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!

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9 comments:

  1. TMink10/06/2010 1:22 PM

    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

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  2. ¡barangus!™10/06/2010 1:54 PM

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

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  3. steve simels10/06/2010 5:32 PM

    Quine's dead, isn't he?

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  4. Faze10/06/2010 6:09 PM

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

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  5. Anonymous10/06/2010 7:21 PM

    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

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  6. steve simels10/06/2010 7:21 PM

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

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  7. MBowen10/06/2010 8:24 PM

    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.

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  8. Anonymous10/07/2010 12:51 PM

    thank you MBowen for certifying that!

    AP

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  9. John Fowler10/08/2010 1:43 AM

    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!

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