- Black Sheep Hit: Not that there's such a thing as a typical Pavement song, but "Cut Your Hair", their only charting single in the United States, was a particularly unusual track by their standards, almost as though the band was doing an Affectionate Parody of the songs that got radio airplay in the mid-'90s. Also applies to "Carrot Rope" and "Shady Lane" in the U.K., though for different reasons - both songs are just a bit cheerier in sound than much of the material the band was doing at the time.
- Creator Backlash: Scott "Spiral Stairs" Kannberg has some reservations regarding Wowee Zowee, saying that: "It's just if we had another six months to think about it, it would've been much different."
- Development Hell: The Farewell Horizontal Edition of Terror Twilight was announced in 2008 and didn't see release until 2022. Word of God says they "put it off because it wasn't a nice enough package". It's speculated that the decision to use most of the B-sides from the Terror Twilight singles on Brighten the Corners: Nicene Creedence Edition resulted in a dearth of bonus material.
- Doing It for the Art: For Terror Twilight, producer Nigel Godrich waived his fee in order to record it, and even went as far as to sleep on a friend's floor in New York City during the production. However Godrich's choice of more high-end studios in lieu of the more DIY approaches of previous albums led to it being the most expensive album in the band's history.
- Executive Meddling: The original version
of the video for "Rattled by the Rush" features the band performing, as the camera makes sudden movements and pans. Their label was totally fine with this video, but MTV was not, and it was banned from the network on the grounds that the camera effects caused viewers to become nauseous. The second version of the video contains the same footage, except its being projected onto a single ceramic tile on the wall next to a bath-tub. - He Also Did: Bassist Mark Ibold joined Sonic Youth in 2006, and he remained a member of the group until its dissolution in 2011.
- Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition: The first four albums got two-disc reissues with tons of bonus tracks and Feelies roughly ten years after the releases of the original albums. One was announced for Terror Twilight, too, but it's languishing in Development Hell.
- Magnum Opus Dissonance: Stephen regards Wowee Zowee as the last "classic Pavement record." It has a good reputation, though not as good as Enchanted or Crooked Rain. (However, it is an Ensemble Dark Horse and has plenty of fans who will vouch for it as their best record, no doubt due to its experimental nature.)
- Referenced by...: beabadoobee namedrops Pavement and Stephen Malkmus in her song "I Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus":I sit at home, cry to Pavement
I wish I was Stephen Malkmus- The Frogs' "Pay" includes the lyric "Got all the records that Pavement made / And I smashed them all today" - it's an over-the-top angry Break-Up Song parody directed at a hipster girl, so the narrator seems to be destroying their records out of spite.
- Revival by Commercialization: In the 2010s, the band's song "Harness Your Hopes" went from being an obscure Terror Twilight B-side to becoming one of the band's most beloved and well-known singles. It's not known precisely how the song's stature grew, but it's likely Spotify's algorithm had a play in it.
- Serendipity Writes the Plot: The Pacific Trim EP was performed as a trio (only Stephen Malkmus, Bob Nastanovich and Steve West appear), and written and recorded in 10 days. This time was originally booked for a Silver Jews session, but Silver Jews frontman David Barman couldn't make it note , so rather than waste the studio time they'd already paid for, they opted to write a few new songs in-studio and release the results as a short Pavement EP, which they could then sell as merch on an upcoming Australian tour.
- The Pete Best: Drummer Jason Turner, who was only a member of the band briefly during 1989. By the time of the band's first EP, Slay Tracks (1933-1969), he had already departed.
- Similarly Named Works: two separate limited edition Live Albums were issued under the title Live Europaturnén MCMXCVII. Both are different live sets from a 1997 European tour. One was originally issued in 2008 as a bonus record for pre-orders of the deluxe edition of Brighten The Corners, the other was issued a year later for Record Store Day. The two albums also have similar cover art, but one has a white and purple palette, while the other is white and orange.
- What Could Have Been: The video for "Painted Soldiers" had a plot where the band members got word that they were fired from the group, one by one - it's eventually revealed that The entire band have been replaced with members of Veruca Salt, who then mime the end of the song, with Scott Kannberg promoting himself to manager. The original idea they had for this cameo would be Weezer note .
- Nigel Godrich originally proposed a very different running order for Terror Twilight, which would have started with the two longest, most experimental tracks ("Platform Blues" and "The Hexx") and save most of the catchier, more accessible songs for the second half of the album - "Spit On A Stranger", the opening track on the original release of the album, would have been the last song if Nigel had his way. The vinyl and digital editions of Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal, present a recut version of the album as Nigel would have wanted it, whereas the CD edition preserves the running order of the original 1999 release.
- Working Title: The working title for Terror Twilight was Farewell Horizontal. Bob Nastanovich hated the working title and came up with Terror Twilight as an alternative, later saying "there was no way I was going to be on the Farewell Horizontal tour for the next year."
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