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The second single from Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain did not chart on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks listing, where Cut Your Hair had reached 10. The US single carried the B-sides Kneeling Bus, Strings of Nashville and an edit of Exit Theory,. In the video, directed by Scott Blen, the band members wear Santa Claus suits and roam around Irvine, California on a scavenger hunt for a chicken that holds the key to a car.

Pitchfork placed it first on its list of the top 200 tracks of the 1990s in 2010, and 40th when it redid the list as a top 250 in 2022. Paste ranked it first among the 15 greatest Pavement songs in 2019, and Consequence of Sound put it second on a list of ten in 2022. Bomb the Music Industry! covered it on the 2008 compilation Others! Others! Volume 1, and Phish played it at the Star Lake Amphitheatre in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania on 21 July 1999.