White Light Rock & Roll Review

Infobox Album | Name = White Light Rock & Roll Review
Type = Album
Artist = Matthew Good


Released = June 15, 2004
Recorded = Mushroom Studios and Warehouse Studios, Vancouver, Canada
Genre = Rock
Length = 48:43
Label = Universal
Producer = Warne Livesey
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:m23m96bokepo link]
Last album = "Avalanche"
(2003)
This album = "White Light Rock & Roll Review"
(2004)
Next album = "In a Coma"
(2005) |

"White Light Rock & Roll Review" is Matthew Good's second album as a solo artist, and was released on June 15, 2004. Three singles were released, "Alert Status Red", "In Love With A Bad Idea" and "It's Been A While Since I Was Your Man".

The b-side for Alert Status Red, "Dusk", was recorded after the sessions for the album, and was eventually offered for purchase via Puretracks. A demo of "Can't Get Shot In The Back If You Don't Run" was recorded after the sessions were complete, which Good streamed on [http://www.matthewgood.org/ his website] . The song was later re-recorded properly in a studio for the Hospital Music sessions and offered as a free download for matthewgood.org community members.

Track listing

All tracks written by Matthew Good, except where noted.

#"Put Out Your Lights" – 2:03
#"Poor Man's Grey" – 2:22
#"We're So Heavy" – 4:36
#"Empty Road" – 3:29
#"Alert Status Red" – 4:25
#"Little Terror" – 3:07
#"In Love With a Bad Idea" – 3:30
#"North American for Life" – 2:07 (Good, Thor Valdsen, Priske, Steward)
#"Blue Skies Over Bad Lands" – 8:14
#"It's Been A While Since I Was Your Man" – 3:40
#"Buffalo Seven" – 3:20
#"Ex-Pats of the Blue Mountain Symphony Orchestra" – 4:12/ "Hopeless"* – 2:56

"* "Hopeless" is a bonus track that follows the end of "Ex-Pats of the Blue Mountain Symphony Orchestra"

Personnel

*Matthew Good - vocals, guitar, art direction
*Christian Thor Valdson - Guitar,
*Pat Steward - drums, percussion
*Rich Priske - Bass guitar
*Warne Livesey - Producer, engineer, mixer
*Scott Ternan - Assistant engineer
*Joel Livesey - Assistant engineer
*Zach Blackstone - Assistant engineer
*Kirk McNally - Assistant engineer
*Garnet Armstrong - Album design
*Ivan Otis - Photography
* [http://www.lizavisagie.com/ Liza Visagie] - Cover art ("Second Beach Three" and "Second Beach Four")
*Mastered by Tim Young at Metropolis, London, UK

Controversy

"Alert Status Red" is a song about terrorism and violence. The title of the song alludes to the United States terrorist warning system.

The video for this single was released on June 1, 2004, on Matthew Good's website. Matthew Good did not direct this video, and after complaints, he took it down, because in addition to footage shot at Centennial School in Coquitlam, British Columbia, it also contained brief flashes of footage from the Columbine High School massacre.

After thinking on the matter for a while, Good put the video back on his website, with these comments:

:"We are members of a violent society. We sell the world the majority of its weaponry; we are the foremost purveyors of nuclear weapons, chemical and biological weapons, and military hardware. And yet we love nothing more than to point the finger at others and claim that they are the cause of the world's love affair with violence. The truth of the matter is that we tend to hide from the fact that we are just as violent, that we are just as capable, that we do not dwell on some higher moral ground from which to cast blame and point fingers. Incidents such as what occurred at Columbine High School demonstrate this, as does the wanton aggression of world superpowers that claim to be acting in self-defense when the truth of the matter is that they're merely reaping the whirlwind of their own abusive conduct. Our responsibility is to wake up and realize these truths."

External links

* [http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3931& Alert Status Red at songfacts]