Wowee Zowee
by Pavement
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Wowee Zowee is ranked 3rd best out of 17 albums by Pavement on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Pavement is Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain which is ranked number 177 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 8,180.
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Wowee Zowee track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Wowee Zowee rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 51 minutes ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Top 67 Music Albums of 1995 | 14/67 | 4 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Pavement | 1/5 | - |
| 2026 |  identifer | Top 20 Music Albums of 1995 | 12/20 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 87 Music Albums of 1995 | 46/87 | 2 |
| 2026 | MasterOfPuppets | Top 19 Music Albums of 1995 | 8/19 | 3 |
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 30/100 | 14 |
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 55 Music Albums of 1995 | 37/55 | 2 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 1995 | 30/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | Ben | Top 50 Greatest Music Albums | 21/50 | 56 |
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 64 Music Albums of 1995 | 20/64 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 353 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 2,280 | |||
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Wowee Zowee ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/01/2026 17:30 | xhitmanx | 1,604 | 75/100 |
| ! | 07/12/2026 19:31 | liquidbottle | 775 | 82/100 |
| ! | 07/04/2026 19:55 | LittleM1971 | 6,003 | 81/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.2/100, a mean average of 77.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.9.
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Wowee Zowee forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 08/05/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5395): By areminder BestEverAlbums 12/01/2025 21:00 in Album of the day (#5461): Wowee Zowee by PavementWowee Zowee comments
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A minority opinion, but I think Pavement got better with each of their first three albums, culminating with this masterpiece. So much to love here, most notably at the beginning and the end. "Father to a Sister to a Thought" is brilliant too. A very '90s record.
An inconsistent bag of songs that ,with trimming down, could be competing amongst the best of all time. There is so much potential on this album such as great songs like We Dance, Grounded, Father To A Sister Of Thought and many more. All of these have fantastic and unique instrumentation blended with a great vocal and lyrical combo to create 3 or 4 minutes of pure musical entertainment. If the album was 9 or 10 tracks long then it would be so infectious that it would be hard not to be constantly drawn back to this record. However, it is those 8 or 9 filler tracks that let the album down by being a bit too weak and dull. They seem really off tempo on these songs and really slow down the experience almost to a point where I am a little bored. The record also slows down in terms of quality nearer the end of the album with most of the weaker cuts being around there. With that being said, I do get drawn back to this album a lot and some of the songs on here are some of my favourite Pavement tracks. Overall, an album with so much potential which is let down by the weaker moments but it has made me excited to do a deeper dive on their other music as this was quite enjoyable.
Far too long, didn't care for most of it. You know them... albums which have no songs that grasp the attention.
There's a lot of filler on this album, but the songs that are good are some of the best songs pavement recorded. Rattled by the Rush, Grounded, At&t, Kennel District are some of the best songs ever in my opinion. Grave Architecture, Black Out, Father to a Sister of a Thought and more are also pretty good. But then you also have songs like Expedition and Serpentine Pad that bring it down a little. Still a very good album though, would recommend.
Oh no, it is lovely! Ignore my last comment, it was a very stubborn thing to say.
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