TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Matthew Sweet
Matthew Sweet
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.8028
Matthew Sweet Album Rankings
1
Matthew Sweet is the guy you know got beat up after school in his teens. He probably never went to prom either and definitely wasn't the jock hero type.
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2
Clocking in at 45 minutes, Matthew Sweet's third record of guitar-dominated, hook-laden power pop runs through its 12 songs at a classic speed, piling up songs that lovingly conform to the three-minut
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3
After the success that Matthew Sweet had with his albumGirlfriend, he decided that the retro-'70s sound he had hit the jackpot with was the way to go.
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4
If Matthew Sweet wasn't recognized as an artist with his first two solo albums, then his works likeGirlfriendandAltered Beastset the record straight for a lot of people.
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5
The opening seconds of the first track ("Millenium Blues") may catch you off-guard, but when's the last time you heard reverse brass? There's no denying that pop/rocker Matthew Sweet's seven
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6
As ambitious and compelling as psych-tinged pop gets
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7
Over two decades into a solo career, the body of work of one Matthew Sweet continues to enervate even ardent fans.
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8
One of the most unlikely and endearing successes of the alternative rock era, Matthew Sweet was -- and is -- one of the most consistent artists to come out of that time period.
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9
Matthew Sweet's first album,Inside, was a sadly neglected trove of ingenious power pop. OnEarth, his second album, Sweet proves that the breezy charm of his debut was no melodic fluke.
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10
Matthew Sweet contributed one of the finest records of the '90s, 1991'sGirlfriend, and while his work has rarely visited the lofty heights achieved by that album, he has crafted several solid and some
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11
The old Matthew Sweet was a man on a noble mission: to liberate guitar pop from all constraints of time and context.
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13
Matthew Sweet fans are of the rabidly devoted type.
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