Matthew Sweet - Blue Sky on Mars
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Artist: Matthew SweetEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 1997-03-25
Music Label: Volcano
Soundtracks:
- Come To California
- Back To You
- Where You Get Love
- Hollow
- Behind The Smile
- Until You Break
- Over It
- Heaven And Earth
- All Over My Head
- Into Your Drug
- Make Believe
- Missing Time
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Free Music Review: Matthew Sweet's Smiley Smile
Hit: 4 Stars
Because of the success of 100% Fun on modern rock radio, which spun off a respectable amount of airplay from Sweet's previous album Girlfriend, the buzz was that BSOM was going to be a super orgy of sound where all of the greatness of Girlfriend and 100% Fun are in one happy package. Well, when it hit stores after hearing "Where You Get Love" on the radio, I popped it in and was very disappointed in it's supposed promise. A lot of it seemed scattered and two very irritating tracks "Over It" and "Make Believe" never made it past the 20 second mark. But, in hindsight, there's some not too bad nuggets here that emulate songs off of 100% Fun, such as "Heaven And Earth" (Walk Out) or "Where You Get Love" (Sick of Myself) or "Into Your Drug" (broken down Lost My Mind). If you're just getting into Matthew Sweet, bypass this one unless Girlfriend and 100% is plenty. But, if you're thirsty for more and 100% Fun/Girlfriend isn't enough, then go to In Reverse and then go into reverse (hardy-har) to Blue Sky On Mars. Unfortunately, the big sound orgy promised for BSOM ended up on In Reverse while the grand poo-baa of hooks remained back at Girlfriend and 100% Fun, thereby pulling the plug on Sweet's already too-slowly emerging mainstream entry.
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Contains Three Bonus Tracks Exclusive to Japan: 'if It's Happening You Will Know It', 'close Inside', 'final Hour'.Matthew Sweet's melodic hooks fit so perfectly inside his rhythm grooves that together they acquire an irresistible logic. Sweet's Beatlesque confections avoid sentimentality thanks to the streetwise toughness he gleaned from his connections to such New York punk bands as Television and the Voidoids. If Sweet's melodies evoke an optimistic yearning for love, the words suggest that such connections are hard to come by. Sweet's debt to the Beach Boys is superficially obvious on the hot-rod tempo of "Come to California" and the amusement-park flavor of "Make Believe." Sweet really captures the essence of Brian Wilson's art, though, on songs such as "Behind the Smile," where he admits, "I haven't been a good friend for a long, long time; you know I wasn't happy behind the smile." Countering this confession are swelling, soaring harmonies that suggest that friendship and happiness are still the goals. --Geoffrey Himes
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