Song · Matthew Sweet
“Divine Intervention” by Matthew Sweet
From the album Girlfriend (1991)
“Divine Intervention” by Matthew Sweet appears on 15 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1999 and 2014. It was first released in 1991 on the album Girlfriend. Its best result is #255 on the CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #842 alternative song of all time.
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Matthew Sweet wrote both the words and the music of "Divine Intervention", one of the songs on Girlfriend, the album he released in October 1991. He recorded that album in 1990, after his divorce, and later told Rolling Stone that the finished record ended up showing everything he needed to feel, an antidote of sorts. When people asked whether a breakup record meant the good songs would dry up, he told Entertainment Weekly he was sure he'd be just as depressed again someday.
Girlfriend became his commercial and critical breakthrough and went gold, and Paste later put it at 61 among the 90 best albums of the 1990s.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
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