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Altered Beast - Matthew Sweet


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Altered Beast (1993) - Matthew Sweet


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Matthew Sweet

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Dinosaur ActLyrics available
  Date Performance: 1993, Running Time: 4:05
Devil With The Green EyesLyrics available
  Date Performance: 1993, Running Time: 4:43
Ugly TruthLyrics available
  Date Performance: 1993, Running Time: 3:18
  Comments: Billed as "The Ugly Truth".
Time CapsuleLyrics available
  Date Performance: 1993, Running Time: 3:56
Someone To Pull The TriggerLyrics available
  Date Performance: 1993, Running Time: 3:55
Knowing PeopleLyrics available
  Date Performance: 1993, Running Time: 4:25
Life Without YouLyrics available
  Date Performance: 1993, Running Time: 2:18
Intro
  Date Performance: 1979, Running Time: 0:46
  Comments: An exceprt from the movie “Caligula” featuring Malcolm McDowell which is used by permission from the actor and Penthouse Financial Services, N.V. (C) 1979.
Ugly TruthLyrics available
  Date Performance: 1993, Running Time: 2:58
  Comments: (Rock)
Do It AgainLyrics available
  Date Performance: 1993, Running Time: 3:33
In Too DeepLyrics available
  Date Performance: 1993, Running Time: 3:54
Reaching OutLyrics available
  Date Performance: 1993, Running Time: 4:00
FallingLyrics available
  Date Performance: 1993, Running Time: 4:50
What Do You Know?Lyrics available
  Date Performance: 1993, Running Time: 4:27
EvergreenLyrics available
  Date Performance: 1993, Running Time: 4:23
    Guest Appearances »

Byron Berline, Mick Fleetwood, Nicky Hopkins, Ivan Julian, Greg(ory) (Brian) Leisz, Richard Lloyd, Fred Maher, Malcolm McDowell, Ric(k) Menck, Ron Pangborn, Robert Quine, Jody Stephens, Pete Thomas

    Released »

1993-07-13

    Format »

Domestic Vinyl/CD Album

    Other Appearances »
Matthew Sweet (Songwriter), E.J. Camp (Photography), K. Lee Hammond (Art Direction), Richard Dashut (Produced By), Matthew Sweet (Produced By), Russell Carter Artist Management, Ltd. (Management), Lloyd Puckitt (Recorded By), Lloyd Puckitt (Mixed By), Matthew Sweet (Mixed By), Stephen/Steve Marcussen (Mastered By), Matthew Sweet (Arranged By), Scott Byron (A&R), Tom (Dad?) Nellen (Additional Engineering By), Chris Littell (Additional Engineering Assistance By), Tom (Dad?) Nellen (Additional Engineering Assistance By), David Erickson (Service Beyond The Call Of Duty), Barry Joseph Goldberg (Additional Recording Assistance By), Art Schoji (Cover Logo), BMG Music (Manufactured By), BMG Music (Distributed By)

    Record Label »
Zoo

    Catalogue Number »

72445-11050-2

    Running Time »

57:29

    Liner Notes »

Recorded January & February 1993 at Sunset Sound Factory, Hollywood, CA

Additional recording at The Village Recorder, Los Angeles, CA, BBC Studios Maida Vale in London and at home on ADAT

Mastered at Precision Mastering in Hollywood.

Mick Fleetwood appears courtesy of Warner Bros. Records.
Fred Maher appears courtesy of Elektra Entertainment, a division of Warner Communications, Inc.
Ric Menck appears courtesy of Creation Records.

Management:

Russell Carter Artist Management, Ltd.
315 W. Ponce De Leon Ave., Suite 755
Decatur, GA 30030

Write for Fan Club information c/o Management

Tmk(s) (R) Registered Marca(s) Registrada(s) BMG Music except Zoo Entertainment logo TM BMG Music

(P) (C) 1993 BMG Music All Rights Reserved
Manufactured & Distributed by BMG Music, New York, NY
Printed in U.S.A.

A Super Deformed Production

Thanks: Russell Carter, Tom Simonson, Cathy Lyons, Richard Dashut, Lou Maglia and everyone at Zoo Entertainment (Scott Byron, Michael Prince, Jayne Simon, Bud Scoppa, Stephen Prendergast, K. Lee Hammond, Bill Pfordresher, Scott Vanderbilt, Sandy McKinney, Mary Divney, Hanna Bolte, Stephanie Hughes, Craig Williamson, Tiffany Sims, Dorrie Cheng, Billy G., Leah Horwitz, Kris Haines, Kathy Hines, Matthew Marshall, Lisa Gasparini, Jim Parsons, Jim Davenport, Laura Shostak, Tammy Skripek, Candy Masengale, Sami Valkonen and Gigi Gostas) ; Pete Jones, Barry Levine and everyone at BMG Distribution; Linda DeMuro and everyone at BMG international offices throughout the world who have been so helpful; Frank Riley and everyone at Monterey Peninsula Artists; Marti Bandier, Kaz Utsunomiya, Bob Flax, Randy Sabiston and everyone at EMI Publishing, The Edelbrock family; Masao Ishikawa, George Gerrity, Karen Glauber, Frank Drucker, Patti Galluzzi, Kurt Steffek, Steve Isaacs, Fred Maher, Cameron Crowe, Lisa Stewart, Brad Jones, Ginger Bailey, Kevin Coogan, Heidi Wendorff, Jeff Dodes, Lois Echols, Peter Gordon, Mike Stuto, Kenny Weinstein, Donna Marcus and everyone at Thirsty Ear; the Indigo Girls, Chris Harford, Drew Vogelman, Robyn Hitchcock, Lloyd Cole, Michael Lopa and everyone at Doug’s Corvette, Kowalski, Andy McCulla, Jef Smith and Anne Holford, J.P. Cheuvront, Eddie Machtinger, Eric Peterson, Robie Willard “The Dentist”, Zach Saville, Ron Musarra, Ethan Singer, Barry and Jackie Haney, Cathy Fligg, Kathleen Ross-Allee, Joe Kramer and everyone at Russo Music Center, Rumko Takahashi, Buichi Terasawa, Seiji Horibuchi and everyone at Viz Communications; Toren Smith, Jerry Beck and Carl Macek at Streamline Pictures; Scotty Paserof, Jim Allen and Hamer Guitars; Danny Ferrington, Paul and Adrian Chandler, Zildjian Cymbals, John Roderick with Kaman Music, Phil MacConnell and Sunset Sound Factory, Dave Boye, Malcolm McDowell and David Wardlow, L. Kent Wolgamott, Barry and Charlie and everyone at the Village.

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Works as a whole
Review written by John Fitzgerald, September 19th, 2004

Usually, I feel albums need to be good with individual song plays more so that complete album listenings as I rarely listen to an album all the way through but "Altered beast" is a good argument for the other side of the coin as I feel the overall sound on this album works when listened to from beginning to end and it's not as successful when punching up separate tracks to listen to. The opening "Dinosaur act" is a nasty squalling rocker with guitarist Robert Quine put to good use on this number. "Devil with the green eyes" is a fair mid tempo jangler, "The ugly truth" is a smoother mid tempo song and the fiddle parts would've intruded if they were louder but smartly they are left present though down in the mix. "Time capsule" is a lightweight finger snapper, "Someone to pull the trigger" is an OK slowish strummer, "Knowing people" is an attention grabbing dirty sounding funk track, "Life without you" has shades of light R.E.M. and "part two" of the album starts with "Intro" that's basically a 46 second long audio snippet from the controversial 1980 film "Caligula" wherein Malcolm McDowell does his "winning over" speech (according to the liner notes Sweet got McDowell's permission to use this piece on the record) and it's used effectively here as this leads us in to "Ugly truth rock" (which is a more rocking version of the earlier "The ugly truth". It is at this key point in the album where you feel the effects of listening to the album in full taking shape. If you don't feel it by this point, you may as well stop after track number nine. "Do it again" is an insignificant mid tempo song, "In too deep" is a grumbly stomp, "Reaching out" is one of the better mid tempo janglers on the album, with a stronger hook, good harmonies and Mick Fleetwood on solid drums on this one. "Falling" is a screaming rocker, "What do you know" is a banjo flavored busy mid speed track and "Evergreen" is a piano featured acoustic guitar strumming ender though the steel guitars shouldn't have been there in my opinion. This CD was interestingly sold in a variety of album cover background colors so if you go to pick this one up, get ready to choose between the five colors these discs are/were available for purchase in.

    Last Modified »
2010-06-23
    Tracklisting »
Discography entry submitted by Jeff Kenney & John Fitzgerald.