Chords for The New Music Interview - 'At Last There Is Nothing Left To Say'

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_ _ _ _ Hey, what's going on?
[Gb] Welcome to another episode of The New Music.
My name is George Strombolopoulos.
The beta band _ spiritualized and certainly a fabulous disaster on the show.
We'll start
with Matthew Good though.
Matt Good is an artist unto himself.
Why?
Because he speaks
his mind.
Even when he says things that may not be, I guess, [G] considered popular by all
accounts.
Matt [N] Good writes stuff for the Matthew Good band, obviously, but on his website he's
been pumping out manifestos for a long time.
So what does he do?
He collects all those
manifestos, puts it in a book, it's beautifully titled, and at last there's nothing left to
say in the mind of Matt Good.
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_ Hi, [F] I'm Matt Good, [Fm] and I've written [Am] a brand new book.
_ [G] _ _ [B] Ah, [G] here it is.
Thanks, [Ab] ladies.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Picture yourself _ _ sleeping on a [Bb]
plane.
Who here [Eb] doesn't own the book?
_ Leave.
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Matthew Good replies [Bb] on Lin-Manuel Manet's pages [Gb] of Paris in here [Bb] and I'm satisfied. _
[Eb] I know you have a lot of thoughts on the cult of, you know, [Gb] celebrity.
Yeah.
And Matthew's
a good author.
[Fm] Yeah, I know, [N] I know.
I'm just trying to turn myself into a Canadian icon.
Climbing?
Everybody thinks that writing a book is a form of creative [Bb] expression.
Well,
[A] unfortunately, [N] _
that's crap.
Climbing?
What advice would you give to a person who's writing a book?
_ [Eb] Yeah, that's a hard question to answer.
Not nothing, really.
I [A] just do it.
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[Am] I [Abm] take the piss of [Gm] myself all over the place in that.
[Fm] I think, you know, [Ab] satire is always
the best for me, [G] literary medium, to do say or anything.
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_ _ [Db] Yeah, [Bb] I'm kind of turning over a new leaf, really.
[N] That sucks.
_ _ You [A] can't be pissed off forever, [Eb] I figure.
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[Gb] Everybody knows that I don't really mince my words and never [Abm] have.
Matt, [Gb] if you're listening, if this is a joke, man, _ we must sit down and have a [N] cocktail
because you are a funny guy.
You hate our band?
I don't care.
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Please stop [Eb] what's in my [Bb] head.
We [F] love each other and forget.
[C] _ I find that music [Abm] in this day and age is very redundant and very [Fm] one-sided.
I mean, the
state of [G] music right now is terrible.
A lot of people are under the misconception that this book is [Ab] all about art.
[Dm] And it's
not.
[G] It's all about money.
You can [Gb] choose a host of 12 bands that sound identical.
And if you put them back-to-back,
you couldn't tell they were the, you know, they [B] sound like the exact same band.
It's all about money.
Now, are the bands all shit because the labels want them to [Eb] be or is it because people want
to buy it?
I think it has [A] everything to do with economics.
It's about [Bb] money.
I think it has to do with, [A] you know, I mean, the last 10 years was very much an economic
[B] upswing.
You know, there was a, you [Bb] know, on this continent [Cm] anyway.
I don't need you to [G] like my book.
[Ab] I just need you to buy it.
[Bb] People get very complacent about their music.
It's kind of like, what's that [Cm] in the background?
[Abm] Actually, for that matter, I don't want you to like my book.
I just [Gm] want you to buy it.
[A] No, I want something hard [Bm]-hitting that I'm going to really digest.
I'm [G] Matt Good, buy my book.
Is the onus then on the artist to make [G] something that is creative and true to themselves and
at [Gb] the same time accessible because anybody can make art that people look at [Em] and go,
I have no idea.
[Bb] Yeah, that's that is it in music, especially.
That's the trick, you know, I mean, that's the reason why you can put on Wish You Were
Here by Pink Floyd and it still rules on all those levels.
Right.
And that's the trick, man.
That is like there's a magic formula that _ I think it [Eb] just the only way to state it is
is that you can't look for that magic formula.
You just kind of know [Bb] what potions to mix just [Gb] inherently within you.
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_ [Db] _ _ We live in [Bb] a _ country and in a time of just heightened consumerism.
So there's no [Am] escaping it no matter [Gbm] where you go.
I mean, you may you may sit on a computer [Bb] and say, [B] type out, I believe this and [E] I believe that.
You're still on a frickin luxury item that 70 [B] percent of the world doesn't know.
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_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [Dbm] The whole band broke up, actually.
_ [Gb] This is where I'm going to let them talk.
You're stuck in the same vehicle with the same guys for [F] seven years.
Trust me, [F] you'll be able to learn to hate them in ways you never knew [Eb] possible.
What happened was [Ab] that this is this whole record.
This record is a very [Gb] hard, difficult record for [N] us to make.
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When I was writing this record, I was [Bb] under _ going through [G] kind of like a lot of anxiety
and they plan to use my [Bm] execution to kick off the county fair.
[A] By the end of the record, [Ab] everyone was kind of pulling their hair out and various members
of the band were just like, you know, screw this.
I'm going to go work on something else.
I kicked everybody out of [A] the studio.
I hear whispers that they will [Db] hang me.
We broke up hourly and then it kind of [B] came to a head when I just [Am] collapsed on the one in my apartment.
[Eb] There are those that wish to see me [A] electrocuted, but it seems they only have one generator [Abm] and cannot spare the power.
Is this [Bb] exhaustion?
Yeah, I'm just [Ab] I'd had it.
I was in [A] stress, anxiety.
[Gb] I just it was [N] painful.
It was a painful process of last year making this record.
[Db] Do you hear your blood [B] pounds?
You will [N] burn in hell for your blasphemy.
Jesus loves all people, but I'm afraid that he will never love you.
_ _ _ _ _ That's an email.
Go through your days, Matthew.
Well, you see, I said, that's why, you know, that's why there was an idiot in one nine [B] hundred idiots of want to be honest.
I really don't miss [Bm] it much.
I find that I have more time to blaspheme this way.
The beautiful thing with [Eb] idiots of honest, unless they're savant, it's just idiot.
Exactly.
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Anyway, [Dbm] I've been passively entertaining.
Thanks [Abm] for coming, everybody. _ _ _ _ _ _ _