Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels (2xCD)
Originally released in April 1995, fresh off the success of Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, the band recorded a deliberately chaotic and eclectic album that sounded nothing like its predecessor. With influences from the Groundhogs to the Frogs, Captain Beefheart to the more obscure mid-'80s central California hardcore bands, Wowee Zowee confused critics and alienated fans. Yet it became a fan favorite over time. The songs have a darkness that now seems appropriate and with Bryce Goggin at the mixing desk, the production was the band's most rocking to date. This super-deluxe re-mastered comp contains an embossed slipcase with two CDs and a 64-page perfect-bound book, fifty tracks total; eighteen unreleased recordings, nine non-album b-sides, four compilation tracks, five BBC Evening Session tracks and much more.
| Tracklisting | |
| Disk | 1 | 2 | |
| 1 | Sensitive Euro Man [I Shot Andy Warhol soundtrack] |
| 2 | Stray Fire [previously unreleased Wowee Zowee session outtake] |
| 3 | Fight This Generation [recorded March 3, 1994 at Hilversum, Holland] |
| 4 | Easily Fooled [recorded March 3, 1994 at Hilversum, Holland] |
| 5 | Soul Food [Wowee Zowee jam session w/ Doug Easley on piano] |
| 6 | It's a Hectic World [from Homage to Descendents tribute album] |
| 7 | Kris Kraft [BBC in-studio: Steve Lamacq Evening Session, March 15, 1995] |
| 8 | Golden Boys/Serpentine Pad [BBC in-studio: Steve Lamacq Evening Session, March 15, 1995] |
| 9 | Painted Soldiers [BBC in-studio: Steve Lamacq Evening Session, March 15, 1995] |
| 10 | I Love Perth [BBC in-studio: Steve Lamacq Evening Session, March 15, 1995] |
| 11 | Dancing With the Elders [from Medusa Cyclone/Pavement split 7"] |
| 12 | Half a Canyon [live: Wireless JJJ Radio, Australia, July 7, 1994] |
| 13 | Best Friend's Arm [live: Wireless JJJ Radio, Australia, July 7, 1994] |
| 14 | Brink of the Clouds/Candylad [live: Wireless JJJ Radio, Australia, July 7, 1994] |
| 15 | Unfair [live: Wireless JJJ Radio, Australia, July 7, 1994] |
| 16 | Eaily Fooled [live: Wireless JJJ Radio, Australia, July 7, 1994] |
| 17 | Heaven Is a Truck [live: Wireless JJJ Radio, Australia, July 7, 1994] |
| 18 | Box Elder [live: Wireless JJJ Radio, Australia, July 7, 1994] |
| 19 | No More Kings [from Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks comp] |
| 20 | Painted Soldiers [from Kids in the Hall in Brain Candy soundtrack] |
| 21 | We Dance (alternate mix) [previously unreleased Wowee Zowee session outtake] |
| fab.
- Grenoble, , France |
| Without listening to this deluxe edition...Wowee Zowee is Pavement at their best...damn it "Grounded", one of my favorite songs ever...if you have a look at how good the previous edition was...this version is just a must have! | |