PavementBest Pavement Albums Ranked
8.4
Avg Score
38
Opinions
18
Albums
12
Reviewers
Summary from 38 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Pavement’s catalog across 18 albums from 38 opinions, with an overall average of 8.4/10. The top-rated Pavement album is Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins (1994) with a 9.0/10 average from 5 ratings, followed by Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe and Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. The discography on Rate.fm spans 1992 to 2025. Harness Your Hopes (B-side) ranks as the highest-rated Pavement song on Rate.fm with a 9.5/10 average.
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins
1994
Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe
1992
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
1994
Quarantine the Past: The Best of Pavement
2010
Brighten the Corners: Nicene Creedence Ed.
1997
Wowee Zowee (Sordid Sentinels Edition)
2006
Slanted and Enchanted
The Secret History, Vol. 1
2015
Terror Twilight
1999
Quarantine the Past: The Best of Pavement
“The first career-spanning Pavement comp contains their best-known songs as well as concert staples, fan favorites, and at least a couple of curveballs.”
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins
“Pavement may have been alternative rock’s most notorious mess, but this deluxe reissue of their best album, appended with nearly forty extra tracks, illuminates one of their precious gifts: Like nobody else, the Stockton, California, band could make simple pop-rock chords sound really, really sarcastic. On its breakthrough, 1992’s Slanted and Enchanted, melodies crept into […]”
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins
“Pavement's Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe-- packed with top-quality extras at a low price-- was a near-perfect example of how to reissue an already beloved record. Matador now gives the same treatment to that album's equally classic 1994 follow-up. The result, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins, is a two-disc remastered reissue, featuring 49 total tracks collecting B-sides, comp tracks and outtakes, including 25 unreleased recordings and 11 unheard tracks.”