Gold Soundz


"Gold Soundz" is the second single released 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 number 10. All the B-sides from both versions of the single are included on the reissue . Pitchfork listed "Gold Soundz" at number one on their list of the Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s.

Music video

In the song's promotional video, directed by Scott Blen, the band members are dressed in Santa Claus suits as they cavort through various locations in and around Irvine, California. 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.

Track listing

US

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

    Australia/New Zealand/French Micronesia 1994 tour EP

As listed on the CD cover:
  1. "Gold Soundz"
  2. "Kneeling Bus"
  3. "Strings of Nashville"
  4. "5 - 4 Vocal"

    Covers

The Long Island-based punk band Bomb the Music Industry! covered "Gold Soundz" on their 2008 compilation album Others! Others! Volume 1.
American rock band Phish covered the song during a concert at the Star Lake Amphitheatre in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania on July 21, 1999.