[.ca] Wowee Zowee

seriously...:
I get chills just thinking about this album. If I could make love to it, I would! Seriously people, simply put, this album is a f***ing masterpiece! Malkmus is a genius! If you have any sense, you'll buy it right now.

Can't go wrong with Pavement:
Pretty much every thing in the Pavement cannon is worth owning. I remember this album came out and all of my friend's including myself felt like it was a huge disappointment. Well I remember a few weeks later wondering if it was such a disappointment then how come I'm listening to it all the time? I can't recall ever having an album creep up on me and blowing me away like this one did. It turns out all of my friends were on the same page because we spent the entire summer of '94 playing this one. This album is sort of a fractured, eclectic split of pop, avante garde, and rock with tongue in cheek humor. The songs scream, twist, laugh, cry, and often self destruct. The guitar solo on Rattle By The Rush starts out sounding like Jimmy Page, and ends with the notes coming off in demolished pieces. It's the classic Pavement twist- the catchy pop song with something off putting or silly, but still the juxtaposition comes off brilliantly. I've never heard of a band take so many wild chances and land on their feet as well. The disappointment that really happened the time this album came out was the lack of interest this band got on that joke of a tour Lollapalooza put on by that Schmuck Perry Ferrel.

Let's face it........................:
These guys could release an album constituted of farting into a microphone and I'd probably dig it. They are that unique. Wowee Zowee is the perfect centerpiece of my second favorite band's career (R.E.M. still holds firm at #1 ... just listen to the I.R.S. years for Godsake, you'll understand).

• We Dance
• Rattled by the Rush
• Black Out
• Brinx Job
• Grounded
• Serpentine Pad
• Motion Suggests
• Father to a Sister of Thought
• Extradition
• Best Friends Arm
• Grave Architecture
• AT & T
• Flux = Rad
• Fight This Generation
• Kennel District
• Pueblo
• Half a Canyon
• Western Homes