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Certain Songs #2379: Soul Asylum – “Summer of Drugs”

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Album: Sweet Relief
Year: 1993

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One of the weirder things that happened during the exact moment Soul Asylum were blowing up on the back of “Runaway Train” was that the Victoria Williams tribute album Sweet Relief was released.

Obviously, it wasn’t planned that way — Sweet Relief was conceived after Williams was diagnosed with MS in 1992. American healthcare being the corrupt shitshow it’s been for decades, Victoria’s friends organized this 20th century version of a GoFundMe to help pay her bills.

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Certain Songs #1106: Matthew Sweet – “This Moment”

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Album: Sweet Relief – A Benefit for Victoria Williams
Year: 1993

Featuring:
Greg Leisz – Acoustic Guitars, Mandolin, National Duolian Guitar, Pedal Steel
Matt Wallace – Drum Loop

Throughout the early 1990s, you could walk into any record store, go to the “Various Artists” section, close your eyes and grab any random soundtrack album, tribute CD or thematic compilation and it was guaranteed that Matthew Sweet would have a song on it. And not just a song, but a song that wasn’t on any of his other records.

Here’s just a partial list: Born to Choose, No Alternative, Yuletunes, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Saturday Morning (Cartoons Greatest Hits), and of course, perhaps the greatest benefit album of the 1990s, Sweet Relief.

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