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