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Merge from|Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins|date=July 2010Infobox album| | Name = Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain| Type = Album | Artist = Pavement (band)|Pavement | Cover = Pavement Crooked Rain.jpg| Released = February 2, 1994| Recorded = August–September 1993 at Random Falls Studios, New Yorkcite web |url= http://www.discogs.com/Pavement-Crooked-Rain-Crooked-Rain/release/379401 |title=Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain |publisher=discogs.com |accessdate=date|2011-09-02| Genre = Indie rock | Length = 42:18| Label = flagicon|USA Matador Records Matador Records/ Atlantic Records (original release) flagicon|UK Big Cat Records (original release) Domino Records (reissue) flagicon|GermanyRough Trade Records flagicon|Australia Fellaheen Records flagicon|New ZealandFlying Nun Records | Producer = Pavement (band)|Pavement | Last album = Westing (By Musket & Sextant) (1993) | This album = Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994) | Next album = Wowee Zowee (1995) Album ratings| rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = Rating|5|5Allmusic|class=album|id=r191417|tab=review |label="Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain > Review" |first=Stephen Thomas |last=Erlewine |accessdate=date|2011-09-02 | rev2 = Pitchfork Media | rev2Score = (10.0/10) cite web |url= http://pitchforkmedia.com/reviews/albums/6200-crooked-rain-crooked-rain-las-desert-origins/ |title=Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain |first=Mark |last=Richardson |date=date|October 25, 2004 |publisher= Pitchfork Media | rev3 = Robert Christgau | rev3Score = (A) cite web |url= http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php? id=1059& name=Pavement |title=Pavement |first=Robert |last=Christgau |publisher=robertchristgau.com |accessdate=date|2011-09-02 | rev4 = Rolling Stone | rev4Score = Rating|4|5cite journal |url= http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/crooked-rain-crooked-rain-19940224 |title=Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain |first=Matt |last=Diehl |date=date|February 24, 1994 |magazine= Rolling Stone Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain is an album released by Pavement (band)|Pavement in 1994. With this album, the band abandoned the lo-fi sound displayed on Slanted and Enchanted (as well as their drummer, Gary Young (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 (Pavement)|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 and was a UK Top 20 hit upon release. Although it was not so successful in the US charts, it has since been critically acclaimed across the US music press as a classic alternative rock album.
The album was reissued on October 26, 2004 by Matador Records 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 collection features forty-nine tracks, culled from various previous recordings, including the original album, the single " Cut Your Hair ", "Range Life", "Gold Soundz", the "Gold Soundz" Australia-N.Z. French Micronesia Tour '94 EP, the "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain" bonus 7", and other recording sessions at Random Falls, NY, Louder Than You Think in Stockton, CA, and Waterworks, NY over the course of 1993.
The photo in the middle of the cover was taken from the March 1974 issue of National Geographic Magazine .
It was chosen as #8 on Pitchfork Media 's Top 100 Albums of the 1990s cite web |url= http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/5923-top-100-albums-of-the-1990s/10/ |title=Top 100 Albums of the 1990s |page=10 |date=date|11/17/2003 |publisher= Pitchfork Media |archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20090317231129/ http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/5923-top-100-albums-of-the-1990s/10/ |archivedate=date|17 Mar 09 |deadurl=no In 2003, the album was ranked number 210 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|the 500 greatest albums of all time and number 10 on their best albums of the nineties.cite journal |url= http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-best-albums-of-the-nineties-20110427/pavement-crooked-rain-crooked-rain-19691231 |at=10: Pavement, 'Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain' |title=100 Best Albums of the Nineties |magazine= Rolling Stone |accessdate=date|2011-09-02 In 2010, the song " Gold Soundz " was listed as number one on Pitchfork Media 's 200 Greatest Songs of the 1990s.
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.
Track listing
All songs written by Stephen Malkmus , otherwise noted. #"Silence Kid" – 3:01 #"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 (song)|Range Life " – 4:54 #"Heaven Is a Truck" – 2:30 #"Hit the Plane Down" ( Scott Kannberg ) – 3:36 #" Fillmore Jive (song)|Fillmore Jive " – 6:38
Steve West (pavement)|Steve West : Drums, Percussion
Mark Ibold : Bass
Bryce Goggin: Engineer, piano ("Range Life")
Mark Venezia: Engineer
References
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