Pavement took different forms on each of the five albums they released during their initial hot streak in the ’90s, setting the tone for both the indie rock of their day and all that followed with each iteration. While their album output was relatively scant, the impression they made was outsized, and their combination of songwriting excellence and genre-defining laconic style made for multiple classic tunes on most of their albums. Hecklers Choice: Big Gums and Heavy Lifters is like a best-of compilation, and not Pavement’s first. In 2010, Quarantine the Past collected over 20 of the band’s best-loved and most-requested songs, making for a playlist that omitted a lot of the experimental sidetracks and oddball moments that showed up on most of the albums.

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