Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins
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Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins is a double album by Pavement
released on October 26, 2004. It contains the band's second album, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
(1994) in its entirety, as well as 37 of the band's other songs from that era, 25 of which (the entire second disc) were previously unreleased. The album also contains a 62-page booklet of liner notes
, which contain photographs, artwork, accounts from vocalist/guitarist Stephen Malkmus
and guitarist Scott Kannberg
(aka "Spiral Stairs"), and notes Malkmus wrote for Melody Maker
about each of the songs on the original album. The liner notes also feature a surreal and sensationalistic "interview" between Matador's Gerard Cosloy
and the fictitious
"Rob Jurkface". According to Cosloy, he took questions by Pavement's biographer, Rob Jovanovic
, changed them slightly, and wrote silly answers for them.
Some of the songs on the second disc ("Flux = Rad," "Kennel District", "Grounded" and "Pueblo") are early forms of songs on 1995's Wowee Zowee
.
Shortly after the release of this set, a Matador employee posted corrected info regarding the recording sessions for the previously unreleased tracks on disc two. Tracks 2 through 8 and 13 through 21 were actually recorded at Gary Young's studio in Stockton (though Gary does not play on them; any drums were played by Spiral Stairs).
A further mistake is found in the track-listing on the back of the CD; Silence Kid is listed as Silence Kit, despite the interior artwork showing the correct name in print several times, including written in Stephen Malkmus's own handwriting. Some have pointed out that on Pavement's 2010 tour the song appeared on their set-list as "Silence Kit" (Set list), although it is not clear who typed the list, or if it was done as a joke.
"Cut Your Hair" single:
"Range Life" single:
"Gold Soundz" single:
Gold Soundz Austral-N.Z. French Micronesia 94 Tour EP:
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain bonus 7":
No Alternative
compilation:
Hey Drag City! compilation:
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Recorded in early 1993 at Louder Than You Think in Stockton, California
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Recorded in August and September 1993 at Random Falls in New York City
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Recorded in early 1993 at Louder Than You Think in Stockton, California
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John Peel
Session (Transmitted 26 February 1994):
Pavement (band)
Pavement is an American alternative rock band that formed in Stockton, California in 1989. In their career, they achieved a significant cult following, and they were called the best band of the 1990s by prominent music critics Robert Christgau and Stephen Thomas Erlewine...
released on October 26, 2004. It contains the band's second album, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
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 and Enchanted...
(1994) in its entirety, as well as 37 of the band's other songs from that era, 25 of which (the entire second disc) were previously unreleased. The album also contains a 62-page booklet of liner notes
Liner notes
Liner notes are the writings found in booklets which come inserted into the compact disc jewel case or the equivalent packaging for vinyl records and cassettes.-Origin:...
, which contain photographs, artwork, accounts from vocalist/guitarist Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Joseph Malkmus is an indie rock musician and icon, and a member of the band Pavement. He currently performs with Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks.-Early years:...
and guitarist Scott Kannberg
Scott Kannberg
Scott "Spiral Stairs" Kannberg is a musician best known for being a founding member of the indie-rock band Pavement.-Career:...
(aka "Spiral Stairs"), and notes Malkmus wrote for Melody Maker
Melody Maker
Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was, according to its publisher IPC Media, the world's oldest weekly music newspaper. It was founded in 1926 as a magazine targeted at musicians; in 2000 it was merged into "long-standing rival" New Musical Express.-1950s–1960s:Originally the Melody...
about each of the songs on the original album. The liner notes also feature a surreal and sensationalistic "interview" between Matador's Gerard Cosloy
Gerard Cosloy
Gerard Cosloy is an American music industry executive.-Biography:Cosloy was raised in Wayland, Massachusetts, a western suburb of Boston. While he was in high school, he became involved in the local hardcore punk scene, put together many punk shows, and started Conflict, a mimeographed fanzine of...
and the fictitious
Fictitious
For literary uses see FictionFor Legal uses see legal fiction*Fictitious defendants*Feigned action*Ejectment - an action to recover land*John Doe - commonly named as a fictitious defendant....
"Rob Jurkface". According to Cosloy, he took questions by Pavement's biographer, Rob Jovanovic
Rob Jovanovic
Rob Jovanovic is an author, most notable for his 2004 biography about the indie rock band Pavement, Perfect Sound Forever: The Story of Pavement. Jovanovic has also penned volumes on Beck, Richey Edwards of the Manic Street Preachers, Nirvana, Big Star, Kate Bush and R.E.M. as well as sports...
, changed them slightly, and wrote silly answers for them.
Some of the songs on the second disc ("Flux = Rad," "Kennel District", "Grounded" and "Pueblo") are early forms of songs on 1995's Wowee Zowee
Wowee Zowee
Wowee Zowee is the third studio album by Pavement. The album showcased a more experimental and spontaneous side of the group, returning them to the clatter and unpredictability of their early recordings after the classic rock vibe of 1994's Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain...
.
Shortly after the release of this set, a Matador employee posted corrected info regarding the recording sessions for the previously unreleased tracks on disc two. Tracks 2 through 8 and 13 through 21 were actually recorded at Gary Young's studio in Stockton (though Gary does not play on them; any drums were played by Spiral Stairs).
A further mistake is found in the track-listing on the back of the CD; Silence Kid is listed as Silence Kit, despite the interior artwork showing the correct name in print several times, including written in Stephen Malkmus's own handwriting. Some have pointed out that on Pavement's 2010 tour the song appeared on their set-list as "Silence Kit" (Set list), although it is not clear who typed the list, or if it was done as a joke.
Disc One: "Back to the Gold Soundz (Phantom Power Parables)"
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain:- 1. "Silence Kid" – 3:00
- 2. "Elevate Me Later" – 2:51
- 3. "Stop Breathin'" – 4:27
- 4. "Cut Your HairCut Your Hair"Cut Your Hair" is a song by American rock band Pavement from their second album, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. It was written by Pavement songwriter and lead singer Stephen Malkmus. The song snidely attacks the importance of image in the music industry...
" – 3:06 - 5. "Newark Wilder" – 3:53
- 6. "Unfair" – 2:33
- 7. "Gold SoundzGold Soundz"Gold Soundz" is the second single lifted from Pavement's 1994 album Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. The song did not perform particularly well as a single, failing to chart on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart, where their previous single, "Cut Your Hair" peaked at #10...
" – 2:39 - 8. "5 - 4 = Unity" – 2:09
- 9. "Range LifeRange Life (song)"Range Life" is a song by Pavement, the third single from their 1994 album Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. The song attracted attention with controversial lyrics that seemed to mock alternative rock superstars the Smashing Pumpkins and the Stone Temple Pilots; Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan expressed...
" – 4:54 - 10. "Heaven Is a Truck" – 2:30
- 11. "Hit the Plane Down" – 3:36
- 12. "Fillmore Jive" – 6:38
"Cut Your Hair" single:
- 13. "Camera" – 3:45 (R.E.M. Cover)
- 14. "Stare" – 2:51
"Range Life" single:
- 15. "Raft" – 3:34
- 16. "Coolin' by Sound" – 2:50
"Gold Soundz" single:
- 17. "Kneeling Bus" – 1:33
- 18. "Strings of Nashville" – 3:46
- 19. "Exit Theory" – 1:00
Gold Soundz Austral-N.Z. French Micronesia 94 Tour EP:
- 20. "5 - 4 Vocal" – 2:08
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain bonus 7":
- 21. "Jam Kids" – 4:54
- 22. "Haunt You Down" – 4:51
No Alternative
No Alternative
-Home video track listing:# Matthew Sweet "Superdeformed"#*directed by Kevin Kerslake# Neneh Cherry "Athens, Georgia 1993"#*directed by Jim McKay & Michael Stipe# Urge Overkill "Take a Walk"#*directed by Matt Mahurin...
compilation:
- 23. "Unseen Power of the Picket Fence" – 3:51
Hey Drag City! compilation:
- 24. "Nail Clinic" – 2:25
Disc Two: "After the Glow (Where Eagles Dare)"
Recorded in August and September 1993 at Random Falls in New York CityNew York City
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- 1. "All My Friends" – 5:12
Recorded in early 1993 at Louder Than You Think in Stockton, California
Stockton, California
Stockton, California, the seat of San Joaquin County, is the fourth-largest city in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. With a population of 291,707 at the 2010 census, Stockton ranks as this state's 13th largest city...
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- 2. "Soiled Little Filly" – 2:08
- 3. "Range LifeRange Life (song)"Range Life" is a song by Pavement, the third single from their 1994 album Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. The song attracted attention with controversial lyrics that seemed to mock alternative rock superstars the Smashing Pumpkins and the Stone Temple Pilots; Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan expressed...
" – 4:11 - 4. "Stop Breathing" – 3:54
- 5. "Ell Ess Two" (aka "Loretta's Scars II", later renamed to "Elevate Me Later") – 2:44
- 6. "Flux = Rad" – 2:11
- 7. "Bad Version of War" – 3:27
- 8. "Same Way of Saying" – 4:35
Recorded in August and September 1993 at Random Falls in New York City
New York City
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- 9. "Hands Off the Bayou" – 2:43
- 10. "Heaven is a Truck (Egg Shell)" – 2:20
- 11. "Grounded" – 3:35
- 12. "Kennel District" – 3:24
Recorded in early 1993 at Louder Than You Think in Stockton, California
Stockton, California
Stockton, California, the seat of San Joaquin County, is the fourth-largest city in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. With a population of 291,707 at the 2010 census, Stockton ranks as this state's 13th largest city...
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- 13. "Pueblo (Beach Boys)" – 3:47
- 14. "Fucking Righteous" – 2:47
- 15. "Colorado" – 1:13
- 16. "Dark Ages" – 2:39
- 17. "Flood Victim" – 1:17
- 18. "JMC Retro" – 0:52
- 19. "Rug Rat" – 3:05
- 20. "Strings of Nashville (Instrumental)" – 3:50
- 21. "Instrumental" – 3:40
John Peel
John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE , known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004...
Session (Transmitted 26 February 1994):
- 22. "Brink of the Clouds" – 3:48
- 23. "Tartar Martyr" – 3:13
- 24. "Pueblo Domain" – 4:18
- 25. "The Sutcliffe Catering Song" – 3:22
Personnel
- Gail Butensky – Photography
- Bryce Goggin – Piano, Mixing
- Alex Kirzhner – Design
- Mark Ohe – Art Direction
- Mark Venezia – Engineer