Pavement - Summer Babe (Winter Version)
Yea one of the NSB’s favorite songs ever and one of those songs that utterly blew my mind many years ago, but playing it here because Yancey’s description is so fucking priceless AND spot-on:
“Summer Babe” is spectacular, for sure. It’s totally effortless, feels like it might have been written on the spot, excited sideways glances between the band members, too fearful to wonder if this is it because they don’t want to jinx it, like a pitcher getting too excited in the 8th inning of a no-hitter. It also contains what I am reasonably certain is the first Swisher Sweet reference in song (“mixin’ cocktails with a plastic-tipped cigar”). It also contains a McCartney-worthy bass line. To repeat: it is spectacular.
