Best Pavement/Malkmus album

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Once and for all. Let's end this silly arguing.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain	36
Wowee Zowee	33
Slanted & Enchanted	23
Brighten The Corners	14
Terror Twilight	3

― the next grozart, Friday, 20 April 2007 01:34 (eighteen years ago)

woops, i was going to include the malkmus ones but thought better not to and forgot to change the thread title.

― the next grozart, Friday, 20 April 2007 01:34 (eighteen years ago)

i am shit at polls

― the next grozart, Friday, 20 April 2007 01:38 (eighteen years ago)

Right now, gotta be CRCR, no question--just a stone cold beautiful record start to finish

― iago g., Friday, 20 April 2007 01:48 (eighteen years ago)

a toss up between CRCR and WZ.

― Drooone, Friday, 20 April 2007 01:49 (eighteen years ago)

woops, i was going to include the malkmus ones but thought better not to and forgot to change the thread title.

You could have saved even more time by leaving Brighten the Corners and Terror Twilight off the list as well

― badg, Friday, 20 April 2007 02:11 (eighteen years ago)

Brighten The Corners is great.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 20 April 2007 02:15 (eighteen years ago)

i'll never forget the first time i heard S&E...corny as it may sound, it was truly a defining moment in my adolescent life...that album single-handedly rendered my entire music collection up to that point obsolete!

sure, i'd probably recommend crooked rain to someone wanting to get into pavement... but for me, S&E is just magic.

― venimdenim, Friday, 20 April 2007 02:36 (eighteen years ago)

woweezoweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

― stephen, Friday, 20 April 2007 05:58 (eighteen years ago)

i had to go Brighten the Crooners

― poortheatre, Friday, 20 April 2007 06:31 (eighteen years ago)

i agree with venimdenim on S&E - what a wonderfully strange record i found it at the time. however, wowee zowee has intrigued me the most. detached, melancholic and at times with such sweeping guitar melodies/lines. i'm going to put it on now.

― willem, Friday, 20 April 2007 06:41 (eighteen years ago)

i still haven't voted. S&E is the one that took the longest to get into and I didn't appreciate the charm until someone bought me the Redux package for Christmas. Crooked Rain is the most consistently great - really good pop songs, maybe my favourite, but maybe without the kind of attachment I feel towards others. Wowee Zowee tooka while to appreciate but boy was it worth it. Definitely their most out-there record. Brighten The Corners was the first I heard and I love it. I have a lot fo good memories centred around that disc. Terror Twilight I love because it reminds me of a certain time, I like the pro-rockiness of it all. So difficult!

― the next grozart, Friday, 20 April 2007 08:09 (eighteen years ago)

So Easy! Even though I love them all. Except the last two.

― ledge, Friday, 20 April 2007 08:47 (eighteen years ago)

you voted for S&E didn't you.

― the next grozart, Friday, 20 April 2007 08:59 (eighteen years ago)

All Wowee Zowee all the time mate.

― ledge, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:02 (eighteen years ago)

ARGH where is dont like option.

― Groke, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:02 (eighteen years ago)

i am incapable of choosing between the first three albums.

― spastic heritage, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:01 (eighteen years ago)

best thing about P'ment is how snippets of their songs just sort of appear surface in my mind, today it's:
"beneath the fake oil burning lamps"
and i can't place them but just sort of turn them over in my head.

― acrobat, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

No pre-Slanted and Enchanted EPs (their best music, easy), no credibility.

― xhuxk, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:10 (eighteen years ago)

I am original and voting for their least low-fi album here. They were on to something by "Terror Twilight" - too bad they broke up soon afterwards.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 20 April 2007 12:49 (eighteen years ago)

HI DERE!

― The Amazing Randy, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:09 (eighteen years ago)

WZ. But xhuxk is right.

― JN$OT, Friday, 20 April 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

i'm running out of opinions

― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 20 April 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

S&E and Crooked Rain consistently vie for the #1 spot. Voting CR this time around I suppose.

― circa1916, Friday, 20 April 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

wowee zowee

― ógy, Saturday, 21 April 2007 09:48 (eighteen years ago)

xhuxk is nuts. Those eps are great, sure, but they really took it a step or 2 further on the first couple of albums.

― Ben Boyerrr, Saturday, 21 April 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

I am unoriginal and thus voting for Slanted. And Chuck's right - those EPs are remarkable.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 22 April 2007 04:54 (eighteen years ago)

wz > slanted > crx2 > westing >>> tt >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> btc

― pretzel walrus, Sunday, 22 April 2007 07:03 (eighteen years ago)

it's definitely crooked rain. if only because, i can't think of anything wrong with it

― Charlie Howard, Sunday, 22 April 2007 07:10 (eighteen years ago)

I have never understood the Brighten the Corners hatred.

― Ben Boyerrr, Sunday, 22 April 2007 09:05 (eighteen years ago)

I love Brighten The Corners, but I voted for Wowee Zowee.

― Marty Innerlogic, Sunday, 22 April 2007 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

this isn't up for debate. it is crooked rain, no contest. every single pavement album is brilliant (except brighten the corners), but even still, nothing else in that band's catalogue comes close to the perfect sound of crcr.

― davie, Sunday, 22 April 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

it's definitely crooked rain. if only because, i can't think of anything wrong with it

Newark Wilder, Stop Breathin, Heaven is a Truck and Fillmore Jive come to mind. Don't get me wrong, I love CR but I tend to think of, and listen to it as a classic EP.

It's Slanted and Enchanted easily.

― ablaeser, Sunday, 22 April 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

hmmm... i like all those songs. only hit the plane down and maybe that jazzy instrumental are sub-par on crcr.

― the next grozart, Sunday, 22 April 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

for a long long time, it was S&E but now Wowee Zowee just seems so perfect i can't imagine that it won't be in my space station stereo on mars in 200 years as the best pavement record. it is now too.

― 7seasjim, Sunday, 22 April 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

I really can't vote here, I love them all just as much.

― sonderangerbot, Sunday, 22 April 2007 23:30 (eighteen years ago)

I voted Crooked Rain. Crooked Rain. But only once I got an mp3 player and deleted Silence Kit, thus making the album fantastic instead of shit.

― I know, right?, Monday, 23 April 2007 01:35 (eighteen years ago)

wowee zowee, fo sho.

― funny farm, Monday, 23 April 2007 03:14 (eighteen years ago)

silence kit?! that's one of the best songs on the album imo.

― venimdenim, Monday, 23 April 2007 03:20 (eighteen years ago)

Fuck, I kind of dig Silence Kit. Well, the last 45 seconds or so of it. Is it fairly universally frowned upon?
xp

― Drooone, Monday, 23 April 2007 03:21 (eighteen years ago)

Seriously, if Elevate Me Later was the first song, then that album would be solid gold. Silence Kit just sounds like some average mid-90's fairly forgettable-if-they-weren't-so-annoying band.

Shit.

― I know, right?, Monday, 23 April 2007 03:25 (eighteen years ago)

You know what's a fantastic Pavement song though? (IMO) All My Friends. You know when he sings "I need it!", oh. man.

― I know, right?, Monday, 23 April 2007 03:27 (eighteen years ago)

haha...i love the nitpicking of songs that are still far better than most bands could come up with ;)

― Charlie Howard, Monday, 23 April 2007 03:52 (eighteen years ago)

Not really. I can think of very few bands who haven't done better that fucking Silence Kit.

― I know, right?, Monday, 23 April 2007 03:59 (eighteen years ago)

Brighten the Corners reminds me of a happy time, and contains some of my favourite lyrics.

― j-rock, Monday, 23 April 2007 07:42 (eighteen years ago)

brighten the corners is indeed grand. i'll rank it above wz as my 3rd fave

― Charlie Howard, Monday, 23 April 2007 08:06 (eighteen years ago)

and come on, silence kit is fantastic!

― Charlie Howard, Monday, 23 April 2007 08:07 (eighteen years ago)

Did you know they expect us to walk under light bulbs? They're expecting us to talk with halogen up there. We're supposed to paint the finished product with a lacquer so it won't warp when it rains. We need to get the dust off of the counters. They're expecting a lot of us.

Everything costs six hundred dollars when there's bass rumble.

― filthy dylan, Monday, 23 April 2007 08:16 (eighteen years ago)

You guys are crazy. Come on now, Silence Kit is one of the best songs on the album!

― ablaeser, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

bump

― JN$OT, Thursday, 26 April 2007 08:21 (eighteen years ago)

Woah! S&E in last place? Take that you suckas!

― the next grozart, Thursday, 26 April 2007 08:24 (eighteen years ago)

last place???

― JN$OT, Thursday, 26 April 2007 08:25 (eighteen years ago)

sorry, why did i say that? it's too early in the morning.

― the next grozart, Thursday, 26 April 2007 08:32 (eighteen years ago)

nice.

― poortheatre, Thursday, 26 April 2007 08:38 (eighteen years ago)

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo

Pipped at the post. This is a national tragedy.

― ledge, Thursday, 26 April 2007 08:38 (eighteen years ago)

I Really am surprised there was no more love for S&E, even though I think it's my least favourite, I always thought it was supposed to be the most popular.

― the next grozart, Thursday, 26 April 2007 08:41 (eighteen years ago)

Too bad their best album received the lowest number of votes. But not too surprising, particularly considering Pavement defined a genre - low-fi - which that last album can hardly be said to represent.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 26 April 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

simply put
i want to grow old
dying does not meet my expecta-tions

― wakafledia (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 06:13 (fifteen years ago)

i always thought that lyric was best paired with something from a related b-side:

You will be my candy striper
Junior leaguer bedpan wiper
Convalescent enema essence
I live to be gray, I live to be gray!

― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 06:26 (fifteen years ago)

best pavement/malkmus album = pig lib

― kamerad, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 14:22 (fifteen years ago)

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