Matador Celebrates 15 With Triple-Disc Set
Matador Records will celebrate its 15th anniversary with a double-disc collection of favorite tracks and rarities, plus a DVD of music videos. The material roughly dates from 1999-2004, serving as a companion piece to the prior compilations "What's Up Matador" (1997) and the 10th anniversary album "Everything Is Nice."
The "greatest hits" disc sports 18 familiar tracks from Interpol, Cat Power, Stephen Malkmus, Yo La Tengo, Guided By Voices, Mission Of Burma, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and Belle & Sebastian, among others.
"Unreleased and rarities" boasts contributions from the New Pornographers, Pretty Girls Make Graves, GBV, Mogwai, Matmos and, as previously reported, a live version of the Malkmus and the Jicks' "It Kills."
Twelve music videos are included on the DVD, such as Cat Power's "He War," Interpol's "PDA," Pavement's "Spit on a Stranger" and Mogwai's "Stanley Kubrick."
Here is the track list for "Matador at 15":
Disc one ("Greatest Hits"):
"This Is Our Emergency," Pretty Girls Make Graves
"Obstacle 1," Interpol
"The Laws Have Changed," New Pornographers
"Dirt," Mission Of Burma
"Free," Cat Power
"Church on White," Stephen Malkmus
"Don't Have To Be So Sad," Yo La Tengo
"Drop," Cornelius
"Money Rock'n'Roll," Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
"The Whirlings," Dead Meadow
"My Kind of Soldier," Guided By Voices
"Caught in the Rain," Preston School Of Industry
"Inside," Bardo Pond
"Forty Nights," Seachange
"Don't Leave the Light on Baby," Belle & Sebastian
"1926," Thalia Zedek
"For the Trees," Matmos
"Hunted by a Freak," Mogwai
Disc two ("Unreleased and Rarities"):
"Graceland," New Pornographers
"Specialist," Interpol
"C-30 C-60 C-90 GO!," Pretty Girls Make Graves
"Dust for Guitars #1," M. Ward
"It Kills" (live), Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
"Hunted by a Freak" (Boom Bip remix), Mogwai
"Everything Going On" (alternate version), Dead Meadow
"Deeper Into Moves" (acoustic), Yo La Tengo
"Fame & Fortune" (live), Mission Of Burma
"Free of This World," Guided By Voices
"The Party," Cat Power
"Seven Calls," Seachange
"Tone It Down" (Pablo Wong Remix), Preston School Of Industry
"Homemade Bombs in the Afternoon," A.C. Newman
"Cymbals & Aspirin (A Breakthrough in Pain Relief)," Matmos
"Wataridori," Cornelius
Disc three ("Music Videos"):
"Stanley Kubrick," Mogwai
"Spit on a Stranger," Pavement
"Dr. Cat," Mary Timony
"Ladies & Gentlemen (In the Woods)," the Wisdom Of Harry
"Discretion Grove," Stephen Malkmus
"I Hate Hate," Cornelius
"The Laws Have Changed," New Pornographers
"PDA," Interpol
"She Said," Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
"He War," Cat Power
"This Is Our Emergency," Pretty Girls Make Graves
"Stars and Stripes Forever," Matmos