[Starting with John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things", this series of random postings will be about songs around the 10-minute mark in length that we highly enjoy. Thus, the title for the postings.]
The post-Pavement, 21st century version of Stephen Malkmus has put a greater focus on his guitar and made music with a lot more in common with, say, The Grateful Dead or, more to the point, Lou Reed or Television, than traditional indie rock. If, for example, one buys the premise that Wilco channeled Pavement on the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot track "Heavy Metal Drummer", then one can argue Malkmus repays the Chicago band in kind here on this, the title track from his fourth solo album [Matador-2008]. (Features the great Janet Weiss behind the drums on her lone album as a Jick.)
