- Audio CD (Mar 3 2003)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Compilation
- Label: Matador Records
- ASIN: B0000036V2
- Other Editions: Audio CD | LP Record
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#167,689 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
- #25 in Music > Alternative Rock > Compilations > Alternative Rock
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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Tom Courtenay - Yo La Tengo | |||
| 2. Texas Never Whispers - Pavement | |||
| 3. Catholic Education - Teenage Fanclub | |||
| 4. For Tension - Superchunk | |||
| 5. Vandal X - Unsane | |||
| 6. Splat - Bailter Space | |||
| 7. Pat's Trick - Helium | |||
| 8. Nude As The News - Cat Power | |||
| 9. Tomboy - Bettie Serveert | |||
| 10. Couldn't You Wait (Acoustic) - Silkworm | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Back Of Your Head - Cat Power | |||
| 2. Strike - Come | |||
| 3. One Step Forward - Railroad Jerk | |||
| 4. Dig My Shit! - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion | |||
| 5. My Thoughts Are A Gas - Guided By Voices | |||
| 6. Telamon Bridge - Spoon | |||
| 7. Killing Moon - Pavement | |||
| 8. Hangman - Silkworm | |||
| 9. Don't Say A Word (Demo Version) - Yo La Tengo | |||
| 10. The Blood Of Feeling - Barbara Manning | |||
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Product Description
From Amazon.com
With its sardonically intelligent liner notes, this 2 CD (Favorite Tracks and Unreleased Tracks, respectively) collection is the ultimate introduction to the record industry's harbinger of hip. Home to indie-rock integrity, Matador has helped usher critic's darlings like Liz Phair, Guided by Voices, Yo La Tengo, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, and others to cult status, just as Matador cofounder Gerard Cosloy's Homestead Records provided a haven for groups like Dinosaur Jr. and Big Black in the '80s. If Homestead's The Wailing Ultimate ably summed that label's influence before Cosloy's departure, What's Up Matador is doubly impressive. Besides, where else can you hear Pavement's lazy-cool version of Echo & The Bunnymen's "Killing Moon"? -- Mark Woodlief
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5.0 out of 5 stars
What else do you expect?...,
By Chris (Indianapolis, IN) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Whats Up Matador (Audio CD)
It's a MATADOR compilation. Since the label is immune to signing bad bands, you won't find a bad track on this disc.An excellent sampler, but works just as well as an album. If you prefer to have your sounds mixed, you'll love the variety of this album. Particularly good?: GBV, Pavement, Pizzicato 5, Chavez, Helium, and Yo La Tengo(as usual).
4.0 out of 5 stars
I WASN'T DUMB BUT I WAS SO NAIVE...,
By EriKa "E" (Iceland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Whats Up Matador (Audio CD)
What an amazing collection! I bought it because I wanted to have Liz Phair's stunning and fun "Stuck on an Island"... for me, the bargain price was worth it just for her! But the rest of this 2 CD collection is stellar! Yo La Tengo is a consistent favourite, Pavement's super cool version of Echo and the Bunnymen's "Killing Moon" is exquisite, the Pizzicato 5 tracks are **SO FUN** (especially the cute "Happy Birthday"), and Cat Power is always a subtle and subdued hue of brilliant ("Nude as the News" is one of her louder songs and is also just... breathtaking)! Other treats here: Teenage Fanclub, the much overlooked Bailter Space, The Fall and Guided by Voices. Nothing bad about this collection... and if you are lucky you will find something new to love! There is definitely enough variety here to please everyone.
4.0 out of 5 stars
something for everybody- not quite,
By Ryan Kendrick (Colorado) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Whats Up Matador (Audio CD)
Too cool for mainstream radio listeners. If thats you, you might grimmace through most of the songs. If you listen to indie rock already, then its definately worth the price. It took me a couple times through to weed out the unlistenable tracks, Wich I later sratched out on the jewel back, track list. I am left with about 30 songs that have proven quite enjoyable. This comp has prompted me to buy CDs from Cat Power, pavement, bettie serveert, and posibly more when I find them. If you do own this set, you no longer have to buy these artists "blindly", wich I suspect was the original marketing strategy from the people at Matador.
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