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Old 10-21-2009, 02:08 PM   #65 (permalink)
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Pavement
"Slanted & Enchanted" (1992)

"Ice baby, I saw your girlfriend and she's/eating her fingers like they're just another meal/but she waits their by the levee wash/mixing ****tail with a plastic tipped cigar" So begins, "Summer Babe (Winter Version)", a three chord anti-anthem starting off Pavement's first LP, "Slanted & Enchanted". I don't have the slightest what that entire sequence of lines means,
It's about Vanilla Ice and his girlfriend at the time, Madonna.
Malkmus was referring to pictures of Madonna of her with fingers in her mouth.

Here's the happy couple

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