On The Flippity-Flop: Solex Takes A Stroll Down Pavement’s “Shady Lane”

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ARTIST: Solex
SONG: “Shady Lane”
FIRST APPEARANCE: Everything Is Ending Here: A Tribute To Pavement, 2003
WHY IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN AN A-SIDE: The Dutch electro-experimentalist Elisabeth Esselink was last seen scoring Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? in Amsterdam, but her catalog has established her as one of the best loop-twisters in the game. Solex’s high-mania cover of Pavement’s “Shady Lane” gives the song a huge shot of adrenaline, turning it into a roller-coaster ride that travels right through the peaks of ’90s indie rock:

Solex – Shady Lane [MP3, link expired]
Solex [MySpace]

 
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  1. brasstax  |   Posted on Apr 6th, 2007

    Oh Solex, how I miss thee.

  2. NickEddy  |   Posted on Apr 6th, 2007

    My dad has a Solex (French moped) he bought in 1973, and it has always played a part in family folklore [along with my brothers drunkenly breaking the deck off the back of the house and the Parkers' divorce], so I have always approached the idea of this act with a sense of weird friendly familiarity, from when I first read of it in, when, 1998?

    And yet, to this track, I say thee “meh!”

    Weird how that works.

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