Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe

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Slanted and Enchanted:
Luxe & Reduxe
File:Slanted and Enchanted album cover.jpg
Compilation album by Pavement
Released 20 October 2002
Recorded 24 December 1990 to
16 December 1992
Genre Indie rock, lo-fi
Length 138:34
Label Matador Records
Pavement chronology
Terror Twilight
(1999)Terror Twilight1999
Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe
(2002)
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins
(2004)Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins2004
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 5/5 stars link
Rolling Stone 5/5 stars 10/31/02
Pitchfork Media 10/10 11/1/02
SplendidEzine.com not rated 11/15/02

Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe is a double album by American indie rock band Pavement featuring a remastered version of the band's first studio album Slanted and Enchanted, as well as outtakes & live tracks from the same era as the original release. On 22 October 2002, Matador Records released this edition with 48 songs, including the entire original disc and, in addition, 3 outtakes of which one is an unreleased song and the other two are alternate takes, plus the B-sides from the "Summer Babe" and "Trigger Cut" singles, 5 songs from two different John Peel sessions, the 4-track EP Watery, Domestic, and 13 tracks of a live performance of the band held at the Brixton Academy in London on 14 December 1992.[1][2] This expanded version reached number 5 in the US Billboard Top Independent Albums[3] and number 152 in the US Billboard 200 charts.[3][4]

Track listing

Disc one Slanted & Enchanted

Slanted & Enchanted
1. "Summer Babe (Winter Version)"
2. "Trigger Cut / Wounded-Kite at :17"
3. "No Life Singed Her"
4. "In the Mouth a Desert"
5. "Conduit for Sale!"
6. "Zürich Is Stained"
7. "Chesley's Little Wrists"
8. "Loretta's Scars"
9. "Here"
10. "Two States"
11. "Perfume-V"
12. "Fame Throwa"
13. "Jackals, False Grails: The Lonesome Era"
14. "Our Singer"
Slanted Sessions
15. "Summer Baby (7" Version)"
16. "Mercy Snack: The Laundromat"
17. "Baptist Blacktick"
18. "My First Mine"
19. "Here (Alternate Mix)"
20. "Nothing Ever Happens"
John Peel sessions, 23 June 1992
21. "Circa 1762"
22. "Kentucky Cocktail"
23. "Secret Knowledge of Backroads"
24. "Here"

Disc two Watery, Domestic

Watery, Domestic
1. "Texas Never Whispers"
2. "Frontwards"
3. "Lions (Linden)"
4. "Shoot the Singer (1 Sick Verse)"
Watery Sessions
5. "Sue Me Jack"
6. "So Stark (You're a Skyscraper)"
7. "Greenlander"
John Peel sessions, 16 December 1992
8. "Rain Ammunition"
9. "Drunks With Guns"
10. "Ed Ames"
11. "The List of Dorms"
Live Brixton Academy, London, 14 December 1992
12. "Conduit for Sale!"
13. "Fame Throwa"
14. "Home"
15. "Perfume-V"
16. "Summer Babe"
17. "Frontwards"
18. "Angel Carver Blues/Mellow Jazz Docent"
19. "Two States"
20. "No Life Singed Her"
21. "So Stark"
22. "Box Elder"
23. "Baby, Yeah"
24. "In the Mouth a Desert"

Charts

US Billboard 200[3][4] 152
US Independent Albums[3] 5

References

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