Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition

Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition
Compilation album by Pavement
Released	November 7, 2006
Recorded	March 3, 1994 to March 15, 1995
Genre	Indie rock
Length	156:15
Label	Matador Records
Pavement chronology
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins (2004) Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition (2006) Brighten the Corners: Nicene Creedence Edition (2008)

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Blender	[1]
Pitchfork Media	(9.3/10) link
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Stylus Magazine	(A+) link

Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition is a two CD compilation album by Pavement released on November 7, 2006. It contains the band's third album, Wowee Zowee (1995) in its entirety, as well as 32 of the band's other songs from that era, 18 of which were previously unreleased.

Matador Records offered extra items to people who pre-ordered the reissue. Those who chose to pre-order the album received a code redeemable on the Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition website for a rare recording of a live Pavement show at the Palace in Los Angeles on April 21, 1994. Also included in the pre-order deal was a free 7" record which included previously unreleased studio versions of the songs "Black Out" and "Extradition" and a poster based on a painting that artist Steve Keene originally contributed for the original release of Wowee Zowee in 1995.

The track "Motion Suggests Itself" was mistitled on the original release by the omission of its title's final word due to a transcription error. The Sordid Sentinels Edition finally rectified this mistake.

A different version of "Easily Fooled" appeared on Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins as "The Sutcliffe Catering Song". Also, an early version of "Brink of the Clouds" with an intro and outro appeared on the same album.

Track listing

Disc One

Wowee Zowee

1. "We Dance"

2. "Rattled by the Rush"

3. "Black Out"

4. "Brinx Job"

5. "Grounded"

6. "Serpentine Pad"

7. "Motion Suggests Itself"

8. "Father to a Sister of Thought"

9. "Extradition"

10. "Best Friend’s Arm"

11. "Grave Architecture"

12. "AT&T"

13. "Flux = Rad"

14. "Fight This Generation"

15. "Kennel District"

16. "Pueblo"

17. "Half a Canyon"

18. "Western Homes"

Wowee Zowee session outtake

19. "Sordid"

Rattled by la Rush EP

20. "Brink of the Clouds"

21. "False Skorpion"

22. "Easily Fooled"

"Father to a Sister of Thought" single

23. "Kris Kraft"

24. "Mussle Rock (Is a Horse in Transition)"

Pacific Trim EP

25. "Give It a Day"

26. "Gangsters & Pranksters"

27. "Saganaw"

28. "I Love Perth"

Wowee Zowee session outtake

29. "Sentinel"

Disc Two

I Shot Andy Warhol soundtrack

1. "Sensitive Euro Man"

Wowee Zowee session outtake

2. "Stray Fire"

Recorded March 3, 1994 at Hilversum, Netherlands

3. "Fight This Generation"

4. "Easily Fooled"

Wowee Zowee session with Doug Easley on piano

5. "Soul Food"

Homage to Descendents tribute album

6. "It’s a Hectic World"

Steve Lamacq Evening Session (March 15, 1995)

7. "Kris Kraft"

8. "Golden Boys/Serpentine Pad"

9. "Painted Soldiers"

10. "I Love Perth"

Medusa Cyclone/Pavement split 7"

11. "Dancing with the Elders"

Recorded live at Wireless JJJ Radio in Australia (July 7, 1994)

12. "Half a Canyon"

13. "Best Friend’s Arm"

14. "Brink of the Clouds/Candylad"

15. "Unfair"

16. "Easily Fooled"

17. "Heaven Is a Truck"

18. "Box Elder"

Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks compilation

19. "No More Kings"

Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy soundtrack

20. "Painted Soldiers"

Wowee Zowee session outtake

21. "We Dance" (alternate mix)