bunny

adam ant hits the news once again, dribbling out little bits of album news. really nice to hear he's recording a tribute to malcolm mclaren, his onetime mentor. the quietus (who are they?) posts the following:

The B-side, meanwhile, will be 'Goofy Bunny', which Ant describes as "like a lullaby" a tribute to the late Malcolm McLaren.

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He added that he had no resentment toward McLaren for using the original members off his Ants backing back to form Bow Wow Wow. "I was sore, but not with Malcolm," Ant explained. "It wasn’t Malcolm who betrayed me. It was Dave (Barbarossa), Matthew (Ashman) and Leigh (Gorman). I’d only known Leigh for 10 minutes and I was pissed off because he was the best bass player I’ve ever fucking seen, still is."

always good to read compliments between former coworkers, instead of bitterness.

regarding the "bunny" track: that was a demo during the recording of prince charming, and can be heard here:


adam & the ants - who's a goofy bunny then


several years later, adam released a reworking of the track on his album, strip:


adam ant - libertine

i'm looking forward to hearing it anew.
and in other WTF news: muse is coming to my area on their re-tour of north america...but they're booked at a casino? i've seen shows at this venue, and it's fine and all...but muse should totally do arena shows. only.

our resistance

dear project leader:

the husband turned on the tv this morning, and our default channel, mtvu, queued up muse's "resistance" video. which is awesome.



great performance video, even if the audio track is not a live performance. really sells the concert experience.

sadly, muse are not coming to my city, the 7th largest city in the U.S.

word: of the myriad mtv channels, none compare to mtvu. when we switched it on, they played muse for me, then rihanna for the husband. the channel concentrates on music video (imagine that), and they play a full spectrum of what is out now.

undisclosed

dear project leader:

this alien has been reviewing music and movies and tv he's studied over the past year. one of the album highlights (in a year of great singles, not so many albums) was muse's the resistance.

this alien isn't a longtime fan of muse...he just found them about two years ago (with "supermassive blackhole")...but since then, this alien has been shopping down muse stuff, and most of it is quite good.

so. from the resistance, this track, "undisclosed desires" is particularly good. like the stringy arrangement, and the weird violence-beauty-demon lyrics make a compelling juxtaposition.


undisclosed desires, muse