Paving Paradise

I recently burned a CD from the second disc of the anniversary reissue of Pavement's Slanted and Enchanted. (Don't sic the lawyers on me, Matador. I already own the original and there's no way I would have bought the reissue anyway.) I'm staggered at the depth of quality music Pavement was putting out during the early 1990s. As if the monumental albums Slanted and Enchanted and Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain weren't enough, even the B-material represented here was extremely strong.

This disc has the entire Watery, Domestic EP, the "Sue Me Jack"/"So Stark (You're a Skyscraper)" seven-inch, the brilliant "Greenlander" from the Born to Choose benefit compilation (also quite worthy, if you can find it), two tunes from a 1992 John Peel session, "All My Friends" (actually from the Crooked Rain reissue, copped from an authorized online MP3), and six live tracks from a great 1992 London show that really makes me regret I never saw the band play live.

"Frontwards" (from Watery) already happens to contain one of my favorite Pavement lines:

I've got style
Miles and miles
So much style
That it's wasting

Wow, wow, wow.