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Matador at Fifteen
ole-623 dbl CD + DVD
Street Date: Oct 12, 2004
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Dear Friends,

As our little record company enters yet another confusing stage of its adolescence (hormonal troubles, strange facial hair, voices changing, etc.) I cannot help but recall the popular television series that helped inspire this label's formation, "Matador at Fifteen" [...]

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12/16/04Matador At Fifteen Contest
To commemorate the 15th Anniversary of contemporary Rock's Most Self-Congratulatory Record Label, we're inviting you, the dangerously good-looking (and the merely homely) to submit pictures of yourself at the tender age of 15. Entries that meet our loose criteria for "what is going on there?" will be amongst the 15 winners of their choice of 15 (in-print) items from the vast Matador back catalog. Rules and details can be found here.



09/29/04
Matador at Fifteen double CD plus DVD and tracklisting
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