Girlfriend [CD-single]

Track Listings

1. Main Version

2. Ron G Remix Main Version

Girlfriend,B2K,Sony,5"CD Singles,Dance-Pop,Pop,R&B,Soul/Reggae/Rhythm & Blues,Teen Pop,Urban

Tracks:

Gunpowder & Lead
Dry Town
Famous In A Small Town
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Love Letters
Desperation
More Like Her
Down
Guilty In Here
Getting Ready
Easy From Now On

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There's no sophomore slump for Miranda Lambert, who follows her chart-topping debut, Kerosene, with a knockout punch. Both the title cut and the album-opening "Gunpowder & Lead" ("what little girls are made of") show that Lambert hasn't lost her edge or her appetite for revenge. Yet the quieter "Desperation," the more tuneful and tender "Love Letters," the wistful "More Like Her," and the primally intense "Down" show her emotional range and maturity. While her songwriting remains a strength, Lambert also displays superb taste in other people's material, with "Dry Town" (by Gillian Welch), "Getting Ready" (a new song from Patty Griffin), and "Easy from Now On" (with the lyric that provided the title to Emmylou Harris's classic Quarter Moon in a Ten-Cent Town) reinforcing the musical quality. There isn't a throwaway cut here. --Don McLeese

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LET ME FIRST SAY I HAVE COME TO LOVE THIS ALBUM.......2007-07-31

Let me first say I have come to love this album. I became an immense fan for Miranda Lambert with her first album, KEROSENE. That record was such an unexpected breeze of fresh air that (with some fear of being a turncoat to my country icons) I called it one of the best country albums in a long while. Who knew that a winner of what was essentially a T.V. contest would put forth a CD of such enjoyable force and quality? CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND misses some of the shine of its predecessor; but not by much.

GIRLFRIEND struck a bitter note which spoiled the whole album for me on my first listen. . Given my enthusiasm for Lambert's first album, I was supposed to like this one as well. What was wrong? All that week, I went around trying to figure out why. On the following Saturday, three beers and two shots of whiskey into watching FORT APACHE for the nth time, the root became apparent and it had been right there in my front of face all along.

*Gunpowder and Lead* is song I can't deal with. Well, I do deal with it: I hate it. In my line of work, I incidentally (very incidentally) get my nose pressed up against the glass looking at the banshees of domestic violence-- whether I like it or not--and I do not. Domestic violence is not a funny subject. Far too many couples end their troubles at the business end of a gun. More than a few women have laid in wait to meet their men head-on with firearms only to have the confrontation turn badly for them. (A rule from the Old West is the still stands up: Never point unless you mean to shoot. Never shoot unless you mean to kill.) Some advice the violence in this song is more like that of a Roadrunner and Willy Coyote cartoon than the real thing. Well, at least for this song, I'll have to excuse myself. I can't go there.

So when the first song is skipped, the heart of thi Musée du Louvre, Cabinet des dessins, Musée d'Orsay

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Awesome CD!.......2007-07-20

I think Miranda hit the jackpot with this CD!! It is really good. Even the slower songs on it are wonderful. There is an even mix of sweet innocent country girl and the girl who wants revenge!

The Best Damn Thing (CD/DVD Deluxe Limited Edition)

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A dreadful piece of "bubblegum pop" crap.
Pop up
A talented artist wasted.
It grows on you
All out fun power pop.

The Best Damn Thing (CD/DVD Deluxe Limited Edition)
Avril Lavigne
Manufacturer: Arista
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Release Date: 2007-04-17

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A dreadful piece of "bubblegum pop" crap........2007-08-03

I've sampled/downloaded a good majority of the songs on this album. After having heard all the songs I realized that it was a complete waste of my time.

This crap is worse than even her first album. I thought Avril's second was a very nice improvement and it showed that she had some talent. But THIS is just plain horrible. "Girlfriend"? Please. It's completely unappealing and I believe that the only reason anyone over the age of 11 would like it is because it's got a "beat" to it.

That beat from "Girlfriend" is pretty much the same exact thing, more or less, in every other damn song on the record.

I would not recommend this CD to anyone except young girls... like, in the "tween" age.

Pop up.......2007-07-08

This, Avril's third album, is a bit more upbeat and a bit less angsty than her last attempt. As with both her previous albums, The Best Damn Thing is an album that I find best to cherry pick for the songs I like. With my five favorites from this album, there is enough material over her three albums to put together a pretty decent showing. But there are still 2-3 songs on this album that I won't ever listen to again.

A talented artist wasted........2007-07-06

The Best Damn Thing by Avril Lavigne is a sad and pathetic album. I liked Avril's Let Go and Under My Skin discs but her third album is as silly as the title itself. I think Avril has a wonderful, strong voice and an average songwriter but I don't know what has happened to her. I guess marriage softened her but this new bubble gum image and that blonde hair has got to go. She has so much talented and she's just throwing it away. It's so disappointing with lyrics like, "hey, hey, hey you I don't like your girlfriend, I think you need a new one..." Hopefully my little Candianan will knock it out of the park on her next album. Don't waste your time and money on this trash!

It grows on you.......2007-07-03

This is a different approach for Avril compared to her first two albums. It sounds like she has been listening to some Toni Basil, because there is a good bit of cheerleader like musicical influences in the sound she is putting out now. Combine that with the more raw punk attitude of the skate parks and a large amount of teen angst, and you get this album.

Originally I purchaed the censored version of this album, but realized I could not stand the censoring that was going on. The blanks in the singing just threw me off. Within two weeks of listening to the censored version, I ordered the uncensored one, and haven't gone back since.

All out fun power pop........2007-07-01

"Girlfriend" was logically the first single from this CD. It's the best. Yes, it's a throwback to that "Hey Mickey" stuff (although it rocks more) but I liked "Hey Mickey". Does every freakin song have to be serious? Can't we just have fun listening to music once in a while?

There are 4 or 5 tracks that could easily be singles on the CD and they probably will become just that. Her label will likely milk this for a few years.

Compared to her last two it's somewhat a mix of the styles. The more pop-oriented of her first and the harder-edged sounds of her second CD (which I didn't care much for).

It's kind of a nice mix. You don't get too much of either. :)

On the other hand, I much preferred her first CD so to me this is much like a return to that sound.

A few of the tracks are more "punk" than I like, but those same tracks will likely appeal to many of her fans.

If you like Avril, then you must buy this CD (however, you probably already have).

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You definately need this cd
Gets an old man's blood pumping
Steve Holy
Brand New Girlfriend
I got a brand new girlfriend

Brand New Girlfriend
Steve Holy
Manufacturer: Curb Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2006-08-08

Tracks:

Brand New Girlfriend
Come On Rain
Hurry Up
Baby Don't Go
A Cliff In Colorado
Men Buy The Drinks (Girls Call The Shots)
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What Could I Do Different Tonight

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You definately need this cd .......2007-06-14

The cd starts out with Brand New Girlfriend and has you rocking along. It is easily one of the best cd's I have heard in a long time. I've had it for awhile but think that it deserves the best review possible. I give it 5 stars , the vocal ability of Ste Musée Picasso: Guide de visite

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WTF??.......2007-04-16

ok what the hell has happened to avril? her old cd's were waaay better. like this is soo not her. i thought let go and under my skin were better. this is more hyper bouncy kinda songs..not really like her at all. ok i gotta admit this song is pretty catchy but i heard the other songs on youtube of her new cd and they're crap. she's basically talking. not singing. so i'd advise not to get it

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Another great soundtrack.
Rescue Me!

My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Original Soundtrack
Manufacturer: Lakeshore Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000FZESNK
Release Date: 2006-08-01

Tracks:

No Sleep 2nite _ Molly McQueen
Rescue Me _ Rachel Robinson
The Joker _ Fatboy Slim featuring Bootsy Collins
Love Is A Game _ The Magic Numbers
O What A Glorious Thing _ Akira The Don
It Dont Matter _ Donavon Frankenreiter
Oye Como Va _ Chad Fischer
Everythings Right _ Matt Wertz
One & Only _ Teitur
Lover Come Up _ Josh Kelley
She Drives Me Crazy _ Fine Young Cannibals
Love Love Love _ Tristan Prettyman
I Got You _ Eskimos of Love
No Sleep 2nite (SXG Ext Summer Mix) _ Molly McQueen

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This compilation may not sport many well-known artists or quickly recognizable songs (with the exception of Fine Young Cannibals' "She Drives Me Crazy," Chad Fisher's straightforward cover of "Oye Como Va," and Eskimos of Love's take on Split Enz's "I Got You"), but it contains enough interesting nuggets to make it worth looking into. Opening track "No Sleep 2nite" is a prime example. You may not have heard of Molly McQueen (unless you're a Britophile familiar with her former band, the short-lived Faders) but her song is a super-catchy, Motown-influenced stomper. (It's reprised at the end in a different mix.) Likewise, the Magic Numbers" "Love Is a Game" unfurls with a lazy grace and Teitur (a soft-spoken troubadour born in the remote Faroe Islands) offers the romantic ballad "One & Only." This CD doesn't have much in a stylistic or thematic sense, but it does have a few good, underexposed tunes. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Customer Reviews:

Another great soundtrack........2006-08-14

Each songs are really good but I don't understand why it's said that no sleep 2nite is sung by Molly MCqueen and not the Faders (is the band seperated?!).Anyway even if I already knew the song it was a nice way to start the compilation with (but the remix was a little unnecessary).Rachel Robinson's rescue me song is defenatly one of my favorites along with love is a game,one and only,lover come up,love love love and I got you.It was also fun to have two hits on the CD (a recent and an oldy),the joker and she drives me crazy.So if you are into romantic comedy soundtrack style,this one's made for you.Let's hope the movie is as good as it is.

Rescue Me!.......2006-08-01

Upbeat and heartwarming, each song has a purpose on this soundtrack. There are fun and upbeat songs, and there are songs that are sad. This soundtrack is pretty simular to the Legally Blonde original soundtrack. There are also cool romance songs, which mixes this soundtrack perfectly; happy songs, sad songs, and romance songs, so this soundtrack creates a great variety to the listener. I like each song on this soundtrack, them all being worth the listen to. But, some songs on the soundtrack are from other soundtracks; "No Sleep 2nite" from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants original soundtrack, and "One and Only" from Aquamrine original soundtrack, giving you a clear idea of how them soundtracks are by listening to them. This soundtrack is missing some songs though, disappointing...

1. No Sleep 2nite _ Molly McQueen 5/5
2. Rescue Me _ Rachel Robinson 5/5 (Favorite)
3. The Joker _ Fatboy Slim featuring Bootsy Collins 5/5
4. Love Is A Game _ The Magic Numbers 4/5
5. O What A Glorious Thing _ Akira The Don 5/5
6. It Don't Matter _ Donavon Frankenreiter 4/5
7. Oye Como Va _ Chad Fischer 4/5
8. Everything's Right _ Matt Wertz 5/5
9. One & Only _ Teitur 5/5
10. Lover Come Up _ Josh Kelley 4/5
11. She Drives Me Crazy _ Fine Young Cannibals 4/5 (eighties!)
12. Love Love Love _ Tristan Prettyman 5/5
13. I Got You _ Eskimos of Love 4/5
14. No Sleep 2nite (SXG Ext Summer Mix) _ Molly McQueen 5/5 (great mix!)

If you liked this, you may like:
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2. Aquamarine original soundtrack
AND
3. Legally Blonde original soundtrack

Hope you enjoy!

Jordan
Overall grade* A-

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radio stinks
Matthews Sweetest
Classic
Been listening to it since it came out...
A power pop classic

Girlfriend
Matthew Sweet
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Time Capsule: The Best of Matthew Sweet
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Under the Covers, Vol. 1
Bandwagonesque

ASIN: B00000098J
Release Date: 1991-10-22

Tracks:

Divine Intervention
I've Been Waiting
Girlfriend
Looking At The Sun
Winona
Evangeline
Day For Night
Thought I Knew You
You Don't Love Me
I Wanted To Tell You
Don't Go
Your Sweet Voice
Does She Talk?
Holy War
Nothing Lasts

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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

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radio stinks.......2006-07-09

I say that because you will never hear this excellent gem of an album on commercial radio. Actually, radio has sucked since the late 80's. Since this is not a review of radio all I can say is follow amazon's reviews by fellow music lovers and trust them. Buy this album and then try Under The Covers with Suzanne Hoffs. And please turn off your radio as it is filled with what the music industry wants you to hear, not this great stuff.

Matthews Sweetest .......2006-06-13

I own over five thousand CDs, Tapes and Records. This is my all time absolute favorite. I was in my early twenties when this came out. I don't know how many cracks I put on the steering wheel of my 74 Chevy Nova banging my fists to this album. The title track is great and gets you right into the record. He just plays great down home, grass roots rock and roll. No extra crap. Some of the songs are quite sad like You Dont Love Me and Winona. They could downright make you cry. Thank God for Matthew Sweet, as he tried to singlehandedly save us all from the deeply mired heavy Seattle Sound of the early nineties.

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Cheek To Cheek
Isn't This A Lovely Day?
The Piccolino
Change Partners
Top Hat
I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
Heat Wave
The Way You Look Tonight
Pick Yourself Up
A Fine Romance
All The Things You Are
Why Do I Love You?
I Get A Kick Out Of You
Night And Day
Looking At You
Just One Of Those Things
My Funny Valentine
Thou Swell
The Lady Is A Tramp
Blue Room

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A really Fine Romance.......2007-07-05

It doesn't get any better than these two playing these guys! Some of it was recorded at Abbey Road Studios. Use your imagination... It's all just swell.

A Musical Treat.......2006-01-08

"The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that has earned for the violin the glory of being called the king of instruments." ~ Charles-Auguste De Bériot ~

Yehudi Menuhin and Stéphane Grapelli together had made some of the most beautiful music ever-recorded. And I believe that this is one of the many successful albums they recorded together. In this recording, both violinists have showed their excellent musicianship and interpretative eloquence as well, making it one of my most cherished CDs from my collection.

These are the main ingredients of a perfectly-made CD for your listening pleasure: mix violins, piano, bass and drums together, combine two terrific violinists, season with the best melodies in the 20s, 30s and 40s from Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter and Rodgers & Hart. Add the musical talents of Nelson Riddle, Max Harris, Martin Taylor, Eddie Tripp, Alan Clare and the rest of the studio musicians. Now all you have to do is to sit back, relax and savor these stunning melodies coming from your CD player. Listen to it in full-volume and fill your music room with the sheer beauty of these classics.

One of my favorite musical instruments is violin. With its four strings, it gives a whole wide range of musical versatility and I simply love the fascinating sound it produces.

My personal highlights are the best tunes from Jerome Kern - "The Way You Look Tonight" (Nelson Riddle arranged this particular track and conducted the Woodwind and Brass section), "A Fine Romance," "Pick Yourself Up," "Why Do I Love You?" and "All The Things You Are."

My choices from Irving Berlin's gems are - "Isn't It A Lovely Day?" featuring the great artistry of Nelson Riddle in arranging and conducting, "Cheek To Cheek" and "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm."

The Cole Porter repertoire represented his musical sophistication in "Night And Day," "I Get A Kick Out Of You" and "Just One Of Those Things."

The choice cuts from the talented and creative team of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart are "My Funny Valentine" and "Thou Swell."

Listening to this CD is so delectable and equivalent to having my favorite dessert - be it Tiramisu, New York Cheesecake, Black Forest Cake, Chocolate Soufflé, Créme Brulee, Chocolate Mousse or Chocolate-Coated Strawberries! ;)

A musical treat.

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Power-pop nirvana
A Classic Made Better
A Classic Album Just Got Better
Sweet, Matthew...........
The Torchbearer

Girlfriend
Matthew Sweet
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Release Date: 2006-06-13

Tracks:

Divine Intervention
I've Been Waiting
Girlfriend
Looking At The Sun
Winona
Evangeline
Day For Night
Thought I Knew You
You Don't Love Me
I Wanted To Tell You
Don't Go
Your Sweet Voice
Does She Talk?
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Nothing Lasts
Good Friend
Superdeformed
Teenage Female

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Divine Intervention
Girlfriend
Day For Night
Thought I Knew You
Looking At The Sun
Does She Talk
You Don't Love Me
Someone To Pull The Trigger
I've Been Waiting
Winona
Girlfriend
Cortez The Killer
Isolation

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Power-pop nirvana.......2007-01-28

The original release of Sweet's third album in 1991 laid down a power-pop gauntlet for the decade. His collection of fifteen songs (augmented here to 18 with the addition of tracks featured on various import issues) perfectly balanced his talents and influences in a way its predecessors and successors never managed. Gone were the '80s production excesses of his debut, in was the electric inferno of Robert Quine and Richard Lloyd's guitars. Gone were the fanboy sci-fi lyrics of the preceding "Earth" LP, in were words of love, betrayal and seething anger.

Sweet's singing is nearly spiritual in its sublime expressions of joy and heartbreak. It's the sort of palpable, heart-on-sleeve emotion that marks the best power pop, from The Beatles through Big Star, Dwight Twilley, Teenage Fanclub and others. Sweet's follow-up albums would give in to rock guitar excess, losing the focus and compactness that's allowed "Girlfriend" to retain its original power fifteen years on. Sweet, Lloyd and Velvet Crush drummer Ric Menck open the album with a crushing blow of rhythmic pop, highlighted by Lloyd's dazzling solo atop Sweet's riffing electric guitar and pounding bass. Sweet sings as a lost man, praying for a sign to point the way; the album then rewinds to reveal how he came to this desolate place.

"I've Been Waiting" captures the euphoric first flush of love with a chiming mix of electric and acoustic guitars. The noose is set in "Girlfriend" when Sweet realizes his needs, accompan Nouvelles acquisitions du Département des peintures (1980-1982)

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A Classic Album Just Got Better.......2006-09-24

Matthew Sweet's 1991 power pop masterpiece just got better with this two-disc 15th anniverasry reissue. In addition to three bonus tracks taken from the Japanese edition of GIRLFRIEND ("Good Friend," "Superdeformed" and "Teenage Female"), there is a second disc entitled GOODFRIEND, that was initially made available only to a handful of retail, radio and record label insiders. This collection of home demos and live tracks is now available commercially for the first time. This bonus disc alone is worth the purchase price.

GOODFRIEND features nine of the fifteen tracks on the original release, including two live renditions of "Girlfriend," one from a BBC 1 broadcast and the other from a Cleveland show. Also included are two covers: a live version of Neil Young's "Cortez the Killer" and a demo version of John Lennon's "Isolation." The real revelations are the acoustic demos. On these tracks the songs are stripped to their essence. "Divine Intervention" becomes a beautifully melodic song of hope and uncertainty. Without Greg Liesz's pedal steel, Winona" loses its country feel but not its poignancy. And "Looking at the Sun" has a haunting beauty in this stark arrangement. [All the live tracks and demos were recorded after the release of GIRLFRIEND between March and September of 1992.]

I first purchased GIRLFRIEND on cassette when it was released in 1991, and then again a few years later to upgrade to CD. But this Deluxe Edition justifies purchasing it again. VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Sweet, Matthew..................2006-08-20

I just LOVE this cd! Basically, the songs are about love lost, love found, and love is hard-pretty universal topics for a pop album. What makes this one stand out is the music-if you love the Beatles as much as James Taylor, or The Kinks as much as Paul Simon, this is a cd for you. There's lots of loud guitars, including pedal steel on a few of the songs, and Matthew has a very good voice for singing pop songs. Then you get to the bonus disc called "Good Friend" which has live and demo versions of the same songs, along with a few choice covers. The whole thing has been remastered and the sound is crystal clear. I know the original came out in 1991, and I somehow missed it all these years--the first time I heard it I thought it sounded a little like Pernice Brothers on steriods, which is a good thing. Bottom line, if you like melodic pop music and high octane guitar rock, this is for you. Highly Recommended!

The Torchbearer.......2006-07-27

I was 20 and going to school in Athens, Ga when this album hit and let me tell you, it had a profound influence on my life. The music absolutely rocks and the lyrics cut right to what me and a lot of people around me we're feeling at the time: insecurity about love, life and the "real world" that was looming ahead at the end of our (4,5...6) years of college. Yes, this is college rock epitomized but with an emphasis on ROCK. Sweet is an incredibly gifted songwriter and musician and (although I didn't understand it at the time) had absorbed the Beach Boys, Beatles, Byrds, and Big Star and was on a mission to share those influences with Generation Xers interested in listening to something other than the heavy slog of Seattle grunge.

I didn't get a chance to see Sweet live until 2000 at the Roxy in Atlanta and I honestly have to say it was the best rock and roll show I've ever seen: raw, immediate, viceral (3 guitars!!!).

If you don't own it, buy it (either the Deluxe addition or just the old cheapie) don't download it either--this one's about DYNAMICS, not lame-o compressed MP3 sound. Definitely one of the best albums of the 90's and that's saying tons.