Underdogs is the second full-length album

Album

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 released by the Matthew Good Band

Matthew Good Band

Matthew Good Band was a Canadian alternative rock band formed by Matthew Good that existed from 1993 to 2002. The band consisted of Good , Dave Genn , Ian Browne and Geoff Lloyd from 1995 to 1999...

 in 1997, as a follow-up to the 1995 album Last of the Ghetto Astronauts

Last of the Ghetto Astronauts

Last of the Ghetto Astronauts was the debut album of the Matthew Good Band. It was released independently in 1995 on a budget of roughly $5,000 CAD. With the singles "Alabama Motel Room", "Symbolistic White Walls", the album achieved incredible popularity, particularly in western Canada...

. The album was the band's most successful album yet, reaching platinum sales in Canada and being nominated for "Best Rock Album" at the 1999 Juno Awards.

In a 2000 poll by music magazine Chart

Chart (magazine)

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, Underdogs was voted the 18th Greatest Canadian album of all time.

Track listing

All tracks written by Matthew Good and Dave Genn, except where noted.

1. "Deep Six" – 3:32
2. "Everything Is Automatic
   Everything Is Automatic
   "Everything is Automatic" is the first single by Matthew Good Band from their second studio album, Underdogs.-Music video:The music video for "Everything Is Automatic" was directed by Bill Morrison. The video features several up-close, zoomed and defocussed shots of the band preparing and...
   
   " – 4:17
3. "Apparitions
   Apparitions (song)
   "Apparitions" is the third single released by Matthew Good Band from their second studio album, Underdogs. The song received tremendous success in Canada, being nominated for "Best Single" at the 1999 Juno Awards. An edited version of the song is featured on the MuchMusic compilation album, Big...
   
   " – 5:11
4. "My Out Of Style Is Coming Back" – 3:16
5. "Strangest One of All" – 4:41
6. "Middle Class Gangsters" – 5:37
7. "Rico
   Rico (song)
   "Rico" is the fourth single released by Matthew Good Band from their second studio album. Underdogs. The song peaked at #23 on Canada's RPM Singles Chart....
   
   " – 3:26 (Good, Genn, Lloyd, Browne)
8. "Prime Time Deliverance" – 5:33 (Good)
9. "The Inescapable Us" – 3:12 (Good)
10. "Indestructible
    Indestructible (Matthew Good Band song)
    "Indestructible" is the second single from Matthew Good Band's second studio album, Underdogs. The song was relatively successful, reaching #7 on Canada's Alternative chart. The song was also featured on MuchMusic's Big Shiny 90's compilation. It continues to receive airplay on Canadian rock radio...
    
    " – 3:24
11. "Invasion 1" – 4:04
12. "Look Happy, It's The End Of The World" – 3:47
13. "Change Of Season" – 7:21

Personnel

• Matthew Good Band
  Matthew Good Band
  Matthew Good Band was a Canadian alternative rock band formed by Matthew Good that existed from 1993 to 2002. The band consisted of Good , Dave Genn , Ian Browne and Geoff Lloyd from 1995 to 1999...
  
  
  • Matthew Good
    Matthew Good
    Matthew Frederick Robert Good is a Canadian rock musician. He was the lead singer for the Matthew Good Band, one of Canada's most successful alternative rock bands in the 1990s, before dissolving the band in 2002...
    
      - vocals
    Singing
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    , guitar
    Guitar
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    , cover concept
  • Ian Browne
    Ian Browne (musician)
    Ian Browne is a Canadian-born musician and composer, known as being a member of the Matthew Good Band between 1995 and 2002...
    
      - drums
    Drum kit
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  • Geoff Lloyd  - Bass Guitar
    Bass guitar
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  • Dave Genn
    Dave Genn
    David Robert Madison Genn is a musician and a member of Canadian rock group 54-40. Genn was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on 2 March 1969.-Matthew Good Band:...
    
      - Guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
    
    , Keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
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Note: Todd Kerns

Todd Kerns

Todd Kerns and grew up in Lanigan, Saskatchewan is a Canadian musician who has worked with several successful Canadian bands, most notably Age of Electric...

 performs backing vocals on "Everything Is Automatic" and "Rico" (not part of MGB)

• Warne Livesey - Producer, Engineer, mixer
• Frank Weipert - Manager
• Dean Maher - Assistant
• Zach Blackstone - Engineer
• Stephen Marcussen (Precision Mastering, Los Angeles
  Los Angeles, California
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  , CA
  California
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  ) - Mastering
• Legal: Jonathan Simkin
• Accounting: Davidson & Co.
• Don C. Tyler - Digital editor
• Leanne Petersen - Cover photos
  Photography
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• Andrea Marouk - Additional photos
• Garnet Armstrong - Album design
• Manufacturer: Darktown Records
• Distributor: A&M Records
  A&M Records
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  , a division of PolyGram
  PolyGram
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  Inc.