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Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0744861072225
Label: Matador Records
Manufacturer: Matador Records
MPN: 10722
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Matador Records
Release Date: November 07, 2006
Studio: Matador Records
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Editorial Review:
Originally released in April 1995, fresh off the success of "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain", the band recorded a deliberately chaotic and eclectic album that sounded nothing like its predecessor. With influences from the Groundhogs to the Frogs, Captain Beefheart to the more obscure mid-'80s central California hardcore bands, "Wowee Zowee" confused critics and alienated fans. Yet it became a fan favorite over time. The songs have a darkness that now seems appropriate and with Bryce Goggin at the mixing desk, the production was the band's most rocking to date. This super-deluxe re-mastered comp contains an embossed slipcase with two CDs and a 64-page perfect-bound book, fifty tracks total; eighteen unreleased recordings, nine non-album b-sides, four compilation tracks, five BBC Evening Session tracks and much more.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Roll With The Wind
A very smart person once said: "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all." While I support that statement, I have to take a moment to talk about one of the most unlistenable pieces of music I have ever heard. "Nirvana's not the quintessential band of the 90s, it's Pavement!", they'll tell ya. I wanted to be a part of that crowd too. I wanted to cheer for Malkmus and the gang badly. In fact, it's one of my biggest mistakes: assuming I'll love the band that didn't make it big ... Read More
Rating:  - Mostly Concerning the Extras
Love the album -- 5 stars.
The extra padding is worth the extra (4) dollars (I paid) from a normal, bonusless CD. As has been mentioned already, the bonus tracks help illustrate what the band was trying to do with this album, SM writing in the liners that most of these songs were created through a loose, experimental process with not much in mind as far as end results go.
Of course, with a plethora of extras comes some unnecessary bonus... no, bogus tracks. However, IMO, there ... Read More
Rating: - the album in constant rotation on the jukebox in my brain
i imagine that everyone has a record or two that they know every note from beginning to end, not a wasted nanosecond. from the moment that i hear that opening Eminor chord, i'm whisked away on the Nostalgia Magic Carpet back to my freshman year of high school, emphasis on the former. i can practically smell the hacking-coughed exhales of after school bong hits, shooting pool w/'brinx job' in the background, swearing that the vocal effect on the last few seconds sounds exactly like "Twin Infinitives" era ... Read More
Rating: - This album goes up to 6
My favorite Pavement record (and quite possibly my favorite album of all time. Right up there with The Clash's London Calling and Built To Spill's You In Reverse), re-released, with and additional 32 tracks! Few things, in this world are capable of reaching this caliber of awesomeness.
This album is absolutely every face of Pavement. From their noisy roots, to their folky love, to their jazzy experiments, to... Well... Almost every kind of rock n' roll you can think of.
The album starts with "We ... Read More
Rating: - A Great Reissue of a Great Album
Wowee Zowee is one of the most impressionistic rock albums that I have ever heard. The lyrics appear to be complete nonsense, the music is unstructured and chaotic, and the album as a whole is inconsistent and uneven. You could consider all of these things drawbacks, and for a typical band, they are. But Pavement is different. All of those negatives I mentioned are what define Pavement and what make them great.
Wowee Zowee is probably the most difficult of Pavement albums. It's incredibly ... Read More
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