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** Arguably, each of their albums starting with ''Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain'' is this when compared to the album before it. ''Wowee Zowee'' is one of the more infamous examples due to its experimental nature. Though Pavement's [[Greatest Hits Album]], ''Quarantine the Past'', contains rarities such as "The Unseen Power of the Picket Fence" and much more than just the "hits," it still only contains TWO tracks from ''Wowee Zowee'' (the same amount of tracks that are pulled from an early EP), neither of which were released as singles.

* [[The Nineties]]

* [[One Hit Wonder]]: The only really successful single they had was 1994's "Cut Your Hair" (#10 Billboard Modern Rock Tracks), which funnily enough is a snarky criticism of selling out and caring more about one's image than the music. In the UK, their equivalent big hit was 1999's "Carrot Rope" (#27).

* [[One-Hit Wonder]]: The only really successful single they had was 1994's "Cut Your Hair" (#10 Billboard Modern Rock Tracks), which funnily enough is a snarky criticism of selling out and caring more about one's image than the music. In the UK, their equivalent big hit was 1999's "Carrot Rope" (#27).

* [[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 ''[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.

* [[Shout-Out]]: ''Wowee Zowee'' is named after an early [[Frank Zappa]] song ("Wowie Zowie") and its cover art is reminiscent of ''[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."