Range Life (song)

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Name = Range Life


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Artist = Pavement
Album = Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
A-side = "Range Life"
B-side = "Raft"
"Coolin' By Sound"
Released = January 1995
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Recorded = August-September 1993
Random Falls Studio
New York City
Genre = Indie Rock
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Label = Big Cat Records (UK)
catalogue number ABB77-S/T/CD
Writer = Stephen Malkmus
Producer = Pavement
with engineer Mark Venezia
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Last single = "Gold Soundz"
(1994)
This single = "Range Life"
(1995)
Next single = "Rattled by la Rush"
(1995)
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"Range Life" is a song by Pavement, the third single from their 1994 album "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain". The song attracted attention with controversial lyrics that seemed to mock alternative rock superstars the Smashing Pumpkins and the Stone Temple Pilots; Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan expressed his displeasure in magazine interviews, while songwriter Stephen Malkmus maintained that his words had been misinterpreted and no insult was intended. An early 1993 demo of the song did not feature this verse; guitarist Spiral Stairs recalled in 2004 that when Malkmus first revealed these new lyrics to his bandmates at the New York City recording sessions for "CRCR", "we almost lost our lunch from laughing so much." [Kannberg, Scott writing as Spiral [Stairs] . "Pavementi Mach III... we finally made our "Hotel California"!" (Memoir signed "Spiral, Seattle, WA, August, 2004.") Liner notes from "", pages 49-50. New York City: Matador Records, 2004.] The single was not commercially released in the USA; it was issued by the band's UK label at the time, Big Cat. Both B-sides are outtakes from the "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain" sessions and are included on the 2004 of that album.

Track listing

# "Range Life"
# "Raft"
# "Coolin' By Sound"

References

Liner notes from "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins". New York, Matador Records 2004.