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Girlfriend | 
| Artist: Matthew Sweet
Label: Volcano
Category: Music
List Price: $15.99
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 24099
Format: Extra Tracks, Original Recording Remastered, Special Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 828767854922
EAN: 0828767854922
ASIN: B000FJA9OI
Release Date: June 13, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Divine Intervention | | • | I've Been Waiting | | • | Girlfriend | | • | Looking at the Sun | | • | Winona | | • | Evangeline | | • | Day for Night | | • | Thought I Knew You | | • | You Don't Love Me | | • | I Wanted to Tell You | | • | Don't Go | | • | Your Sweet Voice | | • | Does She Talk? | | • | Holy War | | • | Nothing Lasts | | • | Good Friend [*][Demo Version] | | • | Superdeformed [*][Demo Version] | | • | Teenage Female [*][Demo Version] |
Disc 2
| • | Divine Intervention | | • | Girlfriend | | • | Day for Night | | • | Thought I Knew You | | • | Looking at the Sun | | • | Does She Talk? | | • | You Don't Love Me | | • | Someone to Pull the Trigger | | • | I've Been Waiting | | • | Winona | | • | Girlfriend | | • | Cortez the Killer | | • | Isolation |
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Amazon.com
After being dropped from A&M Records thanks to Girlfriend's rough edges, Matthew Sweet might hardly have expected great commercial success when another label brought the album out toward the end of 1991. But an alternative-welcome climate at rock radio stations, along with undeniably great songs and aggressive lead-guitar work by ex-Voidoid Robert Quine and former Television member Richard Lloyd, made the disc an eventual gold-selling hit. Years later, Girlfriend's probe of romance found, lost, and found again continues to sound fresh and daring. --Rickey Wright
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
A Classic Album Just Got Better September 23, 2006
Steve Vrana (Aurora, NE)
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
Matthew Sweet's 1991 power pop masterpiece just got better with this two-disc 15th anniverasry reissue. In addition to three bonus tracks taken from the Japanese edition of GIRLFRIEND ("Good Friend," "Superdeformed" and "Teenage Female"), there is a second disc entitled GOODFRIEND, that was initially made available only to a handful of retail, radio and record label insiders. This collection of home demos and live tracks is now available commercially for the first time. This bonus disc alone is worth the purchase price.
GOODFRIEND features nine of the fifteen tracks on the original release, including two live renditions of "Girlfriend," one from a BBC 1 broadcast and the other from a Cleveland show. Also included are two covers: a live version of Neil Young's "Cortez the Killer" and a demo version of John Lennon's "Isolation." The real revelations are the acoustic demos. On these tracks the songs are stripped to their essence. "Divine Intervention" becomes a beautifully melodic song of hope and uncertainty. Without Greg Liesz's pedal steel, Winona" loses its country feel but not its poignancy. And "Looking at the Sun" has a haunting beauty in this stark arrangement. [All the live tracks and demos were recorded after the release of GIRLFRIEND between March and September of 1992.]
I first purchased GIRLFRIEND on cassette when it was released in 1991, and then again a few years later to upgrade to CD. But this Deluxe Edition justifies purchasing it again. VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
The Torchbearer July 27, 2006
fatmatt (Cleveland, OH)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I was 20 and going to school in Athens, Ga when this album hit and let me tell you, it had a profound influence on my life. The music absolutely rocks and the lyrics cut right to what me and a lot of people around me we're feeling at the time: insecurity about love, life and the "real world" that was looming ahead at the end of our (4,5...6) years of college. Yes, this is college rock epitomized but with an emphasis on ROCK. Sweet is an incredibly gifted songwriter and musician and (although I didn't understand it at the time) had absorbed the Beach Boys, Beatles, Byrds, and Big Star and was on a mission to share those influences with Generation Xers interested in listening to something other than the heavy slog of Seattle grunge.
I didn't get a chance to see Sweet live until 2000 at the Roxy in Atlanta and I honestly have to say it was the best rock and roll show I've ever seen: raw, immediate, viceral (3 guitars!!!).
If you don't own it, buy it (either the Deluxe addition or just the old cheapie) don't download it either--this one's about DYNAMICS, not lame-o compressed MP3 sound. Definitely one of the best albums of the 90's and that's saying tons.
A must re-buy for me. June 16, 2006
Chrisedge
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
The original version of this album is great. Remastered and with the additional tracks, this moves into super-greatness. From the opening track, to the very end it doesn't disappoint. Buy this now.
Groovy Matt at his best June 15, 2006
Jeff Snell
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Bought this as soon as i found out it existed. Newly remasted, with great liner notes. The second disk is a cool bunch of extras with some live tracks and some alternate versions. Very nice two disk package.
 Sweet pop & sweet guitar solos July 7, 2006
M. SMITH (Music Heaven)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
The only Matthew Sweet album worthy of recognition & here's why; guitars, guitars, guitars. Sure, Matthew Sweet loves the Beatles and his melodies and harmonies prove it, but his later albums seem to suffer from not having Robert Quine or Richard Lloyd on lead guitar--or even Lloyd Cole on rhythm guitar. Not many punk popsters can pull off so much guitar wanking with interest; especially the late Robert Quine who is given plenty of room to speak. When this first came out I thought it was overhyped and not nearly equal to Television's Marquee Moon, or Richard Hell's Blank Generation; all influences Sweet has mentioned. However, 15 years later the album stands the test of time; no Beatles "Revolver" or Big Star's "#1 Record", but the melodies/harmonies work. Guitar workouts worth your attention: "Divine Intervention", "Does She Talk", "Girlfriend", "Evangeline". Pop classic tunes worth saving: "I wanted to tell you".
The extra disc is worth the money only for the demo version of "Divine Intervention." You can hear how Sweet was banking every ounce he ever had in the lyric and guitar playing. Spiritually yearning, his guitar solo at a minute thirty stretches as far as his questioning does God.
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