CLASSIC RECORDS LP 72445-11050-1: Matthew Sweet, Altered Beast - OOP 1993 USA SS
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Background -
Good luck trying to find one of these! The pop titles issued by Classic Records disappeared and went out of print rather quickly. Not many made it to market and are likely even rarer than their famous classical or jazz titles. This is one such title, in the folk music genre, and best of all, it's still factory sealed!
Sidney Matthew Sweet (born October 6, 1964, in Lincoln, Nebraska) 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. He continues to tour.In 1980, while attending Lincoln Southeast High School, Sweet, having written and recorded songs on four-track cassettes, and having joined the band The Specs, released his first recording on a battle of the bands LP produced by a local radio station. After graduating in 1983, Sweet travelled to Athens, Georgia to attend college during the vibrant Athens music scene. That same year, Sweet, who had met the band R.E.M. when they played a show in his hometown the previous year, collaborated with frontman Michael Stipe in a duo group under the name Community Trolls, as well as played guitar in Stipe's sister Lynda Stipe's band, Oh-OK. In addition, he formed another duo, The Buzz of Delight, with Oh-OK drummer David Pierce, releasing an EP, Sound Castles, in 1984 on DB Records. On the strength of this 12" vinyl, Sweet was signed to a solo recording contract with Columbia Records.
In 1986, Sweet released Inside, his debut album, to good reviews but little commercial success.
In 1989, Sweet released Earth, after signing with A&M Records and, again, it was well-received critically, but failed commercially. This period marked a personal and professional low point, as both his record company lost interest and his marriage failed.
In 1990, A&M released Sweet from his contract, and he signed with rival Zoo Entertainment, which later formed into Volcano Entertainment several years later. Sweet formed a new band (which included Richard Lloyd, Robert Quine, Greg Leisz, Lloyd Cole, and Fred Maher), and together they spent that year assembling his next work, originally titled Nothing Lasts.
In 1991, Sweet released Girlfriend, the retitled pop-rock album which was widely considered an artistic breakthrough, and quickly garnered impressive U.S. sales, spawning a Top 10 single with the title track. The music video for "Girlfriend" (heavily aired on MTV, MuchMusic and Night Tracks) featured clips from the anime film, Space Adventure Cobra, while the video for "I've Been Waiting" used clips of the Urusei Yatsura character, Lum Invader.
In 1993, Sweet released Altered Beast, a harder rock album which drew mixed reactions with its intense and brooding tracks (such as "Someone to Pull the Trigger" and "Knowing People"). The music video for the single, "The Ugly Truth" (directed by Sweet) featured the singer being chased in the desert by police while driving his own 1970 Dodge Challenger, while the video for "Time Capsule" was a literary homage to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
Altered Beast is the fourth album by alternative rock musician Matthew Sweet. It was released on Zoo Entertainment in 1993.
Some of the album's guest musicians included drumming by Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood Mac), Jody Stephens (Big Star) and Pete Thomas (Elvis Costello's backing band), guitaring by Richard Lloyd (Television), Robert Quine (Voidoids) and Ivan Julian (Voidoids), keyboarding by Nicky Hopkins, and fiddle by Byron Berline on the lead single, "The Ugly Truth".
Initial responses to the record were mixed, with Rolling Stone writing that it had "inspiring moments; the problem is finding them.". AllMusic agreed that the album is "all over the place", yet noted that "it takes a bit of time for all of it to make sense, but after a few listens, it falls together."
The title of the album is based on the arcade game, Altered Beast. Sweet has declared the title meant "whatever is inside you that someday might explode, and maybe you don't know it's there", which he found similar to the game, where "you have to find these little power-up things, and when you eat them you become the Altered Beast, this other creature that's really powerful and violent".
The track, "Intro", is a clip from the Malcolm McDowell film, Caligula.
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CLASSIC RECORDS / Zoo Entertainment LP item.
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Record Made in the USA
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Pressing is in STEREO
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Record Speed: 33 1/3 rpm
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Earliest (and best) version of this audiophile reissue by Classic Records - using 180-gram premium vinyl, this title is long out of print.
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Record Made in: 1993 - original LP was issued in 1993 by BMG Music.
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Record Catalog Number: 72445 11050-1
Featured on this item:
Matthew Sweet
LP Title:
Altered Beast
Track Listing -
All songs written by Matthew Sweet; with the exception of Track 8, "Intro" excerpts from the movie "Caligula".
- "Dinosaur Act" - 4:05
- "Devil With the Green Eyes" - 4:43
- "The Ugly Truth" - 3:18
- "Time Capsule" - 3:56
- "Someone to Pull the Trigger" - 3:55
- "Knowing People" - 4:25
- "Life Without You" - 2:18
- "Intro" - 0:46
- "Ugly Truth Rock" - 2:58
- "Do It Again" - 3:33
- "In Too Deep" - 3:54
- "Reaching Out" - 4:00
- "Falling" - 4:50
- "What Do You Know?" - 4:27
- "Evergreen" - 4:23
CONDITION Details:
LP JACKET:-
The LP jacket is in Mint, FACTORY SEALED condition!
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The jacket has NO seam splits - it is completely intact and has a silver sticker from the manufacturer on the outside plastic wrap (see picture for more detail).
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The jacket has NO drill holes or saw marks of any kind.
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The outer plastic cellophane (bag) wrap is NOT torn in any way.
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There is NO hand writing on the front or back of the jacket.
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The cover has clean and sharp colors - see pictures with this listing for more detail.
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The LP is assumed to be in MINT condition as well as this item is FACTORY SEALED!!
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This is the mint copy you have always wanted in your collection - any super picky audiophile would be happy with this one!
A Short Note About LP GRADING -
- Mint = Only used for sealed items.
- Near Mint = Virtually flawless in every way.
- Near Mint Minus = Item has some minor imperfections, some audible.
- Excellent = Item obviously played and enjoyed with some noise.
- Very Good Plus = Many more imperfections which are noticeable and obtrusive.
Don't let this rarity slip by!!
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