Matthew Sweet's record collection is a veritable syllabus for Power Pop 101. Its urtext is The Beatles' “She Said She Said,” that moment when the Fabs' radiant jangle started to take on a lysergic quality. Through the mesmerizing melodies of Big Star and the Raspberries, Sweet developed a flair for harmonies that feel simultaneously ecstatic and melancholic, while Cheap Trick showed him how to weld big hooks to arena-sized riffs.