I was reading one of my many music blogs this afternoon, when I happened upon the following music clip (via discopop directory):
After listening for about 20 seconds, I had this sneaking suspicion that I had heard this song before… Hmmm, where have I heard that same drumming, same guitar riff, and same distortion effect? That’s right… Muse’s Knights of Cydonia:
Well, I guess if you are going to copy a song, at least copy an amazing one, right? What I don’t get, is that I have never seen the amazing allure that the Arctic Monkeys have to them, and this just makes me question it even more… And I am not really familiar with the Rascals as of this writing. Oh well, perhaps they meant it as an homage to Muse, who are in their own right, a truly amazing band. I just wonder why they had to make it so damn similar, you know? The similarity was instantly recognizable to me, and I am sure that I am not alone in that sentiment.
What are your thoughts? What do you think when you hear an amazing song rehashed by a group that may be more commercially popular, but not necessarily any “better”, as far as you concerned? How does it make you feel when said “copied” group is a group that you really enjoy, but the other isn’t, and you know that they will have more success with their clone?
Well I’ll say this. The Muse video is much better. A fucking unicorn in the desert. Brilliant.
For a while I hated them taking samples of 80’s new wave songs and putting them into hip hop songs. But then I figure I love me some good remakes of old songs turned into dance numbers (do we remember Kylie’s the Locomotion?) so who am I to talk.
Not sure about those Monkeys, either. I wonder if they paid for the rights to the riffs?