bringing it into the modern world, so clever, so pavement.

@jerk5959

Gen X? Hi Grandpa!

@hoover728

Pavement are Gen X. How many grandparents in their 40s and 50s do you know?

@hoover728

@@xXXBongToker420xXx lol nice try

@funkoxen

Nah, the youth are an excuse. They make nothing except memes.

@aa1r3n

@@hoover728 actually a fair bit, you'd be surprised!

@chrisfleury2757

Meilleur groupe méconnu au monde. Pavement, inégalé et inégalable.

@elmequetrefe

This song saved my life, i was with my dad playing my guitar while he was watching the tv and then youtube recomended the tutorial to play this song and then my dad was "oh that is really good, whats the band?" Then we talked about this song and how much it means to me and he was like "holy shit.." because he knows the context and help me when i was in a hole without any light, so while he could be there for me phisicaly, only in phone calls (i study filmmaking in other city so i can see him in the weekends when i can go to his house) i listened to this song and the dsrknes turns to grey, obviously he did his best bit when he couldn't for geographic reasons, this song was a comfort alternative, now he knows the stoey behind this song and my love for it, theb i star to play it and he was like, "keep it going son, you play it perfect"

@Itsjosby

This made me smile inside

@barbelith9468

This video rules. I just discovered Pavement a month or so ago and I'm obsessed, so it's also pretty damn accurate lol. I hope I get to see them live at some point

@brianhall5377

I saw them Live in San Francisco on Halloween with Red Cross and Sonic Youth ( 100% time period ) and it was Super Killer!!!

@PopeCromwell

I discovered them around the same time, I already have 3 vinyls and saw them live once... cracking stuff

@jameslast3192

One of my favourite bands of the early nineties saw them at reading 91 same day as a pre nevermind nivarna

@gooeybrain_

I love sophie thatcher sm

@franciscleary6544

Oh my God this is incredible! Every pavement track is equally awesome, even the D-Sides!

@jim5677

So stoked for the Terror Twilight box I preordered from Matador. Now I need the Spit on a Stranger EP. I’ll be seeing the greatest band ever in Denver this September. Cool video.

@rodentribs

I love Sophie thatcher

@supercharleyman

out of nowhere 23 years later and they are still bangin

@TheHappys

One of my favorite new old songs

@johnsertich2107

Pavement is my all time favorite band! Malkmus is God! Can’t wait to see them in both Philly and DC!

@isaacmchale8832

Sophie Thatcher is so cool!

@levitatingmonkeys9544

the vibes off this are crazy. holy hell

@Convoycrazy

There are quite a few themes in this song that are relevant today - 24 years later. Timeless themes make a hit.. it’s almost like they wrote it two decades early!! Great song & arrangement

@sdoyajdartistwho

Yess!!! Need this

@crashingpuppets5935

Such a great and genuine vibe. Love this stuff! Keep up the awesome work. Cheers from Norway!

@HearturMind

60 yr old contemporary of these band members - went to Jr high with Mark. You either got them or you didn't and if you did you knew 35 years later people still would. Long live Pavement.

@theknightofdoom260

Seeing them in 11 days....last time was 28 years ago . Can't wait.

@theknightofdoom260

It's tomorrow 😆😁😄

@theknightofdoom260

It was great...

@nyannyannyan3529

What is timeless, never dies.

@yadivargasarguello

SOPHIE 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

@lostkidforever1516

this is that type of vibe and feel i forever such for in music

@funlittlefish

Hey you might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like Pavement

@noahbrock3546

Can't lie, I'm 24 almost 25 and never heard of this band before and this video popped up, i clicked, and now am HOOKED and the happiness is real. I appreciate this music, it made me dance and feels things immediately.
Blessed be💚

@whut-da

Wrap yourself up tight in this pavement gem. Report back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjvEOW_gpFg

@bambina1800

happy early 25th birthday <3

@Emlizardo

Welcome to the Pavement rabbit hole. It is deep.

@benfoster1018

Exact same here! How have i never heard their music before??

@harold4356

Welcome to the 90's...

@slowdiv3

I love this song its unreal

@redskies4530

Hi I recommend checking out an indie rock song called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix

@wizard5901

So glad to see this, you don’t know how much I love pavement

@displays6461

ngl thos song feels so nostalgic

@lisalee1557

very cool for this song to get a music video so long after its release

@MadMaxBS

What a great band. I got to see them on the reunion tour last September and it was fucking righteous. They still got it, maybe even more than they did in the 90s since they actually rehearse the songs instead of smoking pot lol