"Fillmore Jive" is the twelfth and final song on Pavement's

Pavement (band)

Pavement is an American alternative rock band that formed in Stockton, California in 1989. In their career, they achieved a significant cult following, and they were called the best band of the 1990s by prominent music critics Robert Christgau and Stephen Thomas Erlewine...

 1994

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 album Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain is an album released by Pavement in 1994. With this album, the band abandoned the lo-fi sound displayed on Slanted and Enchanted...

. It is an unusually long track for Pavement, with a length of nearly seven minutes. The song has a very loose structure

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, consisting of no proper chorus

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 or verse. Instead, the song takes form of a jam session

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, with multiple spontaneous guitar solos and drum fills.

The song had been performed live as early as 1993, with original drummer Gary Young

Gary Young

Gary Young was the first drummer of the 1990s alternative rock band Pavement.-Early life:Gary Young was born in Mamaroneck, New York. His father worked in the plastics business.-Work with Pavement:...

 contributing, shortly before his removal from the band. The additional booklet packaged with the 2004 reissue Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins is a double album by Pavement released on October 26, 2004. It contains the band's second album, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain in its entirety, as well as 37 of the band's other songs from that era, 25 of which were previously unreleased...

 contains album track notes by Pavement front man Stephen Malkmus

Stephen Malkmus

Stephen Joseph Malkmus is an indie rock musician and icon, and a member of the band Pavement. He currently performs with Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks.-Early years:...

, originally printed in an issue of the now defunct UK

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 music magazine Melody Maker

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. Malkmus describes the song as a "plaintive rock classic" and hints towards the meaning of the song by stating: "My friend was saying I shouldn't say there are too many bands. All right - there's too much writing about music then. I'm at this point now where I probably read more about music than I listen to it, which is a terrible state to be in. Most criticism nowadays seems to be concerned with trying to keep music romantic and interesting."