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| From | erhoek@comcast.net |
| Subject | Re: Matthew Sweet |
| Date | Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:45:46 +0000 |
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If you had heard his Buzz of Delight material on DB you would have known he had great potential.
There was a track on the Squares Blot Out the Sun comp on Db and an ep from around 1983.
Let me see if I can dig up my copy for more info.
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From: "Miles Goosens" <outdoorminer@gmail.com>
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Holmes Online <bholmes_fm@msn.com> wrote:
> > Ironically it was probably the inverse that
> > made me love GIRLFRIEND so much - I had almost no expectations and was
> > floored upon first listen, which if I remember was too late for the Audities
> > poll. :)
>
> Yeah, when GIRLFRIEND came out, to me Matthew Sweet was someone who'd
> put out a couple of ok-but-nothing-special pop albums. The massive
> hook and Quine geetar blast of the title track made me go "WOW! Who
> knew Matthew Sweet had *that* in him?"
>
> I still think GIRLFRIEND is a bit overrated (mostly because it's
> overlong, though ALTERED BEAST is just as long and I like it better
> than GIRLFRIEND), and that the best album the GIRLFRIEND combo did was
> Lloyd Cole's 1990 solo debut, but it's still a damn fine album, that
> GIRLFRIEND one.
>
> Yeah, I'm missing the poll. I'll get a list out sometime, maybe even
> later today, but I need some thinkin' and some time to listen, and
> both commodities have been in short supply lately.
>
> later,
>
> Miles
>
>
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