White Light Rock & Roll Review

Artist: Matthew Good
Label: Universal
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 602498630945
EAN: 0602498630945
ASIN: B0002IVTAK

Release Date: 2004-08-17

White Light Rock & Roll Review

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Tracks:

Put Out Your Lights
Poor Man's Grey
We're So Heavy
Empty Road
Alert Status Red
Little Terror
In Love With a Bad Idea
North American for Life
Blue Skies Over Bad Lands
It's Been a While Since I Was Your Man
Buffalo Seven
Ex-Pats of the Blue Mountain Symphony Orchestra

Album Description

The Matthew Good Band frontman's sophomore solo album. 12 tracks in total. Universal. 2004.

Customer Reviews:

In the wilderness.........2005-01-08

Indeed this album lives up to it's title. Matt Good delivers an album that is pure rock and roll from start to finish. Die hard Matt Good fans should not expect similar sounds to the orchestral melodies of "Avalanche", nor hoping for traces of the Matthew Good Band past works...Moreover, they should buy this album and listen to it with an open mind because it's quite the different sound you may be expecting. A more up-beat and "happier" rock album; "White Light.." reminds us that good old fashioned rock and roll is missing in today's music stream.
Matt Good makes it work....even if it takes you a few listens.

Brilliance.......2004-11-15

A complete departure from the epic and artful Avalanche, White Light Rock and Roll Review is vivid and immediate -- an album which, as we have come to expect from Matthew Good, is a complete suprise. He brings the lyrical flair he has always possessed to bear on issues he has always discussed. It has been Matt Good's modus operandi since day one to release "different" albums; he has gone from folk, to indie-rock, to alt-rock; from to 3:30 pop rock to 8:00 orchestral masterpieces. As always, each of his records alienates a certain number of people who expect him to release "Weapon II" or "Hello Again Time Bomb", and most of this album's detractors belong to this group. Trust me, and pick it up for yourself, even if you weren't a fan of Avalanche.

craptastic!.......2004-11-14

annoying voice from beginning to end. trying too hard to be something relevant.

Not enough Good over my way........2004-09-22

Polished rock has never been an appropriate podium for protest, and on some tracks Matt Good is perhaps guilty of over-production, making his pertinent lyrics seem sometimes contrived.
But tracks like Alert Status Red have a rusty smell to their riffs, reminicent of Young, and the smoking edge to Good's voice as he spits out "In the wilderness...." remind us how terribly little real music we hear these days. And there are others too, where Good's guitar and words wake you up and shake you from your passive listening.
I heard my first ever songs of Matthew Good when I was on Vancouver Island a couple of months back - I now have my hands on his latest album, and a some older stuff too and am really enjoying it. I'm not yet in a position to compare this work with Matthew's previous works or those when he was "banded", but this album asks questions Western war-mongers don't want to hear with tunes that I do! Pity over here in London - Mr Good gets no coverage. I'll wait for the small venue tour....

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Luminessence

Sensual Sax ~ Various Artists

Mostly Live ~ Dewey Redman & Harald Haerter

Is There A Jackson In The House ~ Chip Jackson

1952-1953 ~ Teddy Wilson

International Front ~ Steelwool

Celebration 80th Birthday ~ Chandrakant Sardeshmukh

Collection ~ Ndanda Kosovo

Sayonara Color/Asu E Yuke ~ Super Butter Dog

Kibuisa Mpimpa ~ Werrason