A music-obsessed, retired San Francisco lawyer, and author of the rock & roll memoir Jittery White Guy Music (available on Amazon)... picking a random album or song in his collection every day or so and sharing a few thoughts.
After a couple albums that saw Matthew Sweet trying to find his voice, 1991's Girlfriend hit like the work of someone who'd sold his soul to the devil, or at the very least spent a long, wasted weekend spinning Big Star and Who and Kinks and dB's records and finally had an epiphany. (Pulling together an insanely overqualified backing band, including guitarists Richard Lloyd and Robert Quine, didn't hurt.)
After the attention grabbing dual-guitar attack of album opener "Divine Intervention," Sweet achieves heavenly power-pop bliss on "I've Been Waiting," a jangly, absurdly catchy tune with soaring harmonies that wedges itself in your brain like a freshly-chewed chunk of Bubble Yum.
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