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damn, this is a great song

I likes it

Matthew Good has this ability to make me love any song he makes, regardless of what style it is.

This song is so abstract and weird, but I somehow love it.

There was this guy I was having a conversation with, pretty decent guy, etc. He mentions he owns every mg album, I just about JUMP HIM.

Ps, I got his number. How do you like them apples?

Score, if things were to go bad after dating you could always just steal all his MGB stuff and ransom it off.

GhettoAstronaut wrote:Matthew Good has this ability to make me love any song he makes, regardless of what style it is.

This song is so abstract and weird, but I somehow love it.

I loved the song but I don't really see how its so abstract and weird.

thirdhour wrote:There was this guy I was having a conversation with, pretty decent guy, etc. He mentions he owns every mg album, I just about JUMP HIM.

Ps, I got his number. How do you like them apples?

roasted.

I AM ME wrote:Score, if things were to go bad after dating you could always just steal all his MGB stuff and ransom it off.

Shush you, that wasn't my plan at all!

Joe Cooler wrote:

GhettoAstronaut wrote:Matthew Good has this ability to make me love any song he makes, regardless of what style it is.

This song is so abstract and weird, but I somehow love it.

I loved the song but I don't really see how its so abstract and weird.

me neither.

Doesn't sound that out there to me

I just saw the video for the L&S's "Stay" on the wedge. Oh silly crazy-sideburns-guy!

If you know anyone who's just starting to get into MG, tell them to get WLRRR and the deluxe In a Coma from Maple Music, together for only $26. Damn that's a good deal. A 2 CD + 1 DVD package as well as a full length album. Sweet deal.

http://www.maplemusic.com/product.asp?d ... 62&lang=EN

Matt's just said in the comments on his blog that "It’s weird. During the press I did for the last release I said that I wanted to get away from things and do something a little more out there. To be honest, it was a stupid thing to say in retrospect. At this point I’ll happily record any group of songs that I’m simply fond of, no matter what one might consider them to be. I think it was a rather idiotic thing of me to say."

And next week he's "...going to bash out a few chords with some friends and drink some beer and it’s being turned into a recording session. Right now, from where I’m standing, it’s going to be a while before I release anything."

P.S. am I the only one who reads this thread now? It used to be much more active, it seems...

I kept hearing the name Matt Good get thrown around and I was like "wtf, what does Matt Good have to do with this?" and then I found out that Matt Good is also the name of the guitarist of From First To Last.

weird


I still read the thread Rob, but to be honest i don't read stuff on here as much as i used to. I'm ore intrested in blogging and other artists. That and doing homework

by other artists i mean artists other then OLP, i still love matt, i've been on a huge BM thing lately

I AM ME wrote:I loved the song but I don't really see how its so abstract and weird.

me neither.

Doesn't sound that out there to me[/quote]

I think the reason people think it's abstract or weird is because a) Matt had said that he wanted to make weird music, so people had a preemptive expectation of weirdness (Matt has, btw, revoked that statement) and b) Matt used synth drums in Garage Band, so it sounds a little different.

aaaand I completely forgot to say what I came into the thread to say...


I've been listening to Matt's unofficially released demo tapes. I hadn't heard them before, so it was all new to me (except for two songs, but I'll get to that in a second). There have been many times when I heard a lyric and kind of paused and thought "wow. nicely put". It's been a while since I heard something by Matt that was really new to me, so it was fun.

The two songs that my friend had sent to me when I first got into Matt Good were "Casual Walks" and "Coming Out in Purple". The first she said reminded her of me, and the second she sent because it was weird/cool.

Casual Walks is actually one of my favourites. The vocals are spoken so fast, yet the song is very calm (casual, if you will). To me it really conveys the feeling of having a number of thoughts going through your head about things that you have to do, your obligations, and the soothing remedy of getting away from it all. The speaker has "a pocket full of money and no place to go". He's given his life to work, to earning money. Now that he has it, he doesn't know how go out and live life. His brother is the opposite he's "walked from New Zealand to Rome", he's been out all over the world living life. But the speaker still has some reservations about changing. Sure, he can take a casual walk. But he's worried about his brother's increasingly different way of life: "He might never come back, by the way that he talks / Whereas he always returned from casual walks." oh man, I could go on about every line in this song, it all applies to me. I'm the speaker. I don't have a brother. Neither does the speaker. Not literally, anyways. The brother is who the speaker (I) should be.

woo

As for Coming Out in Purple. It is a very strange song. But I do love the way he says "We are fading into the background / we are backing into the foreground" with a hint of sarcasm ... as if he knows the second line, albiet a quirky little twist on the repetition he had set up, means essentially nothing. Then again, not much in the song means much of anything.

Just eeeeease yourseeeelf around it!

i love that stuff