Album Info

Girlfriend

Rock - 1991

Matthew Sweet’s third album made power pop radio-friendly again (see the majestic “I’ve Been Waiting”) while it treated fans of... more

Tracklist

1

Divine Intervention

5:37 min
2

I've Been Waiting

3:36 min
3

Girlfriend

3:40 min
4

Looking At the Sun

4:17 min
5

Winona

5:01 min
6

Evangeline

4:45 min
7

Day for Night

2:55 min
8

Thought I Knew You

2:58 min
9

You Don't Love Me

5:22 min
10

I Wanted to Tell You

4:31 min
11

Don't Go

3:26 min
12

Your Sweet Voice

3:53 min
13

Does She Talk?

3:28 min
14

Holy War

3:25 min
15

Nothing Lasts

3:33 min
16

Good Friend (Demo Version)

3:36 min
17

Superdeformed (Demo Version)

4:08 min
18

Teenage Female (Demo Version)

3:54 min
1

Divine Intervention

3:06 min
2

Girlfriend

--:-- min
3

Day for Night

3:22 min
4

Thought I Knew You

3:59 min
5

Looking At the Sun

4:16 min
6

Does She Talk

4:24 min
7

You Don't Love Me

6:48 min
8

Someone to Pull the Trigger

--:-- min
9

I've Been Waiting

3:44 min
10

Winona

4:31 min
11

Girlfriend

4:05 min
12

Cortez the Killer

6:29 min
13

Isolation

3:02 min

About Girlfriend

Matthew Sweet’s third album made power pop radio-friendly again (see the majestic “I’ve Been Waiting”) while it treated fans of pure pop music to songs that merged wide-ranging influences: there’s R&B (the title track), sad-bastard country (“Winona”), straight-up anti-war rock (“Holy War”), and Neil Young–ish singer/songwriter balladizing (“You Don’t Love Me” and the drop-dead-lovely finale “Nothing Lasts”). The guitar interplay between Robert Quine (Richard Hell & The Voidoids) and Richard Lloyd (Television) stings, stabs, and soars and provides a highly listenable (and wholly unpredictable) counterpoint to occasional pedal steel guitars and Sweet’s tender tenor.