To Understand: The Early Recordings

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Personnel includes: Matthew Sweet (vocals, acoustic guitar, guitar, bagbone guitar, melodica, piano, bass, bells, programming); Michael Stipe (vocals, accordion); Robert Quine (electric guitar, guitar); Gary Lucas (guitar, slide guitar, dobro); Freed Harm, Nicky Skopelitis, Jody Harris, Richard Lloyd (guitar); Peter Blegvad (6 & 12 string guitars); Bernie Worrell (Hammond B-3 organ, organ); Bill Laswell (bass); David Pierce (vibraphone, drums, swamp box, glass jar, bells); Anton Fier (drums); Fred Maher (programming); Leah Kunkel, Trip Shakespeare, Syd Straw (background vocals). Producers includes: The Buzz Of Delight, Don Dixon, David Kahne, Anton Fier, Fred Maher. Compilation producer: Mike Ragogna. Recorded between 1983 & 2002. Includes liner notes by Jeff Calder. Personnel: Matthew Sweet (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica, melodica, piano, keyboards, bells, programming); Michael Stipe (vocals, accordion); Robert Quine (guitar, electric guitar); Peter Blegvad (guitar, 12-string guitar); Gary Lucas (guitar, slide guitar, dobro, wah-wah guitar); Chris Stamey, Freed Harm, Jody Harris, Nicky Skopelitis, Richard Lloyd , Rusty Anderson (guitar); David Kahne (acoustic guitar, keyboards); Alan Tarney (piano, keyboards, drum programming); Bernie Worrell (organ); Howard Benson (keyboards, programming); David Pierce (vibraphone, drums, glass, percussion, bells, drum programming); Anton Fier (drums); Fred Maher (programming, drum programming); Dan Wilson , Debbi Peterson, Matt Wilson, John Munson, Leah Kunkel, Syd Straw, Trip Shakespeare, Vicki Peterson (background vocals). Liner Note Author: Jeff Calder. Photographers: Harris Savides; Laura Levine. Unknown Contributor Role: Matthew Sweet. Universal's reissue label Hip-O is distinguished by its willingness to license recordings from other record companies to create definitive compilations. This collection, unlike other Hip-O releases, is not the "ultimate" Matthew Sweet, but rather the ultimate early Matthew Sweet, which is to say, Matthew Sweet prior to the commercial breakthrough he enjoyed with his 1991 album Girlfriend. Compilation producer Mike Ragogna is able to use Sweet's 1989 album, Earth, released on A&M Records, now part of the Universal catalog, and various B-sides recorded around the same time as that album, as an anchor for the collection, occupying ten of the 22 tracks. But Hip-O has licensed some tracks by the Buzz of Delight, Sweet's early-'80s duo with drummer David Pierce, including several that were previously unreleased from DB Records, as well as four tracks from his 1986 Columbia Records album Inside, a track from the Golden Palominos' disc The Blast of Silence, and, from I.R.S. Records, a previously unreleased demo by Sweet and R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe performing under the name Community Trolls. The result is a fascinating examination of Sweet's musical development. The Buzz of Delight tracks are very much in the Athens, GA, alternative rock sound of the early '80s, reminiscent of R.E.M.'s recordings of the same period. The tracks from Inside find Sweet going for a heavily produced pop sheen with plenty of shimmering echo, similar to the kind of one-man-band recordings Dwight Twilley had been making a few years earlier. The Earth tracks look forward to the better-realized Girlfriend, even concluding with a demo version of that album's title song. And the Stipe collaboration is an appropriate coda. Sweet fans should rejoice at this release, not only for its valuable rarities, but also for the portrait it provides of his promising early work. ~ William Ruhlmann
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