Wowee Zowee by Pavement

Pros: fractured to almost sans chorus or bridge opting for opened doors and landscapes of music
Cons: if you're not up for the "pros"...

Cryptic, elliptical and, released in 1995 and now scrubbed up with gobloads of extra tracks, it still sounds 10 years ahead of its time. Slanted+Enchanted, Pavement's first proper album after a ton of B sides and EPs showed us the band's Lou Reed and ...

Pros: Sweet, beautiful perfection
Cons: Takes time and effort to get into

Introduction Saying that Wowee Zowee is "difficult" is a bit like saying the Pacific Ocean is "big". To clarify, it's a bit of an understatement. The album certainly has its detractors, who call it "disjointed" (given that it has eighteen ...

Pros: Pavement at some of their best.
Cons: Time. The amount it takes to get into this album or the Pink Floyd song.

Going into 1995 Pavement had a great chance to erase the translucent lines separating mainstream alternative and indie rock. They were coming off a surprisingly manageable gem, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, and many in the music industry looked to ...

Pros: Experimental greatness.
Cons: Absolutely nothing.

What more can I say about my favorite album in the entire world? Pavement should be held high upon the shoulders of human kind and celebrated like Labor Day. Pavement released Crooked Rain in 1994? and hit the pinnacle of college rock. We thought....

Pros: Everything
Cons: Might be too cryptic for some people

This album is hailed the undiscovered masterpiece by many hardcore Pavement fans, and I suppose I'd have to agree. It's probably the most mellow record that the band's ever done, and probably the most cryptic and erratic. Swinging back and forth ...

Pros: weird riffs, cool structures, great lyrics, and catchy tunes
Cons: sometimes smug

Combining great riffs and melodies with weird, laid back experimentation, pavement exemplifies all that an indie band should strive for.

On Woweezowee, they manage to combine elements of Captain Beefheart, The Sonic Youth, The Beatles, and...

Pros: catchy, fun, great, semi-experimental
Cons: who knows what the lyrics are actually about?

Pavement has always kept my attention with their finely tuned talent of blending cheese, melody, just the right amount of craziness and general catchiness, the part lacking for me has always been the lyrics. Whether they are or not singing about anything...