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Title: Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1994, Alternative, Indie Rock, Stockton, California 6/26
Condition: New (BC) | Members: Stephen M (66' - ), Scott K (66' - ), Mark I (62' - ), Steve W (67' - )
Cultural Facts:

1. Personal Struggle: Pavement made this after pushing out original drummer Gary Young, whose heavy drinking and chaotic behavior had made touring unstable, turning the band’s weird charm into real behind-the-scenes damage.

2. Media Narrative: “Cut Your Hair” mocked music-industry image games while accidentally becoming the band’s closest thing to an MTV hit.

3. Scene Ecology: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain turned slacker noise, classic-rock jokes, college radio, and California boredom into one of the defining indie-rock records of the 90s.