it's fall!!!!!! (maybe not officially, but it seems like fall)
when fall rolls around i usually start listening to pavement more frequently. i don't know why, but i think it has to do with pavement and fall both making me feel really warm, happy and content. favorite band/favorite season. or maybe it's because of some nice pavement/fall associated memories, especially from college. good times.
anyway, now i'm going to be listening to a lot more pavement, 'cause the wowee zowee reissue was just announced. out nov. 7th, this is the third pavement reissue. the first two were pretty much the best things ever; not only did they rekindle interest and love for the original albums, they were the first release for utterly essential songs from the vaults like "all my friends," "soiled little filly," and "circa 1672." wowee zowee: sordid sentinels edition keeps that streak going with five session outtakes (one of which is a jam session! so enticing!) and a treasure trove of radio sessions, b-sides, and compilation tracks.
mp3: pavement - flaming stones (live 4-17-94)
mp3: pavement - mussel rock (is a horse in transistion)
mp3: pavement - for sale: the preston school of industry
mp3: pavement - space ghost jam
here are some goodies. the first is a live, early version of the song "fin" (aka "infinite spark" if you're from the UK) performed in 94, meaning it was possibly a contender for wowee zowee, yet skipped an album and ended up on brighten the corners three years later. it's a more energetic and ragged counterpart to the album version (which had morphed into a mournful guitar epic). i had half suspected that a studio version of this take would surface on the WZ reissue (ala the crooked rain version of "grounded"), and unless it's either "sordid" or "sentinel," then that's not the case.
next up is "mussel rock," an absolutely great spiral stairs song that was a b-side to "father to a sister of thought."
the next track, whose writing and performance was documented on a dutch television show, is one of the finest unreleased songs ever, and hopefully will appear on the brighten the corners reissue. sorry for the low-quality mp3.
lastly, another track that belongs on the inevitable brighten the corners reissue, the ever awesome "space ghost jam." addictively fun!
Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinals Edition
DISC ONE
Wowee Zowee:
01 We Dance
02 Rattled by the Rush
03 Black Out
04 Brinx Job
05 Grounded
06 Serpentine Pad
07 Motion Suggests Itself
08 Father to a Sister Of Thought
09 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
Wowee Zowee session outtake:
19 Sordid (previously unreleased)
"Rattled by the Rush" B-sides:
20 Brink of the Clouds
21 False Skorpion
22 Easily Fooled
"Father to a Sister of Thought" B-sides:
23 Kris Kraft
24 Mussle Rock (Is a Horse in Transition)
Pacific Trim EP:
25 Give It a Day
26 Gangsters & Pranksters
27 Saganaw
28 I Love Perth
Wowee Zowee session outtake:
29 Sentinel (previously unreleased)
DISC TWO
From the I Shot Andy Warhol soundtrack:
01 Sensitive Euro Man
Wowee Zowee session outtake:
02 Stray Fire (previously unreleased)
Recorded March 3, 1994 at Hilversum, Holland (all previously unreleased):
03 Fight This Generation
04 Easily Fooled
Wowee Zowee jam session featuring Doug Easley on piano:
05 Soul Food
From the Homage to Descendents Descendents tribute album:
06 It's a Hectic World
Recorded for BBC Radio 1's Steve Lamacq Evening Session, March 15, 1995 (all previously unreleased):
07 Kris Kraft
08 Golden Boys/Serpentine Pad
09 Painted Soldiers
10 I Love Perth
Medusa Cyclone/Pavement split 7":
11 Dancing With the Elders
Live at the Wireless JJJ Radio, Australia, Recorded July 7, 1994 (all previously unreleased):
12 Half a Canyon
13 Best Friend's Arm
14 Brink of the Clouds/Candylad
15 Unfair
16 Eaily Fooled
17 Heaven Is a Truck
18 Box Elder
From the Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks compilation:
19 No More Kings
From the The Kids in the Hall in Brain Candy soundtrack:
20 Painted Soldiers
Wowee Zowee session outtake:
21 We Dance - alternate mix (previously unreleased)
