Carrot Rope

Infobox Single |
Name = Carrot Rope Pt. 1
Type = Single
Artist = Pavement


Released = May 16 2000
Recorded = 1996? - 1999
Genre = Indie rock
Length = 10:37
Label = Domino Records
Producer = Nigel Godrich, ?
Reviews =
* All Music Guide rating-5|2.5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:akw67uq010jd link]
Last album = "Major Leagues EP"
(1999)
This album = "Carrot Rope Pt. 1"
(2000)
Next album = "Carrot Rope Pt. 2"
(2000)

"Carrot Rope" is a UK-only single by Pavement. Elsewhere, Spit on a Stranger was released instead. On the commentary track to the group's Slow Century DVD, Stephen Malkmus is heard explaining that this release was at the specific request of the group's UK label , Domino Records following significant playtime on John Peel's Radio 1 show. The song is taken from the album Terror Twilight.

"Carrot Rope Pt. 1" is the first of three different formats of the single, all of which were released on May 16, 2000. All 3 formats carry the album version of the song. This one of 2 compact disc editions. The two B-sides accompanying the title track are both found on the contemporaneous US release of Spit on a Stranger. The catalogue number for the CD version is RUG90CD1.

Track listing

# "Carrot Rope" 3:52
# "Harness Your Hopes" 3:28
# "Roll With The Wind" 3:17

Infobox Single
Name = Carrot Rope Pt. 2
Type = Single
Artist = Pavement


Released = may 16, 2000
Recorded = 1996? - 1999
Genre = Indie rock
Length = 10:02
Label = Domino Records
Producer = Nigel Godrich, ?
Reviews =
* All Music Guide rating-5|2.5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:a067gjir26ix link]
Last single =
This single =
Next single =

"Carrot Rope Pt. 2" is the second format of the single, again on compact disc. Once again, the two B-sides accompanying the title track were both also released on the US Spit on a Stranger single. The catalogue number for the CD version is RUG90CD2.

Track listing

#"Carrot Rope" 3:55
#"The Porpoise & The Hand Grenade" 2:47
#"Rooftop Gambler" 3:20

Infobox Single |
Name = Carrot Rope 7"
Format = 7" Single
Artist = Pavement


Released = may 16, 2000
Recorded = 1996? - 1999
Genre = Indie rock
Length = 8:58
Label = Domino Records
Producer = Nigel Godrich, ?
Reviews =
Last single =
This single =
Next single =

"Carrot Rope 7"" is the last of three different forms of the single this time issued on 7" vinyl. The B-side, "And Then" is actually an early version of "The Hexx" from Terror Twilight recorded several years earlier; it was also issued on the US Spit on a Stranger 7" single. The catalogue number for the single is RUG90.

Track listing

# "Carrot Rope" 3:52
# "And Then" 5:06