MMT50 - 247
2024/01/29
jD talks with David from London Ontario about track number 47!
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[0:00] Previously on the pavement top 50 some motion.
[0:03] Suggests itself patrick weigh in on this as your number 48 track uh i think this song is is one of those like perfect pavement songs that only pavement could pull off welcome to thepavement, Pavement.
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[0:27] And now on with a countdown. Hey, it's JD here, back for another episode of our Top 50 Countdown for Seminole Indie Rock Band, Pavement.
Week over week, we're going to count down the 50 essential Pavement tracks that you selected with your very own Top 20 ballads.
I tabulated the results using complex algebra and an advanced abacus.
And all that's left is for us to reveal this week's track. How will your favorite song fare in the rating?
You'll need to tune in or whatever the podcast equivalent of tuning in is to find out. Subscribing, I suppose.
This week, we're joined by Pavement superfan David from London, Ontario. So there's that.
How are you doing, motherfucker?
[1:18] I am well, and I thank you for including me in this experience to be on on the podcast and discuss some pavement.
Oh, the pleasure is all mine. This is great.
Just a bit of background. David and I met through the podcast, exchanged emails along the way, and then we actually got to go to the Massey Hall concert here in Toronto, and Davidended up going backstage and saying hi to the gang.
So there's that. How was that?
That was quite an experience. And it was very chill, which I guess surprised me a little bit until I realized that, you know, that they're people.
And from my side, they're celebrities. But I mean, once you get to know them, they're people.
So they're winding down after a show, and they had some family there, and they had some friends back there.
And so you kind of just joined right into that experience with them.
And you kind of seen the different conversations that were going on.
And again, seeing them kind of coming in and out, as well as the friends and family.
And that was quite nice. The members that I was able to engage with, I really appreciated.
To some degree, all five of them I did engage with.
[2:31] I have to admit that when I saw Stephen Malcomus, I was a bit starstruck.
So, more than the other ones.
And I was. So, for him, I squeaked out a, hey, Steve, or something like that, and gave him like an air pump. And that was the extent of it.
My longest conversation would have been with Steve West. And I appreciate the time he He gave me their talk to, I asked him a couple of silly questions and about. What a giant eyes.
Oh, all of them are terrific. And that's the truth. I talked to Spiral briefly and just kind of talked to him about his recent album, Medley Attack, and how much I enjoyed that.
And I was one of the few fans that actually. Yes, thank you.
I was one of the few fans that ordered the hat, bought the hat, his baseball hat. So he got a kick out of that to meet one of the ones, maybe one of the only ones in Canada who bought it.
And so that was neat. and then Mark Eibold was hello, I told him I was a big fan, but.
[3:24] Didn't have the opportunity to get into any deeper than that.
And then I saw Bob. He's tough to nail down.
Yeah, but I mean, he seemed like a genuinely really kind, personable person.
So I fed off of that at the same time. Yeah.
Bob gave me a hug, and that wa
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