ben is a sandwich

yes! another thread about a band/artist i worship (so far there's been tom waits and lou reed... oh, and of course that matthew good character...). sister's always been my favourite. but they never really sucked. 1000 leaves is alsp worth checking out. Daydream Nation is obvious. i see why they're sometimes "hard to get into". but they're really not a noise rock band at all. when they are making noise, it's so intritcate and structured. as far as the vocals go, kim can wear a bit thin, but it's perfect at times (tunic) and thurston has that ever-detatched cool (silver rocket). blah blah blah. point is, they're fantastic. (on a side note, if anyone out there is a fan of Placebo, it's disturbing how much they reference Sonic Youth in their lyrics/sound. i love it, but it's shocking.)

if you want to read into it, i suppose you could conclude that unicorns, being mythic creatures, could represent the myths about 9/11 or the pretty untruths that people tell themselves to justify the actions afterward. but perhaps that's reading too much into it. meh.

were i a richer man, that in love with a bad idea promo would be mine.

king among men. though his voice(s) may not be to everyone's taste... it's a bit of an acquired taste. but if you give a full album a chance (like say, Rain Dogs or the new Orphans set) you may find religion. no joke.

preach on. i love the velvets and lou solo. he has that unimpeachable rock cool, without it seeming posey or put on. easily one of my top 5 favourite artists of all time. though, somehow, rock & roll animal never did it for me. perhaps i should revisit it. but at the time i got it, it just wasn't brittle sounding enough.

the "but yeah" in Sort of a Protest Song, the guitar solo bit in My Out of Style is Coming Back, and for some reason, particularly when i first heard it, all of The Workers Sing a Song of Mass Production. that's probably the least interesting song on that album, but something about it has just... a vibe.

clap hands-tom waits

wintersleep did absolutely nothing for me. UNTIL i saw them at the horseshoe, during NXNE. it was the end of a long night of fairly boring bands, and then they came on and it was like the second coming of Christ.

let's see... toured IAC with band, toured IAC acoustic, played a show for some fans in vancouver in his living room because he was leaving vancouver because he was going through a divorce and wanted to travel. got called back on a family emergency. started writing a lot of songs and is thinking about releasing them as a double album. made some interesting drawings that can be seen in the "gallery" section of matthewgood.org, listens to a lot of tom waits, loves his dogs. that about sums it up.

"baby, if i was in demand, you would be mine." "i'm not myself, but somehow i'm still being him." "i know who you're waiting for. no one is coming, though" "baby i ain't dimed, but yeah, it still keeps me up at night."\ the way he says "bet yeah" in that last one gets me all blubbery every time.

wow. that was awful. why did i click it? i must be a masochist.

matthew and hawksley are probably two of the best "technical" singers out there... not just that, of course, but seeing either of them live is pretty astonishing. they've got the chops. maynard too, as has been mentioned. i'm kind of shocked no one has mentioned bjork. and although he may not have a fantastic range, mark lanegan always gives me the chills.

He's fantastic with a full band. pick up the Live in Lille DVD and you'll get a wee taste.

i WAS going to second that earlier mention of "The Same Deep Water As You"... but since reading the rest of the posts, i'm all about Roxanne. i may love The Cure, but Sting could take Robert Smith any day, and i want to stay on his good side.

well, i never got sick of strange days. i did get sick of apparitions. so there's my answer, i suppose.

amen to that.

the two "love is hell" albums were great. otherwise, i've been kind of bored. still, great, great albums, those.

that's right. the stooges. recorded by steve albini. anyone else heard about this? any thoughts? seems to me to be the perfect match. there's only one thing that could ruin this: bad songs. (and don't pretend iggy doesn't have any in him.)

theoretically speaking, id probably pay upwards of $40-50 cdn. good mgb shirts are hard to find. particularly in anything smaller than xl.

i noticed the pics were gone but i think the podcasts were already there. perhaps it's flickr or whatever storage site he might have used having a problem..?

eels-god's silence, or going to your funeral pt. 2

both lovesong (cure) and the luckiest (ben folds) are fantastic mentions. i'd have to go with veruca salt's cover of depeche mode's "somebody." or, better yet, "set the ray to jerry" by the smashing pumpkins. yeah. that one.

i just havent been able to enjoy the show. so im sure i wont see the movie. nothing against it really, it just doesnt do anything for me. however, the big dirty band is great. care from die manequin more or less fronting rush. a huge improvement, i think.

well, i'd say BM is more cohesive. it works better as an album. funny, those two are the msot obviously related mg(b) efforts in my opinion, as they are both a lot darker and more... neurotic, maybe, than most of the others. but they also have a similar sound. i love them both, but i think i'd hold AoB in higher regard if it BM hadn't been released. as it stands i sort of think of it as a SLIGHTLY less interesting version of the same album. yes, i know. "blasphemy."

well, matt toured with melissa auf der maur. and she, in turn, toured with the cure. perhaps a matt + robert smith + melissa deal? one can only dream.