Originally released as the "Dime Map of the Reef" single and The Arizona Record EP,  this collects the grotty indie-strum laid down in Jersey City during the first Bush administration by Pavementers Steve Malkmus and Bob Nastonovitch and their UVA buddy David Berman. Pavement nerds might know the Southern spell "Secret Knowledge of Backroads" from a Peel session, but the rest of this cryptic urk, the mystery of which made SM's other band seem like Kardashians by comparison, has been out of print for decades. Berman and the Jews may have gotten higher-fi and easier on the ears, but never more casually charismatic and deeply urban.

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“Tonight's the Night”

The lead cut and title track from this girl group's debut album, "Tonight's the Night" was written by 19-year-old bandmember Shirley Owens, who sings lead, and producer Luther Dixon. The band from Passaic, New Jersey met in high school, first calling themselves the Pequellos. The song's frank thoughts about sexual and emotional surrender was racy for the time, but that didn't stop the Chiffons from cutting a similar version immediately after the original came out. "We were the first female group to write some of our own material," band member Beverly Lee recalls. "We did have some say-so in our writing."