Gold Soundz

"Gold Soundz"
Single by Pavement
from the album Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
A-side "Gold Soundz"
B-side "Kneeling Bus"
"Strings of Nashville"
"Exit Theory"
"5 - 4 Vocal"
Released June 19, 1994 (USA)
July 1994 (Australia)
Format CD-single, vinyl
Recorded August–September 1993
Random Falls Studio
New York City
Genre Indie Rock
Label Matador (USA)
catalog number OLE-101
Fellaheen (Australia)
catalogue number JACK-015-2
Producer Pavement
with engineer Mark Venezia
Pavement singles chronology
"Cut Your Hair"
(1994)
"Gold Soundz
(1994)
"Range Life"
(1995)

"Gold Soundz" is the second single lifted from Pavement's 1994 album Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. The song did not perform particularly well as a single, failing to chart on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart, where their previous single, "Cut Your Hair" peaked at #10. All the B-sides from both versions of the single are included on the reissue Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins. Pitchfork Media listed "Gold Soundz" at #1 on their list of the Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s[1]

Contents

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Track listing

USA

  1. "Gold Soundz"
  2. "Kneeling Bus"
  3. "Strings of Nashville"
  4. "Exit Theory (Edit)"

Australia/New Zealand/French Micronesia '94 Tour EP

As listed on the cd cover:

  1. "Gold Soundz"
  2. "Kneeling Bus"
  3. "Strings of Nashville"
  4. "5 - 4 Vocal"

The songs that are on the disc:

  1. "Gold Soundz"
  2. "Kneeling Bus"
  3. "5 - 4 Vocal"
  4. "Exit Theory"

Music video

In the song's promo video, directed by Scott Blen, the band members are dressed in Santa Claus suits as they cavort through various locations in and around Irvine, CA. They go on a scavenger hunt, trying to find a chicken, which has a key to a car, which takes them to a hill next to a parking lot. Some of the members slide off, but still stay on the hill.

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