Pavement

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 a might-racket of guitar noise. Crooked Rain was almost the reverse: s... More >

You have to care even more than I do to sort this expanded edition out, but you won't turn it off ("Unseen Power of the Picket Fence," "F*cking Righteous").