Inside (Matthew Sweet album)

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Inside
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Studio album by
Matthew Sweet
Released1986
Studio The Power Station, RPM Studios, Unique Recording Studios, Right Track Recording, Soundworks, The Hit Factory (New York City, New York); The Sound Factory (Hollywood, California); Can-Am Recorders (Tarzana, California); Park Avenue Sound (Massachusetts); RG Jones, Good Earth Studios, Marquee Studios, Westside Studios, Advision Studios, Air Studios, Mayfair Studios and Battery Studios, (London, UK).
Genre Alternative rock
Length41:22
Label Columbia
Producer Matthew Sweet, David Kahne, François Kevorkian, Stephen Hague, Ron Saint Germain, Don Dixon, David M. Allen, Alan Tarney [1]
Matthew Sweet chronology
Inside
(1986)		 Earth
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Spin Alternative Record Guide 5/10 [5]

Inside is the debut album by alternative rock musician Matthew Sweet. [6] [7] It was released on Columbia Records in 1986. [8] [9] Sweet was dropped from the label after the album's release, and would not put out another record for three years. [10]

Contents

Production

The album was recorded in multiple studios with a large number of producers and musicians, including Bernie Worrell, Chris Stamey, Scott Litt, Don Dixon, and Aimee Mann, among others. [11]

Critical reception

Trouser Press called the album "a bit like R.E.M. and early dB’s doing sincere power-pop with keyboards." [11] The Rolling Stone Album Guide wrote that the songs "come across like the snappy work of a brainy Tommy James." [4] The Spin Alternative Record Guide called Inside "notable only because it features ten different producers, none of whom have a clue what to do with Sweet's music." [5] The Chicago Reader called it "tuneful and pleasant but ... sunk by the electropop, machine-driven production Sweet was pursuing." [12]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Quiet Her"Matthew Sweet Scott Litt 3:27
2."Blue Fools"Sweet David Kahne 3:43
3."We Lose Another Day"
 Stephen Hague 3:11
4."Catch Your Breath"Sweet
4:00
5."Half Asleep"SweetSimon Hanhart4:26
6."This Above All"Sweet
3:50
7."Save Time for Me"
 Alan Tarney 4:14
8."By Herself"
  • Sweet
  • Adele Bertei
3:47
9."Brotherhood"
  • Sweet
  • Shazar
  • Allen
  • Sweet
3:31
10."Love I Trusted"Sweet
  • Kevorkian
  • St. Germain
4:15
11."Watch You Walking"
  • Sweet
  • Shazar
Hague2:57

Personnel

Production

References

  1. 1 2 MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 1115.
  2. ↑ Inside at AllMusic
  3. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 7. MUZE. p. 879.
  4. 1 2 The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 687.
  5. 1 2 Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. 1995. p. 391.
  6. ↑ "Matthew Sweet | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  7. ↑ "Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs Cover the Eighties". The New Yorker.
  8. ↑ "Matthew Sweet's got a thing for felines". The San Francisco Examiner. January 13, 2021.
  9. ↑ "Matthew Sweet". MTV News. Archived from the original on February 9, 2021.
  10. ↑ The Rough Guide to Rock (2nd ed.). Rough Guides Ltd. 1999. p. 978.
  11. 1 2 "Matthew Sweet". Trouser Press. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
  12. ↑ Wyman, Bill. "Divine Intervention: How they made Matthew sound so sweet". Chicago Reader.


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