Après Slanted & Enchanted, c’est au tour de Crooked Rain de subir un lifting de saison. Intitulé Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA’s Desert Origins se présentera une version 2-CD deluxe paru en 1994. Comme d’habitude, le disque à reçu les soins appropriés : remaster à partir des bandes originales, B-sides, compilation tracks, raretés ainsi que chutes de studios et les indispensables Peel sessions. En chiffres, cela donne, 49 titres, 25 inédits et 11 promises comme jamais entendues auparavant. Enfin, un livret de 40 pages aura fini de nous assommer. Plus de détails ? Lire ci-dessous.

Pavement, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA’s Desert Origins’

DISC ONE

[Tracks 1-12 are the original ‘Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, released in January 1994. Tracks 13-24 are B-sides and compilation tracks.]

1. Silence Kit

2. Elevate Me Later

3. Stop Breathin

4. Cut Your Hair

5. Newark Wilder

6. Unfair

7. Gold Soundz

8. 5-4 = Unity

9. Range Life

10. Heaven Is a Truck

11. Hit the Plane Down

12. Fillmore Jive

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13. Camera

14. Stare

15. Raft

16. Cooling by Sound

17. Kneeling Bus

18. Strings of Nashville

19. Exit Theory

20. 5-4 Vocal

21. Jam Kids

22. Haunt You Down
23. Unseen Power of the Picket Fence

24. Nail Clinic

DISC ONE tracks 1-12 from Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, originally released by Matador Records, February 1994, OLE-079-1/2/4.

DISC ONE tracks 13 & 14 from « Cut Your Hair » originally released by Matador Records, January 1994, OLE-082-7/2/1

DISC ONE tracks 15 & 16 from « Range Life » originally released by Big Cat Records, January 1995, ABB77-S/T/CD. Used by permisssion

DISC ONE tracks 17-19 from « Gold Soundz » originally released by Matador Records, June 1994, OLE-101-7/2

DISC ONE track 20 from Gold Soundz Austral-N.Z. French Micronesia 94 , originally released by Fellaheen, July 1994, JACK-015-2. Used by permission

DISC ONE tracks 21 & 22 from the Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain bonus 7″, originally released by Matador Records February 1994, OLE-087-7

DISC ONE track 23 from V/A – No Alternative originally released by Arista Records, November 1993, 18737-2. Used by Permission

DISC ONE track 24 from V/A – Hey Drag City! originally released by Drag City Records, 1994, DC-20-1/2/4. Used by Permission

Tracks 1-12, 15, 16, 19, 20 recorded Aug-Sept 1993 at Random Falls, NYC, engineered by Mark Venezia.

Tracks 14, 17, 18, 21, 22 recorded early 1993 at Louder Than You Think, Stockton, CA

Tracks 13, 23, 24 recorded spring 1993 at Waterworks, NYC.

DISC TWO


[All tracks unreleased; * indicates a completely unreleased song. Tracks 1-8 are an early version of ‘Crooked Rain’ recorded with original drummer Gary Young. Some songs ended up in considerably changed versions on the third album, ‘Wowee Zowee.’]

1. All My Friends *

2. Soiled Little Filly *

3. Range Life

4. Stop Breathing

5. Ell Ess Two [early version of Elevate Me Later (Loretta Scars II)]

6. Flux = Rad

7. Bad Version of War *

8. Same Way of Saying *

9. Hands Off the Bayou *

10. Heaven Is a Truck (Egg Shell)

11. Grounded

12. Kennel District

13. Pueblo (Beach Boys)

14. Fucking Righteous *

15. Colorado *

16. Dark Ages *

17. Flood Victim *

18. JMC Retro *

19. Rug Rat [vocal version of KNEELING BUS, not an unreleased song]

20. Strings of Nashville (instrumental)

21. Instrumental *

22. Brink of the Clouds

23. Tartar Martyr *

24. Pueblo Domain

25. The Sutcliffe Catering Song [this ended up being called EASILY FOOLED and is not an unreleased song]

EVERY RECORDING ON DISC TWO IS UNRELEASED
* UNRELEASED SONGS

DISC TWO tracks 1-8 recorded early 1993 at Louder Than You Think, Stockton, CA. Gary Young on drums. PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

DISC TWO tracks 9-21 recorded at Random Falls Aug-Sept 1993, engineered by Mark Venezia. PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

DISC TWO tracks 22-25 Recorded for Radio 1’s John Peel Show at BBC’s Maida Vale Studio 5. Producer: Mike Hawkes. First Transmission Date: 26th February 1994. PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED