Monday, January 25, 2010

'Quarantine The Past' tracklisting decided

Matador had been running a competition for folk who wished to hazard a guess at the tracklisting of Pavement's upcoming 'Best of', and now that the tracklisting's been revealed let the arguments begin.......
1. Gold Soundz (CROOKED RAIN, CROOKED RAIN)
2. Frontwards (WATERY, DOMESTIC EP)
3. Mellow Jazz Docent (PERFECT SOUND FOREVER EP)
4. Stereo (BRIGHTEN THE CORNERS)
5. In The Mouth A Desert (SLANTED & ENCHANTED)
6. Two States (SLANTED & ENCHANTED)
7. Cut Your Hair (CROOKED RAIN, CROOKED RAIN)
8. Shady Lane / J Vs. S (BRIGHTEN THE CORNERS)
9. Here (SLANTED & ENCHANTED)
10. Unfair (CROOKED RAIN, CROOKED RAIN)
11. Grounded (WOWEE ZOWEE)
12. Summer Babe (Winter Version) (SLANTED & ENCHANTED)
13. Range Life (CROOKED RAIN, CROOKED RAIN)
14. Date w/ IKEA (BRIGHTEN THE CORNERS)
15. Debris Slide (PERFECT SOUND FOREVER EP)
16. Shoot The Singer (1 Sick Verse) (WATERY, DOMESTIC EP)
17. Spit On A Stranger (TERROR TWILIGHT)
18. Heaven Is a Truck (CROOKED RAIN, CROOKED RAIN)
19. Trigger Cut/Wounded-Kite At :17 (SLANTED & ENCHANTED)
20. Embassy Row (BRIGHTEN THE CORNERS)
21. Box Elder (SLAY TRACKS 1933-1969 EP)
22. Unseen Power Of The Picket Fence (NO ALTERNATIVE COMP)
23. Fight This Generation (WOWEE ZOWEE)

Hmmm, not much to argue with there at first glance, yet......and yes, let's be anal and fannish about this....no Rattled By The Rush, Silence Kit, Father To A Sister Of Thought, Texas Never Whispers and, Jesus wept, no Loretta's Scars? That said, condensing this band's genius into a 23 track retrospective is both impossible and unnecessary given that they've reissued almost all of their back catalogue by now with the exception of Terror Twilight (this reissue is to follow soon) which, curiously enough, offers but one track to 'Quarantine The Past'. Anyway, here's some of the runts of the Pavement litter.....

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