Pavement

Not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Eligible since: 2015

First Recording: 1989

Previously Considered? No  what's this?

Pavement
HALL OF FAME INDICATORS
Rolling Stone 500 Albums
Rolling Stone 500 Songs
🔲Rolling Stone Cover
🔲Saturday Night Live
🔲Major Festival Headliner
🔲Songwriters Hall of Fame
🔲“Big Four” Grammys

Inducted into Rock Hall Projected in 2019 (ranked #218) .

R.S. Top 500 Albums (?)RankVersion
Slanted and Enchanted1992020
Wowee Zowee2652020
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain4342020
Slanted and Enchanted1352012
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain2122012

R.S. Top 500 Songs (?)RankVersion
Summer Babe (Winter Version) (1992)2442021

Essential Albums (?)WikipediaYouTube
Slanted and Enchanted (1992)
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994)
Wowee Zowee (1995)

Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
Summer Babe (Winter Version) (1991)
Cut Your Hair (1994)
Gold Soundz (1994)
Stereo (1997)

Pavement @ Wikipedia

Will Pavement be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
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Comments

7 comments so far (post your own)

And Velvet Underground deserved to go in? From what I can gather about non-Pavement fans, they just haven't made it past Slanted and Enchanted. Or they're crazed with Billy Corgan. I'm a huge fan, and often the importance of Slanted escapes me. But given the conditions to which it was recorded... However, the real gem of their discography, to me, has always been Crooked Rain. And Gold Soundz is about as important as anything put to tape in the 90s. Pavement was more about melody. And they had a ton compared to their alt-rock counterparts. Not to mention that Brighten the Corners is probably one of the finest guitar albums from the period. Then Wowee Zowee is an excellent mess. No band had a better four album run in the 90s.

Posted by Brian on Tuesday, 12/17/2013 @ 10:37am


All there five albums are perfect.

Posted by David on Sunday, 07/28/2019 @ 08:33am



A friend of mine who plays in local bands knows one of the guys in Pavement. Both are from Louisville originally. I will mention this to him.

Posted by Paul in KY on Tuesday, 12/20/2022 @ 05:29am


They will be nominated after 2030 and inducted. They are so important to indie music. They will easier be voted at that time. However, it is a little early now for their induction as other earlier pioneers like the Smiths, the Replacements, Pixies and Sonic Youth have not been recognized yet.

Posted by power on Saturday, 07/22/2023 @ 22:39pm


RIP Gary young

Posted by Mat R on Thursday, 08/17/2023 @ 21:55pm


Range life shoukd definitely be in Essential songs

Posted by Will m on Saturday, 02/17/2024 @ 15:04pm


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