Slanted and Enchanted
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| Studio album by Pavement | |||||
| Released | April 20, 1992 | ||||
| Recorded | December 24, 1990– January 20, 1991 |
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| Genre | Indie rock | ||||
| Length | 38:41 | ||||
| Label | Matador Records (1992) Matador/Atlantic Records (1995) Big Cat Records (1997) |
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| Producer | Pavement | ||||
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Slanted and Enchanted is the debut album by American indie rock band Pavement. The album regularly appears at the top of lists of most important albums of the 1990s[citation needed], despite relatively low record sales. The album was distributed to critics as early as 1991 before its original release and when the rest of Pavement joined the band, so when the album was released, the band had a bassist and Gary Young's drumming was so shaky that the band hired Bob Nastanovich to accompany him[citation needed]. 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).
The album's name is taken from the title of a cartoon made by Silver Jews frontman David Berman[citation needed]. It is also an allusion to a line from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem Kubla Khan[citation needed].
As of 2007, the album has sold 150,000 copies.
Music videos were shot for the songs "Here" and "Perfume-V". They weren't in rotation on MTV. They, however, were included on the Slow Century DVD.
[edit] Track listing
- "Summer Babe (Winter Version)" – 3:16
- "Trigger Cut/Wounded-Kite At :17" (2 tracks: "Trigger Cut" (2:50) and "Wounded-Kite At :17" (0:26)) – 3:16
- "No Life Singed Her" – 2:09
- "In the Mouth a Desert" – 3:52
- "Conduit for Sale!" – 2:52
- "Zurich is Stained" – 1:41
- "Chesley's Little Wrists" – 1:16
- "Loretta's Scars" – 2:55
- "Here" – 3:56
- "Two States" – 1:47 (with Spiral)
- "Perfume-V" – 2:09
- "Fame Throwa" – 3:22
- "Jackals, False Grails: The Lonesome Era" – 3:21
- "Our Singer" – 3:09
[edit] Critical acclaim
- Chosen as #5 on Pitchfork Media's Top 100 Albums of the 1990s (November 2003 Redux); in the original list compiled in 1999 the album placed 3rd.
- Chosen as #4 on Spin magazine's Top 100 Albums of the Past 20 Years in June 2005.
- It was also included in the All-Time 100 albums from Time magazine.
- Chosen as #1 on Blender magazine's Top 100 Indie Albums of all Time in November 2007.
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