Girlfriend (album)
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| Studio album by Matthew Sweet | ||||
| Released | October 22, 1991 | |||
| Recorded | 1990 | |||
| Studio | Axis Studios, New York City | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, power pop | |||
| Length | 60:19 | |||
| Label | Zoo | |||
| Producer | Fred Maher, Matthew Sweet | |||
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| AllMusic |  |
| Chicago Sun-Times |  |
| Chicago Tribune |  |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
| Entertainment Weekly | A |
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| Rolling Stone | |
| Select | 4/5 |
| Spin Alternative Record Guide | 9/10 |
| The Village Voice | A− |
Girlfriend is the third studio album by American alternative rock musician Matthew Sweet. It was released on Zoo Entertainment in 1991.
The album was included as number 61 on Paste's list of "The 90 Best Albums of the 1990s."
Recorded in 1990 following Sweet's divorce, he later said to Rolling Stone, "It's funny how the album ended up showing everything I needed to feel. Everything I needed as an antidote is there." 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."
The cover of the album features a photograph of actress Tuesday Weld from the late 1950s. Originally called Nothing Lasts, the album was retitled following objections to the title from Weld.
The music video for the title track (which aired on heavy rotation on MTV, MuchMusic and Night Tracks) featured clips from the anime film, Space Adventure Cobra, while the video for another one of the album's singles, "I've Been Waiting", used clips of the Urusei Yatsura character, Lum Invader.
The tracks, "Evangeline" and "Your Sweet Voice", were both followed by the sound of a vinyl outgroove and a phonograph needle lifting off of a record, which was meant to signify the end of each side of the album as though it were an LP (thus making the final three songs on the album to be, conceptually, considered bonus tracks). The song, "Winona", was named after (but not about) actress Winona Ryder, while the aforementioned song, "Evangeline", is sung from the point of view of Johnny Six from the comic book, Evangeline.
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