Wowee Zowee

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.