Pavement launches ‘Cautionary Tales: Jukebox Classiques’ vinyl box set
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The Californian alt-rock band Pavement has announced a bumper reissue box set to celebrate its critically praised recording run through the 1990s.
Active in the studio between 1989 and 1999, Pavement released five albums that blurred the line between oblique alt-rock and mainstream accessibility. The early releases Slanted And Enchanted, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain and Wowee Zowee are regarded as the band’s masterpieces among critics and fans, while Brighten The Corners and Terror Twilight consisted generally of more radio-friendly material.
Cautionary Tales: Jukebox Classiques, the new limited-edition vinyl box set, targets the old-school fan, showcasing the band’s complete catalogue of 7″ singles. The exclusive collection comprises 18 records in total, featuring music initially released via esteemed labels such as Treble Kicker, Drag City, Matador, Big Cat, and Domino.
Each record is meticulously reproduced with the original artwork, accompanied by a 24-page threaded saddle-sewn booklet and a comprehensive discographic history. Please note that Cautionary Tales is available exclusively via mail order and is strictly limited to pre-orders only. The box set is available to pre-order now, with a strict deadline of April 22nd. See purchase options here.
Those who pre-order the set can expect delivery on July 12th. While you wait, however, you can enjoy the remastered collection across all major streaming platforms. Comprising 56 songs with a two-hour 46-minute runtime, the box set traces the band’s development and includes covers of songs by The Fall, Echo and the Bunnymen and more.
See the full tracklist and watch the preview video below.
Cautionary Tales: Jukebox Classique tracklist:
- ‘You’re Killing Me’
- ‘Box Elder’
- ‘Maybe Maybe’
- ‘She Believes’ (edit)
- ‘Price Yeah!’
- ‘Fork Lift’
- ‘Spizzle Trunk’
- ‘Recorder Grot’
- ‘Internal K-Dart’
- ‘Perfect Depth’
- ‘Recorder Grot (Rally)’
- ‘Summer Babe’
- ‘Mercy Snack’
- ‘Baptiss Blacktick’
- ’ Trigger Cut’
- ‘Sue Me Jack’
- ‘So Stark (You’re A Skyscraper)’
- ‘Cut Your Hair’
- ‘Camera’
- ‘Stare’
- ‘Gold Soundz’
- ‘Kneeling Bus’
- ‘Strings Of Nashville’
- ‘Exit Theory’
- ‘Range Life’
- ‘Raft’
- ‘Coolin’ By Sound’
- ‘Rattled By La Rush’
- ‘False Skorpion’
- ‘Easily Fooled’
- ‘Father To A Sister of Thought’
- ‘Kriss Kraft’
- ‘Mussle Rock (Is A Horse In Transiton)’
- ’Pacific Trim’ (Released on Matador February 1996 OLE-188-7)
- ’ Give It A Day’
- ‘Gangsters & Pranksters’
- ‘Saganaw’
- ‘I Love Perth’
- ‘Stereo’
- ‘Birds In The Majic Industry’
- ’Shady Lane’ (Krossfader)
- ‘Unseen Power Of The Picket Fence’
- ‘Spit On A Stranger’
- ‘Harness Your Hopes’ (Live in Brixton)
- ‘Carrot Rope’
- ‘And Then’
- ‘Major Leagues’
- ‘Your Time To Change’
- ‘Stub Your Toe’
- ‘Major Leagues (Demo)’
- ‘Decouvert De Soleil’
- ‘The Killing Moon’
- ‘The Classical’
- ‘Haunt You Down’
- ‘Jam Kids’
- ‘Black Out’
- ‘Extradition’
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