Behind The Songs: Cave

Hello everyone!

This time, the new Behind The Songs post is about Cave, another one of my personal favourites.

About Cave:

One of the first songs Muse ever recorded, first appearing on the Muse EP. It was subsequently re-recorded and released as a single before featuring on Showbiz. The versions on the Muse EP and Showbiz differ.

"Cave" was known as Nova Scotia before the release of the Muse EP.

Matthew Bellamy: 

"The idea for Cave came from that rubbish American book, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. There's this bit about how men go into a cave when they get stressed and I think that's probably true, although, personally, I tend to let it out. I did have a bit of a tantrum in my hotel bathroom last night - but I managed to repair the toilet, so that's OK."

On a performance of the song at Melbourne ABC Studios in 2000, Matt says at the beginning of the performance that the song is "About an old friend of mine...he's not a friend anymore".

"Cave" is featured in the soundtrack for the movie Little Nicky.

A live favourite on the tours between 1999-2001. Bellamy disliked playing the song live due, firstly, to it being an old song and, secondly, to the sustained vocal note during the "cave" in "so come in my cave". Despite this, it was played for the first time in 8 years at Teignmouth on piano instead of guitar and half a step down, and is still continued to be played live.

My Opinion

This song is so cool. From the beginning to the end. The song starts with some alien-like bleeping sound or something, and then comes the awesome guitar riff, then the drums, and then Matt starts singing. Just awesome. And it's a great song to listen if you're angry or something. And about singing along: It's definitely harder to sing than you might think, particularly the chorus. So, yeah, you might want to get some singing lessons before trying. 

Lyrics:

Leave me alone, it's nothing serious.

I'll do it myself, it's got nought to do with you 
And there's nothing you could do.


You can see it and you can almost hear it too, 
You can almost taste it, it's nought to do with you 
And there's still nothing that you could do.
 
So come in my cave and 
I'll burn your heart away.
Come in my cave, and I'll burn your heart away. 


Please close your ears and try to look away
So you'll never hear a single word I say 
and don't ever come my way.  


Leave me alone, it's nothing serious. 
I'll do it myself, it's got nought to do with you 
And there's still nothing you could do.  


So come in my cave, and I'll burn your heart away. 
Come in my cave, and arrest me for my mistakes. Yeah.

Music Video:

I hope you like the song too, and see you next time!

♣ Gasoline Diamond ♣

Over 4000 pageviews!

Hey everyone,

I just noticed my blog has had over 4000 pageviews, 4361 to be exactly. So, I wanted to say THANK YOU to all my followers, readers, likers, fans, and passers-by who read and, hopefully, like my blog, and learn something while reading, I mean, that's important too. I want to thank you guys for your time to read my posts. To just hang around on my blog, or to listen to the playlist. I never, ever thought this blog would even get a 1000 pageviews, let go 4000! But, apparently, I'm doing something right.
I also think the decision to change the language of my posts from Dutch to English was a wise decision. I'm pretty sure some people out there hate me because of my mistakes in grammar and the many spelling-mistakes I made (and will make) but I'm also sure someone out there sees that I'm trying to make my English better and better, and, honestly, I almost never need a translation site or a wordbook, and I'm proud of that.

So, that was my speech, and now the interesting part: a new playlist! As usual, it's on shuffle, so you won't hear the same song everytime you go to a new page.

1. Nightwish - Wish I Had An Angel
2. After Forever - Follow In The Cry
3. My Chemical Romance - The Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You
4. My Chemical Romance - It's Not A Fashion Statement It's A Deathwish
5. Green Day - Cigarettes And Valentines
6. Avenged Sevenfold - Welcome To The Family
7. Avenged Sevenfold - Dancing Dead
8. Funeral For A Friend - Owls (Are Watching)
9. Bauhaus - Dancing
10. Siouxie And The Banshees - Helter Skelter
11. Linkin Park - One Step Closer
12. Muse - Butterflies And Hurricanes
13. Muse - Time Is Running Out
14. Editors - Walk The Fleet Road
15. Nightwish - Planet Hell
16. Sick Puppies - Maybe

I think this is the longest playlist I ever made, hehe. I hope you like it, or, well, at least one song.

See you next time!

♣ Gasoline Diamond ♣

Cutest Green Day Cover Band Ever!

Hello,

I check out the official Green Day site every now and then, and today I read this article about three 10 and 11 year old kids that play Green Day music on the streets to make some extra money.

Pint-sized buskers hit the streets with Green Day cover band

The music of rock band Green Day burst through the Sunday afternoon quiet on Queen St. W.

Strollers stopped, listened and then threw cash into the open guitar case on the sidewalk in front of 10-singer Finn Shimizu, 10, and guitarist Eric Placenis, 11.

Finn, Eric and drummer Jonny Alikakos, 10 (who was elsewhere that day), comprise Warning, a Green Day cover band. It was Mother’s Day and the boys brought in $200 — and a talent agent gave her card to one of the boys’arents.

These boys, who live in the High Park area, may be the youngest buskers in Toronto. They are part of a wave of kids using social media and personal appearances to get their music out there. After all, it worked for Justin Bieber, who busked the streets of Stratford before he was discovered on YouTube.

Finn’s father, Doug Shimizu, a photographer and Elvis impersonator, says he was 16 before he got a basement band together. He says his son’s skills far surpass what he could do when he was much older.

For a Grade 4 student, the boy has a confidence at the microphone that is amazing, says his father. “Things are freer now and they’re not afraid of adults.”

The group has several videos on Youtube and you can follow their adventures by following “guitarboys47” on Eric’s Twitter feed.

The band has a repertoire of 20 songs and has had four paying gigs at bars and restaurants — engagements they got while busking. The most they’ve ever made in one day is $300. But there are also the lean times on dead streets when they pack it in after making only $7.

Jonny, who joined the group last September and cites Rush’s Neil Peart and Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham as his drumming idols, got his drum set for Christmas, 2009. He had lost interest in both the piano and guitar, and his parents insisted he take lessons and show a commitment to drumming before he got his own set. Initially self-taught, all of the boys now take lessons.

That same Christmas, Eric got his first guitar and his dad taught him to play Stairway to Heaven. His dad learned it from YouTube and taught it to Eric.

Warning is currently focusing on perfecting the songs of Finn’s favourite band. The only heated discussion among the group has been picking the name, Warning. Many Green Day song titles were considered too risqué for kids of their age and the lyrics have all been modified, said Jonny’s mother Heather Alikakos.

The parents are totally onside.

“It’s an outlet for Jonny. It’s to be fun and it would be a bonus for him to continue in music and flourish,” says Heather Alikakos, a homemaker. “When they busk, the parents are always there.”

When they play in a bar — such as the Black Swan on Danforth Ave. — they are the opening act and go home at 9 p.m., she says.

Busking last year enabled Eric to contribute $900 toward his new $2,000 Gibson Les Paul guitar, his pride and joy.

It was Eric’s mother, lawyer Laura Craig, who came up with the idea of the boys showing off their talents on the street. She thought performing would give them confidence.

“People honk their horns, give them the thumbs up and tell them that they rock. They always get lots of smiles and people pause to listen,” says Craig.

“Once a person jumped off and back onto a streetcar to give them coins. On more than one occasion, people stopped at a red light have gotten out of their cars to give them tips.”

For the members of Warning, busking is a great experience.

“In the beginning, I didn’t want people to see me but after about three times, I didn’t mind. I feel good now,” says Finn. “It makes people happy and I make a bit of money.”

“I want to be a professional drummer,” says Jonny.

“I just like playing guitar,” says Eric.

Source: http://www.thestar.com/living/article/992332--pint-sized-buskers-hit-the-streets-with-green-day-cover-band?bn=1

Isn't this the cutest thing ever? I'm totally going to check those kids out on YouTube. They're not that much younger that me - I'm almost 14 - but they are so cool! And 'Warning' is one of my favourite Green Day songs. Anyways, I'm going to check them out, and, well, see you next time, I hope ;)

♣ Gasoline Diamond ♣

Source: Weheartit.com
I like pictures of Green Day in their early days.
Probably because me and my friends have the same sense of humor.
We could totally make a picture like this.
We have to.
...
Nevermind.  

Behind The Songs: Micro Cuts

Hello everyone,

It's time for a new Behind The Songs post, and this time it's about Micro Cuts. Enjoy!

About Micro Cuts

Micro Cuts is a blend of baroque melody, high pitched vocals and metal. Matthew Bellamy uses falsetto and whistle register vocals peaking at G5 during the chorus and Ab5 in descending vocals towards the end. Matt has said the song was inspired by a dream he had in which he was in desert and there were giant blades swinging from the sky.

"Micro Cuts" has been speculated to have been inspired by Prelude N°3 in D minor (BWV999) by Johann-Sebastian Bach.

"This stems from hallucinations I had of triangular blades cutting into the back of my head. It's a feeling that information is being infiltrated into your brain. I'd seen a TV programme about psychological warfare and how the government could be controlling us using a type of radiation, sending pulses to our brains. So micro cuts are cuts into your being that you can't see or avoid" - Matthew Bellamy

Micro Cuts is a metal song, with elements of baroque music. It's written in D minor, and moves at a very fast tempo of 160 bpm. The time signature frequently shifts between 4/4 and 6/4.

Bellamy's vocal range spans from D4 to A♭5, and shares his highest recorded note with Showbiz. Similar to Supermassive Black Hole, Bellamy never uses the modal register, even on lower notes where falsetto is difficult to maintain. His tone is very different in both songs, defying the common belief that the falsetto register is limited in tonal variation.

Live favourite on the 2001 and 2002 tours. The first time Micro Cuts was played live, it featured different lyrics in place of "Micro waves me insane, A blade cuts in your brain" and the chorus. Early live versions featured an extended outro that featured parts of the song "Execution Commentary", as well as extra lyrics.

The descending vocals towards the end of the song have been played intermittently through time. During early 2001 it wasn't sung at all, and post 2002 it wasn't usually sung, although one example of the descending vocals post-2002 was at The Mercy Lounge in 2004. In the latter half of the 2005 tour, the post-final-chorus section was used as an outro to "Stockholm Syndrome" on at least two occasions.

"Micro Cuts" made a return to set lists during the 2007 European tour. The first performance of 2007 featured a largely clean guitar (without effects), while further performances feature a "new effect", which mimics the layering on the album recording. The descending vocals have not returned, while vocals have been clean so far. After the final chorus and before the final decent, Bellamy has used the Kaoss pad to create a sound similar to the Kaoss pad solo and outro used with live "Supermassive Black Hole" performances.

Played occasionally during the Absolution and the Black Holes and Revelations tours. A live version of "Micro Cuts" appears on the live albums Hullabaloo Soundtrack and H.A.A.R.P..

During The Resistance tour, the outro is played in place of the outro to "Dead Star".

Lyrics

Hands are red with your blame
Megaphone screaming my name
Whimpers someone I should've loved
Souls weeping above

I've seen
What you’re doing to me
Destroying puppet strings
To our souls

Micro waves me insane
A blade cuts in your brain
Sounds like forks on a plate
Blackboard scratched with hate

I've seen
What you’re doing to me
Destroying puppet strings
To our souls

My Opinion

Micro Cuts isn't one of my favourite Muse songs, but I so like it a lot. It's just, once I had a headache and I was listening to my iPod, ans suddenly it went on shuffle and Micro Cuts started playing. My. Head. Hurt. A. Lot. But it is a cool song. I mean, when we play Origin Of Symmetry in the car and Micro Cuts is on, I always have this 'Matt how can you sing this high'-feeling. I can sing pretty high, but when I sing this it's just screaming. I stopped trying. 

Music Video:

The song doesn't have an official music video, but I found a version with the lyrics so you can scream sing along. I hope you like the song, and see you next time!

♣ Gasoline Diamond ♣

Source of all information: MuseWiki.org

Source: Weheartit.com

Happy World Goth Day!

Hello everyone,

Source: Weheartit.com

Today is World Goth Day, so I figured it would be nice of me to wish you all a happy World Goth Day :)

You can check out the official site at http://www.worldgothday.com/

For now, Happy World Goth Day! 






See you next time,

♣ Gasoline Diamond ♣

Muse win an Ivor Novello Award plus some news about their new album

Muse have won an Ivor Novello Award! The band were presented with the award for International Achievement at the ceremony in London on Thursday 19 May. The Ivors are a celebration and recognition of British music writing talent.

Other winners included Villagers, Plan B, Dizzee Rascal, Steve Winwood, Free founder Paul Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim. These covetable awards are judged by the song writing community.

Source: muse.mu

Dude, Muse is winning lots of awards lately. Maybe they should do an European tour too. And visit the Netherlands, of course. I still have pictures hanging in my room from their last concert here, in the
Goffertpark, in June last year. Anyways, I wanted to share this with you.
I also found this on muselive.com, the official muse fansite.


Muse will return with a potentially "softer" album next year, the band have revealed.

Drummer Dominic Howard and bassist Chris Wolstenholme spoke about the plan to NME at this afternoon's (May 19) Ivor Novello Awards ceremony in London, where they won the International Achievement award.

After revealing that they were planning to put out the follow-up to 2009’s 'The Resistance' in 2012 Howard said that the album could mark a shift in style for the band. "Matt [Bellamy, frontman] showed me a few chords recently," he said. "Who knows, it might be softer rock, but then it's up to me and Chris to make it heavy again. A heavy rock lullaby! But I'm sure it will move forward in some way."

Wolstenholme explained that the band had been jamming on the road ahead of sessions later this year. He added: "We've got Reading Festival [plus the Leeds Festival, with them set to headline both] in August and maybe a few weeks off after that. So September, October time we’ll get into the studio and start writing and working on the songs."

Howard concluded: "It takes as long as it takes really, because you have to love it before you can just chuck it out there and into the real world. But definitely next year."

Muse have suggested that they will play their 2001 album 'Origin Of Symmetry' in full at the Reading And Leeds Festivals.


Yay I love 2012. A new Muse album, the world coming to an end... See you next time!

♣ Gasoline Diamond ♣

Have you notices the new blog counter, right under the poll? It counts how many people are visiting my blog at the same time. So if it's only you, you will see '1 online', but there can also be two or more people at the same time.

Very cool, indeed. 

Source of this very cool photo: Weheartit.com

What? It's cool, right? And my very cool GIFs won't move, for some strange reason. So I was like 'Yeah, I can do a serious picture instead of a funny one.' And come on, their van is priceless. 

Holy Crap This Is Awesome

Sup guise (told you I was going to use it again)

I just discovered something awesome. Well, my little sister did and she came running into my room, screaming 'MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE HAS COVERED SONG 2!!!' and I was like 'AAAAAAAAAAAH!' and she was like 'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!' and then I told her to go away and looked for the song on YouTube. And it's freaking awesome.

Okay. I get it if you go like 'wtf' now. Let me explain the situation to you. Since we have Guitar Hero 5 for the Wii, I've loved the song 'Song 2' from Blur. I just do. And so, apparently, My Chemical Romance has covered it. And their version is even more lovable. So yeah, why not share it wih my lovely readers -and people who just were like 'omg like the name of ur blog lets check it out', yes, I know you are reading this and are going like 'omg she's talking 'bout me' Yes I am and I am hyper so I hope you don't mind. All my other posts are serious. Sorry dude.

Anyways. This is the original song

And this is the MCR version

Which seat can I take one do you like more?

See you next time!

♣ Gasoline Diamond ♣

Source: Weheartit.com
I know. I just lamo'd because of this. 

Metropolis 2011 Line-Up

Hello everyone!

(I think I might use 'sup guise' again after all. It is actually pretty awesome)

I just found out that the complete line-up for the upcoming Metropolis Festival -where I made a previous post about here- has comfirmed now. This are the bands that will be playing at the festival on the 3rd of July:

JC Thomaz & The Missing Slippers (NL), Death Letters (NL), Pioneers of Love, SX (BE), Krach (NL), Grouplove (VS), Weekend (VS), Half Way Station (NL), Black Milk (VS), Gers (NL), La Boutique Fantastique (NL) The Deaf (NL) The Vaccines (GB), Les Savy Fav (VS), Kurt Vile & The Violators (VS), Phantom Four & The Arguido (NL), Lola Kite (NL), Pop Up Animal Kids (NL), Kleine Viezerik (NL)


Most of the names sound familiar to me, I've probably heard them on the radio or something. 
I must say, this line-up made me even more exited about the festival than before. And, I mean, like, come on, it's FREE. Even if you don't know anyone at all, it's just fun to listen to the music and walk around a bit. 
As I said in my previous post, I'm going to the festival with some friends of mine, to celebrate my birthday (because on my actual birthday, July 16h, we are all out of the country) so just look out for some strange-looking kid with black hair, too much eyeliner and a bunch of normal-looking friends, it's probably us. 


Want to read more about the festival? Check out the official site here

Remember Tim Knol I mentioned in my previous post about the festival? He's getting more and more well known in Europe. I'm so proud pwoud of him! He deserves it, dude. But hey, this was it for now. Are you as exited as I am?

See you next time!

♣ Gasoline Diamond ♣

Inspirationpost #3

Hello,

Not sure if 'inspirationpost' is even a word, but you get what I mean. It's time for my third photo/picture drop post, to show you guys where my inspiration comes from.

So, yeah, except some very lame MCR pictures, at the moment my inspiration comes from lovely pictures from all kinds of Goths. See you next time!

♣ Gasoline Diamond  ♣

Souces: All pictures are from Weheartit.com 

Exept the last three, from http://nowthisisgothic.tumblr.com/

Muse shortlisted for Wembley's Greatest Event

25 legendary events are going head to head to be crowned as Wembley Stadium's greatest event and Muse have been chosen as one of them. 

Muse were the first band to play the new Wembley Stadium when they performed in 2007 as part of the HAARP tour and this show has been chosen as one of Wembley's 25 best ever events. Muse are up against music legends such as the Rolling Stones and Michael Jackson but also momentous sporting events such as England's 1966 victorious World Cup match. 

Were you there, do you think Muse deserve to win? Click on the link below to see the other contenders and vote for Muse. The winning event will receive a dedicated installation within the ground ensuring that it has a permanent place in Wembley’s history. And everyone who signs up online for the Wembley newsletter will be rewarded with a kids go free offer on the Wembley Stadium Tour and one lucky winner will win tickets to see England take on World Cup finalists Holland this August from the luxury of a Wembley VIP box with 20 friends. 

VOTE FOR MUSE

Source: muse.mu

I'm so proud -or, as they would pronounce it, pwoud- of Muse ;) I'm definatly going to vote for them. I think they deserve this. See you next time!

♣ Gasoline Diamond ♣

Behind The Songs: Nature_1

Sup guise!

Sorry for the wirst two words, but 'hello everyone' was getting boring. I agree, 'sup guise' is awful. I will think of a new introduction.

This Behind The Songs post is about Nature_1.

About Nature_1

Rarely played live. This song was intended to be released on Origin of Symmetry. but had been written years before, having been played at both the Budstock and Plymouth Festivals in 1997. The song was recorded at the same session as Ashamed and Yes Please, but was not issued on any Showbiz singles, even Sunburn where the other tracks surfaced. It was carried over to Origin Of Symmetry and remixed for inclusion, but was removed as the band did not want to have too many entirely guitar based songs on the album.

Six different interpretations:

1. An affection for someone that has gone too far.
2. A song about God, saying how he isn't even listening to what people are saying i.e. in their prayers.
3. Another leader who is destroying the world, such as in Take a Bow.
4. About a person who, despite his hard work to the world around him (trying to be #1), he is not acknowledged. Now he is in a rage. He now blames the world for his failure and has plots to create havoc and destroy the world around him to set things right.
5. About talking to the mirror, talking to yourself. Blaming yourself for all the bad things that have happened to you. Looking at the thing you've become-old, broken, cold; and this person is made by the world around you.
6. A rejection of the fashion of environmentalism ("sick of trying to please you"), personifying the Earth as being cold and uncaring; it kills people with earthquakes it cannot even feel so "why should I?" (engage in environmentalism). That the world has gone so wrong, Nature itself is a disaster.

My Opinion

I didn't knew about the existence of Nature_1, until I got the Hullaballoo CD -which includes many other unknown songs like Map Of Your Head and Ashamed- for my thirteenth birthday last summer. I immediately loved the song, and since then it has became a song which I listen on pretty much every day I don't like the weather, teehee. Also, I love the Latin influence the song has, it's just so diffrent from what Muse usually does. And still, it has that 'Muse sound' that all their songs have. I guess that is one of the main reasons I like Muse so much, whatever they do, there's always that special sound that only Muse has. 

Lyrics:

Conforming on a Monday Too often and too cold But you aren't even listening 'cause you are just Too old to feel an earthquake Or too cool to even care But you aren't even listening So why should I? You are a natural disaster And I've wanted you too much And now I'm gonna lose I've wanted you too much And now I've gotta choose You're the cause of all this And I'm sick of trying to please you Yeah And you're gonna feel my emotions coming Yeah Because you're the world Like a broken dam you're empty And all that's left are the sticks and stones That were built by other people And it really shows But you aren't even listening Because you are just Too old to feel an earthquake Too cool to even care But you aren't even listening So why should I? You are a natural disaster And I've wanted you too much And now I'm gonna lose I've wanted you too much And now I've gotta choose You're the cause of all this And I'm sick of trying to please you Yeahhh And you're gonna feel my emotions coming Yeahhh Because you're the world

Video:

I hope you guys like the song as much as I do. For now, see you next time!

♣ Gasoline Diamond ♣

Special thanks to MuseWiki.org for all the information about Nature_1

Fashion From My Perspective: The Negative Goth

Hello everyone,

As I promised, this Fashion From My Perspevtive post is about the Negative Goth.

The Negative Goth (or Ice Goth) is a pretty unknown but very cool goth style. Obivously, black is a colour often seen in the Goth scene. But the Negative Goth is the complete opposite: They wear all white.

The style probably origined back in the 80's, when some Goths would buy second-hand wedding dresses (or the dresses from their mothers) and wore them with their heavy boots, spikes and leather jackets. From that point on, white has also became a populair colour in the Lolita style as well. It creates an innocent -sometimes also creepy- effect.

The clothes are -obivously- mostly white, but can also be seen combined with black, or any other colour, really. It doesn't really matter what kind of white clothing it is, it can be a beatiful white dress with a corset, a parasol and cute boots for a white version of the Cemetary Goth -which I guess is a starnge comparison, but, anyway- or you can go crazy with torn white fishnets for a Deathrock look.

The make-up is often a pale skin with heavy black eye make-up. The lips can be any colour, or white. You can also use white eye make-up instead of black, but this can turn out pretty weird, since white make-up on a pale skin is pretty useless. If you have a dark skin colour however, white make-up is very cool.

The downside of white clothes is that they get dirty easily. So Negative Goth is something that you might want to limit to one outfit, and wear that outfit on days without rain, strong winds, storms, snow or anything like that, and also make sure you don't trip over your white dress please. Imagine what would happen if you fell into wet sand...

I'm not a huge fan of white myself. I think it makes me look even more fat than I already am, so I avoid white clothes as much as I can. But after getting to know the Negative Goth style, I think I should really buy some white clothes for the summer... Yeah, I should. But, enough about me. I hope I've learned you something new with this post, and, well, see you next time!

♣ Gasoline Diamond ♣

Thanks to theultimategothguide.blogspot.com for providing me more info about the style
Special thanks to http://www.odk.com/wilson/goth/150.html for having Negative Goth on your list
Thanks to Weheartit.com for all the pictures in this post

On The Web IIIIIIIIII

Hi everyone!

At first: Sorry for not posting lately, I decided to let my computer for what it was for a few days. But, I'm back in action with a brand new On The Web, this time about http://www.odk.com/wilson/goth/150.html
This page is a bit like blackwaterfall.com where I made a previous post about (which you can read by clicking here, if you like) but with... Just a bit more.
In fact, this site features over 150 types of Goths, from Victorian to Mallgoth to Gangstagoth (yes, apparently Gangstagoth exists) to Negative Goth (which caught my attention so much that my next Fashion From My Perpesctive post will be about the Negative Goth) and much, much more. You should really check it out, it's just sooo funny.
I hope you like the site -or actually, it's more of a page- as much as I did. See you next time!

♣ Gasoline Diamond ♣

This made me laugh so f*cking hard, lol. I was thinking EXACTLY that when I watched the Sing video for the first time. 

Source of this awesome whatever-it-is: Weheartit.com

Behind The Songs: Sunburn

Hello everyone,

It's time for a new Behind The Songs post, this time about Sunburn!


About Sunburn

Sunburn is possibly about the band struggling money wise before they were signed.

Lyrics could also suggest the possibility of it being about a stripper or prostitute, or a strip club.

Alternative meaning: seems to be about a girl who was associated with the band before they made it, who Bellamy regrets having to leave behind, due to him seeing her as a star.

Matthew Bellamy declared that while the band were recording, this song was one of his favourites, but found it a bit weak at first: "I wanted to make it sound good. So that was when John Leckie, our producer, had this idea to work out the guitar part on the piano. That was the first time I played piano in years it seems, and I had to spend two or three days just practicing Sunburn, which is a pretty simple part".

According to Bellamy, Sunburn was composed whilst in the studio.

Sunburn was added to Radio 1's C playlist on, or shortly before, 31st January 2000.

As of 18th July 2007, the piano and drums from the intro of Sunburn were used in the BBC's TV coverage of the Open golf championship

An early demo recording of Sunburn features different lyrics and has an extended ending. The entire song is played on guitar, and is seemingly the original version, before John Leckie decided that a piano version would sound stonger. The lyrical focus of this early version appears to be the end of a relationship. Also a live preformance of Sunburn acoustic was broadcasted over the radio 

Three remixes were created entitled "Sunburn (Timo Maas Sunstroke Mix)", "Sunburn (Timo Maas Breakz Again Remix)" and "Sunburn (Steven McCreery Remix)".

My Opinion

Sunburn is the first track on Muse' first album, and it was one of the first Muse songs I ever heard. I've always liked the song, but after watching the music video it became one of my favourites. You should really check it out, I think it's one of the best music video's ever made. 

Also, I have this guitar book with the tabs from Showbiz, and I'm trying to play Sunburn over and over, but it's just too hard for me. If I ever join a band -which I really hope, by the way- it'd be awesome to cover Sunburn. 

The song is awesome. It just is. 

Lyrics: 

Come waste your millions here
Secretly she sneers
Another corporate show,
A guilty conscience grows

And I'll feel a guilty conscience grow
And I'll feel a guilty conscience grow

She burns like the sun
and I can't look away
And she'll burn our horizons
make no mistakes

Come let the truth be shared
No one ever dared
To break these endless lies
Secretly she cries

She burns like the sun
And I can't look away
And she'll burn our horizons
Make no mistakes

And I'll hide from the world
Behind a broken frame
And I'll run forever
I can't face the shame

And I'll hide from the world
Behind a broken frame
And I'll run forever
I can't face the shame

Alternative Lyrics

Instead of

Another corporate show

It was changed to, on some live versions:

Just like a virgin blows

Whilst Showbiz was still being recorded it was:

Just like an angel glows

Demo version

Let the truth be known
Life just carries on
When you're dead and gone
I'll still feel your glow

And I'll believe 
I'll still feel your glow
And I'll believe 
I'll still feel your glow

She burns like the sun
And I can't look away
And she'll burn our horizons
Make no mistake

Let the truth be heard
True love is absurd
And I'll believe 
Just to feel your glow

She burns like the sun
And I can't look away
And she'll burn our horizons
Make no mistake

She burns like the sun
And I can't look away
And she'll burn our horizons
Make no mistake

She burns like the sun
And I can't look away
And she'll burn my horizons
Make no mistake

Music Video:

I hope you'll like the song, and I also hope you've learned something you didin't knew yet, hehe. 

See you next time!

♣ Gasoline Diamond ♣

Source: MuseWiki.org for the info and the lyrics, Weheartit.com for the awesome picture of MCR :D