CROOKED RAIN, CROOKED RAIN

'''Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain''' is a sesquialbum released by Pavement. With this album, the band abandoned the lo-fi sound displayed on ''Slanted & Enchanted'' (as well as their drummer, Gary Young). During the tour for ''Slanted'', the band added percussionist Bob Nastanovich and bassist Mark Ibold; partway through this album's recording sessions, Gary Young was replaced by Steve West. The album featured the band at its most easily accessible, and the single "Cut Your Hair" was the band's closest brush with mainstream success. As of 2007, the album has sold almost 500,000 copies.
The album was reissued on October 26, 2004 under the name ''. The rereleased version contains two discs: the first is the original album as well as B-sides and compilation tracks from that era. The second disc is a collection of previously unreleased tracks featuring former drummer Gary Young and live BBC Sessions.
The photo in the middle of the cover was taken from the March 1974 issue of National Geographic Magazine.
Due to an ink splodge on the back of the original artwork, the song written as "Silence Kid" has become known as "Silence Kit". This was carried onto track names printed on the re-issue '', despite the interior artwork showing the original name written in Stephen Malkmus's handwriting, several times.
It was chosen as #8 on Pitchfork Media's ''Top 100 Albums of the 1990s'' [1]
It was also mentioned in the Kevin Devine song "Probably," from his Split The Country, Split The Street record. In the song, Devine sings the lyric, "And you probably don't care for punk rock, but you probably love Crooked Rain." [2]

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Track listing

#"Silence Kit" – 3:01
#"Elevate Me Later" – 2:51
#"Stop Breathin" – 4:28
#"Cut Your Hair" – 3:07
#"Newark Wilder" – 3:53
#"Unfair" – 2:33
#"Gold Soundz" – 2:41
#"5-4=Unity" – 2:09
#"Range Life" – 4:54
#"Heaven is a Truck" – 2:30
#"Hit the Plane Down" – 3:36
#"Fillmore Jive" – 6:38

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