Various Artists - Matador at Fifteen / Various

Though it's been fifteen years since Christ Lombardi founded matador, this anthoglogy on focuses on the last five. CD #1 contains the greatest hits from Cat Power, Interpol, Stephen Malkmus, Yo La Tengo, Belle & Sebastian, Mogwai, Mission of Burma and the New Pornographers. CD #2 includes unreleased tracks and rarities from many of these same bands, along with Cornelius, Guided By Voices and AC Newman. The DVD contains videos from Pavement, Mary Timony, Interpol, the John Spencer Blues Explosion, and nearly all the bands listed above. Thirty-five tracks (16 unreleased track)and fourteen videos at a budget price. This deluxe 4-panel digipak even includes reproductions of the hate mail received over the years.

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
19) The New Pornographers - Graceland
20) Interpol - Specialist
21) Pretty Girls Make Graves - C-30 C-60 C-90 Go!
22) M. Ward - Duet for Guitars #1
23) Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - It Kills
24) Mogwai - Hunted By a Freak (Boom Bip Remix)
25) Dead Meadow - Everything's Going on (Alternate Version)
26) Yo la Tengo - Deeper Into Movies (Acoustic Version)
27) Mission of Burma - Fame ; Fortune (Live)
28) Guided By Voices - Free of This World
29) Cat Power - the Party
30) Seachange - Seven Calls
31) Preston School of Industry - Tone It Down (Pablo Wong Remix)
32) A.C. Newman - Homemade Bombs in the Afternoon
33) Matmos - Cymbals ; Aspirin (A Breakthrough in Pain Relief)
34) Cornelius - Wataridori
35) Mogwai - Stanley Kubrick
36) Pavement - Spit on a Stranger
37) Mary Timony - Dr. Cat
38) The Wisdom of Harry - Ladies ; Gentlemen (In the Woods)
39) Stephen Malkmus - Discretion Grove
40) Cornelius - I Hate Hate
41) The New Pornographers - the Laws Have Changed
42) Interpol - Pda
43) The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - She Said
44) Cat Power - He War
45) Pretty Girls Make Graves - This Is Our Emergency
46) Matmos - Stars and Stripes Forever