Matthew Good Band: "The Future is X-Rated"
By Michael J.W. Stickings
Those of you who aren't Canadian may not know who Matthew Good is, or what his band was, but he was, and is, one of this country's finest rock musicians. "The Future is X-Rated" is from the MGB's awesome 1999 album Beautiful Midnight, which I highly recommend that you get hold of, and listen to, again and again, as an introduction to MG's music.
The MGB disbanded in 2001/2. MG's solo work hasn't been as strong on the whole as his band's work, though Avalanche does measure up well to the MGB's Underdogs and The Audio of Being, both of which come close, at times, to Beautiful Midnight. And his latest album, Hospital Music, is a vast improvement on his previous effort, White Light Rock & Roll Review, a return to complex and politically-charged songwriting.
Check out MG's website here.
"The Future is X-Rated" isn't one of my favourite MG songs -- "While We Were Hunting Rabbits," "Strange Days," "Prime Time Deliverance," and "Advertising on Police Cars" -- but it is nonetheless extremely good, and the video is brilliant -- like the song, a sustained, biting attack on our hyper-consumerist, wealth-obsessed culture, a recurrent theme in MG's music.
Those of you who aren't Canadian may not know who Matthew Good is, or what his band was, but he was, and is, one of this country's finest rock musicians. "The Future is X-Rated" is from the MGB's awesome 1999 album Beautiful Midnight, which I highly recommend that you get hold of, and listen to, again and again, as an introduction to MG's music.
The MGB disbanded in 2001/2. MG's solo work hasn't been as strong on the whole as his band's work, though Avalanche does measure up well to the MGB's Underdogs and The Audio of Being, both of which come close, at times, to Beautiful Midnight. And his latest album, Hospital Music, is a vast improvement on his previous effort, White Light Rock & Roll Review, a return to complex and politically-charged songwriting.
Check out MG's website here.
"The Future is X-Rated" isn't one of my favourite MG songs -- "While We Were Hunting Rabbits," "Strange Days," "Prime Time Deliverance," and "Advertising on Police Cars" -- but it is nonetheless extremely good, and the video is brilliant -- like the song, a sustained, biting attack on our hyper-consumerist, wealth-obsessed culture, a recurrent theme in MG's music.
And now Christmas is for shopping,
And the shopping god is everything.
Labels: consumerism, music
posted by Michael J.W. Stickings at
12:54 AM
1 Comments:
I'm so out of the loop on popular music. I just saw a YouTube of this group for the first time the other day and was pleasantly surprised. I thought they were a local Philly group. I had no idea they're Canadian.
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Libby Spencer, at 11:47 AM
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