With a name like Matthew Sweet, it's hard not to pigeonhole the guy as a sugary popster and leave it at that; but to do so is to unfairly ignore the range of Sweet's abilities and the extent of his influence on Power Pop in the 1990s. Sweet, after all, is a redoubtable guitar player. On his best record, Girlfriend (1991), he turned loose two of the most innovative players to ever put pick to string, Robert Quine of the Voidoids and Richard Lloyd of Television. Looking over th...
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