Western Homes

I think it's a comment on Western life in general, and how security is becoming so extreme as to alienate everyone. Also, I didn't think this song was bad at all. The vocal effects remind me of Steve Miller.

Are you saying Pueblo was shit? The last two songs are a bit weak, could have done without them. Pueblo ends the album well IMO.

dude, Half a Canyon is one of the best songs on Wowee and has the most massive stereolab jam at the end. Western Homes should have been swapped for 'Mussle Rock', but Malkmus was just picking the weirder songs because he seems to be highly critical of the bands simpler songs - (Date with Ikea, Elevate me Later - which he said sounds just like Loretta's Scars+She Believes)

The strumming guitar at the end reminds me of the lift-off part of 'Washing Machine' by Sonic Youth released the same year if I'm correct.

Yup, same year. And yeah, Half a Canyon is a great track.

I love this song. I think it's a perfect ending for Wowee Zowee. It's a weird change of pace after all those sprawling jams--very fitting with Pavement's style to do that.

It's about California, like a lot of their songs. A lot of the immigrants to California were only looking for a new home, a place to breed, a congregation. Now the dream has gone wrong--their homes are "locked forever."

That's my take on it, anyway.

Something about advancements in technology, and how they're taking control of our life

to me, this song meant that s.m. was giving up too much control or just being lazy. the last ten or so minutes of this, otherwise amazing album, were shite.