Girlfriend (album)

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Girlfriend
Studio album by Matthew Sweet
Released	October 22, 1991
Recorded	1990
Genre	Rock
Length	60:19
Label	Zoo Entertainment
Producer(s)	Fred Maher and Matthew Sweet
Professional reviews
All Music Guide (4.5/5) link The Music Box 6/28/06 Robert Christgau (A-) link
Matthew Sweet chronology
Earth (1989)	Girlfriend (1991)	Altered Beast (1993)

Girlfriend is the third album by Matthew Sweet, his most commercially and critically successful album to date. The cover features a photograph of actress Tuesday Weld from the late 1950s. Originally called Nothing Lasts, the album was retitled following objections to the title from Weld. Sweet was joined in the studio by Lloyd Cole, Robert Quine, and Richard Lloyd, all musicians he had worked with before.

Sweet recorded the album after his divorce and later said to Rolling Stone, "It's funny how the album ended up showing everything I needed to feel. Everything I needed as an antidote is there." He told Entertainment Weekly, "People say, 'This is your big breakup record - will you still be able to write good songs?' I'm sure I'll be just as depressed at some other point in my life."

The album peaked at 100 on the Billboard 200 album chart. The title track, fueled by its anime themed video, hit number 4 on the Modern Rock chart and 10 on the Mainstream Rock chart. "Divine Intervention" hit 23 on the Modern Rock chart.

The anime clips in the video for "Girlfriend" are taken from the movie Space Adventure Cobra and the clips in the video for "I've Been Waiting" are of the Urusei Yatsura character Lum.

In 2006, the album was remastered and released under the Legacy Edition label, with three bonus tracks (originally released on the "Girlfriend" single, subtitled "the superdeformed CD", and also available on the Japanese version of the album), plus a second disk of home demos, live versions and session recordings called Goodfriend. Subtitled "Another Take On 'Girlfriend'", Goodfriend was originally an album created and given out as a gift to those who helped in promotion, and was not commercially released until the Legacy Edition.

"Girlfriend" is featured the the PlayStation 2 game Guitar Hero II.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Divine Intervention" – 5:37
2. "I've Been Waiting" – 3:36
3. "Girlfriend" – 3:40
4. "Looking at the Sun" – 4:16
5. "Winona" – 4:59
6. "Evangeline" – 4:45 (sung from the point of view of Johnny Six from the comic book Evangeline)
7. "Day for Night" – 2:55
8. "Thought I Knew You" – 2:57
9. "You Don't Love Me" – 5:21
10. "I Wanted to Tell You" – 4:30
11. "Don't Go" – 3:24
12. "Your Sweet Voice" – 3:54
13. "Does She Talk?" – 3:27
14. "Holy War" – 3:25
15. "Nothing Lasts" – 3:33