Pavement's Wowee Zowee - Brossura

Charles, Bryan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0826429572 ISBN 13: 9780826429575

Casa editrice: Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2010

Riassunto

Pavement wrapped up at Easley Recording in Memphis. They mixed the tracks and recorded overdubs in New York. They took a step back and assessed the material. It was a wild scene. They had fully fleshed-out songs and whispers and rumors of half-formed ones. They had songs that followed a hard-to-gauge internal logic. They had punk tunes and country tunes and sad tunes and funny ones. They had fuzzy pop and angular new wave. They had raunchy guitar solos and stoner blues. They had pristine jangle and pedal steel. The final track list ran to eighteen songs and filled three sides of vinyl.

Released in 1995, on the heels of two instant classics, Wowee Zowee confounded Pavement's audience. Yet the record has grown in stature and many diehard fans now consider it Pavement's best. Weaving personal history and reporting-including extensive new interviews with the band-Bryan Charles goes searching for the story behind the record and finds a piece of art as elusive, anarchic and transportive now as it was then.

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Recensione:

Charles puts himself in the center of the bookwe read about his aimless college years in Michigan and his discovery of Pavement, whose songs initially seem half hearted, even bratty, but actually contain an undertow of emotion that's hard to articulate. Charles' writing is the same way. He succinctly captures the flavor of being in one's late teens and early 20s without going into unnecessary detail. Finishing school, he undergoes that arduous, interminable crisis of figuring out what to do with life, discovering that one of the only things that still makes sense is Pavement. Charles returns to the band time and again, the music weaving a thread through his life. --The Portland Mercury

L'autore:

Bryan Charles is the author of the novel Grab On to Me Tightly as if I Knew the Way.

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• Editore: Continuum Intl Pub Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0826429572
• ISBN 13: 9780826429575
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 153