Matthew Sweet: Difference between revisions

* [[Dream Team]]: Sweet seems to have a talent for getting famous musicians to play on his albums - asides from the ''Altered Beast'' cast, [[Van Dyke Parks]] guests on ''Living Things'', and ''In Reverse'' also included famous session musicians Jim Keltner on drums and Carol Kaye on bass).

* [[Epic Rocking]]: "Thunderstorm".

* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|Japanese Love Matthew Sweet]]

* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: "Sick of Myself".

* [[One of Us]]: Asides from his love of anime and a tattoo of [[Urusei Yatsura|Lum]], ''Blue Sky on Mars''' title is a ''[[Total Recall]]'' reference, "Evangeline" is about the comic of the same name (specifically, it's from the point of view of the character Johnny 6) and ''Altered Beast'' is named after a Sega Mega Drive game.

* [[Religion Rant Song]]: "Divine Intervention" isn't as angry as [[XTC]]'s "Dear God", but it does pull a [[Holding Out for A Hero]] on God (the chorus goes ''We're all counting on his/divine intervention'') and voices doubts about his benevolence (''Now does He love us?/I look around/And all I see is destruction'').

* [[Sure Why Not]]: "Girlfriend" was originally named "Goodfriend", but Sweet changed the title after people misheard the lyric. Notably, both "girlfriend" and "good friend" are present in the song's lyrics.