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

All songs written by Matthew Sweet, except where indicated.

  1. "Quiet Her" - 3:27
  2. "Blue Fools" - 3:43
  3. "We Lose Another Day" (Sweet, Pal Shazar) - 3:11
  4. "Catch Your Breath" - 4:00
  5. "Half Asleep" - 4:26
  6. "This Above All" - 3:50
  7. "Save Time for Me" (Sweet, Jules Shear) - 4:14
  8. "By Herself" (Sweet, Adele Bertei) - 3:47
  9. "Brotherhood" (Sweet, Pal Shazar) - 3:31
  10. "Love I Trusted" - 4:15
  11. "Watch You Walking" (Sweet, Pal Shazar) - 2:57

Personnel

Production

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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 30 January 2021.
  12. ↑ Wyman, Bill. "Divine Intervention: How they made Matthew sound so sweet". Chicago Reader.



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