Pavement — Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Ed.
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:57 am by Patrick
November 18 will see the release of Mark IV in our series of deluxe reissues of the original Pavement albums. Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Ed. sports the amazing packaging and deep contents that you’ve seen in our previous three deluxe editions. Like the first three editions, released every 2 years since 2000, this package treats Pavement’s fourth album right, with two CDs containing the entire 1997 record, remastered from the original tapes, plus all the B-sides and compilation tracks from that period, and a plethora of unreleased live and studio tracks as enumerated below. The CDs come in an embossed slipcase with a 62-page perfect-bound book containing photos, ephemera, writings and more. (The record will be out on Domino in Europe and Matador everywhere else.)
Matador will be doing a Buy Early Get Now promotion for this record, and the extras will be very special indeed. We‘ll be announcing that shortly have announced that now , so keep your eyes on this space
DISC ONE
Now see the final, much changed track listing.
Original Album (Remastered) – Tracks 1-12
1. Stereo
2. Shady Lane / J Vs. S
3. Transport is Arranged
4. Date w/ IKEA
5. Old to Begin
6. Type Slowly
7. Embassy Row
8. Blue Hawaiian
9. We Are Underused
10. Passat Dream
11. Starlings of the Slipstream
12. Fin
13. Westie Can Drum – Stereo B-side
14. Winner of the… – Stereo B-side
15. Birds In The Majic Industry – UNRELEASED VOCAL VERSION WILL TAKE PLACE OF RELEASED INSTRUMENTAL ‘STEREO’ B-SIDE VERSION
16. Slowly Typed – Shady Lane B-side
17. Cherry Area – Shady Lane B-side
18. Wanna Mess You Around – Shady Lane B-side
19. No Tan Lines – Shady Lane B-side
21. Harness Your Hopes – Spit On A Stranger B-side
22. Roll With the Wind – Spit On A Stranger B-side
20. And Then… – A MUCH SHORTER VERSION OF THIS APPEARED ON THE Spit On A Stranger 7″ B-side BUT this is the full 7-minute+ version
DISC TWO
BBC Radio One Evening Session, January 15, 1997
1. Then
2. Harness Your Hopes
3. The Killing Moon
4. Winner of the…
5. Embassy Row Psych Intro – UNRELEASED INTRO – BTC SESSIONS OUTTAKE
6. Nigel – UNRELEASED SONG – BTC SESSIONS OUTTAKE
7. Chevy (Old To Begin) – UNRELEASED VERSION – BTC SESSIONS
8. Roll With The Wind (Roxy) – UNRELEASED VERSION – BTC SESSIONS
VPRO Loladamusica TV show, April 4, 1997
9 . For Sale! The Preston School of Industry — UNRELEASED SONG
10. Oddity (from the ‘God Save The Clean’ compilation)
11. Type Slowly (live) (from the ‘Free Tibet’ compilation)
KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic, February 25, 1997
12. Neil Hagerty Meets Jon Spencer In a Non-Alcoholic Bar – UNRELEASED SONG
13. Maybe Maybe – UNRELEASED VERSION
BBC Radio One John Peel Live Session August 21, 1997
14. Date w/ IKEA
15. Fin
16. Grave Architecture
17. The Classical
18. Space Ghost Theme I – UNRELEASED SONG – RECORDED LIVE AT WFNX, Boston, February 12, 1997
19. Space Ghost Theme II – UNRELEASED SONG SONG – RECORDED LIVE AT WFNX, Boston, February 12, 1997
20. Beautiful as a Butterfly – UNRELEASED SONG – BTC SESSIONS OUTTAKE
21. Cataracts – UNRELEASED SONG – BTC SESSIONS OUTTAKE
The first MP3 will be available soon as part of our Fall Intended Play digital zipfile. Again, keep your eyes on this space.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:18 am
wow, the extras on this set…
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:48 am
Amazing. The August 21 Peel Session is one of my favourites.
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:16 am
I never felt better in my life.
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:03 am
This is going to be the best one yet!!!!!!
September 23rd, 2008 at 12:12 pm
wow, i used to have an uber-shitty tape of that kcrw session. there’s also a version of the vu’s “what goes on” from that set. great set of extras!
September 23rd, 2008 at 1:16 pm
very cool, I’m buuyyyyyyyyyyyyyy now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 23rd, 2008 at 1:18 pm
please, two posters + two 7″,hahahahaha
September 23rd, 2008 at 1:56 pm
this is gonna be great, but why include these:
21. Harness Your Hopes – Spit On A Stranger B-side
22. Roll With the Wind – Spit On A Stranger B-side
no TT reissue?
September 23rd, 2008 at 1:59 pm
oh…btc session tracks. i get it.
September 23rd, 2008 at 3:49 pm
I was just thinking about it this morning and a few hours later it’s posted! Next thought: I’m going to win the lottery.
September 23rd, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Looks like all the Terror Twilight b-sides are on here. So much for a reissue of that one?
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Can not wait to hear these BTC SESSIONS OUTTAKES.
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:34 pm
“Looks like all the Terror Twilight b-sides are on here. So much for a reissue of that one?”
Not all. We only included the ones that appeared later but were recorded in 1996 during the Brighten The Corners sessions. For example, “Stub Your Toe” and “Decouvert De Soleil” are not included as they were recorded in the Terror Twilight era.
As for a TT reissue. Well, I’d buy one.
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Vinyl reissue?
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:15 pm
So are they just bailing on the Terror Twilight release? So much stuff from Spit on a Stranger, etc. I was hoping to see what else Nigel Godrich got from them…
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Oh.
September 24th, 2008 at 7:01 am
would be interesting to know why the rest of the KCRW stuff couldn’t be included, and ‘maybe maybe’ was. it’s a good version, but the missing 3 tracks were all much more interesting, in my opinion… maybe that’ll be explained in the liner notes or something.
September 24th, 2008 at 11:43 am
no bailing on TT reissue, see Jesper’s comment directly above. no vinyl.
September 24th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Yo Up Pavement nerds !!! Got em all already ! Hope there’s something cool in the buy early… That Peel session is great tho, Grave Arch on there way better than the album version. Etc.
September 24th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 24th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Damn, since 2000…almost nine years in the waiting for the BTC collection…keep ‘em coming…
September 25th, 2008 at 5:07 am
wow, fantastic choice. and if the record company is looking for
fantastic live material from that area, please send an email.
i have more than two handful of soundboard tapes from 1997.
September 26th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
These B-sides are the shit. Cherry Area and I WANNA F AROOOOOUUUUUNNNNDDD!!!
Now I can stop bugging my friend, who borrowed about 7 years ago, to give me back my original copy of BTC. I saw him the other day and he said he didn’t have it. Bollocks.
September 29th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
‘No tan lines’ is probably the best Pavement B-side of all time.
The Peel session is a great one, especially ‘The Classical’:
Steve: ‘okay now, let’s take a very safe run through a song – you know the one’
Scott: ‘an old family favorite!’
October 1st, 2008 at 10:46 pm
aural exploits sent me an email saying matador was also issuing a bonus live VINYL lp from the brighten the corners tour as a bonus for buy early get now!!! yes!!!!!!!!
October 1st, 2008 at 10:47 pm
looks like there will be a live VINYL lp (from the brighten the coners era) thrown in by matador for preordering the deluxe edition!
this is according to aural exploits!!!! yes!!!!
October 4th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
will there be a way to get this in canada?
October 4th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
forgot to mention I meant the buy early get now version, not just the cd
October 7th, 2008 at 9:53 am
‘For Sale! The Preston School of Industry’ is an amazing song. I can’t wait for this re-issue to come out.
October 7th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Changes have been made to the track listing, and full details on Buy Early Get Now have been announced:
http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/?p=2760
December 26th, 2008 at 6:15 am
Is there anyway I can still get that LP or is it lost from my grasps for ever? I haven’t had the money at all until NOW, and now the live LP is gone
. What the heck do I do now?
August 20th, 2009 at 7:08 am
It saddens me to know that For Sale! The Preston School Of Industry is never going to get on a proper record now. It’s an absolutely incredible song.