Matthew Sweet 100% Fun

4 Stars - Excellent - "...A wooly blend of pop hooks, rock & roll fervor and fine love songs, 100% FUN is a better album than perhaps even Sweet had any right to expect....a rock & roll record with immediacy, verve and depth that discloses its appeal readily and its secrets slowly..."
Ranked #7 on Spin's list of the '20 Best Albums Of '95.'
8 - Highly Recommended - "...Quine and Lloyd are still around, which is only proper: You wouldn't walk away from a challenge, would you? And this time you're up to it....Electric? Guitar is still here, but she works for you. For now."
Ranked #8 on EW's Top 10 Albums Of 1995.
"...Sweet crafts pop the old-fashioned way: with loud guitars, lovesick-wimp lyrics...and choruses that will encourage amateur singers to warble along....[100% FUN] makes you feel as if a good pop hook can solve any crisis..." - Rating: B+
"...Imagine if Neil Young had released 20 years of Crazy Horse albums one after the other in the space of merely six, instead of interspersing them with all that other stuff? You'd know exactly what to expect every time, but that wouldn't spoil the shock of discovery, the thrill of the bombast and the essential fact that Young writes amazingly wonderful songs. So does Sweet..."
"...offers zero-percent bile....Even when the lyrics wax pessimistic...the hooks and arrangements--graced by the guitar work of Richard Lloyd and Robert Quine--project a buoyancy and bite that preclude cynicism..."
Village Voice (2/20/96) - Ranked #20 in Village Voice's 1995 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.