Beautiful Midnight

Beautiful Midnight is the third album released by the Matthew Good Band. It sounds a lot like the various post-grunge indie rock bands like Live and Bush. It is a concept, that's why I don't really understand why there are versions of the album with different track order. Anyway the concept in the lyrics doesn't stand out and the music is rather generic indie rock of the late 1990s.

That drop shadow tells you everything you need to know about the quality of this release.

Matthew good band. More like Matthew mediocre band. Amirite. That’s like an apple calling itself delicious. Just not accurate. Either way this album was just that 90s mediocrity that felt like it should’ve been blasted in some low budget film where it is always raining. So much better 90s music than this but this is tolerable. 5.2/10

Here's two nickels. Go buy some taste, OP. I know it ain't much cash, but anything it'll buy will be better than this.

Rating: 7/10 Best songs: Hello time bomb

Pretty decent! Don't think it's worth a 2, but I can see how some find it "run of the mill". I liked it enough for a 4.

Alternative rock.

I liked this. Funnily, it reminded me a bit of Tragically Hip, and then I found that this band is also from Canada. 4 stars.

Ok I was ready to hate but this is gas 💯

Pretty run of the mill, lightly alternative rock to my ears. Unobjectionable listen but I don't see myself seeking out more.

Rock alternativo. Ni fu ni fa.

Canadian rock that ends with a power ballad to prove they have deep feelings.

Not overly memorable, but pleasant enough. Very Brit-pop influenced, but as such it sounds like what was happening in Britain around the same time as this came out in Canada. I liked it, but didn't feel compelled to explore any of the rest of their stuff.

Rock alternativo. Ni fu ni fa.

Soothing voice. Music was a tat boring

Where full album?

Average 90’s rock, only a few songs on the album available on Spotify, based on these songs I have zero interest in trying to find the rest of the album.

More Canadian representation, this time from BC. I remember my first exposure to their music was their song Hello Time Bomb, which I heard on an album I'd purchased (Big Shiny Tunes 4). Falls into that alt rock category that occured right after grunge died. I then remember seeing a lot more of his stuff on MuchMusic after that (Load Me Up, Apparitions, The Future is X-Rated, Weapon). Something about them never fully hit with me. I mean, not awful, but something was missing. The hits were huge, but everything else was just filler. Similar style to early Our Lady Peace, Sam Roberts Band, Econoline Crush, or Big Wreck. Seeing that, it's right up my alley of musical taste, but Matthew Good was always just mid. Coulda been because Matthew Good himself was a huge douche too, I'm not sure. Favorite songs: Hello Time Bomb, Load Me Up, The Future is X-Rated, Strange Days, Jenni's Song Least favorite songs: I Miss New Wave, Born to Kill 2/5

This is likely an album that means a lot to the submitter and possibly speaks to a certain period in time, likely their mid to late teens? But stripped of that nostalgia, it just sounds like a hundred other post-grunge bands trying to sound meaningful. Big choruses, vague angst, and polished production that feels more radio than raw.

Wow, college rock lasted until the very late 90s in Canadia. This album is not held by Tidal. It's unavailable on YouTube unless one sets one's VPN to Canadaland. And honestly - it's not worth the effort. They're trying for a stadium rock sound while labouring under garage band limitations. There's nothing bad, per se, with this music. But it sure is uninspiring and tepid, trying very hard to be meaningful. I'm glad it makes you happy, submitter, but I'd struggle to think of a more mid example of this type of thing.

Brutally dull slow rock. I also give it 80% odds that M.G. wrote this one's wiki entry himself

I knew the second I saw the shitty Photoshop cover art that this was going to be an offensively bland soft rock LP. Seems like Good is trying to ape some of the nu-metal/rock sounds of the time with some clear Incubus/Bush influences, but never manages to define himself sonically save for the most uninspired vocal delivery I've heard. Boring listen, never challenges the listener or offers anything new musically, so not really worthy of listening to before you die imo.