The Pavement Conundrum

Sometimes there are episodes where Paul, Mark and Chris actually manage to engage their galaxy brains and come up with some proper insight into the wonderful work of prominent US indie rock band, Pavement... and this is one of those episodes!

Of course there's still other stupid nonsense going on; Mark is busy hosting dinner parties on Zoom, Chris is getting a new hi-fi and Paul has discovered poetry slams.

All that plus: Anne Geddes, James Blake vs James Blunt and eight Pavement songs.

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The Conundrum continues with another silly episode full of fantastic tunes, stupid nonsense and secret recordings. This week, Mark takes us back to 1693, Chris has discovered something and nobody finds Paul funny.

Among other things, the trio discuss being sued by Lars Ulrich, work out what actually constitutes a song, what Mirror Universe Pavement would sound like and end the podcast in the worst way possible. It's a warts and all episode.

8 Pavement songs... only four can progress.

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It's only episode two of The Pavement Conundrum but we feel like we've been doing this for years and we also never want it to end.

Chris, Mark and Paul come together to talk about eight more Pavement songs... well eight and a bit if you include Wounded Kite at :17... four songs progress but there's far more to discuss including Mark being between 30 and 50 years old, Paul's micro emotions and the length of time it takes Chris to get from his house to the train station.

But never mind that... why did Oliver Cromwell know how to pronounce Fame Throwa better than people on this podcast?

Made with love and RESPECT for that band Pavement.

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After successfully solving The Malkmus Conundrum in a previous podcast, three friends (Paul Carlin, Mark Edwards and Christopher Gallagher) make the decision to work out what their favourite Pavement song is by way of a complicated bracket system that isn't a bracket.

Whatever the case, these three Pavement fanatics discuss eight tracks with four progressing to the next stage.

If you were a fan of The Malkmus Conundrum, you can expect more of the same treachery, backstabbing and genuine disdain for each other with a healthy dose of respect. It's all about respect. Will there be secret recordings? Will they talk about Billy Corgan as much? What does Chris mean when he says 'The Meat of the Curve'?

Made with love for prominent US indie rock band Pavement.

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It's the final of The Malkmus Conundrum! You all said we wouldn't amount to anything and we didn't!

In this momentous episode, Paul, Mark and Chris are joined live by Conundrum Contributors Emre Ramadan, Mike Goldsmith and Duncan Robertson plus remote contributions from jD (Meeting Malkmus) and our old pal Craig Angus.

8 songs remain... only one can solve the Conundrum.

Expect plenty of the usual silliness, secret recordings, plus not one but two episodes of The Malkmus Equation.

Which song will solve The Malkmus Conundrum? Crank it to find out.

MUCH LOVE AND RESPECT to all of our contributors from this series: Emre Ramadan, Mike Goldsmith, Duncan Robertson, Craig Angus, jD, Chris Sermanni and Eddy Walsh.

MUCH LOVE AND RESPECT to Stephen Malkmus and every Jick celebrated in this podcast: Joanne Bolme, Mike Clark, Jake Morris, Janet Weiss and John Moen. Oh, and Beck of course.

We will return with The Pavement Conundrum very soon - don't touch that dial or RSS feed. Thanks for listening. Follow us on Twitter: @malkmusconun (soon changing to @pavementpod or @pavementconun, who knows??) @thepaulcarlin @thegallatron @themarkedwards

Oh boy, this one is a doozy. It's the second semi-final and there are four more matchups to determine which tunes make it to the final of The Malkmus Conundrum...

There's one problem though... one of your trusted guides really lets the pressure get to him and let's just say it's the moment podcast historians will be writing about decades from now.

There's little else to say. Please enjoy. If you can.

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It's the first semi final of the conundrum and your hosts Paul, Mark and Chris are joined by friend Emre to undergo the agonising task of picking four out of eight songs to progress to the final.

As well as that, there's a big announcement due as we await the result of Podcast Journalist of the Year with a live link up to the event. Champagne is on ice as we hope for another win for our resident podcast journalist, Mark Edwards.

Bad decisions are made as The Malkmus Conundrum approaches its conclusion.

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The long-awaited collaboration podcast with Meeting Malkmus is here!

Finally, Paul, Mark and Chris catch up with jD from the Meeting Malkmus podcast to come together like GI Joe and Transformers with the sole objective of discussing the great man, Stephen Malkmus across THREE TIME ZONES.

In this episode, jD provides a list of his favourite Malkmus + Jicks tunes which the four men discuss in detail. Plus, the latest on Mark's dinner party circuit and Chris singing.

Friendships are formed, silliness follows and they contrive to produce an episode that'll appeal to everyone with plenty of daft diversions and a lot of Paul begging to be a guest on jD's Sloan podcast.

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This is a Lightning Seeds podcast now; no, wait, it's a Status Quo podcast now. In either case, join Paul, Mark and Chris as they discuss five more Jicks matchups in the company of friend of the podcast, Duncan Robertson.

It's the last quarter final and things get real tense as the participants participate in partial picking of, eh, tunes. Oh and Paul gets bullied, as usual.

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We're smack bang in the middle of The Malkmus Conundrum Quarter Finals and there's another hour and 40 minutes of stupid nonsense for your ears.

Paul, Mark and Chris have a lot on their minds, from the tyranny of geography to spiders laying eggs on our brains. Fortunately they have drafted in Friend of the Show, Duncan Robertson, to help assess five more matchups.

There's drama, there's insight, there are arguments and added Leather McWhip.

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Made with love AND RESPECT for SM & Jicks.