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Watery Domestic

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First, I'd like to say this is the best work Pavement has done, hands down. But you'd be way better off just buying the Slanted and Enchanted reissue which includes all songs on this EP along with other live cuts for less than 15 bucks. That's all I have to say.

From the initial feedback of Texas Never Whispers, to the end of Shoot the Singer, this a masterpiece, filling an EP with as much as could be found any of their albums.(And I'm not knocking any of their albums either.) Simply, Texas.... is the finest Pavement song ever written, and Lions is magnificent. Buy this single at all costs.

One of the best 10 minute albums yet seen: four very clever tracks of high energy, enjoyable Slanted-and-Enchanted-style rock packaged up nicely for those short trips to the market on Sunday... it's even got a chicken on the cover to remind you to get eggs. If you like Slanted and Enchanted, you'll love Watery, Domestic... it goes for a watered-down price too.

If you like Pavement--buy this record. If you don't like Pavement, or don't know anything about them--buy this record. I could listen to it over and over and over...and have been known to do just that on occasion. Get it on vinyl if you can.

This second release for matador records is the bands first sly attempts at the full sound of their following album "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain." Steve Malkmus and company do not abandon all the disonance of earlier works but a confidence in their songwriting and playing can be heard in such quiet tracks as "Texas Never Whispers." This EP casts a longer shadow than it has been acknowledged to and is essential for understanding where Pavement is today and how they got there. It doesn't hurt that it is plain fun to listen to.

pavement is a band that relies on pop genius together with a certain melodic and emotional evasiveness, which combines to inspire a unique sort of hushed fascination.

Given the general obliquity of the band, it really fits all too well that some of their best material is stuck on a four-song ep that's over just as you start to fall in love with it. It's the old pavement trick: give you the sugar-pop goods, take them away, give them back, take them away again. You'll never quite figure it out, and that's why it'll always be special.

Watery, domestic is maybe the best thing pavement's ever released. As with all pavement, it's perfection not just because of what you hear, but also because of what you don't hear.

I'd take these four songs over anything else out there

If you don't like pavement, this wont change your mind. If you do like pavement, you should know that this is easily the greatest 10 minute album of all time. It's great for long car trips on I-87 or I-91, and to a lesser extent, I-95. It makes me wish it were 1992 again, when Pavement couldn't play live, but everybody loved them anyway.

If Nirvana was the most important band of the 90's then Pavement is the most influential. The only way Pavement couuld've made this EP any better would've been to put more songs on it.

First heard this on Radio 1 in 1991 - John Peel seemed to play this over and over and over again that autumn - my untrained ear heard another booooorrrring Sonic Youth nod at first, but the 54th time or so, it rubbed off and I was hooked.