| Product Summary | | Label: SHOUT! FACTORY/SBME | | UPC: 00826663113068 | | Release Date: 7/21/2009 | | Buy.com Sku: 211284394 | | Item#: M4PEKQ | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25654 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Sugar Magnolia ~ Matthew Sweet/Susanna Hoffs |  | | 2. Go All the Way ~ Matthew Sweet/Susanna Hoffs | | | 3. Second Hand News - (featuring Lindsey Buckingham) ~ Matthew Sweet/Susanna Hoffs | | | 4. Bell Bottom Blues ~ Matthew Sweet/Susanna Hoffs | | | 5. All the Young Dudes ~ Matthew Sweet/Susanna Hoffs | | | 6. You're So Vain ~ Matthew Sweet/Susanna Hoffs | | | 7. Here Comes My Girl ~ Matthew Sweet/Susanna Hoffs | | | 8. I've Seen All Good People: Your Move/All Good People - (featuring Steve Howe) ~ Matthew Sweet/Susanna Hoffs | | | 9. Hello It's Me ~ Matthew Sweet/Susanna Hoffs | | | 10. Willin' ~ Matthew Sweet/Susanna Hoffs | | | 11. Back of a Car ~ Matthew Sweet/Susanna Hoffs | | | 12. Couldn't I Just Tell You ~ Matthew Sweet/Susanna Hoffs | | | 13. Gimme Some Truth ~ Matthew Sweet/Susanna Hoffs | | | 14. Maggie May ~ Matthew Sweet/Susanna Hoffs | | | 15. Everything I Own ~ Matthew Sweet/Susanna Hoffs | | | 16. Beware of Darkness - (featuring Dhani Harrison) ~ Matthew Sweet/Susanna Hoffs | |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Matthew Sweet (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, ukulele, piano, electric harpsichord, organ, Mellotron, tabla, percussion); Susanna Hoffs (vocals, guitar, hand claps, percussion); Greg Leisz (guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, slide guitar, mandolin); Lindsey Buckingham, Peter Phillips (guitar); Dhani Harrison (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Steve Howe (acoustic 12-string guitar, electric guitar); Natalie Byrd (piano); Ric Menck (drums); Evan Peters (hand claps). | | Audio Mixer: Matthew Sweet. | | Recording information: Liscombe Studios, England; Lolina Green Studios, Los Angeles, CA; Lolina West. | | Illustrator: Ed Fotheringham. | | Photographer: Drew Reynolds. | | A sequel to Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs' 2007 stroll through the '60s was perhaps inevitable, at least as inevitable as the decision to devote Under the Covers, Vol. 2 to the super sounds of the '70s. Sweet and Hoffs tend to pick '70s songs that are a bit more familiar than their '60s selections, never digging out a Me Decade equivalent of Marmalade's "I See the Rain" or the Zombies' "Care of Cell #44," but instead punctuating AM pop hits and FM rock staples like "Sugar Magnolia," "Second Hand News," "All the Young Dudes," "You're So Vain," "I've Seen All Good People," and "Maggie May" with power pop by the Raspberries ("Go All the Way"), Big Star ("Back of a Car"), and Todd Rundgren, who has no less than two songs from Something/Anything? featured here. The influence of that 1972 double LP can be heard in the similarly homespun production of Under the Covers, Vol. 2 but where Rundgren was open-ended, Sweet neatly ties up every loose end with the care of a pop fetishist, making sure all the harmonies and guitar licks are in place, never adding any untasteful elements. Sometimes, everything is a little bit too pat and pretty -- particularly on "Sugar Magnolia," whose processed guitars sparkle too brightly -- but the duo's enduring, endearing love for this music is evident, sometimes infectious, and, at its best, throws out some surprises, like Susanna's soulful reading of "Maggie May." |
Producer: Jeff Palo; Susanna Hoffs; Matthew Sweet; Susanna Hoffs |
Engineer: Evan Peters; Matthew Sweet; Glenn Schick; Steve Ripkin; Evan Peters; Matthew Sweet |
Musical Guests | | Lindsey Buckingham | | Steve Howe | | Dhani Harrison |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 07/21/2009 | | Original Release Date : 2009 | | Catalog ID : 8266631130 | | Label : Shout! Factory | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00826663113068 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Q (Magazine)
(p.117)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "[They trade] lead and backing vocals...drenching everything in lush harmonies....A sunny delight."Paste (magazine)
(p.55)
- "Like its predecessor, their new '70s retrospective uncannily re-creates indelible tracks from primary Sweet inspirations Todd Rundgren, Big Star, Fleetwood Mac and Yes..." |
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