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Slanted and Enchanted by Pavement
Slanted and Enchanted is an album by Pavement, released in 1992. 5 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 13 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Summer Babe”, on 6 lists with a best position of #34.
Slanted and Enchanted, Pavement's first full album, came out on Matador in April 1992, a scrappy, hiss-coated dispatch from a Stockton, California band that had begun as a recording project and kept its distance from the press. Stephen Malkmus and Scott Kannberg share the guitars and vocals, Gary Young bashes the kit on what would be his only Pavement album, and the band produced it themselves.
It sounds like pop songs left out in the rain: melodies bent out of shape, guitars fraying into feedback, Malkmus drawling cryptic half-thoughts as if he'd just found them in his pocket. The title came from a cartoon by the band's friend David Berman, and the sleeve lifts its look from Ferrante & Teicher's Keyboard Kapers. It has since been hailed as an indie rock landmark, and in 2022 Alex Ross Perry turned it into a rock opera, Slanted! Enchanted!
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Slanted and Enchanted on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Summer Babe | 6 | #34 | – | 1991–2022 | |
| 2 | Summer Babe (Winter Version) | 3 | #91 | – | 2019–2024 | |
| 3 | Here | 2 | #10 | – | 1992–2000 | |
| 4 | In The Mouth A Desert | 1 | #35 | – | 1992 | |
| 5 | Conduit For Sale | 1 | #47 | – | 1992 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.