Matthew Sweet played Friday at City Winery and shared how he hooked up with Robert Quine and Richard Lloyd – who helped the alt-rock musician make some absolutely essential power pop – while living in NYC.

My favorite top 5 albums of the last 20 years may surprise you. In fact, they surprised me! When the question was put to me though, I decided to decide on the basis of the five albums I had played the most without any regard to what I thought was the most important, revolutionary, influential, or any of that tom foolery.

This is a podcast of NYC Musicologist Steve Reynolds interviewing me about my favorite 5 albums in the last 20 years. It’s audio only with 2 songs apiece from the albums in question…