The audience sees a closeup of him with a tear rolling down his cheek. Stephen Malkmus - The barber gives him a platter, a king's scepter, a martini, and a paper crown.He tries to drink something out of a flask, and then attempts to drink the barber's Barbicide cleaning solution but the barber will not let him. Bob Nastanovich - When he gets up, he trips over the table of magazines in front of the bench.He is then see him back in human form, and he goes back to the bench. Scott Kannberg - He comes up to the barber's chair dressed in a clothed gorilla suit and gets his hair cut.He then gives it to the barber and goes back to the bench. The viewer finds out that he sneezed out a cat. Mark Ibold - He shakes his head to mess up his hair and then sneezes.Some strange things happen to each band member when they go and sit on the barber's chair: The video, released in 1994, is relatively simple, showing the band sitting on a bench at a barber shop, waiting to get their hair cut. In May 2007, NME magazine placed "Cut Your Hair" at number 28 in its list of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever. The unlisted B-side track on the 12" version of the single is an instrumental recording of "Rain Ammunition," and has never been reissued. īoth B-sides are included on the reissue Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins.
indie and alternative radio stations, reaching the top ten on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart in the spring of 1994, spending 12 weeks on the Alternative Billboard chart.
"Cut Your Hair" obtained strong airplay on U.S. The song was released as a single and became the band's best-selling and most popular song. 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 snidely attacks the importance of image in the music industry. It was written by Pavement songwriter and lead singer Stephen Malkmus. " Cut Your Hair" is a song by American rock band Pavement from their second album, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain.