Pavement are one of those bands who I would say are pretty well known for being big in America but maybe not so much for the music itself.
Their UK Top 40 career consisted of just 2 hits, this being their debut and with "Carrot Rope" which made number 27 in 1999. In America though, such is the strange nature of the charts there they never had a Billboard 100 hit.
They formed in 1989 and broke up in 1999 so this was in the latter stages of their career. That would have therefore given them enough time to have built enough of a following in the UK to scrape this record into the Top 40.
Another factor that may have help was that Britpop was starting to decline in popularity in 1997 which opened the door for American bands who may not have charted a year or two earlier.
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