YMMV / Matthew Good

• Archive Panic: Good has been recording music since the early '90s and blogging since the mid-'90s. While the old forms of his blog are now spread across old harddrives and backups and are not coming back (though some posts still exist on fansites), that still leaves plenty of albums and EPs, not to mention demos, leaks, etc.
• Award Snub: 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.
• Creator Worship: Since Good maintains an active web presence and posts regularly, this trope is played dead straight. Also overlaps with creator-pestering, as the same requests and complaints will be aired roughly once per month. Previous iterations of this trope led to Good taking down his blog.
• Tough Act to Follow: Good followed Avalanche with White Light Rock & Roll Review, a deliberate throwback to rock anthems with a relatively simple structure (most of the time), then In a Coma, saying that releasing the greatest hits and out-of-print EPs was for the fans and he was now interested in moving on to "weirder" music. His next album, Hospital Music, is so tonally different from his previous work that you might be forgiven for thinking he had a nervous breakdown after his last release.
  • To a lesser extent, Beautiful Midnight and Loser Anthems, as well as the long production, were part of the initial reaction The Audio of Being. Good would later state that the unexpected runaway success of Beautiful Midnight colored the recording sessions of The Audio of Being, as the band was essentially driven mad with having to come up with a hit album to follow a hit album.
• Refrain from Assuming: Frequently, "Kickass" is titled "Giant," "You're Not My Girl" is "Anti-Pop," and many, many others.
• Signature Song: "Weapon." The Other Wiki notes its use. If you're in North America and know only one Matt Good song, it's this one.
• Vindicated by History:
  • Last of the Ghetto Astronauts is the best-selling independent record in Canadian history (even thirty years later!). Good chose to release the record independently over signing a major deal in order to maintain creative freedom...leading to even better offers from labels.
  • The Audio of Being: It was a surprise to fans, who weren't sure what to make of it, and Good later made a number of derogatory comments, seemingly disowning the record. It still sold well, riding the success of Beautiful Midnight, and led to the band's breakup, and shortly after the start of his solo career, Good completely disavowed the album as schizophrenic audio garbage. After the release of White Light Rock and Roll Review, he revisited the album for In A Coma, and came away with a different take on it: there were a few bad songs on it, but the majority of the album is worthwhile, and he remixed "Truffle Pigs", "Tripoli" and "Advertising on Police Cars" as acoustic tracks for the bonus disc: matching Beautiful Midnight for "number of songs from an album remixed as acoustic tracks".