Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Summer Babe
2. Trigger Cut/Wounded Kite At :17
3. No Life Singed Her
4. In The Mouth A Desert
5. Conduit For Sale
6. Zurich Is Stained
7. Chesley's Little Wrists
8. Lorretta's Scars
9. Here
10. Two States
11. Perfume V
12. Fame Throwa
13. Jackals False Grails (The Lonesome Era)
14. Our Singer
15. Summer Babe
16. Mercy Snack (The Laundromat)
17. Baptist Blacktick
18. My First Mine
19. Here
20. Nothing Ever Happens
21. Circa 1762
22. Kentucky Cocktail
23. Secret Knowledge Of Backroads
24. Here
25. Texas Never Whispers
26. Frontwards
27. Lions (Linden)
28. Shoot The Singer (1 Sick Verse)
29. Sue Me Jack
30. So Stark (You're A Skyscraper)
31. Greenlander
32. Rain Ammunition
33. Drunks With Guns
34. Ed Ames
35. List Of Dorms
36. Conduit For Sale
37. Fame Throwa
38. Home
39. Perfume V
40. Summer Babe
41. Frontwards
42. Angel Carver Blues/Mellow Jazz Docent
43. Two States
44. No Life Singed Her
45. So Stark (You're A Skyscraper)
46. Box Elder
47. Baby Yeah
48. In The Mouth A Desert

Disc 2:

1. Sue Me Jack
2. So Stark (You're A Skyscraper)
3. Greenlander
4. Rain Ammunition
5. Drunks With Guns
6. Ed Ames
7. List Of Dorms
8. Conduit For Sale
9. Fame Throwa
10. Home
11. Perfume V
12. Summer Babe
13. Frontwards
14. Angel Carver Blues/Mellow Jazz Docent
15. Two States
16. No Life Singed Her
17. So Stark (You're A Skyscraper)
18. Box Elder
19. Baby Yeah
20. In The Mouth A Desert

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27694 in Music
• Released on: 2007-12-17
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .42 pounds

CD Description
In their own way, Pavement changed the face of '90s rock just as much as Nirvana, at least for those with an ear closerto the ground of the indie scene. In fact, they virtually defined the indie scene for that decade, and their first full-length album SLANTED AND ENCHANTED was the non-anthem of slacker rock. For years after its release, every hip indie band seemed to imitate Pavement's Fall-influenced, off-kilter sound and post-functional, obscurantist lyrical approach.
The 10th anniversary of the record's release occasioned thisspecial deluxe two-disc edition. Besides the original album, we get a healthy dose of rarities from this phase of the band's career, including radio sessions, outtakes, unreleasedtracks, and a generous helping of live cuts. Though there are few revelations here, as the rare cuts sound pretty much of a piece with the classic album, the quality level is consistently high, both in terms of sound and songs. Any of the countless geeks who were instantly transformed into hipstersupon hearing "Summer Babe" or "Conduit For Sale" should be overjoyed at the abundance of prime Pavement on offer here.

Customer Reviews

Perfect Sound Forever
Special edition albums stink. Adding 3 b-sides and a video is no reason to ask people to part with their money all over again. This is how it should be done.

A brilliant representation of an acknowledged classic, "Luxe & Reduxe" takes the best option for such a project and creates a time capsule of the period 91-92. Thus we get the whole album (of course!), the odd unheard outtake or compilation track, b-sides from the singles, the whole "Watery Domestic" EP, 2 radio sessions almost entirely comprised of unissued songs and a cracking live date from the tail end of the period in question, charting their journey from 2 school friends and the studio owner to a fully fledged band, thrilling audiences whereever they went. Superbly presented with a thick and informative booklet, this is everything you could ask for from a reissue. Excellent work from a group who, even when disbanded, are showing the way. Here's hoping the group's other album will eventually get the same treatment. Magnificent, buy with confidence.

Mid-tempo Euphoric Excess c. 1992
If you wanna party like it's 1992, then this, my friend, is a double barrel blast of mid-tempo indie sputter cut just for you. The core S-n-E LP is presented here with much better sound [you'll notice the bass lines you’ve never heard...] w/o interfering with that classic sound. Beyond that, you get quite a good deal more: The Watery Domestic EP [compact bliss]; some Peel Sessions, the orig Summer Babe 7-inch -- with the jaw dropping Baptist Blacktick track, the Sue ME Jack 7-in and a slew of live tracks that bound to make you remember how much fun it was to see Gary do handstands across the stage -- and possibly into drums.

slanted & enchanted, divine and twisted
A trip back to the halcyon days of yore. We all remember when this first came out and the arguments that ensued as to whether the flexi of 'My First Mine' was more valuable than the 10" of 'Perfect Sound Forever' etc. etc. This is the vastly aggrandised version of the album that started off all that lonely fanatical fervour.

The album remains a wonderful cacophony of influence from The Velvets and The Fall to the Pixies and Only Ones. There are a plethora of great tunes but, oddly enough, it's perhaps the most patchy of the Pavement albums - a reflection on the haphazard way in which it was recorded and (eventually) released. Nonetheless, it remains a timeless record of a catchy tunesmith with obtuse yet immediate lyrics in the guise of a garage rock band, en route to being the most important band of the 1990s.

There's no question that this is a must-buy (unless you own Stray Slack and the Garrulous 7"s) - 34 extra tracks, including the first 2 Peel Sessions and their entire gig in support of Sonic Youth at the Brixton Academy in 1992 (great version of Summer Babe). What are you waiting for?