TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Pavement
Pavement
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.3945
Pavement Album Rankings
1
Slanted & Enchantedis a left-field classic, a record that came out of nowhere to help establish a new subgenre of rock & roll.
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2
It may be a bit reductive to callCrooked Rain, Crooked RaintheReckoningtoSlanted & Enchanted'sMurmur-- not mention easy, considering that Pavement recorded a song-long tribute toR.E.M.
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3
Stephen Malkmus can't help it. He starts to sing, and the words emerge with quotation marks around them.
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4
Wowee Zowee, Pavement's fourth album, arrived in 1995, a very interesting time for the band.
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5
There's a difference between accessibility and focus, which Pavement illustrate with their fourth album,Brighten the Corners.
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6
Imagine a world in which Sonic Youth aren't smug, the Fall don't think they're literary, Tommy James has had it with playing to the kiddies and Iggy Pop hits all the notes.
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7
Wowee Zowee is far and away Pavement’s loosest, loopiest release.
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8
Pavement's Father to a Sister of Thought single contains the somewhat underwhelming title track, taken from the band's Wowee Zowee album, and two B-sides of differing quality.
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9
With a defaced Atomic Rooster album cover for their artwork, Pavement create what could be considered a typical Pavement record, but the brevity allows for full attention to be paid to each song.
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10
Recorded on short notice and released to coincide with an Australian tour, Pacific Trim isn't much more than a stopgap EP, but Pavement shine in such small pleasures.
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11
The Shady Lane EP combines all the tracks from the two-part British single for "Shady Lane," which is presented here in a slightly faster, slightly shorter edited version.
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12
Suave Pavement frontman Steve Malkmus had his nose to the proverbial grindstone since the release of Brighten the Corners in 1997, assisting DC Berman on 1998's excellent Silver Jews American Water r
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13
Pavement's Major Leagues EP spotlights one of the group's softest, most sentimental songs to date, and includes six B-sides: a radio edit of "Major Leagues," covers of Echo & the Bunnymen's "Killing
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14
Even back in 1991/1992, fans, geeks, and critics found it irresistible to compare Pavement to Nirvana, the underground band that made the concessions to the mainstreams and reaped the rewards, expect
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16
Trigger Cut is a short, amazing look back into Pavement's early days.
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17
For many fans, "Cut Your Hair"-a cunning, cynical piece about the treacherous pitfalls of the rock and roll business-was the song that first attracted them to Pavement.
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