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Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain was released on February 14, 1994, by Matador Records. [2] As of 2009, the album had sold about 500,000 copies. [3]In 2004, Matador released Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins, a compilation containing the album in its entirety, as well outtakes and other rarities from the same era.
Rolling Stone editor Mark Kemp described it as a "scattered and sloppy" effort with "half-baked" performances by Malkmus and Kannberg. [10] He also speculated that the relative success of Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain was a reason for the album's eclectic nature, claiming that Pavement were afraid of success. [10]
Pavement's 'Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain' just turned 30 on February 14. ... the band’s sophomore album Crooked Rain, ... like ice on a hot stove,” Joe Levy wrote in the Rolling Stone review. 4.
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LA's Desert Origins was released on October 26, 2004, by Matador Records. [1] The album contains a 62-page booklet of liner notes, which contain photographs, artwork, accounts from vocalist/guitarist Stephen Malkmus and guitarist Scott Kannberg (a.k.a. "Spiral Stairs"), and notes Malkmus wrote for Melody Maker about each of the songs on the original album. [2]
Pavement's second album Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain was released in 1994. The record was more indebted to the classic rock tradition than their debut. The single " Cut Your Hair " was the most successful song, and briefly enjoyed airplay on alternative rock radio and MTV .
The 18-song follow-up to Crooked Rain, 1995's Wowee Zowee, was more experimental than its predecessor and was initially criticized as evidence that the "defiantly anti-corporate" band was "simply afraid to succeed;" [10] the album did not sell as well as Crooked Rain.