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Stravinsky Plays His Firebird; Prokofiev Plays Prokofiev
Music: Anthology, Vol. 2: The Producer [Import]
The Shouty Track, Pt. 2 [CD-single] [Enhanced] [Import]
The Power of Goa Trance [Box set] [Import]
The Very Best of India [Import]
Strauss: Serenade for 13 wind instruments; Concert Overture in C minor
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After being dropped from A&M Records thanks to Girlfriend's rough edges, Matthew Sweet might hardly have expected great commercial success when another label brought the album out toward the end of 1991. But an alternative-welcome climate at rock radio stations, along with undeniably great songs and aggressive lead-guitar work by ex-Voidoid Robert Quine and former Television member Richard Lloyd, made the disc an eventual gold-selling hit. Years later, Girlfriend's probe of romance found, lost, and found again continues to sound fresh and daring. --Rickey Wright