Leave it to this impudent indie label to compile a back-patting retrospective—featuring the likes of Liz Phair, Yo La Tengo, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, and Come—that perversely avoids its acts' best-known, or best, songs. (Choosing Pavement's ''Texas Never Whispers'' is akin to a Motown history on which Stevie Wonder is represented only by ''Golden Lady''—good, but not essential.) Still, this double disc, What's Up Matador, paints a colorful portrait of distorted-guitar indie rock of the '90s, and the rarities collected on its second half include choice leftovers from Spencer, Cat Power, and Tobin Sprout, among others. B
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