Cut Your Hair

by Pavement

Cut Your Hair cover art

Serving as the band's only significant brush with mainstream radio success, 'Cut Your Hair' is an incredibly catchy, sardonic takedown of the superficiality of the music industry. Stephen Malkmus uses a buoyant, hook-heavy arrangement and falsetto 'ooh-ooh' choruses to mock the sudden, image-obsessed commercialization of the independent rock scene. Its laid-back, slacker-rock aesthetic perfectly captured the ironic detachment of 90s alternative culture.

Genres

  • Indie Rock
  • Slacker Rock

Tracklist

  1. Silence Kid
  2. Elevate Me Later
  3. Stop Breathin
  4. Cut Your Hair
  5. Newark Wilder
  6. Unfair
  7. Gold Soundz
  8. 5-4=Unity
  9. Range Life
  10. Heaven Is a Truck
  11. Hit the Plane Down
  12. Fillmore Jive