Load Me Up

"Load Me Up"
Single by Matthew Good Band
from the album Beautiful Midnight
ReleasedDecember 1999
Recorded1999
GenreAlternative rock
Length3:40
LabelUniversal Music Canada (Canada)
Atlantic Records (US)
Songwriter(s)Matthew Good, Ian Browne, Dave Genn, Rich Priske
Producer(s)Warne Livesey
Matthew Good Band singles chronology
"Hello Time Bomb"
(1999)
"Load Me Up"
(1999)
"Strange Days"
(2000)

"Load Me Up" is a song by Canadian rock group Matthew Good Band. The song was released as the second single from the band's third studio album, Beautiful Midnight. The song reached No. 1 on Canada's Rock chart,[1] and continues to be one of the band's most popular songs. The song is featured on the MuchMusic compilation album, Big Shiny Tunes 5. The song was ranked No. 1 by Vice on their “Completely Biased Ranking of the 60 Best CanRock Songs Ever” list.[2] In 2016, Good released a re-recorded version of the song on his EP, I Miss New Wave: Beautiful Midnight Revisited. Between 1995 and 2016, "Load Me Up" was the ninth most played song by a Canadian artist on rock radio stations in Canada.[3]

  1. ^ "Rock/Alternative - Volume 70, No. 19, March 13, 2000". RPM. March 13, 2000. Archived from the original on October 11, 2012. Retrieved September 29, 2009.
  2. ^ "A Completely Biased Ranking of the 60 Best CanRock Songs Ever, Part 2". noisey.vice.com.
  3. ^ "NIELSEN MUSIC & BILLBOARD PRESENT CANADA 150 CHARTS" (PDF). bdsradio.com. p. 13. Retrieved January 2, 2020.