Moonlight_Graham

Listened to the new album a number of times now, my review: A very good album, I've enjoyed it very much, some of it brilliant, some super-catchy, other songs are a bit too pedestrian. The central theme of it I understand & I think is very important politically, but several of the songs have quite cryptic lyrics where I've yet to fully understand the theme of the song, such as There The First Time, Days Come Down, and This Is Night, so as a concept album it hasn't hit me yet like ie: LOES did. My 1st impression of the album is that many of the songs have a more uplifting melody than a usual MG album, as songs like Bad Guys Win/Decades/There The First Time/Days Come Down are quite catchy while some of their meanings may actually be more dark. Army of Lions was probably the 1st MG/MGB song I remember ever wanting to dance to, but several songs on SLAS have an upbeat danceable groove, like There The First Time & Days Come Down. The band is so damn tight live so far, especially when they played for Alan Cross' secret launch party, they sound just like on the album! Some of that might have to do with the pre-recorded elements, but recording live off the floor I think benefited the band. The 80's vibe of songs like Decades/There The First Time seems to mesh surprisingly well with the rest of the album that mixes keys/piano, orchestration, and jazz (Bullets...). I absolutely adore the keys & instrumentals on Men At The Door & Bullets. The biggest highlights on SLAS & CN have been the jazzy songs (Cold Water, Tiger By The Tail, Bullets...), and if you include LOES then IMO the best songs he's recorded in the last 10 years have been the jazzier ones, Matt has really found a brilliant sound here that I think will come to largely define his post-MGB career when all is said & done. I wish the economics of mass appeal meant he could explore these jazz sounds more & create more albums like LOES. I'll rate the songs: Bad Guys Win - 7/10 - I like the message, but the music is a bit too pedestrian for me. Decades - 8/10 Men at the Door - 9/10 - Truthful lyrics, love the keys at the end There the First Time - 9/10 - Awesome beat, catchy song Days Come Down - 9.5/10 - So catchy, great groove, wonderful lyrics Something Like a Storm - 7/10 - Insightful lyrics, but music didn't quite come together IMO, orchestration was a bit too over-the-top She's Got You Where She Wants You - 7/10 - Sounds kinda like an 80's love song, but otherwise doesn't do much for me This is Night - 5/10 - Much preferred Lone Gunman. The "Vancouver" sound sounds out of place & stale now, felt the same with All Your Songs & Daughters Bullets in a Briefcase - 10/10 - Brilliant

Metallica, even in the 80's, used lots of fadeouts. For Whom The Bell Tolls, Fade To Black, Escape, Orion, Jump In The Fire etc. I like the fadeouts on the new MG album, gives it a throwback feel. Wish the album came on cassette LOL.

The entire rock industry doesn't have have many huge headliners anymore, minus nostalgia acts. Festivals and rock radio stations are starting to play more pop or pop-esque acts. Rock is dying commercially. But that's off-topic.

Sometimes I wish that too, but then I also think of all the blog entries he's written and of course the albums/lyrics over the decades so we already have an autobiography from him in many ways.

i came right now to post this manifesto entry. I was just now browsing through Matt's old manifestos at random (haven't done that in years) and randomly came across the same entry you posted, and knew that it must be his "secret muse". And yes, Jenni's song entirely makes sense now, and from what it sounds is based on a true story. Seems you beat me to the punch of posting this. Good eye!

Thanks so much for the link. I've only listened to the album on MP3 so far, CD and Vinyl were only ordered by me recently. Amazing! I looked for the CD at Walmart on release weekend, nothing. Last MG CD I remember seeing at release from Walmart was WLRRR. I bought Chaotic Neutral CD at HMV around when it was released but it wasn't even on display I had to ask a clerk who found it in the back somewhere.

Wondering if the lyrics for the "Something Like a Storm" album have dropped yet. If not, until Matt posts them, do we want to try to figure them out ourselves. I know a few of the songs have been revealed and this site has them posted. Hard to fully enjoy this album without a key piece of the puzzle missing...especially given it's a bit of a concept album.

20 yrs man I feel old LOL. Like most people Everything Is Automatic & Indestructible were decent songs but I decided to buy Underdogs after hearing Apparitions on MuchMusic. I remember buying the CD at Blockbuster video of all places. Was a good CD I thought, I remember especially liking Inescapable Us (amazing vocals) and My Out of Style Is Coming Back. I then borrowed LOTGA from a friend and loved that album even more (still one of my fav all-time albums) and have been a diehard fan every since.

Matt teased this song on Instagram a while ago (I think since been removed) and then posted the lyrics for us on The Bored. I just read through the lyrics again and my best guess is that this song is about the recent refugee crisis in the middle-east/Europe. Consider the first verse: "Little fish, boat's too full, down you go Breathing in salt and fuel, tiny gulps Statistically it's commonplace You're not alone So end like this instead of shot back at home" This seems to refer to the death of Alan Kurdi, the young Syrian boy found drowned on a beach after his family tried to flee to Greece & whose picture we all remember: Then the 2nd verse: "Little man, Northern France, winter's cold 800 hours, 4,000 miles, feet alone no one I know would even dare it Let alone for a shanty town Bleeding out in the shadows" Seems to refer to the child refugees from places like Afghanistan & Iraq who traveled across continents to terrible shanty camps in northern French towns like Calais & Dunkirk (ironically). More info: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/toddlers-babies-northern-france-sleeping-rough-calais-migrants-europe-eu-borders-a7824816.html https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/europes-child-refugee-crisis

I'd wager it's just a playlist Matt's made for us. Just about all of these songs are from the last half of the albums they appeared on, with a few appearing around the middle of the albums but most towards the end. So "last" might refer to "last half of albums" or "last songs". Matt's said he's been listening through his catalogue lately, so "Best of last" may just mean these are his favorites of latter songs from his albums after listening through the catalogue. They might also be some of the obscure songs he's considering throwing into the setlist mix for the upcoming tour, who knows.

Last of the Ghetto Astronauts is easily one of my favorite MG albums and my favorite MGB album, but I can definitely hear some of the production limitations on the album. Something about it sounds a bit thin, like the guitars and the keys. For the production price though it still sounds great, & has a charm to it.

Love the album cover. It seems to fit the theme of the album, seems like he's wearing one of the helmets peoplelisten t (or riot police etc) wear at protests (like Charlottesville). Love how the font & overall look is very unique to his other albums too. Excited to listen to the lyrics & his thoughts about everything that's been going on with identity politics etc.

I just heard 'Drop Me In The Water' for the first time recently on radio. Think it's excellent. Has an edge to it, different feel than most of their older singles which lean more "pop rock". Just gave "Nice To Meet You" a spin, blech sounds pretty average & uninspired.

I've collected my share of swag over the years but i've realized this is really the only ones I need: https://cbp.s3.amazonaws.com/img/0/0/5/5/2/4/mg080001-matthew-good-3-x-cd-bundle-z-2.png

Yeah I think that's what he meant. But a nuke for N. Korea is still a deterrent even if launching it would be suicide. Extremely doubtful N. Korea would use a huke offensively. It may just give them the safety to know it will deter an invasion/regime change by South Korea et al if it ever came to that. Given that USSR was on US's doorstep loaded with nukes this threat is a joke.

He posted quite a lot here for a good while. Before Facebook & social media became "a thing" this forum was well populated by members, but several years ago members started posting far less or leaving altogether for whatever reason. Sodamntired kept this place alive during this time when the Bored wasn't very active anymore, he posted quite a lot, he was a dominant personality here, probably the most active posted here for a long time. He used this place like a personal blog for himself, his posts were sometimes stream-of-conscious of his personal thoughts, which sometimes didn't make a lot of sense to most of us, which is why some of us sometimes gave him a hard time. We didn't quite fully understand his disability. His enthusiasm for Matt's music and this Bored was prolific. His kept this place alive while it was struggling with reduced membership activity. I didn't know much about him personally. I think I remember him often talking about seeing girls at school he was attracted to and wanted to talk to, at least I think it was him. Even though some of us gave him a bit of a hard time for some of his stream-of-conscious postings, he was never negative at all. I don't remember him ever having a bad thing or thought to say to another member here. He seemed like a really nice guy. His loss was shocking to all of us because he was such an active presence here. To be honest I wish I had known more about his disability. Really glad to hear he enjoyed this place. Good luck with the project.

Metallica has virtually unlimited rehearsal time, but a really neat idea they had on a tour a few years ago was that for every single gig on the tour, they let the fans in each city vote online to select every song on the setlist from their entire catalog. Oddly enough fans selected a lot of the staple hits, but also some oldies that aren't played often or haven't been in decades years. The interesting thing is that it was a world tour, & every country seemed to have it's own favorite obscure songs. For Matt a neat idea could be for the band to slot out say 5-10 (or whatever the #) obscure songs to rehearse for the tour to be able to select amongst for each show setlist where he might play 3-4 per night or whatever. But before the tour/rehearsals Matt could have fans choose from amongst his entire catalog (or at least those songs that would be workable live) and vote online for which songs they would want selected for ie: 5 out of the 10 total obscure/wildcard songs that the band would rehearse & cycle through the tour.

I'd take that "stress reduction" class. I could do ZERO work and get an A+. Good job prof. :whistle: :whistle:

If they're releasing clips on Youtube without promo for anything that sounds less hopeful to me. Would seem like a no-brainer to release this on DVD/Blu-Ray, it was a popular tour for him.

I think when you have that many albums out over 2+ decades you have to make cuts. He usually mixes in songs from the latest album + the live standards/hits plus a few extras to make things fun. He didn't have a strong single from Arrows so i figure anything on there has to go under the "extras" category of which he has all those albums to choose 2-3 "extra" songs from. He said this about Arrows on The Bored last year:

Yeah I saw that.

I think that while not in all but a good deal of cases in terms of university speakers that are "offensive" to your typical liberal university student it is a failure of the police to maintain law & order. If you're disturbing the peace, you need to be arrested, and the person that offends your political leanings deserves a right to speak. Protesters are winning with their tactics because all they need to do is cause a big outrage-fest outside of an event or even inside & the people they want censored are indeed so, and the event shut down. Many of these people are 21st century version of book-burners. I have no problem with peaceful protests of any speaker, but the key is "peaceful". "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - Evelyn Beatrice Hall. Now that quote comes with reasonable limits, like threats of violence, harassment etc., but in general I agree with it. Peterson deserves to speak even if many don't agree with his ideas.

Thanks y'all. Anyone go to the Montreal show & have a rough setlist? How long was the set? Mostly played hits?

Oh dang really!! Which group? The only MG group I'm in on FB is Matt's official FB page. Help a brother!

For the price of the tickets I'd rather see a full band show, haven't been tickets yet, on the fence. Since it's a double bill show and Matt seems to be opening wondering how long the set will be. Hopefully someone posts the setlist from Montreal's show tonight! thank you so much!