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Hunger Games, True Blood, Game of Thornsz, why all of a sudden this panicked need for alternate universes? Surely there is sufficient intrigue and plenty of drama on Planet Earth the way it truly is. After all, another recent pop-culture phenomenon, Stieg Larsson, was grounded in real life, though his heroine at times tended toward the superhuman.

Malkmus finally was termed a mature artist when he got away from singing about UFOs and other nonsense; this is why alt-rock legends The Pixies will always have an asterisk attached to their name — too much singing about UFOs.

When it comes down to art and singing and the depth and beauty of the human condition, warts and all, you have the great Leonard Cohen. No UFOs needed. No Captain Kirk, no Catnip Evergreen, no stooges named Peeta. Girls named Marianne and Suzanne and legends like Hank Williams (Sr., not punk Jnr.) populate his songs.

His natural heir was another with the initials L.C., Mistah Lloyd Cole. After years and years of scouring the intertubesz for this one, it finally fell in our lap this morning. Here he is with original accompanying band The Commotions. It’s not about UFOs or archery or killing people. It’s a semi-requited-love song to a girl named Jennifer…

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Part of the Pavement ethos was to never get too big, the same as it was for Echo & The Bunnymen. Both were content to let the stadium rock superstardom fall to the others. For The Bunnymen, they didn’t truly care that a bloated U2 or a swollen Simple Minds got all the publicity. Likewise, as we’re about to find out in this video, The Pavement Band took drowsy aim at such contemporaries as The Bloated Pumpkins and The Bloated Pilots…

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All right, all right, ya Truman Capote loversz! If you can get past the yodeling and swishiness, here’s a pretty little ditty from those esteemed Mancunians, Morrissey, Marr, Joyce & Rourke, collectively known as The Smiths

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