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Susanna hoffs pete droge1/7/2023 ![]() Hailed as a landmark of power pop, Girlfriend was actually harder-edged than anything he'd done before, with three downtown New York figures sharing lead guitar: Richard Lloyd (ex-Television), Ivan Julian and Robert Quine (both ex-Voidoids). When he decided to use a 1960s-vintage film image of actress Tuesday Weld for the cover and Weld didn't like the implications of the title, he renamed it Girlfriend after one of the songs. During a personal low point, in which his first marriage and record-label deal both fell apart, Sweet wrote songs for an album to be called Nothing Lasts. ![]() ![]() His first two albums came out on two different major labels- Inside on Columbia and Earth on A&M- and neither was successful. He joined two more Athens-based bands, Oh-OK (fronted by Stipe's sister Lynda) and the Buzz of Delight before getting signed as a solo artist. singer Michael Stipe, with whom he formed the short-lived duo Community Trolls their only output was three songs that have been bootlegged. Born in Nebraska, he was drawn by the music scene to attend college in Athens, GA. ![]() By the time of that album Sweet had already been working for ten years. Despite a long-running and consistent career, power-pop master Matthew Sweet will always be most associated with Girlfriend, his breakthrough hit from 1991.
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