Slanted and Enchanted

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Slanted and Enchanted
Studio album by Pavement
Released	April 20, 1992
Recorded	December 24, 1990– January 20, 1991
Genre	Indie rock
Length	38:41
Label	Matador Records
Producer(s)	Pavement
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (A) link Sputnik Music link
Pavement chronology
Perfect Sound Forever (1991)	Slanted and Enchanted (1992)	Westing (By Musket & Sextant) (1993)

Slanted and Enchanted is Pavement's critically acclaimed and influential first studio album. The album regularly appears at the top of lists of most important albums of the 1990s. In 2003, the album was ranked number 134 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

A two-disc expanded version of the album, Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe, was released in 2002. Along with the original 14 tracks, it includes an additional ten tracks from recording sessions on disc one, and disc two consists of the four-track Watery, Domestic EP, seven other songs from recording sessions, and 13 live tracks (from a show at the Brixton Academy in London on December 14, 1992).

[edit] Track listing

1. "Summer Babe (Winter Version)" – 3:16
2. "Trigger Cut/Wounded-Kite At :17" – 3:16
3. "No Life Singed Her" – 2:09
4. "In the Mouth a Desert" – 3:52
5. "Conduit for Sale!" – 2:52
6. "Zurich is Stained" – 1:41
7. "Chesley's Little Wrists" – 1:16
8. "Loretta's Scars" – 2:55
9. "Here" – 3:56
10. "Two States" – 1:47
11. "Perfume-V" – 2:09
12. "Fame Throwa" – 3:22
13. "Jackals, False Grails: The Lonesome Era" – 3:21
14. "Our Singer" – 3:09

[edit] Critical acclaim

• Chosen as #5 on Pitchfork Media's Top 100 Albums of the 1990s (Redux) link
• Chosen as #4 on Spin magazine's Top 100 Albums of the Past 20 Years in June 2005 [1]

[edit] Sample