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* ''Quarantine the Past: The Best of Pavement'' (2010)
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* [[The Alcoholic]]: Gary Young was kicked out of the band because of his drunken antics (doing hand-stands, failing to stay on his stool during live performances, running around the stage while the band played, handing out cabbage and potatoes to fans).
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Gary Young. He was a former hippie who owned a home studio where the band recorded, and joined after hearing the first demos (and was quoted as saying, "This Malkmus idiot's a complete songwriting genius!").
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* [[Perishing Alt Rock Voice]]
* [[Rouge Angles of Satin]]: A graphic mistake on the back cover of ''Crooked Rain'' led to a lot of people thinking the song "Silence Kid" was named "Silence Kit".
* [[Shout-Out]]: ''Wowee Zowee'' is named after an early [[Frank Zappa]] song ("Wowie Zowie") and its cover art is reminiscent of ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20191017225337/http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drm400/m425/m42564cf3zd.jpg Känguru]'' by the [[Kraut Rock]] band Guru Guru. The back cover showing a wizard with the speech bubble [[Gratuitous German|"Pavement Ist Rad!"]] is probably an additional nod to the origin of the cover.
* [[Step Up to the Microphone]]/[[Vocal Tag Team]]: Scott Kannberg's turns at lead vocals fall somewhere between the two: He sings one or two songs on nearly every full length album except for ''Terror Twilight'', but Stephen Malkmus still definitely has the majority of vocals. In addition, "Painted Soldiers" is the only Kannberg-sung track to have a music video, and even then it wasn't officially a single.
* [[Surprisingly Gentle Song]]: "Spit on a Stranger," "Box Elder," and "Here."
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** By extension they're also the [[Trope Codifier]] for the general sound of Indie Rock as a whole during the genre's formative years of the early and mid 90's.
* [[Word Salad Lyrics]]: Oh dear god, "Conduit for Sale!"
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Rents low-down scab house in conduit
Herr Proctor offers said land for a song
But no one wants to sing
In an attempt to retain social privileges
Yet mask it as goodwill
He says to the conduit members,
"Take this rotten old tree and make it bear fruit."
Cheers erupted throughout the thin settlement }}
** Some people seem to believe it's about the fall of the House of Savoy in Turin.
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