These are mostly Stephen Malkmus' tunings. I've studied a few bootlegs and live videos to come up with these.
* = my educated guess, but unconfirmed.
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Tabs Sorted by Tuning:
Cataracts (*)
Craw Song (*)
Date With Ikea (SM only)
Deado (*)
False Skorpion (*)
For Sale: The Preston School Of Industry (Spiral only)
Mama (*)
My Radio (*)
Nigel (*)
Painted Soldiers (*)
Passat Dream (*)
Raft (*)
Saganaw (*)
Tartar Martyr (*)
The Hexx (capo 1st fret)
Vague Space (*)
Western Homes (*)
Winner Of The (SM only)
Action For Military Boys (Matt's part)
Freeze The Saints (Album version) (*)
Killed By Death (Matt's part)
North of the Border (Emmett's part)
Rio's Song (Matt's part)
(Thanks to http://members.shaw.ca/silvercircle/andthen for this tuning)
Introduction II (*)
I've Hardly Been (*)
Kneeling Bus (*)
My First Mine (*)
No More Kings (*)
Old Jerry (*)
Share The Red (*)
Camera (*)
Church On White (tuned down a half-step on record)
Flux=Rad (*)
HereÂ
Home (*)
Internal K-Dart (*)
Krell Vid-User (tuned down a half step) (*)
Nail Clinic (*)
Perfect Depth (*)
Price Yeah! (*)
Date With IKEA (Spiral only)
Kennel District (Spiral only)
North of the Border (SM's part)
Black Book (*)
(Thanks to http://members.shaw.ca/silvercircle/andthen for this tuning)
(Thanks to http://members.shaw.ca/silvercircle/andthen for this tuning)
Tunings For Each Album:
Summer Babe (DADABE)
Trigger Cut (CGDGBE)
No Life Singed Her (CGDGBE)
In The Mouth A Desert (CGDGBE)
Conduit For Sale! (DADABE)
Zurich Is Stained (CGDGBE)
Chesley's Little Wrists (DADABE)
Loretta's Scars (CGDGBE)
Here (DADABE)
Two States (CGDGBE)
Perfume-V (DADABE)
Fame Throwa (DADABE)
Jackals, False Grails: The Lonesome Era (CGDGBE)
Our Singer (DADABE)
Texas Never Whispers (DADABE)
Frontwards (DADABE)
Lions (Linden) (CGDGBE)
Shoot The Singer (1 Sick Verse) (CGDGBE)
You're Killing Me (EADGBE)
Box Elder (EADGBE)
Maybe Maybe (DADABE)
She Believes (DADABE)
Price Yeah! (DADABE)
Forklift (EADGBE)
Spizzle Trunk (DADABE)
Recorder Grot (DADABE)
Internal K-Dart (DADABE)
Perfect Depth (DADABE)
Recorder Grot (Rally) (no guitar)
Heckler Spray (CGDGBE)
From Now On (CGDGBE)
Angel Carver Blues/Mellow Jazz Docent (CGDGBE)
Drive-By Fader (no guitar)
Debris Slide (CGDGBE)
Home (DADABE)
Krell Vid-User (DbAbDbAbBbEb)
Summer Baby (DADABE)
Mercy: The Laundromat (EADGBE)
Baptist Blacktick (CGDGBE)
My First Mine (CGDGBE)
And My Radio (EADGBE)
Silence Kit (DADABE)
Elevate Me Later (CGDGBE)
Stop Breathin' (D#A#DFA#D)
Cut Your Hair (CGDABE)
Newark Wilder (CGBGBE)
Unfair (EADGBE)
Gold Soundz (DADABE)
5-4=Unity (DADABE)
Range Life (EADGBE)
Heaven Is A Truck (EADGBE)
Hit The Plane Down (CGDGBE)
Fillmore Jive (CGDABE)
We Dance (EADGBE)
Rattled By The Rush (DADABE)
Black Out (DADABE)
Brinx Job (EADGBE)
Grounded (DAC#G#BE)
Serpentine Pad (EADGBE)
Motion Suggests (DADFBE)
Father To A Sister Of Thought (EADGBE)
Extradition (EADGBE)
Best Friend's Arm (EADGBE)
Grave Architecture (FGDGBE)
AT&T (DADABE)
Flux=Rad (DADABE)
Fight This Generation (CGDGBE)
Kennel District (DADABE)
Pueblo (D#A#DFA#D)
Half A Canyon (EADGBE)
Western Homes (EADGBE)
Rattled By The Rush (DADABE)
Brink Of The Clouds (EADGBE)
False Skorpion (EADGBE)
Easily Fooled (EADGBE)
Give It A Day (EADGBE)
Gangsters And Pranksters (D#A#DFA#D)
Saganaw (EADGBE)
I Love Perth (EADGBE)
Stereo (DADABE)
Shady Lane (EADGBE)
Transport Is Arranged (DADABE)
Date With Ikea (EADGBE)
Old To Begin (D#A#DFA#D)
Type Slowly (DADF#AD)
Embassy Row (CGDGBE)
Blue Hawaiian (DADFBE)
We Are Underused (D#A#DFA#D)
Passat Dream (EADGBE)
Starlings Of The Slipstream (DADABE)
Fin (EADGBE)
Shady Lane (EADGBE)
Slowly Typed
Cherry Area (EADGBE)
Wanna Mess You Around (EADGBE)
No Tan Lines (EADGBE)
Spit On A Stranger (EADGBE)
Folk Jam (EG#BEBE)
You Are A Light (DADF#BE)
Cream Of Gold (DADABE)
Major Leagues (EbAbDbGbBbEb)
Platform Blues (DADF#BE)
Ann Don't Cry (DECGBE)
Billie (EbAbDbGbBbEb)
Speak, See, Remember (EADGBE)
The Hexx (EADGBE, capo 1st fret)
Carrot Rope (EADGBE)
Black Book (DADGAD)
Phantasies (EADGBE)
Jo Jo's Jacket (EADGBE)
Church On White (DbAbDbAbBbEb)
The Hook (DADF#BE)
Discretion Grove (EADGBE)
Troubbble (D#A#DFA#D)
Pink India (DADF#BE)
Trojan Curfew (D#A#DFA#D)
Vague Space (EADGBE)
Jenny and the Ess-Dog (EADGBE)
Deado (EADGBE)
Water and a Seat (CGAEAD)
Ramp Of Death (EADGBE)
(Do Not Feed the) Oyster (DADF#AD)
Vanessa from Queens (EADGBE)
Sheets (EADGBE)
Animal Midnight (EADGBE)
Dark Wave (EADGBE)
Witch Mountain Bridge (DADGBE)
Craw Song (EADGBE)
1% of One (DABF#BF#)
Us (BEBEBE)
Pencil Rot (CGAEAD)
It Kills (EADGBE)
I've Hardly Been (CGDGBE)
Freeze the Saints (EbAbDbGbBbEb)
Loud Cloud Crowd (EADGBE)
No More Shoes (CGDGBE)
Mama (EADGBE)
Kindling for the Master (EADGBE)
Post-Paint Boy (DADF#BE)
Baby C'mon (EADGBE)
Malediction (EbAbDbGbBbEb)
Dragonfly Pie (EADGBE)
Hopscotch Willie (CGDGAD)
Cold Son (CGDGAD)
Real Emotional Trash (CGDGBE)
Out of Reaches (CGDGAD)
Baltimore (CGDGAD)
Gardenia (EADGBE)
Elmo Delmo (CGDGAD)
We Can't Help You (CGDGBE)
Wicked Wanda (CGDGBE)
Tigers (CGDGAD)
No One Is (As I Are Be) (CGDGBE)
Senator (DADGBE)
Brain Gallop (DADGBE)
Jumblegloss (CGDGBE)
Asking Price (CGDGBE)
Stick Figures in Love (CGDGBE)
Spazz (DADGBE)
Long Hard Book (CGDGAD)
Share The Red (CGDGBE)
Tune Grief (DADGBE)
Forever 28 (CGDGBE)
All Over Gently (DADF#BE)
Fall Away (CGDGBE)
Gorgeous Georgie (DADGBE)
Planetary Motion (DADF#AD)
The Janitor Revealed (DADF#AD)
Lariat (DADF#AD)
Houston Hades (DADF#AD)
Shibboleth (DADF#AD)
J Smoov (CGDGBE)
Rumble at the Rainbo (DADF#AD)
Chartjunk (DADF#AD)
Independence Street (CGDGBE)
Scattegories (DADF#AD)
Cinnamon and Lesbians (DADGBE)
Surreal Teenagers (DADF#AD)
Cast Off (CGDGBE)
Future Suite (CGDGBE)
Solid Silk (BF#C#F#A#D#)
Bike Lane (CGDGBE)
Middle America (CECEGC)
Rattler (CECEGC)
Shiggy (CGDGBE)
Kite (DADF#AD)
Brethren (D#GD#GA#D#)
Refute (CECEGC)
Difficulties (CGDGBE) / Let Them Eat Vowels
Belziger Faceplant
A Bit Wilder
Viktor Borgia
Come Get Me
Forget Your Place
Rushing the Acid Frat (DADF#AD)
Love The Door
Boss Viscerate
Ocean of Revenge
Grown Nothing
ACC Kirtan (BF#BD#F#B)
Xian Man (C#G#C#FG#C#)
The Greatest Own In Legal History (BF#BD#F#B)
Cash Up (BF#BD#F#B)
Shadowbanned (BF#DF#BD)
What Kind of Person (BF#BD#F#B)
Flowin' Robes (BF#C#F#A#D#)
Brainwashed (BF#BD#F#B)
Signal Western (CGDGBE)
Amberjack (BF#BD#F#B)
Juliefuckingette (CGCEGC)
Chrome Mess (BBD#F#BD#)
Earth Hater (EADGBE)
Rio's Song (DGCFAD/CGDGBE)
Our Hometown Boy (EADGBE)
Renegade (EADGBE)
Heel Highway (CGDGBE)
Killed By Death (DGCFAD)
Hey (CGDGBE)
It Suits You (DGCFAD)
Six Deaf Rats (CGDGBE)
Action For Military Boys (EADGBE)
Jacked Existence (DGCFAD)
North of the Border (DGCFAD)
Thug Dynasty (D#A#D#GA#D#)
Gripping the Riptide (EADGBE)