It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn, time now for the song that changed my life.

It's a chance to talk with great artists about the music that made them who they are today.

This week, Stephen Malcolmis. Stephen Malcolmis, who's of course the singer and co-founder of

Pavement, one of the most beloved and influential modern rock bands ever.

The band's been called one of the great acts of the 1990s. They recorded so many songs that

capture that decade perfectly. Cut your hair, range life, stereo. The band broke up in 1999

and Malcolmis has kept on as prolific as ever, dropping nine records since 2001. His latest is

called traditional techniques. On it, Stephen offers his take on folk music. There's a little

bit of Joni Mitchell, a little loud and wane right, maybe some incredible string band.

When we ask Stephen Malcolmis about the song that changed his life, he didn't talk about any of

those bands. Instead, he threw us kind of a curveball. Take it away, Steve.

My name is Steve Malcolmis and the song that changed my life is Love Will Keep Us Together by

Captain and Teneal. Captain and Teneal, for most of history, have been not been known as a particularly

hip band. I think one of the reasons is a song called Muscat Love.

The song is a song that's been written in a jangle.

Floating like the air was a boat. It looks like a scrap moon.

Which was one of their hits. The Muscat Love is pretty corny. It's a song. I can see people

looking down upon it. But the song that changed my life is Love Will Keep Us Together.

The first time I heard Captain and Teneal probably was on one of my parents cassette tapes.

We were more of a cassette tape family because we listened to music more when we were traveling

on ski trips or playing dominoes though in the house. I'm imagining that's when I heard it first.

I was probably eight years old, something like that.

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