Pavement - Wowee Zowee (1995)
3.2 In Pavement's 2002 documentary Slow Century , frontman Stephen Malkmus addresses Wowee Zowee 's singles thusly: "I was smoking a lot of grass at the time, and to me they sounded like hits". For all I know, he might be right; I personally would imagine the only way to make heads or tails out of this trainwreck of an album would involve some serious state-alteration. Pavement had always had a sort of amateurish approach to their music, causing many to label them as "slackers", but the creativity and dedication to songcraft on 1992's Slanted and Enchanted and 1994's Crooked Rain Crooked Rain proved they had focus and drive. Wowee Zowee, meanwhile, completely defenestrates the precedent they set for themselves, reveling in shambolic disarray to the delight of the 2 Pavement fans who prefer a song like "Mercy Snack: The Laundromat" to "Gold Soundz". From the aimless acoustic ballad "We Dance" that seems to fade out ...