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Brighten the Corners
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Pitchfork Media (8.6/10) [3]
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Rolling Stone (Very favorable) [5]
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Brighten the Corners is the fourth studio album released by
Pavement. All songs were written by lead singer Stephen
Malkmus, apart from "Date with Ikea" and "Passat
Dream". The title is likely a reference to Ella Fitzgerald’s
Brighten the Corner, or its title track "Brighten the Corner
Where You Are" which was a theme song for Billy Sun-
day. It is also the only Pavement album to feature a full
lyric sheet.
Nicene Creedence Edition
Matador Records released an expanded 2CD edition of
Studio album by Pavement this album under the title Brighten the Corners: Nicene Cree-
Released February 11, 1997 dence Edition on December 9, 2008.[6] It contains the
band’s fourth album, Brighten the Corners (1997) in its en-
Recorded July 15-30, 1996, Piedmont Triad Studio[1]
tirety, as well as 32 of the band’s other songs from that
Genre Indie rock era, 18 of which were previously unreleased. The initial
pre-order offer from Matador Records also included the
Length 46:10
band’s previously unreleased live album, Live
Label Matador Records (1999-present) Europaturnén MCMXCVII on 12" vinyl.
Matador Records/Capitol Records (1997-1998)
Producer Pavement, Mitch Easter Track listing
Pavement chronology All songs written by Stephen Malkmus, unless otherwise
noted.
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1. "Stereo" - 3:07
2. "Shady Lane / J vs. S" - 3:50
3.
4.
"Transport Is Arranged" - 3:52
"Date With IKEA" - 2:39 (Scott Kannberg)
References
5. "Old to Begin" - 3:22 [1] "Pavement – Brighten the Corners". discogs.com.
6. "Type Slowly" - 5:20 http://www.discogs.com/Pavement-Brighten-The-
7. "Embassy Row" - 3:51 Corners/release/1498749. Retrieved 3 September
8. "Blue Hawaiian" - 3:33 2011.
9. "We Are Underused" - 4:12 [2] Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Pavement: Brighten the
10. "Passat Dream" - 3:51 (Scott Kannberg) Corners > Review" at Allmusic. Retrieved 3
11. "Starlings of the Slipstream" - 3:08 September 2011.
12. "Fin" - 5:24 (Listed as "Infinite Spark" on non-US [3] Schreiber, Ryan. "Pavement: Brighten the Corners".
pressings) Pitchfork Media. Archived from the original on 24
December 2001. http://web.archive.org/web/
20011224142045/pitchforkmedia.com/record-
Track listing Nicene Creedence reviews/p/pavement/brighten-the-corners.shtml.
Edition [4] Christgau, Robert. "Pavement".
robertchristgau.com.
Disc One http://www.robertchristgau.com/
get_artist.php?name=pavement. Retrieved 3
September 2011.
Disc Two
[5] Brackett, Nathan (20 February 1997). "Pavement:
Brighten the Corners". Rolling Stone.
Personnel http://www.rollingstone.com/music/
• Stephen Malkmus: Vocals, Guitar albumreviews/brighten-the-corners-19970220.
• Bob Nastanovich: Percussion, Vocals [6] Thompson, Paul (23 October 2008). "Pavement’s
• Scott Kannberg: Vocals, Guitar Brighten the Corners Reissue Delayed". Archived
• Steve West: Drums, Percussion from the original on 25 October 2008.
• Mark Ibold: Bass http://web.archive.org/web/20081025102740/
• Ernest Borgnine: Cymbal http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/
• Mitch Easter: engineer, mixing 146741-pavements-brighten-the-corners-reissue-
• Bryce Goggin: engineer, mixing delayed.
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