Pavement 
The best album credited to Pavement is Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain which is ranked number 177 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 8,164.
Pavement is ranked number 107 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 19,376.
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Pavement best albums
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Pavement best tracks
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Artist ratings | Avg. artist rating |
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| ! | 11/01/2025 23:28 | kinginsomniac12 | 77 | 100/100 |
| ! | 06/09/2025 18:19 | Invader666 | 337 | 71/100 |
| ! | 05/13/2024 03:23 |  AlvaroIesus | 155 | 68/100 |
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This artist is rated in the top 1% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 83.2/100, a mean average of 81.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.7/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 18.6.
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Pavement forum mentions
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TheAstralPlane 01/16/2012 20:15 | #35342
Much like the Velvet Underground, Pavement made 5 albums which were all completely different. Each of their albums are great in their own way. Slanted and Enchanted is a very lo-fi album, and is probably their best. Crooked Rain has a much more classic indie sound, and almost matches it's predecessor. Wowee Zowee is very experimental and is also just as strong as Crooked Rain and Slanted and Enchanted. Brighten the Corners has a much cleaner sound. It has some great songs on it, but not as strong as the previous 3. Terror Twilight has a similar sound to Brighten the Corners, and is also good, but not as strong as the first 3. Pavement are the best indie band, and the best band of the 1990's.
"So drunk in the August sun/And you're the kind of girl I like/Because you're empty and I'm empty/And you can never quarantine the past"
It's rare for a band to have one album that completely captures the zeitgeist of their time and genre. Pavement doesn't just have two albums that perfectly embody the time and feel of '90s indie rcok, but they each attain completely distinct, complementary forms of perfection.
Brighten the Corners aint bad neither. Date with Ikea is boss.
Best band of the 90's and it's not even remotely close. Few bands can claimed to have as great of songs like "Here" (my favorite Pavement song), "Gold Sondz", and "Zurich is Stained", to name a few. Stephen Malkmjs is a lyricist on par with Morrissey, Lennon and McCartney, and Jagger and Richards. And then there are the albums, which are all at least great and their first two (and depending on my mood, their third) are among the 10 best albums of the 90's and are easily among the best albums ever. In all, the greatest indie band ever, and maybe the greatest band of all time.
junodog4 TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/10/2013 19:08 | #75735
I know Slanted & Enchanted gets all the praise, but I like Crooked Rain just as much.
