Everything Is Automatic

"Everything is Automatic"
Single by Matthew Good Band
from the album Underdogs
Released 1997
Recorded 1997; Greenhouse Studios, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Genre Alternative rock
Length 4:17
Label Mercury Records (Canada)
Polygram Records (US)
Writer(s) Matthew Good
Dave Genn
Producer(s) Warne Livesey
Matthew Good Band singles chronology
"Symbolistic White Walls"
(1995)
"Everything is Automatic"
(1997)
"Indestructible"
(1997)
Music video
"Everything is Automatic" on YouTube

"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 performing for a video shoot. These are intermixed with fast-action shots of various streets and computer-generated billboards with catchphrases like "Think of your future, prepare for the distaster" (sic) and "Everything is allright" (sic).

The video was nominated for "Best Video" at the 1998 Juno Awards.[1]

Charts

Year Chart Peak
position
1997 Canadian RPM Alternative 30[2] 11
1998 Canadian RPM Singles Chart[3] 32

References

  1. "1998 Best Video". junoawards.ca. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
  2. "Rock/Alternative - Volume 66, No. 14, December 08 1997". RPM. Retrieved 2009-10-24.
  3. Top Singles - Volume 66, No. 18, January 26 1998. Retrieved on 2009-10-24.