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on underdogs i really couldn't stand invasion 1. on beautiful midnight, load me up didn't do anything for me. on audio of being, carmelina and tripoli were rather irritating. avalanche i'd say double life. and on white light, i give it to little terror.

actually. matt reminds me a bit of michael stipe and REM.

that's the part. it's just a little bit off, and catches up rather quickly.

not the part where the kick disappears, but the part where he stumbles on the timing. my friend ryan pointed it out to me once and i still think it's funny.

has anyone else noticed the drumming mistake in the second half of the first verse of giant? it's odd because the kick is syncopated with the bass, while the high hat and snare are doing something almost completely different.

i'm planning on picking it up. vinyl > cd in all instances. i have sunny day real estate's "the rising tide" on vinyl and it's very much one of the greatest things ever.

by good guitarist, do you mean good songwriter? or good technically? because you have to realize, both are very different things.

yeah. i got into him after seeing the everything is automatic video as well. good to see a nice community of fans blossoming.

damn. here, that's usually the length of openers and local band sets. independent touring acts usually get an hour or so. and headliners usually have an hour and a half to two. radiohead and the cure each played two and a half hours at coachella this year.

how lame. :/

i agree fakelightning, it's an awesome song. my favorite of his is probably the inescapable us. i think prime time deliverance is most underrated though.

i fully agree. i remember hearing the last track on machina and thinking it reminded me of tonight tonight due to the drumming on the snare rim and the major chords. it's a totally different song, but makes me feel the same way. it's kind of cool.

underdogs beautiful midnight audio of being avalanche white light rock and roll review the others and the demos i have on mp3.

i've always thought the violin.

Personally i cant see the how similar those three songs are, to me they are all completely different. Mind saying why you think they are the same? There are of course many differences, but also some seriously similar riffage. Just listen to the first few seconds of Load Me Up, then the first guitar part in 21st Century Living. Exactly the same. Buffalo Seven is less similar, but it's so close I even picked up on it when I heard the song played live (having never heard it before). It's also in Running For Home, but that's with piano and I'm not going to get too anal retentive about it. But if I was going to get anal retentive I'd also point out Matt's self-copped the Apparitions rhythm on every album since Underdogs. It's not that big a deal but when he uses the same music in three songs (four if you count Running For Home), it gets me thinking that maybe he's running out of ideas. i don't see the similarities except for it being an ascending line. in load me up, the first chord repeats thrice followed by a half step up and then the chord again. in 21st century living, it's a rhythm line to a vocal melody. in buffalo seven, it's a chord picked as single notes, and the root note is two steps higher every other time it's played. if you're going to nitpick that, you might as well claim every artist does this, especially with the one and a half step and two step descending/ascending lines. i moreso see the verse chorus mini-bridge verse chorus structure repeated in 21st century living and north american for life, but even then almost every song you've ever heard is verse chorus verse chorus bridge chorus, so there's no need for this, unless it's an exact repetition.

my girlfriend's a huge fan. if you're feeling sinister is excellent and so's the legal man ep.

only because BM was the only record formally released down here. if the others were released, i'd count on him being a lot bigger.

i'd like to ask: how does he feel about record label politics within the united states? whether he believes a social democracy such as the one exhibited in canada and throughout scandinavia would be ideal?

yeah. i'm enjoying we're so heavy and ex-pats on the blue mountain symphony orchestra quite a bit.

i was originally from mississauga, but moved down here to the san francisco bay area six years back. matt played one show in the us in new york during the beautiful midnight tour i think, and it sold out. he has kind of a cult audience down here.

i guess it's just video cliches. having dark themes in 'rock' videos is sort of a standing concept. kind of lame.