Domino Records recently rereleased Pavement’s third album, Wowee Zowee, in a deluxe 2-CD Sordid Sentinels Edition.
What the heck does that mean? And should you shell out £12.00 for it?
Well it means that in addition to the entire remastered album, you get 18 unreleased recordings, 9 non-album B-sides from the “Rattled By The Rush” single, the “Father To A Sister Of Thought” single, and the Pacific Trim EP, and a lot of other shit that you probably already have if you are a hardcore Pavement fanatic like moi.
However, it does come with a 64 page book which is nice to flip through when you are getting small.
So am I gonna get this? Probably. My collection would be incomplete if I didn’t. Plus it makes me remember how fucking good Pavement was.
To promote the release Domino is offering a full download of Pavement’s performance at Hollywood’s Palace Theatre in 1994 for FREE when you register for Domino’s newsletter. Get it here.
Pavement, by most accounts, was a studio band. But they grew into a rather good live band over time, and this performance is right around the time they had started to figure it out. I listened to this show again last night while driving home in a triptophan-induced coma and it woke me up and had me hitting some dog-barking high notes during “Range Life.”
Here are a few of Pavement nuggets, plus Dsico’s “Fateful Pavement”, one of the best mash-ups, IMHO, this side of 2001.
- Listen to Fateful Pavement
- Listen to Range Life
- Listen to Two States
Buy Wowee Zowee, Sordid Sentinels Edition from Domino.
Wowee Zowee was Pavement’s third album. They released two more, Brighten the Corners and Terror Twilight. Good post though.
Indeed it was, and I apologize for not proofreading that first sentence. Thanks for the heads up.