Pavement "Slanted & Enchanted" (30th Anniversary) Color:Red & White Splatter As with Ric Ocasek and

As with Ric Ocasek and company

"Icky Thump" is the Stripes release most-resembling a postage stamp

A Lesson in Romantics is the band's most commercially successful release

Ocean Rain emerges as Echo & the Bunnymen's most beautiful and memorable effort

Coming up in the shadow of formidable bands like Husker Du and The Replacements

Pavement "Slanted & Enchanted" (30th Anniversary) Color:Red & White Splatter As with Ric Ocasek and"Perhaps because one half of Pavement lives in New York City and the other in a sleepy, rural, central California town called Stockton, the spirit of the band's music is split right down the middle. Simultaneously sophisticated and unpretentious, heartfelt and totally goofy but always entirely sincere Pavement exhibits it's genius casually. The group's first full length album, Slanted and Enchanted, is brimming with beautiful pop songs, soured a bit