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Damn straight.

Well there are usually way too many fingers in the pot. What are you gonna do?

... Congrats to all who won! Dammit.

Man I'm really regretting not driving an hour to that Kitchener show... X-Rated sounds excellent, BM nostalgia buzzz!

The Can't Get Shot studio recording was recently linked in the Upload thread of the Lounge. Check it! Edit: Tho I prefer the original home recording, personally.

Johnny I dig your list, great choices. I would agree except for a couple replacements (don't really care much for I'm a Window, or North American 4 Lyfe) Weapon Avalanche 21st Century Living While We Were Hunting Rabbits Can't Get Shot In The Back A Single Explosion Born Losers She’s in it for the Money A Silent Army In The Trees Vancouver National Anthem Empty's Theme Park Empty Road We’re So Heavy It's Been Awhile Since I Was Your Man Ex-Pats of the Blue Mountain Symphony Orchestra *edit I spelled Johnny's name wrong

Hah ha man some of you sure have snarky remarks!

Thanks for the heads up Sean! You can enter DAILY, folks! Must reside in Ontario tho, apparently.

Same with Silent Army on Vancouver, IMO, but I've accepted it and it's my fave off the album

Waiting on a reply. Good luck to everyone!

I'd always heard 'ohhh, fuck off'

I thought you were being facetious with your first comment. The second comment is applicable to every person, isn't it. Do you have any more redundant statements you'd like to make today?

If you never did, do check out the band Copyright, in which CTV played guitar beside Tom Anselmi's brilliant lyrics and powerful vocal delivery. I dunno if you can find them on the nets for download tho.

WLRRR Tour was just as good as the Avalanche tour, lots of Avalanche material played, plus Christian was still on geetar ;) 2003-2006 were the most technically sound tour performances - he had the best band of his career together during much of that time, if you ask me.

Played this song on our radioshow tonite, along with VNA. It's so cool to hear his tunes coming out of an old beatup stereo

Jesus that was a solid setlist for Calgary tonight! A good friend of mine was at that show, she text'd me "matt has a belly hee hee" Hilarious. Show was over by 10:30pm, is he starting early across the board?

Yeah Devil's spot-on. BM is an album of reflection on youth and looking back as an adult, coming to terms with what you thought was, and what now is. I gotta be a stickler on the lyrics posted though, I mean the last line wasn't even included! gonna fly to Hawaii get laid in a lawn chair drown in a bathtub fill it with cheap beer i miss New Wave and movies about losing well just the parts where it's okay see baby, i got something right when the world is screaming i miss New Wave and real intent real

Completely agree, it would still hold up and sound amazing. Great call How do you get 'too old' for live music? I find I feel 'older' or 'out of touch' somewhat when I haven't been to a show for awhile. When I was 17-20, I went to concerts all the time. Then I went to school, and had to cut back a LOT because basically there was little time outside of assignments, plus yeah it costs money. The last year though, I've taken to fully embracing the Toronto music scene and I've never been happier. Then again, when you live near a major centre for live music, you have the opportunity to see fucking great musicians for relatively cheap, $5-15/show. BYOB en route ;)

Haha Vermillion, man I used to call that out for the first 2 years I started seeing MG shows ('98). Even brought a sign once, had an awkward back-and-forth from the floor with matt at one show regarding it, but it never happened. Goddammit.

Most of these are my favourite MG songs, I agree it's hard to determine what constitutes an underrated song. Jenni's Song was my favourite off BM, I used to play it all the time way back when around the fire on cottage weekends with friends. I've always dug Double Life, I love intro riff, and the rollercoaster clip right before the guitar busts a nut at the end. Peter, straight up good call, Buffalo Seven is a great track, for some reason it has always stuck out even though it's a pretty standard tune structurally. And I still crack a smile at Genn's guitar work near the end of Look Happy, just wonderful, playful stuff. Also Moon Over Marin I absolutely love, it's so much more than a cover. Great atmosphere, I easily imagine all the imagery and narrative (polluted waves lapping the shore, the smell of dead fish etc). One track I don't care for though is Pony Boy, it sure wouldn't have fit on AOB.

Oh yeah the Kool Haus show with the Dears! And the Edge Electric Christmas with Moist! And Mod Club 2004! And Phoenix 2005! Okay seen him 17 times. 'Nearfantastica,' 50 times for real? Geeez!

13 times that I can specifically recall since '98

I don't like the idea of EP's replacing complete albums in terms of official releases. Radiohead has discussed this as well, I hope they don't go that way. But It'd be great to additionally hear 'ideas' or experiments in this format, like short stories instead of laboured novels. But I mean he's released pretty much an album per year since 2003, I can't ask for more. I have no idea what kind of work he'll release after Vancouver, which is awesome. I could see him going on hiatus for a couple years to be honest, hope he doesn't tho!

Yeah my comment was a bit overboard (overbored?), sorry for being snipey folks. I was responding to a pretty general statement, discussion would have been a better route. I am ridiculously defensive of WLRRR for some reason - prolly 'cause it seems relatively few MG fans appreciate it much, and it just blows my mind. Dave I've never been called a tool before, thanks! Matt's comment was straight up, made me smile. But we'll keep yammering on anyway won't we? 'Cause it's FUN!

That song encapsulates the confusion and remorse I feel (and especially felt at the time) for the situation that innocent people, who just want to live their fucking lives in relative peace, are subject to because of the idiocy and inhumanity of a few megalomaniacs that control an army. An army we finance in part, and which we allow through silence and indifference, to destroy families and culture. Yeah it's just a song, but by 'not getting the big deal about it' you reveal a level of disinterest in basic compassion for your fellow man that is appalling. Not trying to be preachy here, but I gotta speak my mind on this. I mean, really? Enjoy your piss man, I wonder if you bother to aim the stream in the urinal, or just go all over the floor.