To Understand: The Early Recordings of Matthew Sweet
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To Understand: The Early Recordings of Matthew Sweet is a compilation album by Alternative rock
musician Matthew Sweet
. Released by Hip-O Records
in 2002, it is a compilation of early Sweet recordings.
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
musician Matthew Sweet
Matthew Sweet
Sidney Matthew Sweet is an American alternative rock/power pop musician. He was part of the burgeoning Athens, Georgia music scene in the early and mid-1980s before gaining commercial success during the early 1990s...
. Released by Hip-O Records
Hip-O Records
Hip-O Records is a record label, currently part of Universal Music Group, which specializes in reissues and compilations. Their Hip-O Select label is currently in the midst of releasing the Complete Motown Singles, a series of fourteen box sets which include both sides of every 45 from Motown...
in 2002, it is a compilation of early Sweet recordings.
Track listing
- Southern (The Buzz of DelightThe Buzz of DelightThe Buzz of Delight was a band consisting of Matthew Sweet and David Pierce, which was active from 1983–1985.-Background:Matthew Sweet grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. He was musical from an early age, and as a teenager made 4-track cassettes of songs he wrote. Sweet was an early fan of R.E.M., as...
) - Christmas (The Buzz of Delight)
- Briar Rose (The Buzz of Delight)
- The Story of Love (The Buzz of Delight)
- Ninety-Six Sheets (The Buzz of Delight)
- Quiet Her
- Blue Fools
- We Lose Another Day
- Save Time for Me
- Something Becomes Nothing (The Golden Palominos)
- Easy
- When I Feel Again (Single Remix)
- Wind and the Sun
- Love
- Vertigo
- Having a Bad Dream
- To Understand (12 Inch B-Side/Demo)
- You Gotta Love Me (12 Inch B-Side/Demo)
- Silent City (12 Inch B-Side/Demo)
- Divine Intervention (12 Inch B-Side/Demo)
- Good Friend (Demo)
- Tainted Obligation (Demo) (Community TrollsCommunity TrollsCommunity Trolls was the group name of a short-lived musical collaboration between Michael Stipe of R.E.M. and Matthew Sweet. In 1983, before either of them were very famous, they collaborated as part of the Athens, Georgia music scene, writing and recording three songs together...
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