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Tomorrow we move to the third and final volume of the Matthew Sweet/Susanna Hoffs series of Under the Covers (with 80 s faves). I thought it might make sense in Steve Hayward s absence to finish up our sampling of Vol. 2 with Yes s I ve Seen All Good People, the opening track of The Yes Album s side 2 (1971). Written by Yes s Jon Anderson and Chris Squire, it s the only prog rock
For a few more days we will continue to kickstart the morning with a shot from the Matthew Sweet/Susanna Hoffs Under the Covers series of recordings. Today we move to the 70 s and Vol. 2. They open the set with the Grateful Dead s Sugar Magnolia, which is okay. However, it allegedly earned its inclusion in a unique fashion. Sweet writes in the liner notes that the song is Bob Weir s
Thirty years old and still virtually unsurpassed, Matthew Sweet s breakup album rescued his career and breathed new life into the ailing power-pop genre.
Matthew Sweet = Grateful Dead + The Beach Boys + Todd Rundgren
Matthew Sweet’s breakthrough album came out in the pivotal year of 1991. It was the year that rock music transcended away from
Guns-N-Roses’
Nirvana’s
Nevermind. The year was a sea of change that started a tidal wave. All you need to do is google best albums of 1991 and it is littered with iconic records. One record from that year that escapes immediate attention is the tragically underrated
Girlfriend by Matthew Sweet
. Girlfriend was an album that exploded to all your pleasure centers and stuck like candy. At the time of release, it was different it was void of that bland angst that would eventually unfold to the masses. It was less doom-and-gloom