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!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
An idiosyncratic blog dedicated to the precursors, the practioners, and the descendants of power pop. All suggestions for postings and sidebar links welcome, contact any of us.
Contributors
PowerPop Fund
Blog Archive
-
▼
2010
(351)
-
▼
October
(28)
- Why Is This Man Laughing?
- Tales of the Ignoble Frog: The Last (Swear to God)...
- Words Fail Me (An Occasional Series): Post-Paris B...
- More Tales From the Land of the Ignoble Frog: The ...
- We'll Always Have Paris...
- A Vulgar Yet Heartfelt Dispatch From the Land of t...
- Live From DaytonOhio, France -- Part Deux!!!
- Weekend Listomania (Special Four Hour Erection Edi...
- Happy Birthday!
- Live From Dayton,Ohio France -- It's a Particularl...
- Words Fail Me (An Occasional Series): The Present ...
- Words Fail Me (An Occasional Series): More Proof, ...
- Monday Conspiracy Theory
- Weekend Listomania (Special Everybody's In Showbiz...
- An Early -- And Frankly Quite Terrifying -- Clue t...
- Thursday Essay Question: The Lovin' Spoonful's "Yo...
- Wednesday Essay Question: Mick Taylor -- Greatest...
- More Proof, As If It Were Needed, That YouTube is ...
- Words Fail Me (An Occasional Series): The Blues Ca...
- Tales From the Windy City
- Welcome to the Working Week
- New Twilley: The Green Blimp
- Happy Birthday!: Matthew Sweet Edition
- Wednesday Self-Indulgent Cranky Old Guy Outburst
- Words Fail Me (An Occasional Series): Hey, Hey, We...
- Words Fail Me (An Occasional Series)
- New Bandcrush: Vegas With Randolph
- Weekend (Not Actually a) Listomania: Special Class...
-
▼
October
(28)
Music Resources & Blogs
- .
- Absolute Power Pop
- AMG
- Aversion.com
- Basshead
- Bedazzled!
- Dewey Beach PopFest
- Fingertips
- fluxblog
- For the Records
- Glorious Noise
- Hooks and Harmony
- IPO Festival
- Little Hits
- Lost Bands of the New Wave Era
- Music Web Express 3000
- New Wave Outpost
- New York Power Pop
- Obsessed with Music
- Perfect Sound Forever
- Pitchfork Media
- Pop Narcotic
- PopMatters
- Post Punk Junk
- Power Pop Lovers
- Powerpopaholic
- Powerpopulist
- Ready Steady Go
- Rick Redux
- Seattle Power Pop
- Sheer Golden Hooks
- Smother.net
- The 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s of Power Pop!
- The Cure for Bedbugs
- The Mod Pop Punk Archive
- the old punks blog (inactive, but great archives)
- Trouser Press Online
- TweeNet
Bands We Love
- 20/20
- Apples in Stereo
- Barenaked Ladies
- Beat, The
- Brinsley Schwarz
- Cheap Trick
- Couple
- Dave Edmunds
- Dressy Bessy
- Elvis Costello
- Fountains of Wayne
- Lolas, The
- Matthew Sweet
- Move, The
- Myracle Brah
- New Pornographers, The
- Nick Lowe
- Portastatic
- Records, The
- Redd Kross
- Richard X. Heyman
- Robert Pollard
- Rockpile
- Shoes
- Sid'n'Susie
- Starjets
- Superchunk
- They Might Be Giants
- Velvet Crush
- XTC
Other Good Blogs on Progressive Politics & Culture
- Adventus
- Americablog
- Atrios
- Bitch, PhD
- Blah 3
- Blast Off!
- Bouphonia
- Cab Drollery
- Corrente
- Dependable Renegade
- Dohiyi Mir
- Echidne of the Snakes
- FireDogLake
- First Draft
- Gardner Writes
- Great Orange Satan, The
- Huffington Post, The
- Hullabaloo
- I speak dog
- Jesus' General
- My DD
- New Pairodimes
- No Capital
- No Pants Productions
- Online Blogintegrity
- Opinions You Should Have
- Pax Americana
- Poor Man Institute, The
- RawStory
- Rising Hegemon
- Rising Hegemon After Dark (NSFW)
- Stayin' Alive
- SteveAudio
- Suburban Guerrilla
- The Kenosha Kid's Blog
- The Supreme Irony of Life
- Thje Rude Pundit
- Welcome to Pottersville
- Whiskeyfire
- Wolcott
- Wordshed
- Zen Cabin
9 comments:
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
Did Quine play the solos at the end or just someone doing a Quine impersonation?
Quine's dead, isn't he?
The backgrounds in this video are exactly the recording environment I picture whenever I hear this song. Not the lizard, though.
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
I mean Quine's dead now -- not when he played on the record, obviously.
:-)
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.
thank you MBowen for certifying that!
AP
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!
Post a Comment