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Old Enough to Know Better: 15 Years of Merge

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews) |

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1. Song Against Sex Neutral Milk Hotel 3:42 $0.89

2. Cool Superchunk 3:36 $0.89

3. She's Got the Akshun! Butterglory 3:18 $0.89

4. Beautiful Things 3D's 3:32 $0.89

5. Shiny Shiny Pimpmobile East River Pipe 3:38 $0.89

6. (I Want You) More Than Ever The Clientele 3:01 $0.89

7. Break a Promise Guv'Ner 3:22 $0.89

8. Your Fucking Sunny Day Lambchop 3:46 $0.89

9. Track of the Cat Pram 4:10 $0.89

10. Tragic Carpet Ride Polvo 3:17 $0.89

11. Long Vermont Roads The Magnetic Fields 3:27 $0.89

12. Noisy Night Portastatic 4:37 $0.89

13. Jerk Buzzcocks 2:21 $0.89

14. Excuse Me While I Drink Myself to Death Spent 3:44 $0.89

15. Hwy R Rock*A*Teens 4:03 $0.89

16. Cats Dogs and Babies Jaws Ganger 5:56 $0.89

17. Now I'm a Millionaire Beatnik Filmstars 3:12 $0.89

18. Dancing Music Ashley Stove 3:47 $0.89

19. Exploder Breadwinner 0:24 $0.89

20. Chula Pipe 2:04 $0.89

21. Mistakes and Regrets ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead 3:49 $0.89

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Disc 2:

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1. Anything You Want Spoon 2:17 $0.89

2. Oceans In the Hall The Ladybug Transistor 3:35 $0.89

3. Outta My Head M. Ward 3:00 $0.89

4. Eskimo Versus 4:15 $0.89

5. In Bristol With a Pistol Third Eye Foundation 2:59 $0.89

6. Ivanka Imperial Teen 3:16 $0.89

7. A History of Lies Bricks 3:26 $0.89

8. Where's Your Patience, Dear? Matt Suggs 2:28 $0.89

9. Slip is Showing Annie Hayden 3:09 $0.89

10. Today Is Gonna Be Mine David Kilgour 3:15 $0.89

11. Thru the Window Seaweed 3:05 $0.89

12. Old New Erectus Monotone 1:38 $0.89

13. Modern Painters Destroyer 3:00 $0.89

14. Isolda Paul Burch 5:14 $0.89

15. Spilled Oranges The Mad Scene 3:12 $0.89

16. The Late Great Cassiopia The Essex Green 3:29 $0.89

17. Naked and High On Drugs Karl Hendricks Trio 2:59 $0.89

18. What Can I Do? The Rosebuds 2:05 $0.89

19. E Motel Clean 2:32 $0.89

20. An Orchistration's Overture Music Tapes 1:36 $0.89

21. Angel Station Spaceheads 5:15 $0.89

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Disc 3:

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1. One More Goodbye M. Ward 3:28 $0.89

2. Fiction Romance The Angels of Epistemology 3:31 $0.89

3. Painted Forest Fire Radar Bros. 3:02 $0.89

4. Some Small History Portastatic 4:15 $0.89

5. Jersey Streets The Ladybug Transistor 3:30 $0.89

6. San Francisco Song Camera Obscura 2:17 $0.89

7. Monsters Shark Quest 3:16 $0.89

8. Crystal Queen East River Pipe 2:30 $0.89

9. Mendocino The Essex Green 3:04 $0.89

10. Where the Universes Are The Clientele 3:26 $0.89

11. Dogwood Richard Buckner 2:04 $0.89

12. Happily Ever After The Rosebuds 3:36 $0.89

13. La Maleta Fea Crooked Fingers 2:29 $0.89

14. Corvette Summer Spent 2:32 $0.89

15. Decora Spoon 3:12 $0.89

16. Streethawk II Destroyer 2:43 $0.89

17. The Gap In My Education (Berman) Lambchop 3:28 $0.89

18. Freaks In Charge Superchunk 3:49 $0.89

19. On the Outside David Kilgour 4:10 $0.89

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Product Details

Audio CD (July 13, 2004)
Number of Discs: 3
Label: Merge Records
ASIN: B0002C4IF4
In-Print Editions: MP3 Download

Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #178,456 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3.0 out of 5 stars bargain, August 25, 2004

Jean Anne Miller (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Old Enough to Know Better: 15 Years of Merge (Audio CD)

This compilation is like a deep, porous sponge with many dead ends hidden in the most unlikely places. I don't mean to say it's disappointing; actually, it's quite the contrary. Think in terms of economics. A bargain, a deal, a steal. You start to believe you're getting something for free. And in a society where capitalism wrings each paycheck dry, it feels good to enjoy the supposed best things in life. Merge has hit us with a collection of odds and ends...3 CDs deep, it's a healthy mixture of indie gems and pointless experimentation, all for the price of one CD. Know what you will about Merge, but all I knew prior to my purchase was that Merge is Spoon's label. That was reason enough for me to take a chance on three CDs for the price of one...and it should be reason enough for any indie pop-rock enthusiast who would like to discover a new reason to blow a paycheck on music by one or more of the Merge artists you'll discover through repeated listens to this compilation. The first two CDs give the listener a nostalgic retrospective, while the third disc is chock full of B-sides and songs recorded especially for this collection.

Personal recommendations:
"Long Vermont Roads" - The Magnetic Fields (CD 1)
"Song Against Sex" - Neutral Milk Hotel (CD 1)
"Today is Gonna Be Mine" - David Kilgour (CD 2)
"Out of My Head" - M.Ward (CD 2)
"Decora" - Spoon (CD 3)
"Some Small History" - Portastatic (CD 3)
"Happily Ever After" - The Rosebuds (CD 3)

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5.0 out of 5 stars unbelievable, November 21, 2007

Kevin M. Dunagan "ferrit54" (everywhere and nowhere) - See all my reviews
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hard to believe so much first-rate and varied music is collected on these three cd's. sad it's no longer available from merge.

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4.0 out of 5 stars a readymade indie rock party playlist, February 13, 2007

Stargrazer "the lost mixtape of my life" (deep in the heart of Michigan) - See all my reviews
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Boasting pivotal cuts by Spent, Polvo, the Magnetic Fields, Neutral Milk Hotel, Lambchop and others, this anniversary comp is a quick study in what a brilliant label Merge has evolved into over the last fifteen years... Their roster is practically the indie-rock dream team.

In addition, disc three of this very affordably priced compilation is all unreleased tracks: "Some Small History" by Portastatic, M. Ward's "One More Goodbye," Camera Obscura's "San Francisco Song" and "Happily Ever After" by the Rosebuds are all superb and worth the price of the disc alone. And there's more rare gems from Superchunk, Richard Buckner, Destroyer, Spoon, The Clientele, etc.

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4.0 out of 5 stars 15 Years of Merge Indie Rock
Outstanding value - 3 CDs for the price of one. Discs One and Two contain previously released material from Neutral Milk Hotel, Superchunk, M Ward, Spoon, etc. Read more

Published on November 26, 2005 by K. W. Schreiter

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An excellent sampler of the North Carolina indie label at any price. All the big guns are here (Superchunk, Versus, M. Read more

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