Pavement - Wowee Zowee

Double LP version

“A masterpiece" - Rolling Stone

“This album — and this band — is monument to camaraderie, absurdity, and the beauty of creation for creation’s sake" - Stereogum

"Wowee Zowee", originally released by Matador in April 1995 on the eve of Pavement's infamous mud-bespattered mainstage appearance at Lollapalooza, began life as a controversial release.

Fresh off the success of " Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain" with its chart-topping Modern Rock hit "Cut Your Hair", the band went into the studio and came out with a deliberately chaotic and eclectic album that sounded nothing like its predecessor. With influences from the Groundhogs to the Frogs, Captain Beefheart to the more obscure mid- 80s central California hardcore bands featured on Maximum Rock'n'Roll comp "Not So Quiet On The Western Front", " Wowee Zowee " confused critics and alienated fans. How fantastic, then, that it went on to scan 122K copies and became many fans' fave Pavement album.
A return to their pre-Crooked cacophony, the songs have a darkness that now seems appropriate, and with Bryce Goggin at the mixing desk, the production was the band's most rocking to date.

Tracklisting
- 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