Pavement - Wowee Zowee

Pavement - Wowee Zowee

Great 1995 LP No3 from the Cali guys

Tracklist:

1) We Dance
2) Rattled By The Rush
3) Black Out
4) Brinx Job
5) Grounded
6) Serpentine Pad
7) Motion Suggests Itself
8) Father To A Sister Of Thought
9) Extradition
10) Best Friend's Arm
11) Grave Architecture
12) AT&T
13) Flux = Rad
14) Fight This Generation
15) Kennel District
16) Pueblo
17) Half A Canyon
18) Western Homes

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 but delighted fans. 

“A masterpiece” - Rolling Stone 

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