Matthew Sweet Discography: Unauthorized Releases
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Pirates, counterfeits, and bootlegs.
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Matthew Sweet Covered in SWEETness pirate 2004 |
CD: 2004 US [no label] [no c/n]
Mr. Soul (Live)
She Said, She Said (Live)
This Moment
Let Me Be The One
Speed Racer
Scooby Doo, Where Are You
Dragon Lady
Flipper
A Day In The Life Of A Tree
Do Ya
Moonage Daydream (Live)
Magnet And Steel
Ballad Of El Goodo
Every Night
Karen
Big Sky
Halfway to Pardise [sic]
Sail On Sailor (Live)
It Don't Matter To Me
Silent Night
Lithium
bonus track:
Penny From Heaven (Always Coca-Cola)
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Matthew Sweet Live Skies From Mars bootleg 2004? |
Live at The Belly Up Tavern, San Diego, California, 1997.
CD: 2004? US? Soundsville ?
Come To California
Divine Intervention
Into Your Drug
Interview
Girlfriend
‘touch that dial...’
Sick Of Myself
Evangeline
Over It
Interview
Where You Get Love
The Ugly Truth
Moonage Daydream
Do Ya
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Matthew Sweet The Other Side Volume 1 Early 90's Rare Compilation for Collectors Only bootleg 2004? |
Disc One: Recorded live at the Petrillo Bandshell, Grant Park,
Chicago, IL, USA, Jul 4, 1993.
Disc One probably copied from Shape Shifter.
Disc Three same as Goodfriend.
CDx3: 2004? US? Livewire ?
Disc One: Live at the Petrillo Bandshell:
Dinosaur Act
I Wanted To Tell You
The Ugly Truth
Someone To Pull The Trigger
Girlfriend
Do It Again
In Too Deep
Day For Night
Evangeline
Reaching Out
Devil With The Green Eyes
Knowing People
Divine Intervention
Does She Talk
Time Capsule
Crippled Inside {Lennon}
I Want You {Troggs}
Disc Two: B-Sides / Demos / Live:
If It's Happening You'll Know
Close Inside
Final Hour
Sense Of Adventure
Suddenly
Never Said Goodbye
Speedracer
Come To California (acoustic demo)
Ugly Truth Rock
Born In Sin
Ultrasuede
Speed Of Light
Thing
Time Capsule (demo)
Super Deformed
Teenage Female
Goodfriend
Mr. Soul (Live at The Metro, Chicago, 3/21/92)
Goodfriend (live at The BBC, 7/22/92)
Someone To Pull The Trigger (Live at The BBC, 7/22/92)
Disc Three: Goodfriends - Another Take On GoodFriend:
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
She Said, She Said
Mr. Soul
Super Deformed
Teenage Female
Goodfriend
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Matthew Sweet Do It Again bootleg 2003? |
Recorded live in Chicago, July 4, 1993.
Same as Shape Shifter.
CD: 2003? US ?
Dinosaur Act
I Wanted To Tell You
The Ugly Truth
Someone To Pull The Trigger
Girlfriend
Do It Again
In Too Deep
Day For Night
Evangeline
Reaching Out
Devil With The Green Eyes
Knowing People
Divine Intervention
Does She Talk
Time Capsule
Crippled Inside {Lennon}
I Want You {Troggs}
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Matthew Sweet The Windy City bootleg 2003 |
Live at Parkwest, Chicago, IL. March 2000.
CD: 2003 UK Livewire (Good Music) LW 012
Millenium Blues
If Time Permits
Beware My Love
Divine Intervention
Time Capsule
What Matters
I've Been Waiting
Haven't Been A Good Friend
Girlfriend
Ugly Truth
I Should Have Never Let you know
Sick of Myself
Were the Same
Faith In You
Evangeline
Lithium (acoustic Nirvana cover)
Sick of Myself (acoustic)
Staring at the Sun (acoustic)
| Frank You, Thens Big Star pirate compilation 2001? |
CDx2: 2001? JP Meep ?
Matthew Sweet: The Ballad of El Goodo
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Matthew Sweet All Together on the Wireless bootleg 2000 |
Tracks 1-10 Live at the Belly Up Tavern, San Diego, 4/97
Tracks 11-13 Live for “The World Café” Radio Show, 12/99
Tracks 14-16 Live for “The World Café” Radio Show, Acoustic 7/97
Tracks 17-19 Live on Australian Radio 1997
CD: 2000 UK Five Dolar FDR 77
Come to California
Divine Intervention
Your Drug
Girlfriend
Sick of Myself
Evangeline
Over It
Where You Get Love
Moonage Daydream
Do Ya?
What Matters
Trade Places
Faith in You
Back to You
Over It
Where You Get Love
Ugly Truth
Devil With the Green Eyes
Divine Intervention
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Matthew Sweet B-Sides & Rarities pirate 2000 |
Most of the tracks on Disc Three come from Los Pantalones.
CDx3: 2000 UK Five Dolar FDR 110/111/112
Disc One:
Sense Of Adventure
Slowly [You]
Never Said Goodbye
Speed Racer
My Pet
Scooby Doo, Where Are You
Dragon Lady
A Day In THe Life Of A Tree
Bold Moves
Flipper
Dark Secret
Happiness
If It's Happening, You'll know it
Close Inside
Final Hour
Vicious Circle
The Golden Palominos: Something Becomes Nothing
Kris McKay: How Cool
Disc Two:
Played Out
Untitled [Final Hour (home demo)]
Untitled [Strange Faces (home demo)]
Goodfriend (Outtake)
Divine Intervention (Acoustic)
Looking At The Sun (Acoustic)
Winona (Acoustic)
Superdeformed (Demo)
Goodfriend (Demo)
Divine Intervention (Remix)
Divine Connection [Bovine Connection]
5'22 Devil With The Green Eyes (long version)
Time Capsule (Remix)
I Almost Forgot (acoustic)
Come To California (Acoustic)
Come To California (Remix)
The Jacks: Ask For Jill
Disc Three:
Penny From Heaven (Coca Cola)
What Do You Know
Does She Talk (Live)
Time Capsule (Demo)
Someone To Pull The Trigger (Live)
Fantasy World
Trace Of Love
If It's Happening, You'll know it
Played Out
So Sad
Final Hour
Behind The Smile
Over It (Live)
Into Your Drug (Live)
Do Ya
Magnet And Steel
Farther Down
The Jayhawks: Madeline [Sixteen Down]
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Lavender Tablets Nineties Power Pop Rarities pirate 2000? |
CD: 2000? US? Popmeister POP011
2'55 Matthew Sweet: Girlfriend - Live At The BBC 7/1992
4'21 Matthew Sweet: I Wanted To Tell You - Live At Chicago
7/4/1993
3'02 Matthew Sweet: If It's Happening You'll Know It! - B-side
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Matthew Sweet Goodfriend counterfeit 1998? |
Look for blue/green color on the face of the CD, jagged edges on the
graphics, and the signature “Matthew Sweet '93”.
Copied from Goodfriend.
CR: 1998? US ?
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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Matthew Sweet Superdeformed 2 bootleg 1996 |
CD: 1996 TW? Sea Monkey SM-1911-1
Ugly Truth
Falling
Eskimo
Ultrasuede [different version]
Money [Marnie]
Superdeformed [different version]
Wait And See [Open Eyes]
Idiot Child
So Blue [Finally So Blue]
Weekend Outlaw
What Do You Know [What Do You Know?]
The End
Trace Of Love
Drugs
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Matthew Sweet Superdeformed 1 The Altered Beast Demos bootleg 1996 |
Demo versions.
[1] same version as on The Bob flexi-disc.
CD: 1996 TW? Sea Monkey SM 1903-1
Long Way to Go [Speed of Light]
Dinosaur Act
Devil with the Green Eyes
Reaching Out
Do It Again
In Too Deep
Evergreen
Bovine Connection
Time Capsule
Born in Sin
Put It Together [Finding Out]
Fantasy World
Your Mean
It's True [Something's Got to Give] [1]
Girls [Cobra Girls]
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Matthew Sweet Supervixen The Girlfriend Demos bootleg 1996? |
Sound: clear, strident, lacking bottom end.
CD: 1996? TW? ? EMCD24
3'39 Good Friend
4'59 Your Sweet Voice
4'37 Evangeline
4'51 I Can't Cry
4'28 Divine Intervention
3'47 I've Been Waiting
2'51 My Only Voice
3'41 Protection
3'39 Warm Yourself
4'18 I Wanted To Tell You
4'46 Long Way To Go
4'22 Winona
4'10 Longest Hour
2'53 Day For Night
6'05 You Don't Love Me
4'48 Looking At The Sun
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Matthew Sweet 100% Sweet In Concert And Beyond bootleg 1995 |
Tracks 1-9 recorded in 4/95 at the Troubador in Hollywood, CA.
Tracks 10-11 Los Angeles, CA Live in the Studio
Track 12 Live in the Studio
Tracks 13-16 Non-LP tracks
Tracks 17-19 recorded in Minneapolis, MN on 4/23/95 from an Earth
Day Concert.
Sound: Troubador great; Minneapolis pretty bad, maybe audience.
CD: 1995 DE Ride the Tiger Rtt 022
Troubador:
3'50 Sick of myself
3'16 The ulgy truth [sic]
5'49 Divine Intervention
4'21 Girlfriend
3'03 We're the same
5'20 Winona
4'14 Smog moon
4'57 Knowing people
3'43 Time capsule
Los Angeles:
2'40 I almost forgot
2'25 Come to love
Studio:
3'05 Sick of myself
Non-LP:
2'47 Never said goodbye
2'04 Speed Racer
4'36 Sence of adventure [sic]
3'35 Slowly [title is incorrect, actually You]
Minneapolis:
5'12 Devil with the green eye [sic]
4'06 Someone to pull the trigger
3'33 Super deformed
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Matthew Sweet Goodfriends Another Take on Goodfriend pirate 1995 |
Includes the Goodfriend album in its entirety, plus bonus tracks
from various singles.
CD: 1995 LU Moontunes MOON 008
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 {Young}
Isolation {Lennon}
She Said She Said (live) {Lennon/McCartney}
Mr. Soul (live) {Young}
Superdeformed (demo)
Teenage Female (demo)
Good Friend (demo)
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Kiss The Stone Promo 2 bootleg 1994 |
Compilation bootleg.
CD: 1994 IT Kiss The Stone KTSPR 02
Matthew Sweet: Girlfriend (live)
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Matthew Sweet Shape Shifter bootleg 1994 |
Recorded live at the Petrillo Bandshell, Grant Park, Chicago,
Illinois, 07-04-1993.
Matthew Sweet (lead vocals, rhythm guitar)
Richard Lloyd (lead guitar)
Will Rigby (drums)
Tony Marsico (bass guitar, backing vocals)
CD: 1994 IT Kiss the Stone KTS257
4'17 dinosaur act
4'53 I wanted to tell you
3'25 the ugly truth
4'12 someone to pull the trigger
4'17 girlfriend
3'18 do it again
4'05 in too deep
3'23 day for night
5'18 evangeline
4'34 reaching out
5'17 devil with the green eyes
4'43 knowing people
5'31 divine intervention
5'09 does she talk
4'00 time capsule
3'26 crippled inside {Lennon}
3'00 I want you {Troggs}
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R.E.M. Wolves, Lower bootleg 1993 |
Numbered limited edition.
Matthew Sweet (co-lead vocal)
7": 1993 UK? Morrocan Mayhem MM 001 (purple vinyl, ltd. ed. of 5)
7": 1993 UK? Morrocan Mayhem MM 001 (red vinyl, ltd. ed. of 141)
7": 1993 UK? Morrocan Mayhem MM 001 (green vinyl, ltd. ed. of 480)
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R.E.M. Stab It and Steer It A Collection of Songs From Further Back in Time bootleg 1991? |
We have been unable to verify that Matthew Sweet appears on this
track. Can you help?
Sound: very good, hissy.
Matthew Sweet (co-lead vocal)
CD: 1991? ? Adobe CD RAIN 1
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