History Music / MatthewGood

* HiddenTrack: "Omissions of the Omen" from ''Last of the Ghetto Astronauts.''

* AwardSnub: The very rare inversion: Matt (or the Matthew Good Band) has won three Juno awards (essentially the Canada version of the Grammys), but refused to accept any of them, or even go to the ceremony. His reasoning is complicated, but his primary reason is that he perceives the Juno Awards as rewarding only those bands that make it big in the United States, rather than actually recognizing artistic merit.

* RefrainFromAssuming: Frequently: "Kickass" is titled "Giant," "You're Not My Girl" is "Anti-Pop," and many, many others.

* DoingItForTheArt: Since ''Hospital Music'', Good has mostly disavowed "commercial" hit songs, and when they show up, they usually include a subtle (or not) shot towards politics or against popular opinion.

Matthew Good is a Canadian singer-songwriter, writer, activist, blogger, and constant creator of many stripes. Good's career began in the early 90s with folk-rock outfit The Rodchester Kings. It wasn't until the late '90s and start of TheNewTens that Good reached mainstream success as [[IAmTheBand the eponymous "Matthew Good" of Matthew Good Band]], shedding the folk-rock genre for various forms of "alternative rock." The band released four albums between 1995 and 2001, garnering much critical and commercial success in Canada (it says something that the ballad "Apparitions" dominated Canadian radio for most of 1998.) His first solo album was released in 2003 to almost universal acclaim, earning Good three Juno Awards[[note]]Which he rejected: see AwardSnub[[/note]], including one for [[SurrealMusicVideo best music video]] for "Weapon."

{{Angst}}: Matthew Good excels at this – lyrically, musically and vocally.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The tracks on ''Beautiful Midnight'' are numbered with a time, going through the night, starting at "7 PM" with "Giant" and ending at "5 AM" with "Running For Home".

* LyricalDissonance: It would be easier to count the aversions.

* ToneShift: From album to album and from track to track. The multiple and ultimately dissonant shifts in ''The Audio Of Being'' ended up frustrating Matt, who has disavowed several songs on the album.

** One of the band's largest hits, "Apparitions" is a ballad that goes rock for a guitar solo only.

** In his solo career, he tends to include at least one sad, heartstrings-tugging song per album: "House of Smoke and Mirrors" from ''Avalanche'', "99% Of Us Is Failure" from ''Hospital Music'', "Empty's Theme Park from ''Vancouver'', "Set Me On Fire" from ''Lights of Endangered Species'', "Letters In Wartime" from ''Arrows of Desire'', "Los Alamos" from ''Chaotic Neutral''. With the exception of ''Hospital Music'' and ''Lights of Endangered Species'', these tracks are all the final tracks on the album as well.

* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Matt has specifically said that he has no idea how "Avalanche" (the song, not the album) was ever created, and considers it his best work.

* ToneShift: From album to album and from track to track.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Good's early work in the folk genre can be quite a surprise if you know him for his rock anthems. ''Last of the Ghetto Astronauts'' is markedly different from Good's later work.
* EpicInstrumentalOpener: ''Hospital Music'' opens with one to devastating effect.

* Currently-untitled 2017 album

* DyingTown: "Last Parade," off of ''Vancouver,'' according to WordOfGod.

* DyingTown: What WordOfGod states "Last Parade," off of ''Vancouver,'' was written about.

* GratuitousJapanese: On the cover art of ''Loser Anthems''. [[labelnote:Translation:]] "are you high now, crazy kids?"[[/labelnote]]

* ''Last of the Ghetto Astronauts]]'' (1995)

* ''White Light Rock & Roll Review]]'' (2004)

* ''I Miss New Wave: Beautiful Midnight Revisited'' (2016)