Slow Century is a two-disc DVD

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 retrospective of the band Pavement

Pavement (band)

Pavement is an American alternative rock band that formed in Stockton, California in 1989. In their career, they achieved a significant cult following, and they were called the best band of the 1990s by prominent music critics Robert Christgau and Stephen Thomas Erlewine...

 filmed and compiled by filmmaker Lance Bangs

Lance Bangs

Lance Bangs is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and music video director who has created videos for Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Green Day, the Arcade Fire, the Shins, The Thermals, Belle & Sebastian, Menomena, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, R.E.M., Mike Watt, Death Cab for Cutie, The Black Keys, Kanye West, and...

. The first disc contains Slow Century itself, a 90-minute documentary

Documentary film

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 with extensive interviews with the band members (as well as their friend Thurston Moore

Thurston Moore

Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label...

) and considerable live concert footage from across their career featuring throughout; indeed, the film concludes with the encore from their final live show, held in London

London

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 in 1999. There is also a presentation subtitled Cinema Stars (written using a star symbol rather than the word "star") featuring all their videos, as well as alternate and rejected clips for three songs. Interspersed throughout are brief clips from home movies, television appearances and behind-the-scenes footage. The second disc is entirely composed of live footage with a full concert from Seattle, Washington

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 (July 1999) and edited highlights from the group's second last ever show in Manchester

Manchester

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 (11/1999). Across the two discs, there is a total of six hours of footage. There is band member and director commentary on each video and multiple angles on the second disc, and it is presented in Dolby stereo.

Directed by Lance Bangs

Lance Bangs

Lance Bangs is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and music video director who has created videos for Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Green Day, the Arcade Fire, the Shins, The Thermals, Belle & Sebastian, Menomena, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, R.E.M., Mike Watt, Death Cab for Cutie, The Black Keys, Kanye West, and...

, except:

• Kim Gordon
  Kim Gordon
  Kim Althea Gordon is an American musician, vocalist, artist, record producer, video director and actress. She has sung and played bass and guitar in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and in Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz...
  
   (directed "Perfume-V" video)
• Thurston Moore
  Thurston Moore
  Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label...
  
   (directed "Here" video)
• Dan Koretzky (directed "Cut Your Hair" video, co-directed the "Painted Soldiers" video)
• Rian Murphy
  Rian Murphy
  Rian Murphy is a drummer and producer and for the Chicago record label Drag City, and also acts as the company's sales director.He has worked with Appendix Out, Palace Music, Smog, Royal Trux, the Silver Jews and Edith Frost. In 2000, Murphy released the EP All Most Heaven with Will Oldham.Murphy...
  
   (co-directed "Painted Soldiers" video)
• Scott Blen (directed "Gold Soundz" and "Range Life" videos)
• Tom Surgall (directed "Rattled by the Rush" video)
• John Kelsey (directed "Father to a Sister of Thought" and "Stereo" videos)
• Spike Jonze
  Spike Jonze
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   (directed "Shady Lane" video)

Track listing

1. Slow Century, a 90-minute documentary incorporating footage from 1989-99
2. "Here" (video)
3. "Perfume-V" (video)
4. "Cut Your Hair" (video)
5. "Gold Soundz" (video)
6. "Range Life" (video)
7. "Rattled by the Rush" (video)
8. "Father to a Sister of Thought" (video)
9. "Painted Soldiers" (video)
10. "Stereo" (video)
11. "Shady Lane" (video)
12. "Carrot Rope" (video)
13. "Spit on a Stranger" (video)
14. "Major Leagues" (video)
15. "Major Leagues" (alternate video)
16. "Rattled by the Rush" (alternate video)
17. "Cut Your Hair" (alternate video)
18. "In the Mouth a Desert" (live)
19. "Speak See Remember" (live)
20. "Spit on a Stranger" (live)
21. "Date with Ikea" (live)
22. "The Hexx" (live)
23. "Box Elder" (live)
24. "Folk Jam" (live)
25. "Billie" (live)
26. "Major Leagues" (live)
27. "Shady Lane" (live)
28. "Cream of Gold" (live)
29. "Platform Blues" (live)
30. "We Dance" (live)
31. "Harness Your Hopes" (live)
32. "Stereo" (live)
33. "Gold Soundz" (live)
34. "The Killing Moon" (live) (covering Echo & the Bunnymen
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    )
35. "Sinister Purpose" (live)
36. "Debris Slide" (live)
37. "Grounded" (live)
38. "Unfair" (live)
39. "Two States" (live)
40. "Fin" (live)
41. "Date with Ikea" (live)
42. "Range Life" (live)
43. "Summer Babe" (live)
44. "Handcuffs" banter from last show (live) (hidden easter egg)
45. "Unseen Power of the Picket Fence" (live) (hidden easter egg)
46. "Conduit for Sale" (live) (hidden easter egg)

Easter egg

• On disc one, highlight the letter "P" in "Pavement" on the menu screen and then press enter/OK to unlock some hidden performance footage.