Wowee Zowee - Sordid Sentinels Edition

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Wowee Zowee - Sordid Sentinels Edition

[ Matador Records / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Tuesday 12 December 2006

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This super-deluxe re-mastered compilation boasts an embossed slipcase, containing 2 CDs plus a 64-page perfect-bound book, the entire re-mastered original album, plus loads of never-released songs and rarities - a grand total of 50 tracks!

"Pavement stands as the finest rock band of the '90s.”
- Robert Christgau, Village Voice, NYC

Originally released by Matador in April of '95, on the eve of Pavement's infamous mud-bespattered mainstage appearance at Lollapalooza, 'Wowee Zowee' began life as a controversial release. Fresh off the success of 'Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain' with its chart-topping single "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 California hardcore bands featured on "Not So Quiet On The Western Front;, 'Wowee Zowee' confused critics and alienated some fans. How fantastic, then, that it went on to scan more than 122,000 copies and became the favourite Pavement album for many.

This super-deluxe re-mastered compilation boasts an embossed slipcase, containing 2 CDs plus a 64-page perfect-bound book, the entire re-mastered original album, 6 never-released songs [outtakes or live], 9 non-album b-sides from the "Rattled By The Rush" single, "Father To A Sister Of A Thought" single and the "Pacific Trim" EP, 4 period compilation tracks, 5 BBC Evening Session tracks, 7 JJJ [Aus] Live at the Wireless tracks, 2 VPRO [Holland] Session tracks… That's a grand total of 50 tracks with no less than 18 unreleased recordings!

All in all, 'Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition' is the sort of lavish, jaw-dropping package that you've come to expect from the Pavement re-issues.

Tracks:

Disc 1:
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
19. Sordid [previously unreleased Wowee Zowee session outtake]
20. Brink of the Clouds [Rattled by the Rush b-side]
21. False Skorpion [Rattled by the Rush b-side]
22. Easily Fooled [Rattled by the Rush b-side]
23. Kris Kraft [Father to a Sister of Thought b-side]
24. Mussle Rock [Father to a Sister of Thought b-side]
25. Give It a Day [Pacific Trim EP]
26. Gangsters & Pranksters [Pacific Trim EP]
27. Saganaw [Pacific Trim EP]
28. I Love Perth [Pacific Trim EP]
29. Sentinel [previously unreleased Wowee Zowee session outtake]

Disc 2:
1. Sensitive Euro Man [I Shot Andy Warhol soundtrack]
2. Stray Fire [previously unreleased Wowee Zowee session outtake]
3. Fight This Generation [recorded March 3, 1994 at Hilversum, Holland]
4. Easily Fooled [recorded March 3, 1994 at Hilversum, Holland]
5. Soul Food [Wowee Zowee jam session w/Doug Easley on piano]
6. It's a Hectic World [from Homage to Descendents tribute album]
7. Kris Kraft [BBC in-studio; Steve Lamacq Evening Session, March 15, 1995]
8. Golden Boys/Serpentine Pad [BBC in-studio; Steve Lamacq Evening Session, March 15, 1995]
9. Painted Soldiers [BBC in-studio; Steve Lamacq Evening Session, March 15, 1995]
10. I Love Perth [BBC in-studio; Steve Lamacq Evening Session, March 15, 1995]
11. Dancing With the Elders [from Medusa Cyclone/Pavement split 7"]
12. Half a Canyon [live; Wireless JJJ Radio, Australia, July 7, 1994]
13. Best Friend's Arm [live; Wireless JJJ Radio, Australia, July 7, 1994]
14. Brink of the Clouds/Candylad [live; Wireless JJJ Radio, Australia, July 7, 1994]
15. Unfair [live; Wireless JJJ Radio, Australia, July 7, 1994]
16. Eaily Fooled [live; Wireless JJJ Radio, Australia, July 7, 1994]
17. Heaven Is a Truck [live; Wireless JJJ Radio, Australia, July 7, 1994]
18. Box Elder [live; Wireless JJJ Radio, Australia, July 7, 1994]
19. No More Kings [from Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks comp]
20. Painted Soldiers [from Kids in the Hall in Brain Candy soundtrack]
21. We Dance (alternate mix) [previously unreleased Wowee Zowee session outtake]