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Everything Is Nice Matador Records | 
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| Artist: Various Artists
Label: Matador Records
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 219054
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 744861040026
EAN: 0744861040026
ASIN: B00000JITP
Release Date: September 14, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Disc 1
| • | Stereo - Malkmus, Stephen | | • | Count Five or Six - Oyamada, Keigo | | • | Talk About the Blues - Spencer, Jon [Rock] | | • | Cross Bones Style - Marshall, C. | | • | Flight '96 - Chavez | | • | Fire in the Middle - Evelyn, George | | • | Refuse to Lose - Non Phixion | | • | Pitbull - Nathan, Dylan J. | | • | No Tech! - Unwound | | • | Cosmic Rays - Timony, Mary | | • | Maximum Sunshine - Lynnfield Pioneers | | • | Fujiyama Attack - Guitar Wolf | | • | Heart Cooks Brain - Modest Mouse | | • | Flux - Bardo Pond |
Disc 2
| • | Christmas Steps - Mogwai | | • | Sugarcube - Yo La Tengo | | • | The Official Ironmen Rally Song - Pollard, Robert | | • | Banned from the End of the World - Sleater | | • | One Louder Solex - Esselink, Elisabeth | | • | The Banjo's Categorical Gut - Daniel, Drew | | • | Here We Go - Arab Strap | | • | Booker to Hooker - Oral, Can "Khan" | | • | Image of You - Thair, Richard | | • | Blaze - Freestyle | | • | Roygbiv - Sandison, Michael | | • | Do the Strand - Ferry, Bryan | | • | Tanzen - Betke, Stefan | | • | X-Factor - Void [2] |
Disc 3
| • | Windblown - Lynnfield Pioneers | | • | Naked - Spencer, Jon [Rock] | | • | Sleepwalkers - Non Phixion | | • | Universal Skills - Swel, Freestyle, D- | | • | One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Barbie Dolls - Konishi, Yasuharu | | • | Oh Cripes! - Esselink, E.L. | | • | Body Dump - Cruise, Julee | | • | Schtumm - Wisdom of Harry | | • | Sugarcube - Yo La Tengo | | • | Grounded - Malkmus, Stephen | | • | Choking Tara - Pollard, Robert | | • | Aging Astronauts II - Timoy, Mary | | • | Long Ride - Bardo Pond | | • | Hugh Dallas - Mogwai | | • | Sea of Love - Baptiste, Phillip |
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where is the real, everything is nice, a classic seattle hip hop cd released in 97 June 13, 2007
shark!e (seattle, wa USA)
anyone reading this should try to get their hands on a 10 year anniversary copy of the real "everything is nice", released in march 97.you know they bit that title!
 Matador Comp #2 November 30, 2005
K. W. Schreiter (Conshohocken, PA)
The second of Matador's compilations features 2 CDs of old material and 1 CD of previously unreleased songs from great artists like Pavement, Cat Power, Chavez, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Yo La Tengo, Sleater Kinney, Guided by Voices and Boards of Canada. The best two new songs from Disc 3 made it onto subsequent Pavement and Cat Power releases, respectively. All three of the Matador comps are packed with dozens of good songs at a single CD price and strongly recommended for new fans.
Great music for really cheap August 12, 2005
Miss Bianca of the rescue aid socity (Hungary/USA)
The tracks on this look like a collage radio play list!!!!! You got THE best in underground rock/Folk/Pop all in One cd. If YOU like good underground (Not that stuff that passes for rock these days) Then buy this.
"Everything" really IS nice April 17, 2005
E. A Solinas (MD USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I owe a debt to Matador Records' "Everything Is Nice" compilation,. It was through these three discs that I was originally introduced to many of my now-favorite bands, including Solex, Nightmares on Wax, Pizzicato Five, Pavement, Yo La Tengo, and many others.
But enough of reminiscing. "Everything Is Nice" was a tenth anniversary collection of many of their best bands, originally released in 1999. (They've since released a fifteenth anniversary collection. Only four more years til we get a twentieth). It's not only a good cross-section of the best and most timeless work here, but also a fun listen, and a good introduction to some good music.
Several indie-rock staples were signed onto Matador over the years, and they are given places of honor: the gone-but-never-forgotten Pavement, excellent Guided by Voices and Modest Mouse, as well as other outstanding bands like Mogwai, Cat Power, Sleator-Kinney and Yo La Tengo. Often these bands get more than one song.
But Matador also gives the spotlight to lesser known bands and artists. For example, the ultra-creative Cornelius and Japanese pop band Pizzicato Five, the swipping beats of Jega, fuzzed-out chords of Bardo Pond, and chilled-out grooves of Nightmares on Wax. There's also the quirkiness of Solex, electronic tsunami of VOID, sped-up hip-hop of the Arsonists and Non Phixion, the mellow keyboard of Mary Timony, and the danceable beats of Khan.
Okay, sprinkled here and there are a few duds. I have to admit that Chavez is not my favorite -- I can only take a few explosive chords at a time, unless Billy Corgan is playing them. However, those few songs are overshadowed by the excellent -- sometimes ingenious -- music that surrounds them on all sides. Pop, electronica, rock, hard-rock, experimental -- it's all here.
While Matador plays it safe to some degree, with a little of everything (as well as their best bands) that has been most popular for them, they also include some less conventional songs, such as Cornelius's dizzying "Count Five or Six," or the grimy, bare rock of Unwound's "NO TECH!" Neither is really pretty or catchy, but they are definitely compelling.
I'll admit it -- I have a soft spot for this tenth-anniversary collection, since it kicked me into my present love of music. And for those investigating the best bands never (or at least rarely) seen on MTV, this is an ideal springboard.
Matador does another one August 8, 2002
David C. Anderson (Baltimore)
As a follow up to the first Everything is Nice - this newest of Matador compilations features some pleasant new music to enjoy. Running the spectrum from Pavement with two quite nice songs (including an alternate version of Grounded which is, in many ways, better than the original) to the always pleasing Boards of Canada hit Roygbiv and the flash in the pan Burger/Ink - there is almost certainly something for everyone here. And with three discs for under twenty dollars, it's hard to go wrong with this purchase. I could have done without some of the Arab Strap and Bardo Pond songs - but once again, something for everyone.
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