Harness Your Hopes, by Pavement.
This odd b-side became one of Pavement’s most popular songs on Spotify for very strictly algorithmic reasons and that makes it extra fascinating to me.
Nowhere close to my favorite Pavement song, and has little meaning to me personally, since I heard it for the first time in the past couple years as Spotify started carrying all these deep cut rerelease remaster whatever thingies of all the Pavement albums, which I have on vinyl, thank you very much, but was already late to when a certain art student a year older than me played Crooked Rain in her dorm room and I developed a crush but she was gay and I was thoroughly clueless.
The vinyl all got taped to cassette and even later stuff like their last album together was walkman fodder for my walking-and-commuting-a-lot-in-New-York-City years.
Added an electric track and kinda sorta tried to play the solo at the end, which is cute. If it sounds like anything it’s thanks to the Fuzz Factory pedal I have specifically so I can sound a little like Stephen Malkmus. (The guitar and amp were also selected to serve that purpose but we’ll get to them later.)
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