Girlfriend Expanded Edition CD/SACD (SHIPPING NOW!)
$30
Original Release Date: 1991
Original Label: Zoo Entertainment
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- Artist-Approved Expanded Edition
- 18 Tracks Incl. 3 Bonus Demo Tracks
- Mastered Direct-to-DSD FROM THE ORIGINAL ANALOG MASTER TAPES!
- Mastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound
- Hybrid CD/SACD Plays On All CD and SACD Players
- Super Jewel Box Packaging
"... the holy grail of power pop." -Tiny Mix Tapes
"Matthew Sweet's third album is a remarkable artistic breakthrough ... thanks to his exceptional songwriting, the album is a fresh, original interpretation of a classic sound." - Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic.com
Matthew Sweet’s essential 1991 power-pop tour-de-force gets its high-res due on Intervention’s Expanded Edition release. In addition to including the original CD release’s 15 tracks, this hybrid CD/SACD includes three demo tracks not included on the original release- “Good Friend,” “Superdeformed” and “Teenage Female.”
15 of the 18 tracks on this remastered Expanded Edition are Mastered Direct-to-DSD from the Original Master Tapes by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound. The last three tracks are Matthew Sweet’s own demo recordings made to DAT. Intervention’s remaster delivers maximum bass and dynamics. There are big, fat guitar tones and controlled but very expressive bass and a massive soundstage. Girlfriend is not only a 90’s classic but an amazingly pure and simply tremendous rock recording!
Tracks
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1Divine Intervention05:37
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2I've Been Waiting03:36
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3Girlfriend03:40
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4Looking At The Sun04:17
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5Winona05:01
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6Evangeline05:07
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7Day For Night02:55
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8Thought I Knew You02:58
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9You Don't Love Me05:22
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10I Wanted To Tell You04:31
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11Don't Go03:26
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12Your Sweet Voice04:36
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13Does She Talk?03:27
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14Holy War03:25
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15Nothing Lasts03:33
Bonus Tracks
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1Good Friend (Demo)03:36
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2Superdeformed (Demo)04:09
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3Teenage Female (Demo)03:54
Mastering Notes
15 of the 18 tracks on this remastered Expanded Edition are 100% Mastered Direct-to-DSD from the Original Master Tapes by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound. The last three tracks are Matthew Sweet's own demo recordings made to DAT. Intervention's remaster delivers maximum bass and dynamics. There are big, fat guitar tones and controlled but very expressive bass and a massive soundstage. Girlfriend is not only a 90's classic but an amazingly pure and simply tremendous rock recording!
Release Notes
- Format: Hybrid CD/SACD Plays On All CD and SACD Players
- IR Catalog: IR-SCD12
- UPC: 680270758049

The Lost 90's Series
A prime directive at IR is bringing music from the dark days of the 1990s CD era to glorious new life on premium vinyl. So much fantastic music from this era either never saw a vinyl release, or saw only a very limited and all too often low-quality release ripped from CDs without much care. During that era even if the original capture was analog the music was ripped to digital and loaded into workstations for final editing, mixing, sequencing and final assembly. If vinyl was released during this era it is more than likely sourced from CD files. For releases that were never assembled in analog or were fully-digital recordings, IR acquires and masters from the best source files available, and if needed assembles final mixes, cross-fades, etc. during mastering. The increase in musicality and purity is as exponential! Combining superior master sources with the truly full-range, ultra-transparent mastering chains at studios like CoHEARent Audio and Sterling Sound, our dead quiet 180G vinyl pressings results in hearing the music that is the soundtrack to our lives like never before!