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merlin:

Pavement - “Spit on a Stranger” (Reverb, 1999)

I will not hear a word against Terror Twilight. Not one goddamned word.

Ten years ago, it was fashionable amongst the hipster hipstorum to turn up their tiny white noses at this record. And that’s a shame.

Because history proved that shit wrong.

Friday night? When that “buh-buh-buh-buh-BUM…!” came pounding out of the PA, the entire audience squealed.

I turned to Seven and went,

Honey, I’m a prize and you’re a catch, and we’re a perfect match.¹

And he motioned to brushing the back of his neck, and mouthed, “Shivers.”

And, I said, “Me, too.”

Cf.

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1. Herein, delightfully flubbed by S.M. ↩

Sounds SO GOOD live.