Oh, Canada!

[revid]

(Random aside: I find it amusing that the words to the Canadian National Anthem are completely different in English and French. And no, not just because they're two different languages...they're completely different lyrics.)

As alluded to by and_ed, I'm very excited to be taking a little excursion to the Great White North at the end of June. It started out as a fantasy, as these things seem to do with me, followed by a 'why the hell not,' then suddenly morphed into a reality.

After seeing Matthew Good live last week, my appreciation for his music increased a gazillion fold. (Everyone who has ever had this happen to them with an artist, raise your hand. That's what I thought.) This was a solo acoustic tour, just Matt and a guitar, but he will be touring Canada this summer with a full band. Unless his next CD spawns a monster hit in the US, which is unlikely since his records aren't even released in the US(!), he'll never be able to put on an electric tour in this country. So the only way I'll ever be able to see Matt with a band is to go to Canada, right?

Turns out the Vancouver show only has a few cruddy seats left, because it's his home town. So I start thinking about how I could get to Victoria, and OMG--Horizon Air flies direct from Seattle to Victoria, and I have 40,000 FF miles on Alaska/Horizon just burning a hole in my pocket! And GA tix are still available! And the thing that seals the deal: and_ed can go to the show with me!!!

And that's how I went from random musing to having airline tickets & concert tickets & hotel reservations in about an hour and a half. I'll fly out on 26 June, go to show on 27 June, bum around Victoria with Barb on the 28th, and fly home the next day. And the show on the 27th is the last show on the tour and 2 days before Matt's birthday, so I'm hoping it's special.

Barb is not a big Matthew Good fan, so she's being a great sport about it, but she's willing to learn. So here is a Matthew Good Sampler that I put together. (Actually, it's Matthew Good solo and the Matthew Good Band, but it's kinda like Tom Petty solo and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -- no difference to me!) I didn't think too hard about the songs I chose. I wanted to keep it to an hour or so, so I picked a few early songs (Alabama Hotel, Haven't Slept in Years -- Yep, that's where the fic title came from), a couple hits (Appartitions, Hello Time Bomb), a couple new songs (Born Losers, 99%), and a couple just because I like them (Running for Home, Prime Time Deliverance.) I put in two live tracks as well. The first is a song, A Silent Army in the Trees, that will probably be on his next CD.

So anyway: Matthew Good Sampler 97MB



Hope you all had a great Monday and a very Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Comments

[looking-spiffy.livejournal.com]

OH CANADAAAAAAAA
OUR HOME AND NATIVE LAAAAAAAAND
TRUE PATRIOT LOOOOOOOVE
IN ALL THY SONS COMMAAAAAAAND

and that.

[canis-takahari.livejournal.com]

Ton histoire est une épopée
Des plus brillants exploits!
Et ta valeur, de foi trempée,
Protégera nos foyers et nos droits,
Protégera nos foyers et nos droits!

[looking-spiffy.livejournal.com]

Fuck you AND your poncey accents!

Our anthem is something about the Queen being ace and thus deserving of assistance from some deity.

[revid.livejournal.com]

At least more than 10% of your citizens can sing in the key of your anthem. :-(

[tasyfa.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I'm missing the live ones from Edmonton. Likely b/c I haven't checked the site in a while. I am tickled that you've pulled out most of my favourites, too. :D

(Also, what is this "webrip" nonsense for Hospital Music? Do you have good quality files for that? B/c I got the physical CD, so I can send you proper files if you need 'em.)

Victoria is supposed to be gorgeous. Have fun!

[looking-spiffy.livejournal.com]

Not that we want to - slow and boring anthem is slow and boooooring. We wants thissss, precious, even babies love it.

[revid.livejournal.com]

Actually, the Live tracks are from a bootleg recording from 24 Sept 2007. It's a 2 disc 2 hour solo acoustic show, and it's just great! I'll upload it for you if you want.

I'm glad you liked my choices. Thank you for the offer, but I'm planning on picking up my very own hard copy of Hospital Music when I'm in BC.

(Why does Matt look like Gerard Way in your icon? *shudder*)

[canis-takahari.livejournal.com]

GERARD WAY? WHAT?

MARY. NO.

[tasyfa.livejournal.com]

Oooooo, yes please! Good plan to get a hard copy whilst in BC.

(Ahahaha! Talk to the icon maker down there, hee.)

[my-own-beat-now.livejournal.com]

*lets out little squee! of Canadian pride*

While not the coolest anthem, ours doesn't completely suck either. It is however totally 100% fucking awesome at hockey games. I tend to get embarrassingly teary every time :) /dork moment

[leighrowena.livejournal.com]

That's so cool, Mary! You guys are going to have a fantastic time. Getting to hang out with Barb ... so jealous! I love planning vacations around music and LJ friends. What's more perfect than that?

[revid.livejournal.com]

It's going to be fun for sure. As far as I'm concerned, with the exception of scuba trips, all the rest of my vacations are going to be concert/LJ friend related!

There isn't much more perfect than that!

[thirdbeatred.livejournal.com]

I totally never knew that the Canadian national anthem is different in french! You learn something new every day, I guess.

And I'm totally trying out the Matthew Good sampler. Thanks!

[and-ed.livejournal.com]

I do that too!!!! *dorks out with you*

[and-ed.livejournal.com]

You know, I think Panic's coming to Vancouver. ;)

See, if I could get everyone to chase their non-GD bands here, I'd get to see everybody. Its my master plan. After world domination. =)

[and-ed.livejournal.com]

You're so efficient! I didn't get on last night - as you may have noticed, but I will d/l tonight and get it loaded up to my iPod. =)

And I'm even more excited now because...I thought this was just his acoustic tour (though okay, the venue baffled me). But its a band...so some rocking out, right? I was perfectly happy to go with you if it was acoustic, just for the sake of seeing you and hey, the music would be at least 'okay', but honestly, in order to truly enjoy a mellow acoustic performance of anything, I'd have to be a little in love with the singer (oh, hi, Dave Grohl). But this is very cool. I clearly need to pay better attention to detail, but I think my brain kinda stopped on "yay, Mary's coming!"

Will listen to all the tunes by tomorrow and give you a full report of my fave tracks. =)

[loser-and-user.livejournal.com]

once i figure out how to load this, I will give them a listen! I love new music!! So cool you too are gonna hang out!

[revid.livejournal.com]

Pretty random factoid, that. Isn't LJ amazing? :-D

[revid.livejournal.com]

Yay. :-)

I'm watching American Idol. That kid is good. He did Long and Winding Road and did a SUPER job.

Let me know what tracks you liked (I'm already making predictions :-) ) and I'll send mor similar stuff your way.

[loser-and-user.livejournal.com]

ok thanks Mare! I just didnt look close enough!