Matador at Fifteen

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Matador at Fifteen
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Compilation album by
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ReleasedOctober 12, 2004
Recorded1999–2004
Genre Rock
Length1:48:20
Label Matador Records
Producer Various
Professional ratings
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Matador at Fifteen, a packaged release consisting of a CD of greatest hits, a CD of unreleased/rare tracks, and a DVD of its artists' music videos, was released by Matador Records on October 12, 2004, to celebrate the "15th Anniversary of contemporary rock's most self-congratulatory record label." [2]

Contents

Track listing

Disc one: 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"

Disc two: 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"

Disc three: Music Videos 1999-2004 (DVD)

  1. Mogwai - "Stanley Kubrick"
  2. Pavement - "Spit on a Stranger"
  3. Mary Timony - "Dr. Cat"
  4. The Wisdom of Harry - "Ladies & Gentlemen (In the Woods)"
  5. Stephen Malkmus - "Discretion Grove"
  6. Cornelius - "I Hate Hate"
  7. The New Pornographers - "The Laws Have Changed"
  8. Interpol - "PDA"
  9. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - "She Said"
  10. Cat Power - "He War"
  11. Pretty Girls Make Graves - "This Is Our Emergency"
  12. Matmos - "Stars and Stripes Forever"

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References

  1. Matador at Fifteen review allmusic.com. Retrieved on 2013-04-21.
  2. "Matador Records | Matador at Fifteen". Archived from the original on 2006-04-28. Retrieved 2006-05-03.