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One last time: The thing about Pavement isn’t that they chose diffidence, or irony, or aloof distance (or whatever other residual Gen-X cliché you’re compelled to recycle) as an aesthetic posture. It’s that they seemed to find themselves, like lots of us, inherently diffident, and ironic, and aloof, and distant (and whatever) in their relations with others, and they created the sort of language and noise we needed to communicate amongst ourselves. And in the process, they found that plenty of emotional truths, and plenty of good tunes, are better approached from oblique angles anyway. (–Keith Harris, in Useful Noise)
