Kaney/Apsham

[SeanDMan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_S-Ajjk0PQ

[apsham]

Cruel fate has placed me at work this morning where I must wait to see whatever undoubtedly Matthew Good thing this relates to.

[Kaney]

Its the single from Matt Goods new album. It's pretty good so far, not anything that'll blow you out the water but sounds quite like some of his older stuff at times.

[apsham]

Hurrah! I was hoping that would be the case. I never really got into Lights Of Endangered Species all that much.

[Kaney]

LOES was a good album, had some standout songs but I think Vancouver was miles better.

[apsham]

I still get chills everytime I listen to A Silent Army In The Trees.

Well now I know what I am doing with my lunch break.

[Cactus Drags]

I have heard one Matthew Good song, Weapon (it was used on some Stanley Cup highlight clip with the Canucks in it). This is alright, bit turn-of-the-century college rock, mind.

[apsham]

Oh, I forgot to come back to this.

Yes - I am really pumped about this. I've been waiting for Matt to go back to something like this for a while.

[probablyoliver]

Hey! I like Matt Good too!

[GhostMachine]

Dammit. Saw this thread title and was hoping Kaney and ApSham had done an album together.

They could be the Hall & Oates for the 21st century!

[SeanDMan]

Matt Good was given over an hour on a radio station to do whatever he wanted, including three tracks off his new album, one off the old one, and 9 random songs he felt like playing.

He played The Pixies, Explosions In The Sky, Deftones, Wilco, Depeche Mode, Shovels And Rope, Dan Mangan, Pavement, and Radiohead.

Plus storytime.

http://indie.streamon.fm/listenlater-pl-30

[apsham]

Dammit. That's awesome.

[SeanDMan]

Sadly the stream crapped out for me and froze just after they broke the hour mark but there was still at least a good 20-30 minutes left from the progress bar.

[apsham]

Pretty excited for tomorrow night - it's going to be the first time I've seen Matt live in years after missing two other chances here. The setlists so far have been a bit too heavy on the new stuff for my tastes - but I mean, come on. It's Matt - that was pretty much to be expected.

[SeanDMan]

My complaint about the last time I went to see him was the opposite - way too much old stuff. I'm curious to see what the setlist ends up being this time.

[apsham]

Take a look at the website, he's been posting songs from each night as well as the setlists from each evening.

I'm just bitter that I'll never hear Jenni's Song live. But last night he added The Future Is X-Rated into the mix.

[SeanDMan]

According to Setlist.FM here was the setlist last time I went to see him:

While We Were Hunting Rabbits
Lights of Endangered Species
Last Parade
Born Losers
What If I Can't See The Stars Mildred?
Zero Orchestra
Shallow's Low
The Future Is X-Rated
Load Me Up
Non Populus
Apparitions
Weapon
Running For Home
Giant
Hello Time Bomb
Alert Status Red
Set Me On Fire

In italics are songs I'd heard him do live... sometimes four, five times before, so they felt pretty dated to me. Katie loved Hello Time Bomb though so I suppose at least there's that.

I was just really amped up because the show opened with While We Were Hunting Rabbits, with a dude on a piano and Matt, and it was so underproduced and raw, it was awesome... but then it became more like a standard rock and roll show.

And as much as I like Matt Good, I've seen Matt Good The Rock Star before. His new setlist was supposed to lend itself more to a weird orchestral fusion sort of style, with more sax and such in the backdrop, and instead we got three guitars a drummer and a dude on the synth. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't as good as I'd hoped.

The crowd, though, the crowd was bad.

[apsham]

Heh, so it's basically going to be the same setlist of old stuff, with AOD spaced in instead.

[SeanDMan]

We shall see.

[Kaney]

I'm just bitter that I'll never hear Jenni's Song live I never seen him the one time he was playing in the UK