![]() ![]() Hejira: retaining the low fifths, slackening the top end.New Standard (‘Crafty’): another fifths-based proposal.Keola’s C (this with 3str -2): one step closer to standard.Associated tunings: proximities of shape, concept, context, etc… And to any genuine vibratory scientists reading: please critique my DIY analysis! See my Tunings Megatable for further such nerdery: more numbers, intervallic relations, comparative methods, etc.…and hasten the project’s expansion… -Documenting more altered tunings-Further harmonic & melodic analysis-Engaging with peg-twisting guitarists-Ensuring that high-quality guitar knowledge will remain open to all, at no cost: free from commercial motive!- Insights to share? Get in touch!.Like everything on my site, the World of Tuning will always remain 100% open-access and ad-free : however, anti-corporate musicology doesn’t pay the bills! I put as much into these projects as time and finances allow – so, if you like them, you can: Fittingly or otherwise, it remains their best-known track nearly three decades later. However, Pavement’s own rise in popularity at the time of the album’s release complicates the interpretation“. Couch summarises: “It’s not a stretch to read Cut Your Hair as…openly critical of the celebrated buzz bands of the era. To me, there’s definitely a touch of self-referential rage to the song: maybe because Pavement – up to then a famously indie-hearted, independent-labelled group – had just signed a distribution deal with the uber-corporate Warner Elektra Atlantic. Writing for Glide, Daniel Couch describes it as “ an anti-single: that functions as an anthem of disavowal of their own fame, and reminds fans of their own complicity in a music industry that fosters reactive, passive listening”. ![]() Cut Your Hair, the lead single from Pavement’s 1994 album Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, remains among their most intriguing tracks.
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