best song on girlfriend

Always worth reposting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXZsuEFrPeo

I remember all those things, even the longboxes.

Nice i didn't go it alone on my track choice.

I like these Sweet albums, but I thought Lloyd Cole, working with Quine, Sweet, and Lloyd too, made the smarter and better records.

happy 30th

did Pat mastellotto know who Quine was? did Quine know who Mr Mister was? Who's the rhythm guitar player? radney Foster? and that is Sara Lee, right?

Vinyl reissue coming next year

xpost I don't know the exact timeline, but Pat was certainly full-time session work by then. Tying it all together, though, is that Sara Lee played with Fripp in the League of Gentlemen, Quine certainly knew and/or knew of Fripp, and of course Pat went on to play with Sylvian/Fripp and King Crimson just a couple of years after "Girlfriend." So they're all pretty connected already.

Oh, and apparently the other guitarist is Murray Attaway, who was in Guadalcanal Diary.

I've never seen the second clip, btw!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieKFOOGP1r8

Such a gorgeous long box in the first clip. Not all covers worked in that format, but Girlfriend really sings.

Don’t remember seeing either of those Dennis Miller Show clips, thanks!

And, apart from Quine and Matthew Sweet himself, nobody else in that band was on the album, afaik.

No, but lots of people from Quine's circle are. Fred Maher, Ivan Julian, Richard Lloyd, etc. And a lot of them had just worked a bunch with Lloyd Cole, right? (And he's on the album, too.)

Is Ivan Julian on that album? I guess he is, plying rhythm? I saw him live with Matthew Sweet, in which context he was playing some good leads.