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Accompanying the CD and download formats of the album is a 2-LP set featuring four previously unreleased songs. Sweet's album, Sunshine Lies, was released on Shout! Factory on August 26, 2008. The album represented a return to the accessible and melodic approach associated with Sweet's early breakthroughs. 1 featuring their take on such widely known '60s hits as " Monday, Monday" and " The Kids Are Alright". In April 2006 he partnered with Bangles rhythm guitarist-vocalist Susanna Hoffs to release a collection of 1960's classics, titled Under the Covers, Vol. He released a new album of solo material, Living Things in late 2004, though the material on the album was recorded in 2002. In early 2002, he formed the supergroup The Thorns with Shawn Mullins and Pete Droge. Sweet's international success had been somewhat limited by his fear of flying however he gained a significant following in Japan and his 2003 album Kimi Ga Suki * Raifu, was initially a Japan-only release. The album mixed bouncy pop style with darker lyrics, including a leadoff track, the self-deprecating "Sick of Myself." The track has been covered live by Jon Auer, co-frontman of fellow '90s power poppers The Posies, as well as by Death Cab for Cutie and Bowling for Soup.ĭecidedly out of the musical mainstream, Sweet would issue a few more albums in the second half of the decade and maintain a devoted core of fans, but critical acclaim and chart success would be hard to come by. The final shot showed him pinned to the ground in a literary homage to Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels". As he performed, his body was slowly covered with cockroaches that ultimately wrapped his body with twine. The highly conceptual work featured extreme closeups of Sweet singing while prone on the grass. A more diverse and less immediately accessible album than Girlfriend, the album divided fans and critics who had mixed reactions to emotionally intense and brooding tracks like "Someone to Pull the Trigger" and "Knowing People." A second single, "Time Capsule", became a music video classic directed by Douglas Gayeton. Sweet's follow-up album, 1993's Altered Beast, was borne out of an apparent determination not to become mainstream.
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The animated clips in the video for "Girlfriend" are taken from the movie Space Adventure Cobra, and the video for "I've Been Waiting" uses clips of the Urusei Yatsura character Lum Invader, of whom Sweet has a tattoo. The video for the title track was aired on MTV, MuchMusic and Night Tracks and features Japanese animation, of which Sweet is a fan. sales (spawning a Top 10 single with the title track). This album featured a classic set of pop-rock songs, was considered by many to be an artistic breakthrough, and quickly garnered impressive U.S. The album, still under construction, was retitled Girlfriend and released in October 1991. In 1990, A&M released Sweet from his contract, and he signed with rival Zoo Entertainment. The new group spent 1990 assembling Sweet's next work, originally titled Nothing Lasts. Sweet quickly recovered and formed a new band including Richard Lloyd, Robert Quine, Greg Leisz, Lloyd Cole, and Fred Maher.
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This period marked a personal and professional low point for Sweet, as A&M lost interest and his marriage failed. Sweet was then picked up by A&M Records where he released his second album, Earth (1989), again without commercial success. One album, Inside, was released by Columbia in 1986 to good reviews, but limited success. In 1985, he was signed to a solo recording contract with Columbia Records. member Michael Stipe under the name Community Trolls as well as being in Stipe's sister Lynda Stipe's band Oh-OK, and that year also formed another band, Buzz of Delight. Sweet set off to Athens, Georgia in the early '80s after graduating from Lincoln Southeast High School in 1983 to attend college and join the vibrant Athens music scene, most famous as the home base for R.E.M. As a teenager in Lincoln, Sweet wrote and recorded songs on four-track cassettes, and in the ninth grade joined the band the Specs which resulted in his first recording on a battle of the bands LP produced by a local radio station.