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Ah added Rabbits to the list. Forgot that one.

Fuck yeah! Nice!

Just a game I thought of. See, on many of Matt's record, there are songs I consider masterpieces. Songs that are simply epic and could become untimely classics. So I thought I dress a list up just for fun in chronological order cos I'm lazy: -Apparitions -Suburbia -Born To Kill -Man of Action -Sort of a Protest Song -Weapon -Avalanche -While We Were Hunting Rabbits -Champions of Nothing -Empty's Theme Park -Non Populus Edit: I added Rabbits. Thanks Gomo! ;)

There's the picking as well. It's not the same. Matt does goes up and down with the string as Milos does it with his finger a bit slower.

Oh it is. I don't like the way he plays Great Whales but that's probably the way Matt asked him to do it. But I prefer the way Matt did it on the record. Otherwise he's an awesome bass player and does a good job with and without a plectrum.

I don't think the sequence was lost, I remember him saying they couldn't get around it. Which surprised me so maybe I'm wrong. Then again, he could easily resample it from the record or play it with the guitar like Last Parade. As for Milos, he's not in the Heartbroken. That's why he's still on board. Only Stu and Blake are in that band. And given that Matt and Ian are the only MGB members still talking, I agree, it would be awesome if Ian joined back. Christian too.

Crusader: Yes they have Moonlight: It's a 50/50 thing. There's that but also, Matt could show them new songs he hasn't played in a while like Near Fantastica. When this band was formed, I think Matt said something like they had to learn the songs from the CDs (which is why Load Me Up was so slow at first I think). But he also said that they couldn't get Near Fantastica worked out with the loop. Finally, with all what Matt said about the Vancouver music scene, I doubt they'll be Vancouverites...I could be wrong though.

Yes it is. Definitely an earworm...

He didn't ditch anyone. Rich and Matt are no longer on speaking terms. I don't know what happened to Christian but Pat went back to play with The Odds after recording Hospital Music.

This is awesome!

Where can we hear the first one?

Avalanche is about bipolarity? Strange, he wasn't even diagnosed yet...where did you hear that, I'd love to listen to the interview! Otherwise I really like this record and, as Moonlight said, the meaning of the songs really help! LOES for example I really started liking a lot after knowing what the lyrics were. THe meaning are part of the song and its arrangements!

That's odd...

Matt announced on M+ (am I allowed to post this here?) that Stuart and Blake, also members of the band The Heartbroken, won't be going on tour with him but that things were "well in hands". I wonder who's going to fill in...

Damn! This is easily one of his best songs ever isn't it?

A while back I asked him if there were lyrics to the song and if he was ever going to release it and he simply replied "no". Is it "no" to both or just to the release I don't know ;) Because during Vancouver he did record songs without having any lyrics for them (like The Boy Who Could Explode)

Actually, I think that, legally, you're not even supposed to make MP3s from a CD and use it in your iPod... Just sayin'

Yeah me too. It's ridiculous! I wanted the actual CD because I'm one of those types of people who still likes to buy physical records. So I wasn't going to preorder.

Well from what I recall, he said that this was the way he WISHED AOB had been. But for WLRRR that was the original song list.

Never heard of that. I know he implied Dave was a drug user back in the MGB days. The only thing I heard concerning Rich was what I said earlier. Pat though played on Hospital Music and then went back with The Odds so that's why Matt isn't playing with him anymore.

Tried to download it but you need an american credit card or paypal account. This is crap!

No no he's talking about a post Matt made on M+ a while back. He listed the running order he wanted or these records before Universal sent him back to record new material. That's why Alert Status Red, In Love With a Bad Idea and Buffalo Seven are not in this list. Because those were the only songs recorded after the recording session (and were not recorded live off the floor) at the demand of the record company who thought the record lacked singles. As for Rich, I won't go into details but Matt posted on an old forum that there was some shit between them and they're not even speaking to each other anymore. The only MGB member Matt's in speaking term with, bar Geoff of course, is Ian.

First single released March 21st!

The running time for the demos is 44:27 minutes and there is one "long song" which is Non Populus that clocks at 8:40. It's the longest one.

No no you're confusing everything! Content IS the main point of this all! Matt's not the governement. He's not a newspaper. He's an artist. The government or a newspaper keeping info for a limited group of people, that's just plain bad. If he's doing it, it's fine. Why the difference? Because of the content! The three points you've mentionned are all in all trivial. There's pieces of candy he sells. Period. Freedom of information doesn't apply. Seriously man you're seeing way too much into this and you're looking at the picture all wrong (and I frankly don't understand how your head works to say these things...unless you're really young I don't know).