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BadComrade wrote:

jayryan wrote:hubcap used to cover 'wheechair epidemic', but not very well at all.

Well wheelchair epidemic is a song by The Dicks that The Jesus Lizard covered

actually, i had forgotten this. yes. you're right.

hip priest wrote:The drummer from Muse was at the recent Wolf Eyes gig at Barden's in East London. He was spotted deep in conversation with Duracell about his set-up. He probably thought he was in Boston, though (the city, I mean, not the band).

I'm hoping that this means that he's going to buy a midi drum kit and hook it up to a casio keyboard. Not enough people have explored the full musical potential of orchestra hits and sampled dog barks.

Angriest_Dragon wrote:

jayryan wrote:lightning bolt is just one of those bands that cannot be covered. like fugazi.

I saw The Ex cover "Waiting Room" back in 99.

well, duh, they're the EX. they can do whatever they want.

i meant a regular band can't cover fugazi. or shouldn't.

yes, let's start a 'bands which cannot be covered' thread. be it for spirit, soul, or technical reasons.

i nominate meshuggah.

oh wait, i'll wait until someone starts that thread, then i'll nominate meshuggah.

jayryan wrote:

BadComrade wrote:

jayryan wrote:hubcap used to cover 'wheechair epidemic', but not very well at all.

Well wheelchair epidemic is a song by The Dicks that The Jesus Lizard covered

actually, i had forgotten this. yes. you're right.

Rapeman also used to play said-song in its live set. I used to have a bootlegg of a German gig where they play it.

Champion Rabbit wrote:

jayryan wrote:pardon my ignorance - who's 'muse'?

They are an extremely bombastic pomp/pop-rock three-piece. Kind've like a Radiohead vs Iron Maiden, but more pop. They can be quite amusing in very short doses. They're very, very good musicians at least.

This sums them up nicely.

I remember reading a great review of one of their gigs once. It was a fairly decent mag, like Time Out, but it was clear that the reviewer had been assigned the Muse gig because he hated them so much. The bit I remember best was the part where he 'mused' on the fact that following the gig, all of the audience must have been disappointed that the world hadn't reached armageddon to such a ridiculously over-the-top soundtrack.

steve wrote:In other news, Sting to cover Flipper, Pat Boone to do GG Allin tribute disc.

I think I might seriously pay to see Pat Boone do a GG Allin cover. that's so crap it comes full circle and is now not crap.

And imagine the bass player of Muse wearing a pair of socks hanging from hir ears, trying to look like Lightning Bolt......it's even worst!!!!

was having really fast, good, dancy drums with boring bass over the top. This has boring everything with boring everything under it, and no nothing nohow.

Did I miss a memo?

Can I just be the first to say that I don't think the cover's that bad?

There, I said it.

I also heard this months ago. So long ago, in fact, that I looked at another messageboard I frequent to see if it was the first place I'd seen it, and it wasn't - and that was three months ago. I'm a little surprised this didn't show up here earlier.

Is it as good as Lightning Bolt's original? Hell no. But, I guess that's what I like about it. I like when bands cover songs for unironic purposes, and they put their own interpretation into the song instead of doing a straight-up cover. Obviously, Muse trying to do a straight-up cover of "Dracula Mountain" (or any LB song, for that matter) is probably an impossible task. I think it takes a huge set of balls to take on something so out of your genre.

So, fuck it. Kudos to them. It doesn't mean it's amazing, but I hardly think it's awful or some sort of travesty. Almost sounds like a midi 8-bit Nintendo era cover of a relatively current tune.

Germ War wrote:Can I just be the first to say that I don't think the cover's that bad?

There, I said it.

I also heard this months ago. So long ago, in fact, that I looked at another messageboard I frequent to see if it was the first place I'd seen it, and it wasn't - and that was three months ago. I'm a little surprised this didn't show up here earlier.

Is it as good as Lightning Bolt's original? Hell no. But, I guess that's what I like about it. I like when bands cover songs for unironic purposes, and they put their own interpretation into the song instead of doing a straight-up cover. Obviously, Muse trying to do a straight-up cover of "Dracula Mountain" (or any LB song, for that matter) is probably an impossible task. I think it takes a huge set of balls to take on something so out of your genre.

So, fuck it. Kudos to them. It doesn't mean it's amazing, but I hardly think it's awful or some sort of travesty. Almost sounds like a midi 8-bit Nintendo era cover of a relatively current tune.

Sorry to get all Steven Wells here, but do you actually know who Muse are? A major-label, middle-class, rockist, pompous, angsty, technical, mainstream, bombastic, trio of utter, utter, self-important wankers. I've met them. I know.

Lightning Bolt are EVERYTHING Muse are not. The 'kudos' and the 'big set of balls' are not with Muse. NO. NOT 'fuck it'. One thing is ours/mine and one thing is The Man's.

These people are the filthy gleam of the scum on The Man's bathwater, and as documented above, they are wrong. Wrong about the origins, wrong about the style, wrong about the purpose and wrong wrong urrrrrrrghh wrong. To me it's like Blood and Honour covering a Fugazi record because it's 'punk'.