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Mostly for my Canadian friends, but the rest of you may want to check out some live Matthew Good that I stumbled across on the good old Interweb. The quality is very good for an audience recorded show.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/e61gz2 (83 MB)


Matthew Good
Yorkfest - York University, Toronto (audience)
September 14, 2004

1. Blue Skies Over Bad Lands
2. Put Out Your Lights
3. Poor Man's Grey
4. In Love With A Bad Idea
5. Weapon
6. Alert Status Red
7. North American For Life
8. Little Terror
9. It's Been A While Since I Was Your Man
10. Hello Time Bomb
11. Load Me Up
12. Apparitions
13. Big City Life
14. Buffalo Seven
15. Empty Road
16. Can't Get Shot In The Back If You Don't Run

Total running time: 76:35


ETA: I am so proud of myself! I just moved my iTunes Library to an external Hard Drive, freeing up another 13 GB from my poor main HD. And I still have 25 GB available for more music!

Inspired by tasyfa's (among others) recent post, here are a few of my favorite emo songs. Just to be a little different, the newest of these dates to 10 years ago, the oldest, River, is 35 years old--1971. (Which amazes me to realize that!) Just goes to show that emo wasn't invented with Jimmy Eat World. :-)

Edit: OK, I added a Green Day Song from 1998.

River - Joni Mitchell The saddest Christmas carol ever written, but so beautiful. If you only download one, this is it.

Backstreets - Bruce Springteen A deep, layered song about a relationship ended by infidelity, made more poignant by Bruce's tortured growling voice.

A Long December - Counting Crows I listened to this song over and over one December when I was in a bit of a sub-clinical depression a few years back. But my favorite line was always ...maybe this year will be better than the last...--a glimmer of hope.

Lightning Crashes - Live How can a song about a woman dying in childbirth not be sad? But even more than the lyrics, the melody is just so evocative by itself.

Driving With The Brakes On - Del Amitri Del Amitri was a Scottish pop/folk/rock group from the 90s that only achieved cult status in the US. Have you ever known that you should break up with someone, but you just can't? I always loved Justin Currie's beautiful throaty voice, but even more so on this song.

Heart of the Matter - Don Henley Most you are familiar with this actually uplifting song about finally coming to terms with a relationship that ended badly.

Alison - Elvis Costello Perhaps my favorite song about unrequited love. Billie Joe Armstrong will be performing at a tribute show for EC in May and I am praying he does this song (and we get a recording of it of course).

Redundant - Green Day I didn't see any Green Day on anyone's list. This is, to me, the song that fits in this category the best.