Wowee zowee

"Pavement wrapped up at Easley Recording in Memphis. They mixed the tracks and recorded overdubs in New York. They tookm a step back and assessed the material. It was a wild scene. They had fully fleshed-out songs, and whispers and rumors of half-formed ones. They had songs that followed a hard-to-gauge internal logic, sometimes drifting into the ether or flying totally off the rails, sometimes achieving an unlikely revolution. They had punk tunes and country tunes and sad tunes and funny ones. They had fuzzy pop and angular new wave. They had raunchy guitar solos and stoner blues. They had pristine jangle and pedal steel. The final track list ran to eighteen songs and filled three sides of vinyl. The record's title was a nod to their former drummer. He'd say wowee zowee when something blew his mind. Released in 1995, on the heels of two instant classics [Slanted and Enchanted ; Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain], Wowee Zowee confounded Pavement's audience and took the shine off their status as can't-lose critics' darlings. Yet the record has grown in stature and many diehard fans now consider it Pavement's best. ..."--Back cover.

שנה

2010

שפה

English

סדרה

33 1/3

הוצאה

Continuum

מהדורות

1

עמודים

153

ISBN

9780826429575

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata