Quarantine the Past: The Best of Pavement is a compilation album released by Pavement on March 8, 2010 to coincide with the band's reunion. The title of the compilation references a lyric from the 1994 song "Gold Soundz", which is the first song featured on the compilation. On January 5, 2010, Matador Records announced that a greatest hits compilation entitled Quarantine The Past: The Best Of Pavement would be released on March 9 on CD, double LP, and would contain 23 tracks from Pavement's entire career including “the scratchy and mysterious sounds of their early vinyl-only releases to the rich, multi-layered warmth of their final recordings.” The blog posting noted that “although the compilation does not include any unreleased material, it definitely digs deeper than the hits.” The blog posting revealed the artwork of the compilation, and announced a contest to guess the order of the songs on the album (except for the first track, which had been already revealed to be the band's 1994 single "Gold Soundz") in which the first place winner would get to see a Pavement reunion concert at Central Park Summerstage. In addition, a second place winner with the “most imaginative track listing” (as chosen by the band) would have their tracklisting pressed on a limited edition Record Store Day double LP version of Quarantine The Past. On January 25, Matador announced the correct track listing of the album and announced the winner of the competition.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_the_Past:_The_Best_of_Pavement
