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Spartan Pho3nix:
So, rank Slanted, Crooked, Wowee, Brighten, and Terror in order of your favorite to your least favorite, and maybe list some reasons.

1) Wowee Zowee. So awesome. So diverse. So fun. Great tracks, awesome replayability.
2) Slanted and Enchanted - Pavement's first and noisiest. Catchy songs and good album.
3) Brighten the Corners - My first pavement Album. Accessible, not as weird, more produced, like newer Malkmus.
4) Crooked Rain - Most pop album, the songs just aren't as fun, in my opinion.
5) Terror - Pretty bland, you can tell Pavement is bored.

rive gauche:
Crooked Rain is my favourite because it is the first Pavement album that I ever listened to. I stole it from my brother thinking it was going to be some insane hardcore band (I was young :)). I was delightfully surprised.

Wowee Zowee has a sweet cover.

KharBevNor:
1)Terror - Because it has the coolest name
2)Crooked Rain - Grim name
3)Slanted and Enchanted - Rhyming is fun
4)Brighten the corners - Brightness sucks
5)Wowee Zowee - campest name

As you may be able to tell, I've never heard anything by this band.

RUMBLEMOOSE:
1) Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
If you can get over them breaking your heart by abandoning their "guitar fuzz/guitar fuzz/offkey vocal" instrumentation scheme, this album is one of the greatest records ever made by anyone ever. I also don't think it's their poppest (BtheC), but it's a marked diversion into indie rock and it defined indie rock for the next hundred years (or at least five or six).

2) Slanted + Enchanted
Splits the difference perfectly between the indie rock of Crooked Rain and the fuzzbox-explosions of the first EPs. Harder to successfully rip off than Crooked Rain.

3) Wowee Zowee
aka "The Blue Album," it's laced with genius but extremely long, sprawling, and kinda frustrating to beginning listeners. But how can you beat an album that opens with a line about castration?

4) Brighten the Corners
5) Terror Twilight
I'm going to buck the trend and say that these were good albums. BtheC edges out Terror Twilight by virtue of having a few songs with Spiral Stairs taking vocals, and of course by rocking just slightly harder. Terror Twilight sounds like the band were trying a folk-rock direction, and judging by Malkmus' solo records and the PSOI stuff that came out after Pavement broke up, I don't think any of them really wanted to go in that direction all that much, but there were still some solid and interesting songs on it.

And honorable mention goes to Watery, Domestic for being better than all five albums, despite only being ten minutes long. God Damn that record is amazing.

surefunk:
so, pavement ranking, i have to put crooked rain on top.  maybe it's a little poppy, and obviously the first half is way, way stronger than the second half.  but for ten years now i've loved that album enough to hear it constantly.  don't you just bond with an album when you've had it on cassette, then cd, and now on your computer?
after crooked rain, i've got slanted, and then couldn't really play favorites among the others.  love them all.
side project sidebar- how about silver jews rankings?  i don't know if i'll ever decide which is better between american water and natural bridge.  still waiting for tanglewood to grown on me these days.

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