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- Date Released: April 1, 1995
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Indie Rock
- Label: Matador
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We Say...
Recovering from their narrow escape from pop stardom, Pavement were having a major identity crisis in 1995. They solved it, with brilliant perversity, by making a stylistically sprawling album about their refusal to align themselves with anyone or anything. "We Dance," a mocking tribute to David Bowie by way of the Frogs, spits in the face of classic rock's "elders"; "Rattled by the Rush" is Stephen Malkmus' repudiation of growing up, its riff breathing in and heaving out as Malkmus evokes adult clothes and tears and ceremonies. In places, they're alarmingly guarded: Malkmus keeps drifting into snickers and squeals whenever he gets too close to singing seriously, "Serpentine Pad" and "Flux=Rad" put their punk rock riffs in giant quotation marks, "Fight This Generation" is an anthem that turns its teeth on itself, and the tossed-off closer "Western Homes" is so single-mindedly alienated from its images of family and household that its sounds are encased in a glossy carapace. So what was left for Pavement? Staking out a position on the sidelines of the pop culture they observed, and concentrating on their internal dynamics as a band — they never sounded more like a democratic quintet before or after this.
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They Say...
With its vast array of musical styles, Wowee Zowee isn't as accessible as Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain or as immediate as the bracing, noisy pop of Slanted & Enchanted. Pavement never abandon their warped pop aesthetic, they simply expand it, incorporating elements of folk-rock, English music hall, soul, jazz, country, as well as adding asides to such contemporaries as Suede ("We Dance"), Ween ("Brinx Job"), and Stereolab ("Half a Canyon"). Alternating between majestic epics like "Grounded" and ragged narratives like "Rattled by the Rush" and "Father to a Sister of Thought," to song fragments like "Brinx Job" and the punkish "Serpentine Pad," the record might seem disjointed at first. After repeated listens, the songs play off each other, creating a dense collage of '90s rock & roll that recasts the past and present into one rich, kaleidoscopic, and blissfully cryptic world view.
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| 01. |  |
We Dance |
3:01 |
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| 02. | |
Rattled By The Rush |
4:16 |
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| 03. | |
Black Out |
2:10 |
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| 04. | |
Brinx Job |
1:31 |
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| 05. | |
Grounded |
4:14 |
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| 06. | |
Serpentine Pad |
1:16 |
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| 07. | |
Motion Suggests |
3:15 |
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| 08. | |
Father To A Sister Of Thought |
3:30 |
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| 09. | |
Extradition |
2:12 |
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| 10. | |
Best Friend's Arm |
2:19 |
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| 11. | |
Grave Architecture |
4:16 |
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| 12. | |
At & T |
3:32 |
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| 13. | |
Flux=Rad |
1:45 |
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| 14. | |
Fight This Generation |
4:22 |
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| 15. | |
Kennel District |
2:59 |
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| 16. | |
Pueblo |
3:25 |
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| 17. | |
Half A Canyon |
6:10 |
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| 18. | |
Western Homes |
1:50 |
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18 Total Tracks, 56:03 Total Length
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Credits
- Pavement - Main Performer // Doug Easley - Pedal Steel // Doug Easley - Engineer // Bryce Goggin - Mixing // Davis McCain - Engineer // Steve West - Drums // Stephen Malkmus - Guitar // Stephen Malkmus - Guitar (Electric) // Stephen Malkmus - Vocals // Bob Nastanovich - Percussion // Rich Costey - Mixing // Sibel Firat - Cello // Mark Ibold - Bass // Mark Venezia - Engineer // Spiral Stairs - Guitar // Spiral Stairs - Vocals // Scott Kannberg - ? // A Firat - ?
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