Entertainment For Lively Minds
New Matthew Sweet album incoming..
Posted by Lenny Law on 17 September 2011 - 11:43pm.
And it can be listened to here!
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/exclusive-album-stream-matthew-sw...
Sadly, it would seem to be a bit shit.
Oh well.
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It does sound a bit below-par
but I will still probably be one of the three people in the UK that go out and buy it
That's you, me and Lenny then.
We should form a support group.
we'd only need a small
room, three chairs and a shared tea-bag
Make that
4 chairs, and we may need a second teabag.
our support group seems
to be gaining support.
Haven't listened, but
there does seem to have been a huge slide since the days of "100% Fun", "Altered Beast" and the like. Pity - those were great albums.
I'd love to see him gigging here with the Velvet Crush guys as his band, but, sadly, that seems unlikely to happen.
Ah happy memories...!
Velvet Crush as support and then as back-up band to Matthew Sweet for the main set - Astoria LA2 in 2004, what a gig! Sadly, an extremely rare UK gig, don't think he's played here since.
Not sure why he snubs us Brits, but I'm sure there's still a decent audience for him here.
"Not sure why he snubs us Brits..."
I thought I read a long time ago that he's afraid of flying, hence the rarity of his UK visits...
And put me down for an extra teabag at that next fan club meeting.
I read that, too, about the
flying thing.
I did see him, years back, in Glasgow's King Tut's (and then he toured in The Thorns, when I saw him, again in Glasgow), so he must get here somehow, sometimes.
Neither gig was very inspiring, actually: Tut's gig was just too thrashy and The Thorns always seemed a bit bloodless (no pun intended) to me - similar to the rather anodyne Sweet/Hoffs covers records. Still, I'd like to se him again, not least if he brought the VC guys (that Astoria gig was midweek, as I remember, so just couldn't go).
The Under the Covers
albums he did with Susanna Hoffs were strange too. Most of the versions were so slavish to the originals I could hardly see the point.
"I could hardly see the point"
I could.
Any excuse to spend a bit of time in the company of La Hoffs..