"I'm drowning for your thirst/Drowning for your thirst": The official WOWEE ZOWEE REISSUE anticipation thread

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/37556/Pavements_Wowee_Zowee_to_Be_Reissued#37556

Wowee Zowee is right. Following in the footsteps of their 2002 reissue of Pavement's 1992 debut album Slanted & Enchanted and their 2004 reissue of 1994's Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, Matador will reissue Pavement's fan-favorite third studio release, 1995's Wowee Zowee.

While a tracklist, release date, and load of additional information are still in the works, a few exciting tidbits about the reissue have been revealed by the folks at Matador.

Wowee Zowee version 2.0 will include around twenty album covers by Steve Keene, a never-before-heard concert from the WZ tour, and a number of previously unreleased tracks and rarities, many of which are alternate takes. And that's all we know right now, sorry!

Kool!

They should reprint, in the liner booklet, that song-by-song rundown SM did in Raygun: "Fear of aging, fear of Limbaugh"...

I was pretty dissapointed by a lot of the extra songs on the CR CR re-release.

And I'm never a big fan of "alternate takes" as bonus tracks.

(I'll still buy this, of course!)

So wait, there was no audience? The band wore earplugs?

[/pedant dork]

Aside from the White Stripes, or maybe Modest Mouse, no rock band has since come out of the gate with such greatness on their first four releases.

Just needed to say that.

"the greatest four-record run in rock history"

this album sounds great

there's a lot of hardpanning going on with a lot of the instruments, interesting

yeah, i think this is their best-produced record, even though it has the reputation of being the weirdest/most difficult. nice guitar tones, lots of layers.

This is the Sordid Sentinels edition? The booklet was fucking great, makes buying albums worth it.

I've never compared the Sordid Sentinels version with the original issue, but either way you slice it, this is hands down my favorite Pavement record. I've heard several people express how much they like it on shuffle, but for me it's perfectly sequenced, just a great ride all the way through.

i just bought the regular vinyl version available on the matador site, was only $12 for a double LP, looks about 120 gram vinyl, and all of matador's vinyl is pressed at RTI iirc, so it's dope official on wax

This is cute:

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwurhvtxMK1qz87jlo1_400.jpg

really only $12?! huh kinda want it now.

is Wowee Zowee on vinyl still 3 sides? The original release had etchings on the fourth side ...

I have what I thought was an original release (it's not the recent reissue anyway)...it's blank on side 4, no etching.

eh, maybe i'm thinking of something else ... i don't have it on vinyl, a friend did ...

tylerw, now you've got me confused. i know psychic hearts (released the same year?) had etchings on the fourth side, but now i wonder if wz had the drawing from the inside of the gatefold etched on the fourth side. of course i'm at work so i can't verify the latter.

maybe i'm thinking of psychic hearts? i'm confused too.

both had side 4 etchings.

thread title keeps beckoning

i never realised it had three sides! the flow of it kind of makes more sense to me now

lol mp3 generation

My copy side 4 has no etchings, it's just blank.

(purchased around 1998)

i bought mine the day it came out - no etching

Maybe only certain copies had the Steve Keane etching?

and says a bunch of Malkmus slogans.

yeah my copy does not have an etching, bought it when it came out

mysteeeeeerious

My copy had an etching when I bought it, but now the etching has vanished!

http://frooliemew.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/cast.jpg

lol no etching on mine either

it's possible i was high as a teenager listening to this and etched something on it myself.

hahaha, i need to find my copy. pretty sure about this dudes!

OK thanks to ILM I am going to listen to this RIGHT NOW for the first time in years

You will NOT be disappointed.

it's a great record! i remember when it came out, my family was going to cooperstown to visit the baseball hall of fame. i made my dad stop at a random mall where there was a record store -- The WALL, I think? -- and I bought it there. So I kinda associate it with Willie Mays and Lou Gehrig and so forth. Memories.

I've definitely seen the etching and remembered it being a Steve Keane thing as well. But I don't own one. It might have been my college radio station's vinyl copy. Maybe it was only on promos?

it's weird that I can't google up anything about this existing

the one i just received from matador has a blank fourth side, no etchings of any kind

but this is obv a repress, has the new Low Price sticker that says free download on it

favorite pavement album no contest--and one of the great stoner records