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- Summary: The third set of covers from Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs is a collection of songs from the 1980s including covers of R.E.M.’s “Sitting Still,” The Smiths' “How Soon is Now,” and Kirsty MacColl’s “They Don’t Know.”
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- Record Label: Shout! Factory
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, College Rock
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Nov 14, 2013The whole set is a treat.
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Nov 14, 2013These 14 songs sound as wholly irresistible now as they did when they were such an essential part of a soundtrack for a now-distant decade.
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Nov 14, 2013This well-intentioned exercise in nostalgia is an enticing 52 minute ride (three more are on a the deluxe edition), and if it sends Gen X’ers back to the archetype versions and keeps them out of the karaoke clubs, it’s more than done its job.
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Dec 10, 2013The album is charming and charismatic, and full of 1980s vigour.
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MagnetNov 27, 2013Like everything these two touch, the results are hardly astonishing, but they're just as pleasant as you please. [No. 104, p.56]
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May 13, 2014There’s a fine college-rock jangle to The Beat’s Save It For Later and some fab California-kissed harmonies on XTC’s Towers Of London.
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Dec 9, 2013Under the Covers, Vol. 3 has more ups and downs than the Texas Cyclone. There are moments that are very good and moments that feel watered down, by the numbers and plain.
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