“Strange Days” by The Matthew Good Band

Beautiful Midnight, the Canadian band's third studio album, gave Matthew Good Band a third single in "Strange Days", which arrived in early 2000 on the heels of "Load Me Up". At home it climbed to No. 6 on RPM's rock report, and in May 2001 it was sent out to American rock radio.

The video lands a gut punch. A homeless girl asks for change outside an office tower and gets brushed off by a woman walking by, while odd things happen around her, the street sliding into dusk, and a flashback shows her fleeing an abusive father. A rumpled, unshaven Good moves through it all without anyone noticing him. When the same woman steps off the curb in front of an oncoming van, the girl throws herself in the way and saves her at the cost of her own life.

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