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Girlfriend
Girlfriend cover
Studio album by Matthew Sweet
Released October 22, 1991
Recorded 1990
Genre Alternative Rock
Length 60:19
Label Zoo Entertainment
Producer Fred Maher and Matthew Sweet
Professional reviews
Matthew Sweet chronology
Earth
(1989)		 Girlfriend
(1991)		 Altered Beast
(1993)

Girlfriend is the third album by Matthew Sweet, his most commercially and critically successful album to date, named one of the Top 100 albums of the 1990's by Rolling Stone. A studio album is an original collection of new tracks by a recording artist For the writer and broadcaster see Matthew Sweet (writer Sidney Matthew Sweet (born c Events 202 BC - Hannibal Barca, leader of the Carthaginians, is defeated by the Roman legions under Scipio Africanus Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative; known primarily in the UK as indie) is a genre of In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music This article is about the American record label for the British independent label see Zoo Records. In the Music industry, a record producer or music producer has many roles among them controlling the recording sessions coaching and guiding the musicians organizing Fred Maher is an American Drummer, programmer and Record producer. For the writer and broadcaster see Matthew Sweet (writer Sidney Matthew Sweet (born c allmusic (previously All Music Guide) is a Metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. Robert Christgau (born April 18 1942) is an American Essayist, Music journalist, and the self-declared "Dean of American The Music Box is a Laurel and Hardy Short film comedy released in 1932. Rolling Stone is a United States -based Magazine devoted to Music, Politics, and Popular culture that is published For the writer and broadcaster see Matthew Sweet (writer Sidney Matthew Sweet (born c Earth is the second album by Alternative rock Singer / Songwriter Matthew Sweet. Altered Beast is the fourth album by Alternative rock musician Matthew Sweet. For the writer and broadcaster see Matthew Sweet (writer Sidney Matthew Sweet (born c Sweet was joined in the studio by Lloyd Cole, Robert Quine, and Richard Lloyd, all musicians he had worked with before. Lloyd Cole (born January 31, 1961) is a Singer and Songwriter, known for his role as lead singer of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions Robert W Quine ( December 30, 1942 – May 31, 2004) was an American Guitarist, known for his innovative Guitar solos Richard Lloyd (born 25 October 1951, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American Guitarist, Singer and Songwriter

Sweet recorded the album after his divorce and later said to Rolling Stone, "It's funny how the album ended up showing everything I needed to feel. Divorce or dissolution of marriage is the termination of a Marriage. Rolling Stone is a United States -based Magazine devoted to Music, Politics, and Popular culture that is published Everything I needed as an antidote is there. "[1] He told Entertainment Weekly, "People say, 'This is your big breakup record - will you still be able to write good songs?' I'm sure I'll be just as depressed at some other point in my life. Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is a Magazine published by Time Inc "[2]

The album peaked at 100 on the Billboard 200 album chart. See Billboard (Turkish magazine Billboard is a weekly American Magazine devoted to the Music industry [3] The title track, fueled by its anime-themed video, hit number 4 on the Modern Rock chart and 10 on the Mainstream Rock chart. (anime in Japanese, "Divine Intervention" hit 23 on the Modern Rock chart. [4]

The cover features a photograph of actress Tuesday Weld from the late 1950s. Tuesday Weld (born August 27, 1943) is an Emmy - and Academy Award -nominated Golden Globe -winning American film and television [5] Originally called Nothing Lasts[5], the album was retitled following objections to the title from Weld.

The anime clips in the video for "Girlfriend" are taken from the movie Space Adventure Cobra and the clips in the video for "I've Been Waiting" are of the Urusei Yatsura character Lum. (anime in Japanese, is a sci-fi Manga created by Buichi Terasawa, later turned into an Anime movie and a TV series is a well-known late 1970s to 1990s Manga ( 1978 - 1987) and Anime ( 1981 - 1993) series created by Rumiko "Weird Al" Yankovic parodied the use of animation on his television special Al TV by adding clips of Ren and Stimpy, Bugs Bunny, Betty Boop, and Rocky and Bullwinkle. Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic (ˈjæŋkəvɪk born October 23 1959 is a Grammy Award winning American singer Musician, actor satirist Al TV is a show created by singer-songwriter "Weird Al" Yankovic. The Ren and Stimpy Show is an American / Canadian animated television series created by Canadian Animator John Clyde Rabbit (uncleMrs Bugs Bunny (wifePapa Bunny (fatherMama Bunny (motherRugs Bunny Betty Boop is an animated Cartoon character appearing in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop series of films produced by The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show is the collective name for two separate American Television Animated series: Rocky and His Friends

A cover of the song Girlfriend is a playable track on the videogame Guitar Hero II.

Contents

2006 Legacy Edition

In 2006, the album was remastered and released under the "Legacy Edition" label[6], with three bonus tracks (originally released on the "Girlfriend" single, subtitled "the superdeformed CD", and also available on the Japanese version of the album), plus a second disk of home demos, live versions and session recordings called Goodfriend. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Subtitled "Another Take On 'Girlfriend'", Goodfriend was originally an album created and given out as a gift to those who helped in promotion, and was not commercially released until the Legacy Edition.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Matthew Sweet; except where indicated

  1. "Divine Intervention" – 5:37
  2. "I've Been Waiting" – 3:36
  3. "Girlfriend" – 3:40
  4. "Looking at the Sun" – 4:16
  5. "Winona" – 4:59 (a song named after but not about Winona Ryder[5])
  6. "Evangeline" – 4:45 (sung from the point of view of Johnny Six from the comic book Evangeline)
  7. "Day for Night" – 2:55
  8. "Thought I Knew You" – 2:57
  9. "You Don't Love Me" – 5:21
  10. "I Wanted to Tell You" – 4:30
  11. "Don't Go" – 3:24
  12. "Your Sweet Voice" – 3:54
  13. "Does She Talk?" – 3:27
  14. "Holy War" – 3:25
  15. "Nothing Lasts" – 3:33

Track Listing for Goodfriend - included with "Legacy Edition"

  1. "Divine Intervention" (acoustic) - 3:05
  2. "Girlfriend" - 2:52
  3. "Day for Night" (live) - 3:21
  4. "Thought I Knew You" (live) - 3:57
  5. "Looking at the Sun" (acoustic) - 4:15
  6. "Does She Talk" (live) - 4:23
  7. "You Don't Love Me" (live) - 6:47
  8. "Someone to Pull the Trigger" - 3:53
  9. "I've Been Waiting" (live) - 3:45
  10. "Winona" (acoustic) - 4:30
  11. "Girlfriend" (live) - 4:05
  12. "Cortez the Killer" (Neil Young) (live) - 6:28
  13. " Isolation" (John Lennon) (acoustic) - 3:01

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Rolling Stone, November 28, 1991
  2. ^ Entertainment Weekly, April 17, 1992. " Girlfriend " is a hit single by American musician Matthew Sweet, released in 1991 and taken from the album Girlfriend Winona Laura Horowitz (born October 29 1971 better known under her professional name Winona Ryder, is an American actress Evangeline is a 1980s comic book co-created and written initially by then husband and wife team Chuck Dixon & Judith Hunt with pencils and inks by published professional "Cortez the Killer" is a song by Neil Young from his 1975 album Zuma. Neil Percival Young OM (born November 12, 1945, Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian Singer-songwriter, Musician " Isolation " is a 1970 song appearing on John Lennon 's first official solo album release John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (born Lloyd Cole (born January 31, 1961) is a Singer and Songwriter, known for his role as lead singer of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions Robert W Quine ( December 30, 1942 – May 31, 2004) was an American Guitarist, known for his innovative Guitar solos Richard Lloyd may refer to Sir Richard Lloyd (Royalist (1606–1676 MP for Cardiff and Radnorshire Sir Richard Lloyd (Durham (c Ivan Julian (born June 26, 1955) is a guitarist and bassist founding member of the seminal Punk / New Wave group Richard Hell and Greg Leisz (pronounced "Lease") is an American multi-instrumentalist playing lap and pedal Steel guitars Guitar, Mandolin, and bass Fred Maher is an American Drummer, programmer and Record producer. Jane Scarpantoni is a classically trained Cello player who has played on a number of alternative rock albums
  3. ^ [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/discography/index.jsp?pid=5797&aid=16613 Billboard. com album page
  4. ^ [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.vnuArtistId=5797&model.vnuAlbumId=160615 Matthew Sweet singles chart history at Billboard. com
  5. ^ a b c Matthew Sweet talks about his excellent Girlfriend, a September 1992 article from The Tech
  6. ^ Girlfriend [Deluxe Edition] from the Legacy Recordings website
The Tech, first published on November 16 1881 is the oldest and largest campus newspaper at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge Massachusetts Legacy Recordings is Sony Music Entertainment 's catalog division
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