48. Pavement

The Bullet Points

• Previous Rank: 2014: #79
  2015: #76
  2016: #71
• Eligible Since: Thursday, 01 January 2015
• Country of Origin: U.S.A. (Stockton, CA)
• Why they will get in: They were unique and the critics loved them.
• Why they won't get in: They did not have that much commercial success and bands like that are few and far between in the Hall.
• Nominated in: Never
• Essential Albums: Slanted and Enchanted (1992)
  Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994)
  Brighten the Corners (1997)
  Terror Twilight (1999)
• Our Five Favorite Songs as Chosen by Each Member of the NIHOF Committee: Summer Babe (From Slanted and Enchanted, 1992)
  Trigger Cut (From Slanted and Enchanted, 1992)
  Haunt You Down (From Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, 1994)
  Father to a Sister of Thought (From Wowee Zowee, 1995)
  The Hexx (From Terror Twilight, 1999)