Matthew Sweet Music

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After spending the '80s as an unappreciated jangle pop guitarist with Oh-OK and Lloyd Cole, as well as a solo artist, Matthew Sweet emerged in 1991 as the leading figure of the American power pop revival. Like his British counterparts Teenage Fanclub, Sweet adhered to traditional songcraft, yet subverted the form by adding noisy post-punk guitar and flourishes of country-rock, resulting in an amalgam of the Beatles, Big Star, R.E.M., and Neil Young. Recorded with guitarists Richard Lloyd and Robert Quine, S... Read More

Big Star, Elvis Costello, John Lennon, R.E.M, The Beatles, Neil Young, Television, The Kinks, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Todd Rundgren, Emitt Rhodes and Nick Lowe

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