As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Monday, July 24, 2017

#154 Girlfriend – Matthew Sweet (1991)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n12OBlcHx9E
 
The quote from the CD packaging – “Don’t be afraid to play it loud!” – couldn’t be more appropriate, at least when applied to the title track from Sweet’s 1991 album. The song itself and Sweet’s vocals are great, but what really makes the track is the searing guitar work by the late (and largely unknown) Robert Quine. If you ever feel like entering an air-guitar competition, you couldn’t go wrong with this.
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