Slanted. Don’t feel like arguing a point, but it is the best.

Slanted and Enchanced…not only is it their best record, but it made me throw away my rap tapes and buy a guitar. Greatest band ever…

Crooked Rain also made an impact on me. For whatever reason it did. I loooove “Gold Soundz”

How about symbolism/refernces behind the song? Surely Pavement has some literary value. Most people never know what the hell Malkmus is talking about when he says “Oysters and dry lancers in a dutch, dutch, dutch…”

Jeez now I know Im old..I thought Pavement was sidewalk…..

Shit. *References.

I love Slanted, but there were some songs I didn’t enjoy so much. But I really loved the Redux with the John Peel Sessions. “Secret Knowledge of Backroads” is one of my favorite Pavement songs.

WOWEE ZOWEE! Duh.

love em’ all but crooked rain crooked rain for the win. Its not any particular reason why its the best out of their collection its just the feeling the album gives you and how it moves you….everything else is just semantics

Its the ‘Wowee’ followed by the ‘Zowee’. Y? Because we like you!

WZ has all the ingredients Pavement ever cooked up…psych rock, sloppy punk, wispy nonsense folk…And side 3? Perfection.

Although I find the Wowee Zowee arguments far more interesting… it’s obviously Slanted & Enchanted– the way it extended on formulas developed by The Fall, Stone Roses, Velvet Underground, and how it beat the Seatle grunge scene to the perfect distorted guitar… and it has way better songs than any of their other albums.

for the record, being the professor for Pavement 101… would be my ideal career choice

College punks will be be studying Pavement in the future? Fuck saving money to send my kids to college, I’ll spend it all right now. They can get a job at Wendy’s if they want to waste money on that foolishness.

Answer: Wowee Zowee

pavements sux… you all know that, right?

Slanted/Enchanted followed by CR/CR- their later stuff didn’t wow me much.

1 Crooked Rain
2 Slanted &
3 WoweeZowee
4 Terror Twilight
5 Brighten the Corners

Hey, dean | 12/11/2006, 2:14 pm EST

“pavements sux… you all know that, right?”

The only thing they suck is your Mom’s beave.

No discussion is necessary. “Wowee Zowee” is hands down the ultimate Pavement record. The proof is just listening to it. So everyone quit your blathering and accept the empirical fact that “Wowee Zowee” is the zaniest Pavement album with the most subtly delicious melodies. Case closed.

chomp a boner

Why does Brighten the Corners get no respect?

1. Brighten the Corners (thrice bought – need another)
2. Wowee Zowee
3. Slanted and Enchanted

Finally a band comes along and I can stop answering “Uh…I don’t know… I listen to everything – hard to pick” when asked my favorite band. I haven’t hesitated since.

You know, I don’t know that I’ve ever listened to a Pavement song, much less an entire album. However, I know for a fact that Pavement has never listened to a Guitarface song, either. So turnabout is fair play. In that spirit of fair play, however, I will make the first move by listening to one Pavement song right now. If they reciprocate, I will consider continuing the spirit of rapprochement by listening to an entire Pavement album. At this point, it will be incumbent upon me to finally finish the album I started in the 80’s, to give Pavement something more to listen to… By the year 2008, I hope to be able complete the entire process and form an opinion on the poll question.

scratch my ballz sid….

I have a feeling that Wowee Zowee is getting so much attention here is largely thanks to the reissue of that album this year. It is a fantastic record but, c’mon, Slanted & Enchanted was the bomb.

To Awwwwwshitbaby,
Brighten the Corners was OK. It had it’s great moments, but was fairly one-dimensional and rather confined sounding. Their first three had a very loose feel. You could tell they were having fun. Brighten the Corners felt uninspired.

Hello “Dick | 12/11/2006, 4:20 pm EST
scratch my ballz sid…”

You should ask Dean’s Mom.

brighten the corners this is one of their better albums

they are suck,awful band for fat geeks!

Hey Chelsea: This fat geek Pavement fan has run marathons and boned more awesome chicks than your whole city and all us Pavement fans here will absolutely fight you with bats and broken bottles and our awesome brain power.

What band do you like, ZZ Top or Depeche Mode?

Slanted

I like Crooked Rain and Slanted. Those are my favorite.

Shut up Lobsters.

Oh God, Wowee Zowee was amazing, so was Crooked Rain… I cant really decide

YOU ARE AN INDIE HOM SHUT THE F*CK UP LITTLE BOY!

BLACK METAL IS KING!

HAIL SATAN!

Pavement is one of the worst bands of all time!

Who came up with this question? I guess that Pavement is okay, but geezy Pete, are we really having this discussion? This question might apply to the Beatles, Zeppelin, the Stones, Dylan, or the like, but not Pavement (no disrespect meant).

I don’t think any artist, no matter who they are, rates a college course. I will say one thing though. If were talking about a possible future ten years down the line, something like a Pavement course might stand a better chance of existing than a Beatles or Stones course. A band like Pavement by that point would seem like classic rock to a kid born around the turn of this century, and the obsession over indie bands might be enough to have someone really dream this madness up.

Goddammit, when I was a college kid I got my degree in The Clash the hard way – By listening to their records all night while trying to study History and Geology! Now, shut up and go listen to yer Pavement.
And, yeah, I like ZZ Top. So fucking what?

My vote is Slanted

ONE OF THE WORST,EVER!

How much of a loser must one be to like Pavement?

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!

Look at those geeks! LOL!

i’ve never heard anything by Pavement, except for seeing them on Space Ghost.
i’ll give ‘em a listen.
in the meantime, ask this question about a band i know!

WOW,
Rolling Stone readers are a pretty lame bunch. Sorry-ass tools don’t even know who Pavement are. What a joke.

Wow, ive never thought Pavement made so many people so angry!?

Pick: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

You’d think by the way everything sounds the same these days more people would be appreciative of the band, guess not. If you don’t like Pavement, or even repect them, you’re simply not a music fan. Death Metal blows, and so do people who type hail satan, the shock value of that statement is gone bud. I anything you come off as a loser with nothing to do but pick fights with people on the internet. Maybe its me.

Oh, Crooked Rain.

I’d rather listen to K-FED than PAVEMENT.What an absolutely horid band.

If YOU have never heard,be thankful!

crooked is great , slanted is inspiring, wowee is new again, i really enjoyed terror twilight

F/U/C/K this band of wussies! I despise this white frail boy indie crap.

PURE SH!T = PAVEMENT!

’nuff said!

What a bunch of losers Pavement was co/cksuckers one & all!

I think it’s hilarious how many Pavement haters there are out there.

HaHaHaHa and Ha.

What’s the matter haters, did you lose your best gal to an Indie geek?

That’s my bet. Still haunts your sorry ass too, I see.

Slanted & Enchanted, of course

They look SOOOOOOOOOO boring! Like next door nieghbors or paper boys.I want ROCK STARS not goons.

Mary-Anne,
You probably have the silicone implants, BonJovi fetish, Big Hair/or similar style for the day, Low IQ, and are a tramp.
Pavement are worlds beyond the lame-ass mentality of the typical Rolling Stone reader. No wonder the magazine is so boring musically.

Ive been arguing all day, just except that its slanted, then crooked rain, then wowee, then brighten. They r brilliant, im tired, who cares. (I apoligize, i usually have good, intelligentthings to add)

Guitarface – Cheatin’Family is some bad shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. Who would actually write a song about what a cheater they are?
M.S. sux.

By the slimmest of margins, Crooked Rain Crooked Rain. It’s the gold sounds of the whole album, the California sound, the anguish of the double entendred line “Dad they broke me!” the country breeze beat of Range Life. For some reason this album makes more sense to me than Wowee Zowee, which is great but the words do not strike me as deep overall. CRCR is not as cool as Slanted and Enchanted and not as complex as Terror Twilight, not as concise as Brighten the Corners. But the words! The South takes what the North delivers, Do you think that it’s a major flaw when they rise up in the falling rain? And the gum smacks on the pulse I follow if my Walkman fades I’ve got absolutely no one, no one but myself to blame. Glory is the best word to describe this album, and from the outset Malkmus is in agony chewing and screwing himself with his hand before anything major gets accomplished. By the end Pavement is hitting the plane down, taking over, and needing to sleep from the whole stupor. Don’t get me wrong, every album of Pavement’s is far above great. Crooked Rain Crooked Rain is just the world I’d like to be in most often.