I'll be completely and totally honest heading into this: Pavement didn't catch my attention in their active years. I'd read a couple of articles about them in the back pages of rock magazines, and I remember them giving Pavement's previous album (1992's Slanted And Enchanted ) loads of praise, extolling the virtues of this thing I'd never really looked into called "noise rock". However, being a mere teenager in Atlantic Canada in the early 90s, I didn't get the same exposure to the same bands as the kids in the bigger cities did (kids, I know it's hard to believe, but there was a time long, long ago before the internet when we had to find out about bands mostly from mainstream media). So no, I never actually heard any Pavement records in the 90s. Years later, when Matador started reissuing Pavement's records with a metric shit-tonne of bonus material, the magazines (and, by then, blogs) started bringing them up again. Eventually, I'd ...
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