Ranking Pavement Albums (Best of Office Hours)
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The fact that everyone's list is so wildly different means Pavement hasn't made a bad album. Could also mean they haven't made a good album.
I can't articulate how emotionally impacting 'Watery, Domestic' was for me and my band at the time it came out. Polvo released 'the new dark age' ep, and shellac released the 'doris/wingwalker' 45 all in same time period.
Totally agree! Watery Domestic is my favorite, saw Polvo with Unwound in Austin in ‘95, one of the best shows! What was your band? I probably was a fan
@@JSanders My band was Bubblegum Thunder. Last fm has our stuff to listen to.'ghost town' on TH-cam was recorded at Steve Albini's in Chicago. I went to grad school and the band broke up.
I just saw Pavement live in Oregon last summer and they were great.
totally agree. defintely my favorite release of theirs!
kinda hurts to see that slanted gets such a bad rep. it's my favourite in the discography.
my list is basically the chronological order funny enough:
1. slanted and enchanted
2. crooked rain, crooked rain
3. wowee zowee
4. brighten the corners
5. terror twilight
yeah I love slanted. I went to best buy to try to steal it, and it was a 2cd set with the 2nd CD was bonus tracks...I got super nervous and only took the 2nd. oops. got what I deserved but I didn't get caught. is that a song lyric?
Yep i was surprised to see that people didn't like slanted as much as other records because slanted really has a lot of great tracks front to back(e.g. summer babe, in a mouth a desert, Zurich is strained, and more).
Also i'm with you on terror twilight and brighten being my least favorite albums that they put out.
Same. Most old fans like Slanted the best. It's not even a contest imo. Although it's close I'd probably say wowee zowee might just edge out CR if you don't include the b-sides for the second slot. Call it a tie
i 100% agree with your ranking.
swap around 4 and 5 I'd agree. always found BTC was really bland and never saw the hype
I love to see Wowee Zowee getting the appreciation it deserves. It's my fave. As for the rest of the albums, I can't really rank them. They are all so chock full of greatness.
Yeah, it's brill. Basically everything I love about Pavement is on that album somewhere. It was also the album that came out right after I'd discovered them, so there's the sentimental thing. Definitely my favorite, with Brighten a length behind.
Pavement were my teenage heroes so this episode warmed my cold dead heart
Terror Twilight had this beautiful, starry-eyed tone to it complete with just a hint of sadness. It felt like a perfect sendoff for the band and I can't help but see it as my favourite.
Also love Wowed Zowee, but I think some of that is in spite of people who say it was the weakest
I love Terror Twilight. Great sounding album as well.
you get it
This title has made me also the happiest person in the Universe.
Crooked Rain is top shelf for me. It's where I discovered Pavement. I kept the huge promo poster from the shop where I worked. Those turquoise rings are HUGE.
same
It's sort of the equivalent of sonic youth's Dirty.
Crooked Rain sounds amazing! I love that record.
It is. It's one of the greatest albums of all time. Most people entered on it, which is why I think it's not super cool now.
@@sunjaysood4384 I agree, I think it's one of the best records ever. I have always loved the production on it too, it sounds incredible.
The best bar none
The interspersed computer sounds are so funny and quirky. Keep it up!
That zoom at the end… really got me
holy fuck , to hear malkmus compare my favourite album (wowee) to my favourite band (ween) makes so much fucking sense in my head oh my god
I don't know why Pinkerton wasn't even on the list, it's my favourite !
By Weezer?
@@jeffbrown-hill7739 Dah! Guess what : I was trolling.
@@fromthe90s21 And I took the bait. 😂
It was the summer of '92 at some liquor store in Pasadena CA when I heard Summer Babe for the first time. It blew me away. That album made me feel so cool because no one else had ever heard of Pavement.
It goes like this from worst to best:
5. Terror Twilight
4. Brighten the Corners
3. Crooked Rain
2. Wowee Zowie
1. Slanted and Enchanted
But Pavement albums are difficult they're all so wild and they all very very wonderful albums
If you put terror twilight in last you must not like soft and melodic vocals
@@velocity1852 True I guess, i go to Pavement when i want more raw vocals and a generally grittier & dirtier tone
1. Wowee Zowee
2. Slanted and Enchanted
3. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
4. Terror Twilight
5. Brighten The Corners
EH. I guess so.
Slanted is my favorite I understand why the band members wouldn’t like it as much, they were inexperienced and young but that what makes it good for me, it’s awkward and unprofessional but still sounds good which is very unique. Woowee is my second favorite because it’s so weird.
My favourite too
1. Wowee Zowee
2. Crooked Rain
3. Slanted
4. Brighten
5. Terror
This...
exactly my ranking
Just got off work, and wow. What a surprise :)
Terror Twilight was my first Pavement album.
Yeah , I was heartbroken to hear my favorites, Crooked Rain and Slanted and Enchanted , and Westing not getting sufficient love. Slanted was the first Pavement album I ever heard/ bought, and, I mean.. "In the mouth a desert".. "Two states".. "No life" ... wtf , they are amazing.. Though I do truly love Wowee Zowie. And I had that very same "Pavement ist Rad" shirt. Back in my day. Lol
Someone gave me a mix tape with "In the mouth a desert" and "Summer babe" on it. The rest is history. Those first two albums were phenomenal and I hate to see them so disrespected! I also had that T-shirt!
Boys are dying on these streets
hold your savings tight!
Best Pavement tune, IMO.
For what it's worth; my fave is Brighten and I also like Terror but I like them all. Fave Malkmus solo is Real Emotional Trash which I think is excellent. Not crazy about the other solo works, sorry Steve.
Time for a new Pavement album eh? THE WORLD NEEDS IT!
this but how you're leaving out pig lib...? idgi, some serious sleepers on that rec
1. Slanted
1.5 Watery, Domestic
2. Wowee Zowee
3. Crooked Rain
4. Terror Twilight
5. Crooked Rain
1. (tie) Brigthen The Corners; Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
3. Wowee Zowee
4. Slanted & Enchanted
5. Terror Twilight (but the Nigel Godrich tracklisting makes it a whole different experience so it could be tied at #4)
My list!
1. Brighten the Corners
2. Slanted and Enchanted
3. Wowee Zowee
4. Terror Twilight
5. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
🖤🖤🖤
Also, I love the blue shirt guy’s Suicide hat! They’re awesome too!
Yesss, grounded at the end of the video! Felt for a moment like all was right with the world. Such a great band. One of my favourite space ghost episodes with these guys in. Adult swim. Fuckkkk yessss....though here in England it was called AKA at first If I remember right?! Late Friday and Saturday night, Cartoon Network would suddenly have the scratch perverts cutting up cartoons with episodes of space ghost and aqua teen hunger force from around 9pm...formative stuff. To think of tv back then....mtv2 would play Can during the middle of the day! How I used to get a bit annoyed by the 7 minute advert that used Cut Chemist’s Lesson.....even though it was great....to see that and think ‘ah not again!’....wow times have changed with actual tv. I feel lucky to have been a teenager at that time. Lovely stuff. Rip tch
1. Crooked rain - one of the greatest rocknroll albums of all time IMO
2. Brighten the corners
3. Terror twilight//slanted = tie
4. Woweee zowee - only record I couldn’t get into
I'm really, really excited to seeing Pavement at Primavera i am going to have a religious experience
From the rough we make par
Terror Twilight was always the black sheep for some reason. It has always been my favorite... The Pavement nerds like to shit on that particular album.
im sorry for the band tht it was a very stressful shitty experience to make the album itself but those emotions were captured for sure in it for me so they didnt go to waste at least. it was my first favourite pavement album and continues to be my fav (except maybe wowzow... everyone love wowzow..) songs like Speak See Remember and Platform Blues are sooooo powerful Blood Sweat And Tears dudes...
People don't seem to be as enchanted by Slanted these days.
Has anybody recorded the whole concert they played yesterday
Doug knows his shit. Slanted and the Texas Whisper ep!
yeah man watery domestic is true gold
wowee zowee
brighten the corners
crooked rain
terror twilight
slanted
but like, all super close
I knew they were all gonna say Wowee Zowee
what a time to be alive...
0. Westing (By Musket and Sextant)
1. Terror Twilight
2. Crooked Rain
3. Brighten The Corners
4. Wowee Zoweee
5. Slanted & Enchanted
my ranking would be
1. slanted and enchanted
2. wowee zowee
3. brighten the corners
4. crooked rain crooked rain
5. terror twilight
I'm unable to pick a favourite. I love them all. And although the expanded, reissues have a lot of dodgy stuff on them, they have a lot of great stuff as well. I'll be seeing the lads again in Paris this year having last seen them in America (El Paso, Texas) sometime back in the 1990s.
That slow zoom into Westie at the end...
brighten the corners is insanely underrated, wowee zowee was where they hit their poppy catchy peak except for that song on "friends", crooked rain was mostly amazing, slanted was insane in the best meaning of insane, twilight was good but maybe overproduced....pavement is soo good
Yeah maybe it was just cuz BTC was the first album I heard, but sometimes I don't get how it isn't unequivocally considered their best.... it is just so lush and complex sounding at the same time. It is clearly their most musical and all the way through has no weak points for me. I think the two Spiral songs are his best too.
@@zevi14 I agree, I heard btc 1st as well. I honestly was underwhelmed by btc at first, but that album slowly grew on me and it's a personal favorite of mine.
Any old bass will do for your tepid jingle jangles
Here's my list:
1. Crooked Rain
2. Wowee Zowee
3. Brighten The Corners
4. Terror Twilight
5. Slanted Enchanted
This is correct
This guy gets it
1. Brighten the Corners
2. Slanted and Enchanted
3. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
4. Wowee Zowee
5. Terror Twilight
This is GOLD
Brighten the Corners supremacy
Terror Twilight is 5, Slanted is 4.
Top 3 are impossible.
Wowee Zowee and Crooked Rain are easily my top 2
Slanted and crooked have always been my top two
Wowee zowie is still my favorite after all these years!
Slanted and crooked are my two favorite damnit
Hold on. I need to Type Slowly
1. Wowee Zowee
2. Crookee Rain Crooked Rain
3. Terror Twilight (new tracklist)
4. Brighten the Corners
5. Slanted and Enchanted
1. Brighten the Corners (9.9/10)
2. Wowee Zowee (9.5/10)
3. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (8.5/10)
4. Slanted and Enchanted (8.1/10)
5. Terror Twilight (8.0/10)
thanks
yeah my ranking’s pretty basic,
1. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
2. Slanted and Enchanted
3. Wowee Zowee
4. Brighten the Corners
5. Terror Twilight
but I consider the top 3 all as indisputable classics, and the last two as fantastic albums. it’s too great of a discography, they never really released a bad song, not even one I feel impartial to. ranking the top songs would be a much more arduous process.
the best song would probably either go to gold soundz or grounded, i bounce between the two but they’re both indescribably amazing. in the mouth a desert would likely be third.
For me:
1) Terror Twilight
2) Wowee Zowee
3) Slanted & Enchanted
4) Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
5) Brighten the Corners
Wow I have never seen the spread between TT and BTC like this. I feel like those albums often go hand in hand for people. Interesting take!
I was baited into clicking this♟️
I don't think it is possible to rank the albums. Every day I would have a different number 1.
Pretty much how I feel.
1. slanted and enchanted
2. crooked rain, crooked rain
3. wowee zowee
4. brighten the corners
5. terror twilight
1. Terror twilight
2. Slanted & enchanted
3. Wowee zowee
4. Brighten the corners
5. Crooked rain crooked rain
*best to worst*
Sorry I missed this.
1. Crooked Rain
2. Brighten the Corners
3. Wowee Zowee
4. Slanted and Enchanted
5. Terror Twilight
1. Wowee Zowee
2. Crooked Rain
3. Terror Twilight
4. Slanted and Enchanted
5. Brighten the Corners
A) you got steve malkmus and TH in one room!?!?!? B) terror twilight is my favorite
Wowee Zowee for me!!!
Clicked on this expecting a lot of TT bashing, so was pleasantly surprised. Love them all but I’ll go: WZ, TT, S&E, CRCR, BTC's
1. Westing
2. Wowee Zowee
2.5 Watery
3. Slanted
4. Crooked
5 Brighten
6 Terror
Sacrilege but I think the first self titled Stephen Malkmus record is better than most of the pavement records
cant believe some of these comments terror twilight is an amazing album
smh my head
1. Brighten the Corners
2. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
3. Terror Twilight
4. Wowee Zowee
5. Slanted and Enchanted
Just to my liking.
1. wowee zowee
2. slanted and enchanted
3. crooked rain
4. brighten the corners
5. terror twilight
Wowee Zowee (band at their fullest, has best deluxe too)
S&E
CR / CR (production is great, idk what’s up with that criticism)
BTC
Terror Twilight
slanted and enchanted
wowee zowee
brighten the corners
westing musket sextant
crooked rain
terror twilight
Brighten is awesome!
I didn't like much after The Straw Dogs except for Eerie Canal and Hospital. They owe their success to me trading Gary Young my EHX micro-synthesizer for a bag of weed..... lol ... just fucking wit choo ...
Fucking brilliant
1. Slanted
2. Watery, Domestic
3. Westing
4. Wowee Zowee
5. Light Up Gold
Crooked Rain all day, everyday.
1. slanted and enchanted
2. crooked rain, crooked rain
3. brighten the corners
4. wowee zowee
5. terror twilight
S&E was the best, and most eclectic.
Terror Twilight the greatest yeee
1) crooked rain, crooked rain
2) slanted and enchanted
3) brighten the corners
4) wowee zowee
5) terror twilight
there are no bad albums though
1. Crooked Rain
2. Terror Twilight
3/4. Zowee/ BTC
5. Slanted
Dont get it twisted i think all of them are a 9/10 are higher, just some are gooder than the others
SE best Garage Rock Album ever !!
their best work - WATERY, DOMESTIC (again not even close, by far their best 4 songs ever)
worst - Terror Twilight and it ain't even close (carrot rope their cringiest song evah)
my personal fave - Wowee Zowee
best - Crooked Rain
NO MORE BULLSHIT. Corners is easily #1.
How's that gonna cut?
Absolutely!
Yeah, I don't understand how this is even a question. Like it is number 1 to me without any doubt at all.
Personally, I don't go by album.
I put Pavement on shuffle and just skip the songs I don't like.
You know...................like a genius.
My fondness for Crooked Rain: dashed in the program but vindicated in the comments.
LOL I enjoy all the records, but Slanted MADE being "record fans who made a record" a thing around that time... and the harsh sonics and handmade quality were essential as they were trying to copy the Fall and other primal source bands... and the fact that they and their audience finds this their least favorite record shows that they were indeed posing when they made it... but that actually validates it ;)
Crooked Rain has no bad songs IMO
Impossible to choose between Wowee Zowee, Brighten... and Crooked...
Brighten the Corners is Pavement's masterpiece.
Best first: Crooked, Terror, Brighten, Wowie, Slanted
wowee zowee
crooked rain
watery domestic
terror twilight
slanted
brighten
Tough list, but personally I would say:
1) Slanted and Enchanted
2) Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
3) Brighten the Corners
4) Terror Twilight
5) Wowee Zowee
BTC is equal to TT w highs and lows
I grew up think Slanted was supposed to be the best, but never got on with it. Now I’ve really fallen for it, it’s not the ‘best’ one. Story of my life haha. Not that it matters of course
Gray Shit Sludge, new album by the Pavement Puddles dropping soon!
watery domestic is the ONLY pavement I like
Crooked Rain is obviously the best
Crooked's the best. Everyone knows that, it's just some have forgotten.