I'll hook you up tomorrow morning. I'm hopefully seeing them again on Saturday, fingers crossed.

Thanking you muchly :)

the plot to etc etc is one of my favorite bands, glad to see them being recognized.

It's the little interludes that do it for me, i mean Funeral Procession going into For Marcus is just inspired.
Safe to say i'm going to be listening to this a lot more, this rubbing me exactly the right way.

Stu, i bow down to you. This is one damn fucking good list.

plot to blow up the eiffel tower = awesome

great list so far, nice mix of chaotic/noisy stuff like Plot To Blow Up... and Part Chimp, and other things like Neu. Keep going!

This is a great list so far, The Cold Vein is excellent.

I'm in the middle of downloading Dissertation Honey. I'll give it a listen tomorrow.

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I appreciate Pavement. A lot. This album is one of the best things to come out of the 90's and, whilst the band produced Wowee Zowee and Brighten The Corners are good, this is undeniably their magnum opus.

The reasons i love this album are, firstly, the lo-fi aesthetic; it gives the piece an amatuerish, personal feel that completely endears me to the music. In some parts it resembles the fall, in others the Velvet Underground, but it always retains an element of originality and dreamy pop sensibility. Its at times impassioned, at times introspective, at times aggressive, at times delicate, at times dark, at times joyous, but always compelling.

The songs are the other reason. Often i find an album gets by with the mood and/or atmosphere it conveys as a whole... the songs get lost in the entirety of it. Thats great, many musicians aim for that. But sometimes its nice to have a collection of songs that just grab you one after the other. This album does that for me, each track is strong and different, it would be silly to go selecting certain songs as highlights because each one has something to offer.

So there you have it. An album as influential as it is excellent. It opened the door for swarms of indie rock bands in the 90s, yet in its field in dont think it was surpassed and it remains a pinnacle of 90s music.

Cracking review! An album that never gets boring, to me it's like mum's cooking, everything that followed with lo-fi indie pretensions (except GBV) being equivalent to a dodgy kebab from one of those mobile trailers that park outside clubs at 3am. Really cheesy clubs too, like Oceana.

I strongly suggest you check out R. Stevie Moore, Stu, if you have't already :). The only Pavement album that comes close to this IMO is Wowee Zowee, simply for it's unhinged oddness. Oh and the two-disc reissues with booklets as thick as your arm are f*cking great.

ah Slanted, classic.