Golden Days Before They End

Matt Suggs | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 6, 2000)
• Original Release Date: June 6, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Merge Records
• ASIN: B00004THL4
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #336,272 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stunningly beautiful, June 22, 2000

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Serena Challis - See all my reviews

This review is from: Golden Days Before They End (Audio CD)

A lovely, forceful, mesmerizing record. Matt Suggs' musical and lyrical gifts (always evident as the best part of the illustrious 90s pop band Butterglory), have evolved into something stronger and more confident. Matt is a spellweaving storyteller who has constructed an album of vignettes with a cohesive flow. Golden Days Before They End is brimming with imagery and the sheer joy of making music.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If Ray Davies were longing in the American West, June 14, 2000

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Ken Milne (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Golden Days Before They End (Audio CD)

. . . and led the life of a troubador, he just might play along with the new Matt Suggs solo record. On this, his first, solo record since Butterglory disbanded, Suggs brings Elliott Smith-like piano forward in the mix, engages the listener in a dusty Mexican standoff, and continues to sing about heartache, drums, and moons in a way that made his delivery in Butterglory so affecting and unique.

Golden Days Before They End is a sweet, sad, bitter indie pop record that taps into the spaciousness of "Village Green Preservation Society"-era Kinks nostalgia with certain honor and civility. Ranjit Arab and Stephen Naron, who played on Rat Tat Tat, the final Butterglory release, join Suggs on this record, adding further subtleties to the ground they explored together on Rat Tat Tat.

The record is full of standouts and excellent college radio cuts, among them the classic "Where's Your Patience, Dear?", "Howard Had a Hunch," "Skeleton Blues in B Flat Minor," and "She Kept Time to the Teardrops." All of these songs and more should become staples on college radio.

This is one of the two best records I've heard in 2000 (Macha Loved Bedhead, Bedhead Loved Macha is the other).

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Do Not Overlook This Record and Tour, September 19, 2000

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Stephen Tootle (Visalia, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Golden Days Before They End (Audio CD)

This is a great record. Matt Suggs nods to the rock pantheon while retaining the best elements of what made his work with Butterglory so great and so influential. Adults even like this album. If you like the better writing indie rockers or Village-Green era Kinks, or the mellow side of The Velvet Underground, this record will save your soul. His upcoming tour looks promising also. Buy Matt Suggs, tell your friends about Matt Suggs, and see Matt Suggs.