Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p "Cut Your Hair" is a song by American rock band Pavement from their second album, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. It was written by Pavement songwriter and lead singer Stephen Malkmus. The song snidely attacks the importance of image in the music industry.[citation needed] In one verse, Malkmus sarcastically recites a fictitious ad looking for a musician to join a band: "advertising looks and chops a must/ no big hair".The song was released as a single and became the band's best-selling and most popular song. "Cut Your Hair" obtained strong airplay in the U.S. indie and alternative radio stations, even, it reached the top ten on the U.S. Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart in the spring of 1994. The indie track became the only single by Pavement to enter on the American charts until 2013.Both B-sides are included on the reissue Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins. The unlisted B-side track on the 12" version of the single is an instrumental recording of "Rain Ammunition," and has never been reissued.In May 2007, NME magazine placed "Cut Your Hair" at number 28 in its list of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever.. }
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- Cut_Your_Hair abstract ""Cut Your Hair" is a song by American rock band Pavement from their second album, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. It was written by Pavement songwriter and lead singer Stephen Malkmus. The song snidely attacks the importance of image in the music industry.[citation needed] In one verse, Malkmus sarcastically recites a fictitious ad looking for a musician to join a band: "advertising looks and chops a must/ no big hair".The song was released as a single and became the band's best-selling and most popular song. "Cut Your Hair" obtained strong airplay in the U.S. indie and alternative radio stations, even, it reached the top ten on the U.S. Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart in the spring of 1994. The indie track became the only single by Pavement to enter on the American charts until 2013.Both B-sides are included on the reissue Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins. The unlisted B-side track on the 12" version of the single is an instrumental recording of "Rain Ammunition," and has never been reissued.In May 2007, NME magazine placed "Cut Your Hair" at number 28 in its list of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever.".