Pavement - Range Life
"I want a range life. If I could settle down then I would settle down."
Album: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain [2nd album]
Recorded: New York, USA
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Slacker Rock
Album Release: February 14th 1994
Single Release: January 1995 [3rd single]
Length: 4:55
Producer: Pavement
Vocals: Stephen Malkmus [age 27]
Label: Matador Records
Music video
Live in San Diego 1999
Charts
Spotify: 31,000,000 +
YouTube Music: 4,500,000 +
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- The songs mocks The Smashing Pumpkins saying "I don't know what they mean. I couldn't give a fuck." In 1994 Pavement were dropped from a Lollapalooza tour after The Smashing Pumpkins threatened to pull out if Pavement were on the bill. It's evident that Stephen Malkmus deliberately changed the lyrics to reference the Pumpkins as an early demo version from 1993 doesn't mention the band at all.
- Billy Corgan denies trying to get them kicked off the bill and claims that Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds were told that he tried to kick them off as well.
- The song also takes aim at The Stone Temple Pilots with Malkmus exclaiming "The Stone Temple Pilots... they don't deserve nothing more than me."
- Included in the greatest hits release Quarantine the Past: The Best of Pavement (2010).
- Released as the third single from Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain on February 14th 1994.
- Recorded in New York.
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