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Westing (By Musket and Sextant)

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3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Audio CD (31 Dec 1993)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Big Cat
  • ASIN: B000025M97
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 218,260 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. You're Killing Me
2. Box Elder
3. Maybe, Maybe
4. She Believes
5. Price Yeah!
6. Forklift
7. Spizzle Trunk
8. Recorder Grot
9. Internal K-Dart
10. Perfect Depth
11. Recorder Grot (Rally)
12. Heckler Spray
13. From Now On
14. Angel Carver Blues/Mellow Jazz Docent
15. Drive by Fader
16. Debris Slide
17. Home
18. Krell Vid-User
19. Summer Babe [Winter Version]
20. Mercy: The Laundromat
See all 23 tracks on this disc

Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review
Warning: This collection is not for fans of high-fidelity music. Pavement's early days were marred by murk; call it the limitation of the early days of any band, but nobody in the early 1990s wanted this sound. Pavement seized it, wrapped it up in enigmatic packages, and soon a cult following was born. Westing (by Musket and Sextant) captures several early seven-inches and EPs for a look back at Pavement's gestation. All the essential elements are here, from Stephen Malkmus's beyond-bebop lyricism to white-heat guitars that sound like they're coming from the dark side of an Edison cylinder. Anyone swayed by the last couple of Pavement albums may not enjoy this collection unless they also appreciate edgy acts like the Fall and Swell Maps. It sounds quite tinny and one may wonder if there's anything on Westing that resembles a radio-ready hit. Sounds pretty good, doesn't it? --Jason Josephes

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Can I persuade you to buy 'Westing..'?, 29 Jun 2004
By L. Jones "rotten_tanx" (Bournemouth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Westing (By Musket and Sextant) (Audio CD)
A compilation of tracks from the very early Pavement e.p.'s - Slay Tracks, Demolition Plot J-7, and Perfect Sound Forever - Westing has taken me about five years to truly get into, to the point that I can now listen to it from beginning to end without skipping to the highlights.
Yes, this will be a perseverence album for many listeners, particularly those more familiar with the bands' later output. In fact it's very hard to imagine this is the same band that ended their career with the effects-laden 'Terror Twilight'.
The majority of the songs here were recorded before Pavement were even a full band with the line-up consisting of Stephen Malkmus and Spiral Stairs with drums by Gary Young. The third member of the group was noise as evident on opening track 'You're Killing Me' which features rough, spluttering guitars buzzing throughout its entirety. There are also tracks that consist of nothing but static and tape hiss, but amongst even the noisiest tracks lurks a keen pop sensibility and their knack with a strong hook - 'Box Elder', 'Debris Slide' & 'From Now On' are as catchy as anything they've done and a good indication of where the band would go with 'Slanted & Enchanted'.
This album is not easy listening and is about as lo-fi as you can get, but it is worth every minute invested in it and is a fitting document of the blossoming early stages of one of the most important guitar bands of the 90's.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Lo-fi perfection, 15 May 2004
By Spencer Ward (Binsted, Hampshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Westing (By Musket & Sextant) (Audio CD)
I have never written an Amazon review before, but I have to raise the average rating of this album.

What can I say about Westing? The lyrics are inaudible, the tracks are interspersed with feedback and white noise (indeed one track is pure white noise), and it is truely superb. One of those rare moments in you life where you have a vivid memory of putting in the CD for the first time and having your whole musical perspective opened up. That opening riff on track 1 - "Killing me..." I'm back there now, in my car. It changed my life. I now own every album Pavement ever did. They're all great, but Westing is beyond compare. There should be an extra rating beyond five stars.

To get away from my reminiscences for a minute I should say I can well understand why this album has weak reviews. Most people just aren't going to get it. It is too raw; uncompromising. Bands like The Strokes offer a more palatible form of lo-fi, and that's fine; but Pavement are the masters, and for me this album is the pinnacle.

Have a look on the US amazon site. The album gets a far better assessment there, and they have snippets from the songs. Click the link for "You're killing me" and you'll know straight away if this is the album for you.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Dont listen to the other reviews, this album is great!, 5 May 2001
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This review is from: Westing (By Musket & Sextant) (Audio CD)
This is one of my favourite albums and one of my favourite pavement albums. I must admit it can be a bit worrying when you first hear it squealing out of your c player but it sure grows on you. The production means the guitars sound great but some of the vocals are hard to make out but the overall energy of this album is clear. Great if you like pavement in their early sonic youth like ways, well i like it any way.
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4.0 out of 5 stars a review for the new fan
I'm a pavement fan, having heard slanted and enchanted, their debut full-length first. Westing is a compilation of what happened before. Read more
Published 17 months ago by T. Chase

5.0 out of 5 stars THE quintessential Pavement
I don't know why the reviewers are reserved about this record. It is my favourite and it is one of the best albums I've heard. Read more
Published 18 months ago by DH Dixon

4.0 out of 5 stars Where it all started
I tend to agree with the other reviews. If you're new to the band then your starting point needs to be Slanted and Enchanted, but Wesket is a great record nonetheless. Read more
Published on 9 May 2006 by Gavino

4.0 out of 5 stars I want you to tidy up this room right now
This was the last Pavement album that I ever got to hear; the name and the album cover had always made me think it must be kind of arty and studied, but actually, it's totally... Read more
Published on 26 April 2006 by John Mcgruther

3.0 out of 5 stars A valuable reminder of how Pavement started...
So this is a collection of songs from their first vinyl eps, like slay tracks, demolition plot j-7, overnight failures, and such. Read more
Published on 11 Mar 2002 by Harry Carr

3.0 out of 5 stars Not for the faint-hearted
This is not an album as such but a collection of early singles, hence, the production is shaky and the band have not yet fine-tuned their distinctive song-writing skills. Read more
Published on 24 Feb 2000

1.0 out of 5 stars Pitifully dismal
Westing (By Musket & Sextant) - this title surely spells out quite starkly the apparent identity crisis Pavement suffered in their early years. Read more
Published on 25 Jan 2000 by mathew@lu05.freeserve.co.uk

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