"Devil With The Green Eyes"
Matthew Sweet
Altered Beast
1993
Before I left for college I bought 5 CDs to keep me company while I waited for all my shit to be shipped across the country. (Sidenote: we will never even be able to come close to appreciating everything our parents did for us. What a colossal pain in the ass it must have been for my folks to pack up all my belongings, drag them to the post office and pay like a thousand bucks to send them across the country. Did I ever say thank you? I doubt it, since it just occurred to me right this second.)
I don't remember exactly which 5 I bought, but I know Leonard Cohen's I'm Your Man and Altered Beast by Matthew Sweet were two of them, so I wasn't exactly showing up with party jams.
Scientists are still researching the subject, but I'm fairly certain Altered Beast is the most depressing album ever recorded. Certainly the most depressing album ever named after a Sega game.
There was a lovely song on this record called "Someone To Pull The Trigger", about a dude so depressed he can't even find the energy to kill himself.
Altered Beast was so downbeat that this song was the big uptempo rocker, and its hook is "every love I've ever known....is DEAD."
So yeah, not exactly Coolio's "Fantastic Voyage".
And at no point in the record does anyone drink a potion that turns them into an asskicking werewolf. That's false advertising there Matthew Sweet.
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