Lazarus
(Bethany) | | Posted: Jun 16, 2013 - 10:11 | |
Cynaera wrote:Oooo - Matthew Sweet. This song is just good for the ears (since romeotuma is conspicuously absent lately!) I'm chair-dancing (not to be confused with pole-dancing, which requires a thong, a hot body, and gymnastic moves. Um, and a pole.)  |
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Zonkers
(Cornfieldville, IL) | | Posted: May 15, 2013 - 14:17 | |
Just a good rockin' song.
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lemmoth
(NYC) | | Posted: May 15, 2013 - 14:16 | |
Propayne wrote:Robert Quine.
Very good.
Robert Quine and Richard LLoyd - even better..... |
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Propayne
(Richmond VA) | | Posted: Apr 14, 2013 - 07:18 | |
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DanO-1
(Over a mile high, New Mexico) | | Posted: Apr 14, 2013 - 07:17 | |
martinc wrote:Tight and great guitar licks ... I don't ask for much more
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Dav3thedog
| | Posted: Mar 13, 2013 - 20:46 | |
'Need somebody to love..'? Sounds familiar, not good. |
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martinc
(Ottawa Canada) | | Posted: Feb 10, 2013 - 12:01 | |
Tight and great guitar licks ... I don't ask for much more
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Grammarcop
(You want an E Class? We got 'em!) | | Posted: Jan 10, 2013 - 04:13 | |
Sasha2001 wrote:
...Who managed to craft a few top-tier songs. You forgot this last part.
Sashsa: I'm not alone in my opinion. See what the critic John Pareles said about him in the Nov. 26, 2003, New York Times. Best wishes. |
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Pedro1874
(Newton-le-Willows, England) | | Posted: Nov 08, 2012 - 10:11 | |
Says 1991 on Amazon - Wow, 21 years - how time flies when you are having fun and listening to RP!  |
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Geecheeboy
(under a crescent moon and palmetto tree) | | Posted: Sep 06, 2012 - 11:42 | |
His KBCO acoustic version is pretty good too.
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Sloggydog
(UK) | | Posted: Aug 06, 2012 - 00:10 | |
Awesome guitar, weak lyrics but they would be totally overcome by a stronger blues voice. I am imagining this song with the black crowes singing.
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gypsyman
(just passing through....) | | Posted: Jul 05, 2012 - 13:32 | |
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Art_Carnage
(DeepintheheartofTexas) | | Posted: Jan 28, 2012 - 22:43 | |
It was going so well... until he started singing.
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lily34
(lexvegas) | | Posted: Dec 28, 2011 - 04:35 | |
i love Matthew Sweet. if you ever get the chance to see him live, do it. such a fun performer.
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sirdroseph
(Yes) | | Posted: Dec 28, 2011 - 04:34 | |
Boxman wrote:A fantastic album from beginning to end, but I never would have discovered if not for hearing this song almost 20 years (yikes!) ago. Driven by the late great Robert Quine on lead guitar, Fred Maher on the drums, Greg Leisz playing the lap steel, and Matthew Sweet on bass, as well as lead and backing vocals, "Girlfriend" is just an awesome track. Quine's lead guitar on this song is something that puts a smile on my face everytime I hear it, because it sounds like he's about to go careening off the rails at any moment, but he incredibly regains control each time you think he's about to lose it. Then there's that great rhythm vamp between Maher on drums and Sweet on bass that precedes the end of the song as Quine's guitar lets out these fitful restrained squeals before the song all comes to its somewhat menacing end.  Just perfect. Still one of my favorite albums from the 1990s, with an incredible guitar line-up throughout featuring Quine, Richard Lloyd, and Leisz (as does Sweet's much darker follow-up album, "Altered Beast"). This and Altered Beast were probably the most 2 played albums of the 90s for me.  Funny this song is probably my least favorite of both albums combined. Still a 7 though. |
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Xing
| | Posted: Dec 28, 2011 - 04:22 | |
Platidudesque Rick'n-Rock'n-Rolladoodle
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SpamNRice
(Northern, Italy) | | Posted: Dec 28, 2011 - 04:21 | |
SpamNRice wrote:Good power-pop every 5 years is quite tolerable  OK, OK... make that every 4 years... |
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Sasha2001
(I can see Zabars from my window) | | Posted: Nov 26, 2011 - 10:46 | |
What you have to ask yourselves is, if this song is so boilerplate, so nuts and bolts rock n' roll, how come there are so few other songs that sound like it?
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rabaak
| | Posted: Nov 26, 2011 - 10:42 | |
What ever happened to Matthew? Did he fall off the earth?
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Sasha2001
(I can see Zabars from my window) | | Posted: Nov 26, 2011 - 10:41 | |
Grammarcop wrote:Matthew Sweet is a second-tier songwriter at best.
...Who managed to craft a few top-tier songs.
You forgot this last part. |
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Grammarcop
(The end of the Pointe) | | Posted: Sep 24, 2011 - 04:06 | |
Matthew Sweet is a second-tier songwriter at best.
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MojoJojo
(Indianapolis, IN USA) | | Posted: Aug 23, 2011 - 19:10 | |
Antje_Schwahn wrote:Hackneyed rock cliches encapsulated neatly in a song which souds like so many othersof its ilk   |
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Canlistener
(Ontario Canada) | | Posted: Jul 23, 2011 - 10:00 | |
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hencini
| | Posted: Jun 21, 2011 - 20:15 | |
Good stuff... Not my favorite of his, but I wouldn't really classify myself as a true fan, so my opinion probably doesn't matter as much... : )
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vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | | Posted: Apr 19, 2011 - 16:02 | |
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DD rabbi_phil
(beach) | | Posted: Apr 19, 2011 - 14:49 | |
Boxman wrote:A fantastic album from beginning to end, but I never would have discovered if not for hearing this song almost 20 years (yikes!) ago. Driven by the late great Robert Quine on lead guitar, Fred Maher on the drums, Greg Leisz playing the lap steel, and Matthew Sweet on bass, as well as lead and backing vocals, "Girlfriend" is just an awesome track. Quine's lead guitar on this song is something that puts a smile on my face everytime I hear it, because it sounds like he's about to go careening off the rails at any moment, but he incredibly regains control each time you think he's about to lose it. Then there's that great rhythm vamp between Maher on drums and Sweet on bass that precedes the end of the song as Quine's guitar lets out these fitful restrained squeals before the song all comes to its somewhat menacing end. Just perfect. Still one of my favorite albums from the 1990s, with an incredible guitar line-up throughout featuring Quine, Richard Lloyd, and Leisz (as does Sweet's much darker follow-up album, "Altered Beast"). too bad Quine and Auerbach never had a chance to do anything together,that would've been something,eh? |
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Jelani
(Home of the freak, land of the vague) | | Posted: Apr 19, 2011 - 14:47 | |
Antje_Schwahn wrote:Hackneyed rock cliches encapsulated neatly in a song which souds like so many othersof its ilk Can we get a little more redundant please? Maybe I should send this comment for approval from the office of redundancy office? |
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Jelani
(Home of the freak, land of the vague) | | Posted: Apr 19, 2011 - 14:43 | |
I bought this album when it came out,and my friends were like, 'dude this sounds like a friggin' garage band!"
That's what I love about it; it sounds raw and un-messed with - but good!
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alaken
(Missoula, MT) | | Posted: Apr 19, 2011 - 14:43 | |
8 -> 9 I love me some Matthew Sweet! I remember the brief moment around '93–'94 when stuff like this was getting major airplay.
Would love to hear more MS on RP – maybe 'superdeformed'?
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Boxman
| | Posted: Dec 10, 2010 - 18:59 | |
A fantastic album from beginning to end, but I never would have discovered if not for hearing this song almost 20 years (yikes!) ago. Driven by the late great Robert Quine on lead guitar, Fred Maher on the drums, Greg Leisz playing the lap steel, and Matthew Sweet on bass, as well as lead and backing vocals, "Girlfriend" is just an awesome track. Quine's lead guitar on this song is something that puts a smile on my face everytime I hear it, because it sounds like he's about to go careening off the rails at any moment, but he incredibly regains control each time you think he's about to lose it. Then there's that great rhythm vamp between Maher on drums and Sweet on bass that precedes the end of the song as Quine's guitar lets out these fitful restrained squeals before the song all comes to its somewhat menacing end. Just perfect. Still one of my favorite albums from the 1990s, with an incredible guitar line-up throughout featuring Quine, Richard Lloyd, and Leisz (as does Sweet's much darker follow-up album, "Altered Beast"). |
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