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Sort of A Protest Song While We Were Hunting Rabbits

Prime Time Deliverance Sort of a Protest Song Man of Action Near Fantastica Weapon

I think it seems like an excellent idea. $25/yr for a year's access to Matt's content is very interesting.

1 The Rat Who Would Be King 2 Pledge of Allegiance 3 Truffle Pigs 4 Sort Of A Protest Song 5 Entresol 6 House of Smoke and Mirrors 7 Omissions of the Omen (at one point my favorite MG song) 8 Running For Home 9 Weapon

Although "Closer to God" isn't actually the name of the song (hate to be a stickler, but...), I'll play along: God In The Numbers - Richard Ashcroft

It was a shame that Starsailor didn't break in the US the way everyone hoped they would...

It seems like a lot of MG stuff doesn't seem to be selling for a while, and then all of a sudden it becomes really rare... Loser anthems was like that, as was the Australian Hello Time Bomb, and there are many others.

It's rough, but I haven't been able to find anything on Limewire or anywhere like that... good luck though.

GESUNDHEIT!

Any other recommendations for great eateries in Calgary? I'm new to the town and very interested.

I'm not too much of a reader, but I was wondering whether or not you had any sample pages available, or perhaps a sample chapter.

Where can I find it? If the downloads on this site are listed alphabetically, it didn't seem to be on here.

My take on it was that Matt wrote all of these songs during sort of a trance-like state of his life, where he was so heavily involved in certain experiences and certain thoughts, and now he looks back on them and feels so removed from it. Not literally a coma or anything, but just sort of being in this one state. I agree with that idea of "the music of that generation". That's probably got to do with the fact that we look to music at one point in our life as a really formative kind of thing, and later on (as I know happened for me) we begin to progess on into other endeavours. I wish I could still be as receptive to music as I once was. Although I know that I will be again, because whenever your life is just "thrown off" a lot, you tend to look to art and other things to help clarify things once again. or at least i do.

I think that so much of "ripped off" art is just numerous people seizing ideas that are "floating around" in the collective unconscious. I don't know how much I believe the idea of a floating collective unconscious, but there is definitely some inherent human process that causes people to come up with similar ideas at similar times. There was some scientific evidence circulating years back about how, if people unable to contact each other are given a puzzle to solve, after the first person has solved it, many of the others will solve it soon thereafter. It was like that with the telephone, and many things involved in genetics, and it's a lot like that with art, especially popular music. Do you remember that time in the late 1990's when they released like four movies about a giant flood or earth-shattering natural disaster, and about that many movies about space travel simultaneously? And now they're releasing a lot of well-financed documentaries and having a lot of politically charged music. It's all about things that people are interested in rising to popularity. That's why I'd say a lot of music sounds alike. Unless it's composed by Richard Ashcroft (formerly of the Verve). But he's great at musical arrangements and construction, so he's got an excuse anyways.

I was looking at the MG/MGB Song Elimination Tournament, and I was struck by the name "All Together". I don't think I've ever heard this song (can't remember it off of any of the pre-MGB stuff, nor the b-sides that I can remember. What is this song? Is there any story behind it (live shows only, matt was gonna put it on an album but hated the way it turned out, written for some particular reason)? I'm all ears.