Sinéad O'Connor by Steve Double, late 1987

According to his new book, Serj Tankian from System of a Down almost signed Muse to his own record label back in 2003. He'd been a fan of theirs since the OOS days, having shared festival bills with Muse in Europe, and he really loved Absolution when it came out and noticed that Maverick hadn't even released it in the US, and wanted to try and buy Muse out from Maverick's control. Maverick asked for half a million dollars to transfer Muse (which is something I fucking HATE about labels and deals: they refuse to release your work and also won't let you leave, and this is still happening), which Serj couldn't cough up on his own, so he tried to convince Sony, who signed SOAD, to sign Muse instead. Sony hemmed and hawed and said they wanted to wait to hear Muse's next release before squaring up the money, but by the next year, all of Maverick's artist had been bought out by various record labels, including Warner Bros. proper, who picked up Muse and finally released Absolution, a year late in the US (2004, which I realised later is why you see some sources list its release date as 2004. The US release date). Interestingly enough to me, Maverick was a Warner subsidiary to begin with.

Serj regrets losing out on signing Muse, not so much from a financial standpoint, but because they were a cool band he liked, but I wonder how things may have panned out for Muse had they stayed indie for another few years? I imagine Warner worked out quite well for them: they sold out their first US tour in a long time in the autumn of 2004, headlined Glastonbury, were invited to play a Live 8 show, and of course, when Black Holes and Revelations came out in 2006 (Sony's loss), they exploded all over the alternative 'mainstream'. It doesn't seem like they've had much, if any, creative interference from Warner either, except maybe them suggesting the greatest hits thing that instigated Muse writing Will Of The People instead. Overall, fairly harmonious.

Things turned out alright for them!

eat it up

Acho que gosto um pouco 😅 (do tamanho do meu rosto, quando peguei pensei: acho que exagerei kkk) #boanoite #acai #enjoy #night #havefun

Tracklist:

Seas Of Cheese • Here Come The Bastards • Sgt. Baker • American Life • Jerry Was A Race Car Driver • Eleven • Is It Luck ? • Grandad's Little Ditty • Tommy The Cat • Sathington Waltz • Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers • Fish On (Fisherman Chronicles, Chapter II) • Los Bastardos

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Sonic Temple,

thank you for letting me be inside you.

Xoxox

Limits performed by Bad Omens

at Rockville 2024 on the Octane stage on 5/12

posted on tiktok by xbrookeidcx

🎧 Listen to 誘惑 temptation, a playlist by chu-lan-maria on #SoundCloud ♫ ◠‿◠ hope you'll like it.

我真正愛的人很少，覺得有好感的人更少。 我對這個世界看得越多，就越不滿意； 就所有人類性格都是不一致的，每一天都證實了我的信念，以及能夠對外觀的優點或感官寄予很少的依賴。

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice 《傲慢與偏見》

(PS. I don’t own any music and songs right, I just make the playlist for listening easily and enjoy all musicians your works and love to share it only. all copyright belongs to musician & singer. If you want me do delete yours from the playlist, please tell me then I will do it. Blessings! Thanks! Lan~*)

📌 photo: unkown sorry. (If you know who's the photographer tell me please. Thanks.)

Do the evolution.

Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth performing at Maxwell’s Tavern, NJ, 2005