Pavement - Wowee Zowee (Sordid Sentinels Edition) (2CD) on CD

Description

Their most willfully oblique and bizarre release, Wowee Zowee sees Pavement eschewing the noisy pop aesthetic of Slanted And Enchanted and straightforward songs of Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain to delve deeper into the warped psyche of their deliciously odd music. Songs like "Rattled By The Rush" are still as lovely as always, with Steve Malkmus's melodious vocals coasting over lo-fi guitar fuzz; but elsewhere, the music flits from folk to music-hall twee to country with disorientating abandon. It's a fragmented and highly cryptic ride; and in typically perverse Pavement fashion, it is only after repeated listens that the kaleidoscope of musical styles start to slot into place. Those who persevere, however, will find their efforts richly rewarded.  Originally release in April 1995 the band recorded a deliberately chaotic and eclectic album that sounded nothing like it's predecessor. This super deluxe re-, astered comp contains an embossed slipcase with two CDs and a 64-page perfect-bound book, fifty tracks total; eighteen unreleased recordings, nine non-album b-sides, four compilation tracks, five BBC Evening Session tracks and much more.

TRACKS

1. CD
We Dance
Rattled by the Rush
Black out
Brinx Job
Grounded
Serpentine Pad
Motion Suggests Itself
Father to a Sister of Thought
Extradition
Best Friend's Arm
Grave Architecture
At&t
Flux = Rad
Fight This Generation
Kennel District
Pueblo
Half a Canyon
Western Homes

2. CD
Sordid (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Edition)
Brink of the Clouds (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Edition)
False Skorpion (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Edition)
Easily Fooled (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Edition)
Kris Kraft (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Edition)
Mussle Rock (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Edition)
Give It a Day (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Edition)
Gangsters & Pranksters (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Editio
Saganaw (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Edition)
I Love Perth (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Edition)
Sentinel (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Edition)
Sensitive Euro Man (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Edition)
Stray Fire (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Edition)
Fight This Generation (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Edition
Easily Fooled (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Edition)
Soul Food (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Edition)
It's a Hectic World (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Edition)
Kris Kraft (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Edition)
Golden Boys / Serpentine Pad (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Ed
Painted Soldiers (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Edition)
I Love Perth (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Edition)
Dancing with the Elders (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Editi
Half a Canyon (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Edition)
Best Friend's Arm (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Edition)
Brink of the Clouds / Candylad (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe
Unfair (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Edition)
Easily Fooled (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Edition)
Heaven is a Truck (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Edition)
Box Elder (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Edition)
No More Kings (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Edition)
Painted Soldiers (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Edition)
We Dance (2cd 'sordid Sentinels' Deluxe Edition)