Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
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| Studio album by Pavement | |||||
| Released | February 2, 1994 | ||||
| Recorded | August-September 1993 | ||||
| Genre | Indie rock | ||||
| Length | 42:18 | ||||
| Label | Matador Records Matador Records/Atlantic Records (original release) | ||||
| Producer | Pavement | ||||
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Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain is an album released by Pavement in 1994. With this album, the band abandoned the lo-fi sound displayed on Slanted & Enchanted (as well as their drummer, Gary Young). During the tour for Slanted, the band added percussionist Bob Nastanovich and bassist Mark Ibold; partway through this album's recording sessions, Gary Young was replaced by Steve West. The album featured the band at its most easily accessible, and the single "Cut Your Hair" was the band's closest brush with mainstream success. As of 2007, the album has sold almost 500,000 copies.
The album was reissued on October 26, 2004 under the name Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins. The re-released version contains two discs: the first is the original album as well as B-sides and compilation tracks from that era. The second disc is a collection of previously unreleased tracks featuring former drummer Gary Young and live BBC Sessions.
The photo in the middle of the cover was taken from the March 1974 issue of National Geographic Magazine.
Due to an ink splodge on the back of the original artwork, the song "Silence Kid" has become erroneously known as "Silence Kit". This misnomer persisted when designer Mark Ohe printed it onto the back of the re-issue Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins, despite the interior artwork showing the correct name in print several times, including written in Stephen Malkmus's own handwriting.
It was chosen as #8 on Pitchfork Media's Top 100 Albums of the 1990s [1] In 2003, the album was ranked number 210 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
It was also mentioned in the Kevin Devine song "Probably," from his album Split the Country, Split the Street. In the song, Devine sings the lyric, "And you probably don't care for punk rock, but you probably love Crooked Rain." [2]
All songs were written by Stephen Malkmus except "Hit the Plane Down".
[edit] Track listing
- "Silence Kid" – 3:01 (sometimes referred to as Silence Kit)
- "Elevate Me Later" – 2:51
- "Stop Breathin'" – 4:28
- "Cut Your Hair" – 3:07
- "Newark Wilder" – 3:53
- "Unfair" – 2:33
- "Gold Soundz" – 2:41
- "5-4=Unity" – 2:09
- "Range Life" – 4:54
- "Heaven Is a Truck" – 2:30
- "Hit the Plane Down" – 3:36 (Spiral Stairs)
- "Fillmore Jive" – 6:38
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