Is a pending greatest hits disc from Pavement the final sign that indie rock is all grown up or that it's dead? However you see it, Quarantine the Past will signal that event upon its March 9 release.

The obvious thing for a blogger to do at this point is to nitpick and/or parse the tracklisting. Alas, the folks at Matador have turned that exercise into a game. Or rather, a contest. The collection will feature 23 tracks, the first of which is "Gold Soundz." If you're the entrant who comes closest to picking the correct order, you'll win a pair of tickets, with flights and hotel rooms, to see Pavement at Central Park Summerstage on Sept. 21. Not a bad prize. A few more hints, via the Matablog: "3 pre-Matador tracks are included, plus one song that originally came out on a compilation. Every Matador album is represented, plus Watery, Domestic."

That means "Box Elder" and two more from the Westing (By Musket and Sextant) collection, as well as a smattering of "hits." I'll certainly give the contest a shot. How much might that package net on eBay?

In other news, Matador reports that it's biannual release of a deluxe version of one of the band's albums will culminate this fall with the band's swan song, Terror Twilight.

Labels: greatest hits, music, Pavement