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Music : Blue Sky on Mars: Japanese Issue
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Blue Sky on Mars: Japanese Issue by: Matthew Sweet |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 4988027018085 Format: Extra tracks Label: Funhouse Manufacturer: Funhouse Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Funhouse Release Date: December 01, 1997 Studio: Funhouse Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: From Amazon.com: Matthew Sweet's melodic hooks fit so perfectly inside his rhythm grooves that together they acquire an irresistible logic. Sweet's Beatlesque confections avoid sentimentality thanks to the streetwise toughness he gleaned from his connections to such New York punk bands as Television and the Voidoids. If Sweet's melodies evoke an optimistic yearning for love, the words suggest that such connections are hard to come by. Sweet's debt to the Beach Boys is superficially obvious on the hot-rod tempo of "Come to California" and the amusement-park flavor of "Make Believe." Sweet really captures the essence of Brian Wilson's art, though, on songs such as "Behind the Smile," where he admits, "I haven't been a good friend for a long, long time; you know I wasn't happy behind the smile." Countering this confession are swelling, soaring harmonies that suggest that friendship and happiness are still the goals. --Geoffrey Himes Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - Matthew Sweet is Pop Genius!!Matthew Sweet is all the best bits of The Byrds, Neil Young, Big Star, The Raspberries, the Beatles et al rolled into a power pop superhero! This strangely under appreciated album from his back catalogue is just as chock-a-block with undiscovered pop classics as all his other albums. Perhaps a little lighter than Girlfriend and Altered Beast, and maybe missing the killer singles of In Reverse (What Matters is one of the top ten pop singles of the 90's), but this is to nit pick, because here you have 13 slices of an artist throwing away classic songs like they are going out of fashion (see the complete Guided By Voices back catalogue for similar acts of indiscretion). Behind the Smile and back To You would have been airplay ... Read More: |
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