Slanted and Enchanted

Infobox Album |
Name = Slanted and Enchanted
Type = Album
Artist = Pavement


Released = April 20, 1992
Recorded = December 24, 1990– January 20, 1991
Genre = Indie rock
Length = 38:41
Label = Matador Records (1992) Matador/Atlantic Records (1995) Big Cat Records (1997)
Producer = Pavement
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://wm04.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wcfuxqt5ldte link]
*Pitchfork (10.0/10) [http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/31337/Pavement_Slanted_and_Enchanted_Luxe_and_Reduxe link]
*Robert Christgau (A) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=pavement link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|5|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/pavement/albums/album/113958/review/5944065/slanted__enchanted_luxe__reduxe link]
Last album = "Perfect Sound Forever"
(1991)
This album = "Slanted and Enchanted"
(1992)
Next album = "Westing (By Musket & Sextant)"
(1993)

"Slanted and Enchanted" is the debut album by American indie rock band Pavement. The album regularly appears at the top of lists of most important albums of the 1990sFact|date=March 2008, despite relatively low record sales. The album was distributed to critics as early as 1991 before its original release and when the rest of Pavement joined the band, so when the album was released, the band had a bassist and Gary Young's drumming was so shaky that Bob Nastanovich kept time for him, as well as work as tour manager. Fact|date=March 2008. RS500|134

A two-disc expanded version of the album, "", was released in 2002. Along with the original 14 tracks, it includes an additional ten tracks from recording sessions on disc one, and disc two consists of the four-track "Watery, Domestic" EP, seven other songs from recording sessions, and 13 live tracks (from a show at the Brixton Academy in London on December 14, 1992).

The album's name is taken from the title of a cartoon made by Silver Jews frontman David BermanFact|date=March 2008. It is also an allusion to a line from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem Kubla KhanFact|date=March 2008.

As of 2007, the album has sold 150,000 copies.

Music videos were shot for the songs "Here" and "Perfume-V" but they were not in rotation on MTV and were later included on the Slow Century DVD.

Track listing

# "Summer Babe (Winter Version)" – 3:16
# "Trigger Cut/Wounded-Kite At :17" – 3:16
# "No Life Singed Her" – 2:09
# "In the Mouth a Desert" – 3:52
# "Conduit for Sale!" – 2:52
# "Zurich is Stained" – 1:41
# "Chesley's Little Wrists" – 1:16
# "Loretta's Scars" – 2:55
# "Here" – 3:56
# "Two States" – 1:47 (with Spiral)
# "Perfume-V" – 2:09
# "Fame Throwa" – 3:22
# "Jackals, False Grails: The Lonesome Era" – 3:21
# "Our Singer" – 3:09

Critical acclaim

*Chosen as #5 on Pitchfork Media's [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/36737/Staff_List_Top_100_Albums_of_the_1990s/page_10 Top 100 Albums of the 1990s (November 2003 Redux)] ; in [http://www.listsofbests.com/list/55 the original list compiled in 1999] the album placed 3rd.
*Chosen as #4 on Spin magazine's [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4110278.stm Top 100 Albums of the Past 20 Years] in June 2005.
*It was also included in the [http://www.time.com/time/2006/100albums/index.html All-Time 100 albums] from Time magazine.
*Chosen as #1 on Blender magazine's [http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?ID=2974 Top 100 Indie Albums of all Time] in November 2007.