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Anyone else feel like Mutineering would fit absolutely flawlessly onto Avalance?

I was asked my least favourite song on the album the other day and found it extremely difficult to answer. I suppose it's Shallow's Low, but to me the album is so good front to back that it's hard to pick one. Of his solo releases to me it's pretty clearly: Avalanche > LOES > WLR&RR > Hospital Music = Vancouver I'll probably get shit for having White Light so high, but fuck that, it's a great rock and roll album.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it sounds like Avalanche, I'm saying that to me it's on the same level as Avalanche. The album feels like a love child, is the best way I can describe it upon early listens which is exactly the way I'd describe Avalanche. While I enjoy Hospital Music and to a lesser extent Vancouver, I don't feel the same sense of connection with them. I feel like this album is MG in his prime the way I felt and still feel Avalanche was. I felt Avalanche was the whole package. To me, there's always things I like about Matt's releases but it never all really seems to come together like it does when I listen to Avalanche. That's the sense I'm getting with early listens of this one.

This is easily his best release since Avalanche, and with a few listens might rival it. Matt wasn't fucking around when he said this is the best thing he's ever done. The vocals are SPOT ON on this release and the increased piano is fantastic. This is easily better than HM or Vancouver to me.

Or maybe he's in a place to be able to write the kind of records he wants to write? I get the sense that creatively Matt feels more fulfilled now than ever, hopefully not having to worry about radio play or awards or anything like that. At the end of the day I'd rather hear the music he wants to make then have him make Avalanche or Beautiful Midnight over and over.

Holy shit. Non Populus is absolute brilliance. Matt, you have quite a way with lengthy songs. They're easily your best.

It was by far my favourite of the demos I've heard as well. I don't know how it would fit on an album, though. To me it feels "finished" in demo form. Like a gem to satisfy those who love the artist enough to seek out the demos and b sides.

I've been fucking enamored with this shit lately. Fantastic music. Pyramid Electric Co All Falls Together Anyone else a fan?

Listening through all the demos for the first time. I REALLY like the sound of "A Little Something To Fall Asleep To".

Pearl Jam both times I've seen them. Hearing songs like Footsteps, No Way, Love, Reign O'er Me, and Breath live...No words.

;) Dicks.

I do to both...I know, I know ;).

I keep coming back to this album. Every time I want to listen to something lately I end up playing this.

Indeed...He also plays a bit of Lilac Wine from time to time.

The emotion he played with was incredible. You could tell it was just total passion for what he does. During one song he was strumming his guitar so hard and fast one of the strings snapped and it didn't even phase him. Also, during one of the songs he played a line or two of Jeff Buckley's Grace which kicked ass.

I went to see these guys last night at the Centre...My girlfriend wanted to go and I agreed to go with her, not having heard much of their stuff. I've seen the movie "Once" and enjoyed it, so I knew I wouldn't hate the show, but it shattered my expectations. Glen Hansard has an incredible stage presence and his voice is outstanding. He did the song "Say It To Me Now" like the video I'll link at the end. It's by far one of the best renditions of any song I've ever heard live. I don't get chills all that often from music, but I had chills throughout this performance. For a single voice and a single unplugged acoustic to fill up a theater like that...Jesus. They also played a pretty long set (2 hours 15 minutes, with 2 encores). Anyone else see them live? If you get the chance you should go. They put on a fucking fantastic show. Here's the video. He played it like this in Vancouver...

As much as I said the set at the Vancouver night 1 show underwhelmed me, I have to agree with this from Matt's post "Trying To Pull Chairs Out Of The Floor": Also:

I ranked my top 30 Pearl Jam songs recently...Maybe I can try and do this with Matt's songs. It'd be fucking hard, though.

$10 says you've never heard it.

He was talking to me...I said: It's all in context though. I'm broke as fuck right now. $100 would be hard to come by, but if I had the chance to see a Matt Good show with every song I'd ever wanted to hear live, I'm saying big picture me would see I'd go through that $100 on pointless, stupid shit an incredible amount of times over the course of my life and it'd be more than fucking worth it to find a way to scrounge up the $100 for the right now and have that memory for the rest of my days.

Again, you're thinking small picture. You're thinking the next few years and paying off that $30,000 in debt...Which, sure, is a legitimate concern...However, come the end of your life, hell, even 5 or 10 years down the road if and when Matt isn't making music anymore you'll be sitting there drinking a glass of scotch from a bottle that cost you upwards of $60 and think to yourself "what the fuck, I could've seen every song I ever wanted by him and I passed it up over a lousy $100 I've spent over and over on trivial shit since then"... If it was just another Matt show, I'd understand, but to me if you love an artist that much and a once in a lifetime chance came up you'd remember for the rest of your life and you said no because it was a hundred bucks...That's silly to me. ...and don't get pissy, I'm not trying to minimalize your debt. Think big picture.

Big picture. It's $100. In the sense of a rock concert that may be a lot of money, but if you were promised that it would be an intimate show full of the songs you've always wanted to hear live ad only those songs, could you really price that memory you'd have for the rest of your life at $100? That seems awfully cheap in that line of thinking.

I sure would. Without a 2nd thought.

Oh my god Born To Kill. Yes. Do want.

I don't give a fuck what anyone says, the first time I saw Anchorman that shit had me on the floor.