Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Happy Birthday!: Matthew Sweet Edition

We at Power Pop wish a very happy birthday to pop god Matthew Sweet, who completes his circuit around the sun today. Many Happy Returns!

And now: the most ambivalent love song evah!

9 comments:

TMink said...

Matthew has made so much music I really love. The covers discs with Suzanna Hoffs just adds to my appreciation of this dude. Rock on Matthew, you rock us dude.

Trey

¡barangus!™ said...

Did Quine play the solos at the end or just someone doing a Quine impersonation?

steve simels said...

Quine's dead, isn't he?

Faze said...

The backgrounds in this video are exactly the recording environment I picture whenever I hear this song. Not the lizard, though.

Anonymous said...

Wasn't the lead Richard Lloyd (who probably tops the shortlist of potential Quine impersonators) and I'm wondering also if that's Lloyd in the hospital scene. Anyway, what a great amazing song.

AP

steve simels said...

I mean Quine's dead now -- not when he played on the record, obviously.
:-)

MBowen said...

Definitely Richard Lloyd in the hospital scene. It's a parody of a photo of Lloyd in a hospital bed that appeared in Trouser Press and also the February 2001 issue of Mojo.

Anonymous said...

thank you MBowen for certifying that!

AP

John Fowler said...

By coincidence, I just used this song as the introduction to a lecture on bacteria this week...
Probably not how Sweet envisioned it as originally written, but, well, it sounds great in a lecture hall!