Oh lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

[venta]

It's Friday, and it's about 3 o'clock. It's time to go underneath the covers (with the lights out).

I always recommend listening to a cover version without knowing what or who it is, so click on the link before reading ahead...

Link to cover version expired

That was Muse butchering covering The House of the Rising Sun, originally by The Animals.

Last week I posted a cover version I really liked, and almost everyone who commented hated it. So this week I thought I'd post one I don't like, so you can all tell me how good it is ;)

Today's sounds, to me, like a really bad bootleg: a typical Muse swooshing backing track, with the Animals' lyrics dropped over the top with pretty much no regard for how they fit together. Yes, I know, the singing doesn't sound much like Eric Burdon, and does sound quite a lot like Matt Bellamy. But in general, the singing and the backing track don't seem to have anything to do with each other, they're merely happening at the same time.

I admire the attempt to give such a 60s classic the Muse treatment, but I really don't think it worked.

Comments

[skorpionuk.livejournal.com]

It's ok, I don't mind Smiths fans too much... many of them like other things I can agree with them on. It's just that Morrissey winds me up beyond what is reasonable - it doesn't even matter what he does or says, it reduces me to incoherent hatred every time. Sorry.

And Muse - well, actually, now it turns out I was not entirely correct above: I actually find Muse bland, not quite on the level of vitriol reserved for the Smiths. But what annoys me about them is that they _could_ have been good if they'd ever bothered to develop their sound, or vary it, or something.