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Various Artists -- Matador At Fifteen double CD + DVD
OLE-623
October 12, 2004

Matador's fifteenth-anniversary compilation consists of one CD of "greatest hits", one CD of rarities and unreleased tracks, and a DVD of music videos, all roughly from the period 1999-2004.

The three discs come housed in an exquisite embossed laminated fold-out laminated digipak which is to the word LOUD as our tenth anniversary package was to the word MUTED. Additionally there is a 20-page booklet recounting many of the highlights of the past five years via original documents.

The price will be the same as a single regular full-price CD -- what we in the record world call "15.98 list", which means anywhere from 11.99 to 14.99 for you indie shoppers, and as much as 17.98 for those few who still patronize the mall outlets of the dwindling major music specialty chains. Assuming there are any in stock there, which is mostly fairly unlikely.

Complete track listing:

CD 1 - GREATEST HITS 1999-2004

1. Pretty Girls Make Graves - This Is Our Emergency
2. Interpol - Obstacle 1
3. The New Pornographers - The Laws Have Changed
4. Mission Of Burma - Dirt
5. Cat Power - Free
6. Stephen Malkmus - Church On White
7. Yo La Tengo - Don't Have To Be So Sad
8. Cornelius - Drop
9. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Money Rock'n'Roll
10. Dead Meadow - The Whirlings
11. Guided By Voices - My Kind Of Soldier
12. Preston School Of Industry - Caught In The Rain
13. Bardo Pond - Inside
14. Seachange - Forty Nights
15. Belle and Sebastian - Don't Leave The Light On Baby
16. Thalia Zedek - 1926
17. Matmos - For The Trees
18. Mogwai - Hunted By A Freak

CD 2 - UNRELEASED AND RARITIES 1999-2004

1. The New Pornographers - Graceland
2. Interpol - Specialist
3. Pretty Girls Make Graves - C-30 C-60 C-90 GO!
4. M. Ward - Duet For Guitars #1
5. Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks - It Kills
6. Mogwai - Hunted By A Freak (Boom Bip Remix)
7. Dead Meadow - Everything's Going On (Alternate Version)
8. Yo La Tengo - Deeper Into Movies (Acoustic Version)
9. Mission Of Burma - Fame & Fortune (Live)
10. Guided By Voices - Free Of This World
11. Cat Power - The Party
12. Seachange - Seven Calls
13. Preston School Of Industry - Tone It Down (Pablo Wong Remix)
14. A.C. Newman - Homemade Bombs In The Afternoon
15. Matmos - Cymbals & Aspirin (A Breakthrough In Pain Relief)
16. Cornelius - Wataridori

DVD - MUSIC VIDEOS 1999-2004

Mogwai -- Stanley Kubrick
Pavement -- Spit On A Stranger
Mary Timony -- Dr. Cat
The Wisdom of Harry -- Ladies & Gentlemen (In The Woods)
Stephen Malkmus -- Discretion Grove
Cornelius -- I Hate Hate
The New Pornographers -- The Laws Have Changed
Interpol -- PDA
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion -- She Said
Cat Power -- He War
Pretty Girls Make Graves -- This Is Our Emergency
Matmos -- Stars and Stripes Forever

Patrick

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 26 September 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

no dust devils? surely they are the greatest matador band ever.

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 26 September 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

No activity for the dust devils on Matador between 1999-2004 = no inclusion on the comp.

Can anyone tell me why there's no Arab Strap on here?!

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 26 September 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

just what the world needs... preston school of industry rarities.

― Cripps Pink (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 26 September 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

haha yeah this is pretty wack.

I still sweat What's Up Matador is a terrific comp, though.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 26 September 2004 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

for some reason I doubt this will do to Interpol fans what What's Up did for me way back when.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 26 September 2004 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

The 10th anniversary comp is excellent. I bought "Lapsed" after hearing "Flux" on that comp, which kickstarted my Bardo Pond fandom.

What happened to all the electronic music? The 10th anniv. comp. was full of it. And did they REALLY need to include a JSBX song this time around?

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 26 September 2004 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

where's dizzee?

― Symplistic (shmuel), Sunday, 26 September 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

How did he even get on Matador?

When was that live version of "Fame and Fortune" recorded?

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 26 September 2004 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

What happened to all the electronic music? The 10th anniv. comp. was full of it.

I think most of that was based on their now-nullified partnership with Warp. Over the last five years they've dropped most of their attempts at electronic and rap. I mean where's the Large Professor?

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 26 September 2004 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

They were also in with the Cologne crew -- releasing albums by Burger/Ink and the Modernist. I wonder what happened there?

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 26 September 2004 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

they didn't sell?

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 26 September 2004 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Did those albums come out since the 10th anniversary comp, though?

I seem to remember Gerard saying in 1999 that inclusion on the label comps was something left up to the artists' discretion.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 26 September 2004 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, i didn't notice the 1999 thing, though i was being sarcastic anyhow.

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 26 September 2004 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Hopefully the 20th anniversary thing will encompass ALL TWENTY YEARS, not just 2004-2009.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Greatest "Hits"

― Free the Bee (ex machina), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the name of this song Pretty Girls Make Graves - C-30 C-60 C-90 GO!, but I plan to never hear it in my life, ever.

― artdamages (artdamages), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm pretty sure that PGMG track is a Bow Wow Wow cover

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

When Everything Is Nice came out, I didn't have to think twice about whether or not I was gonna buy it; I did, and wasn't disappointed. This time, I dunno.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, yeah it sounded familiar (xpost). they should be covering bow wow wow on their albums in that case.

― artdamages (artdamages), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

no mount florida?

(sorry stirmonster)

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

bo-ring

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

http://community.middlebury.edu/~mobrien/covers/Matador%20of%20Shame.gif

This would be a funny comp!

― Free the Bee (ex machina), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I was all about to go all apeshit about NO CHAVEZ WTF ?!?@!%^*&@^#*&^@ until I noticed the 1999 thing.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 September 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I love how "Specialist" is Interpol's default Unreleased Rarity.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 27 September 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Looking forward to the rare New Pornographers song, though the A.C. Newman one has been available via iTunes for some time (and it's great)

― Taxi Dancing in the Soft Prison (Ben Boyer), Monday, 27 September 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

crappy selection, i feel old

― kephm, Monday, 27 September 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Lynnfield Pioneers?

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 27 September 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

manthony otm about what's up matador.

they sure do love to rewrite their own history every five years or so.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 27 September 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

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