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Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks Songs - Lariat Lyrics

Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Lariat

Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Lariat Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Wig Out at Jagbags
Released: 2014

Lariat Lyrics

Lariat

This song finds Malkmus singing of growing up "listening to the music of the best decade ever." He explained to Billboard magazine: "I was trying to write something that Taylor Swift would write, or maybe even more Katy Perry. I was thinking in wide ways. For me I'm a seventies guy, and sometimes when you're in your early adolescence or when the chicks are just a little older, and kind of out of your reach, they're the ones you sort of like at that young age. Seventies chicks and seventies rock."

Malkmus sings about the Grateful Dead in the song. He explained to Rolling Stone: "Back then, the Grateful Dead was a fratboy stand-in for alternative. If you were into the Dead, for a frat boy, that was like being into Faust or something. So the St. Elmo's rich guys at UVA would play it on the lawn and throw some Frisbees"

"That song is just like a party at [Pavement percussionist] Bob Nastanovich's house where everyone is wigging out," he added. "It's about loving music, loving WTJU, loving the Butthole Surfers – bonding over that s--t. There's that pathetic rallying cry at the end, 'We grew up listening to the music of the best decade ever!' Which could be anyone's era of music."

Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks Songs - Chartjunk Lyrics

Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Chartjunk

Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Chartjunk Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Wig Out at Jagbags
Released: 2014

Chartjunk Lyrics

Chartjunk

This imagined exchange between gruff Milwaukee Bucks coach Scott Skiles and greedy point guard Brandon Jennings is one of several tracks on Wig Out at Jagbags that introduces horns to Malkmus' indie stew. Uncut magazine commented to the Jicks frontman that the horns sound like he's got a thing for early Chicago. Malkmus replied: "I been meaning to do a Chicago Transit Authority-style jam for years but it's tricky stuff. But I found the Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra (an online sound bank) for free on the web and bashed out an arrangement."

Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks Songs - Cinnamon and Lesbians Lyrics

Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Cinnamon and Lesbians

Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Cinnamon and Lesbians Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Wig Out at Jagbags
Released: 2014

Cinnamon and Lesbians Lyrics

Cinnamon and Lesbians

This song fuses Portland resident Steven Malkmus' fantasy about the Green Tortoise bus – a cheap way of getting from San Francisco to Portland in the 1970s – with an encounter he had with a "ne'er-do-well hippy guy," who declared that the people who died in the Twin Towers on 9/11 deserved their fate because they were working for The Man. "It's a Portland song, but it's Portland in the 80s, before I was here," Malkmus explained to Uncut magazine, "when cinema and was avant garde and lesbianism was shocking to some people."

"Joanna (Bolme, bass) was worried the title might be un-PC, so I asked our publicist in New York," he added. "He's like, 'No. Those cinnamon and there's lesbians. What's the problem?'"

Malkmus incorporated the riff from the Grateful Dead's "St. Stephen" into this song. However, the frontman has said in interviews that he's not much of a Deadhead. He told American Songwriter magazine: "Yeah. It's interesting, but it's pretty simple. I like the early stuff, recorded and live, like Pigpen and the acid-y stuff. And I like Workingman's Dead and American Beauty, and I don't really like it after that. And I didn't go to shows, and I don't listen to bootlegs much. I'm approaching things from albums and what they recorded. That's what I know. I'm the suburban guy who just got the albums. I just created my own vision of things; I didn't really get into the scene."

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