Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe

the packaging/artwork is very nice... a 60 page booklet... the lyric sheets (so am i incorrect in assuming that rob bingham pawned that early pavement lyric book for cash as hinted at on the DVD?)

it's pretty and the sounds good. 2 CDs, 48 songs for $12.99 USD.

i think the audiophile element alone is worth the price.

Now the DVD I must have. All of Pavement's music videos are on there (and they made some great ones), as well as a live performance and a documentary. I dont quite understand the documentary though. Pavement just doesnt seem like big enough a band to have one... but Id like to see it anyway.

so hunter called and said to me
"it's not as good as the first EP"
― gygax!, Tuesday, October 22, 2002 10:00 AM (5 years ago)

this may be a dumb question, but was the Gygax! who used to post on ILX any relation to the Gary Gygax of D&D fame?

http://www.treiops.com/pitchblende/gyglyric.html

http://www.treiops.com/pitchblende/images_pitchblende/sidelyr.gif

So it's some kind of emo thing?

you've got a license plate
it says i love my cat
you paid money for that
but your car is cute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpoYNXrJfGM

so I got into this record my first year of college, which was five years ago, and man nostalgia for 2005 -- this song kills

Now that a few decades have passed, it's interesting how this was thought of as a "lo-fi" album when it was recorded in such high-fidelity compared to a lot of the tascam/home-quality stuff at the time (I think the board at Gary's original studio was 32 tracks). Dude knew how to ambiently close-mic/mic-place (esp. himself haha) and really make the best out of Steve and Scott's performances:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XULgpAK3xhw

For some reason this quickly became very difficult to find here. Which is odd as all the other reissues are still easy to pick up

maybe it hasn't been repressed because they kinda reworked all of the bonus stuff into that Secret History release a few years ago?

Interesting, it does seem to be out of print.

...and so are all the others, apparently; except for "Wowee Zowee: Sorded Sentinels"

pretty cheap on discogs for the CD

https://www.discogs.com/Pavement-Slanted-Enchanted-Luxe-Reduxe/release/434189

those reissues were really well done — everything a fan would want. still annoying they refuse to do terror twilight.

^^agree on both counts

did they do brighten the corners?

I still need to pick up the S&E double CD, I guess I shouldn't wait too much longer

I will never pass up the opp to post Silkworm's cover of And Then (The Hexx)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrFpl6_Rq28

did they do brighten the corners?

Yes, and you know what? looks like that one's still in print, too (don't know how I misinterpreted when I first checked): https://www.amazon.com/Brighten-Corners-Nicene-Creedence-Ed/dp/B01LY7TPK8/

Cool nostalgia/ephemera here:

found some stuff hiding... pic.twitter.com/PpJg6E4fR1

— spiral stairs (@spiralmusic) February 11, 2020

"Tape is slave & unusable" - very promising

That 4/27-28-29/1992 session was pretty wild:

Watery Domestic:
-Texas Never Whispers
-Frontwards
-Feed em to the Lions (Linden)
-Shoot the Singer (1 Sick Verse)

Trigger Cut b-sides:
-Sue Me Jack
-So Stark (You're A Skyscraper)

compilation tracks:
-Greenlander

think that was also the time of the excellent peel session song circa 1792 (recorded a couple of months later in June). what a period. favourite pavement material without question.

"kentucky cocktail" too (from that peel session) ... they were on quite a streak!

i don’t think there’s ever been a record that’s quite hit me like watery domestic. it came at a time when i was just coming out of the difficult period of being a teenager turned into a realisation that being different and liking different things to most of my cohort was *interesting* and exciting rather than embarrassing. emboldened by realising sixth form was not going to be the same as uniformed school where i felt ashamed of myself and being smart, and feeling liberated as a consequence. hormonal impulses not in conflict or denial any more but a burgeoning sense of “hey, you got this” (christ, *that* turned out badly). and i remember waking up and feeling and kind of *aware* of myself, on a sunny winter morning. dropping the needle on the record before going to school, and that triumphal reveille riff of guitar just after the beginning of Frontwards.

I’m almost scared to listen to it too much even now, because whenever i do it brings that moment and period - the feel of it - back with painful powerful lucidity and i don’t want to wear it out.

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2022/02/28/electricity-lust-pavements-slanted-enchanted-live/