According to UK music mag NME (warning: that link is fucking virused to hell), the remake of Clash of the Titans will be scored by rock band Muse. If you don’t know Muse, imagine Radiohead, but not as good.
I don’t know if this is going to be a rock soundtrack (a la Flash Gordon… god if only) or an avant garde soundtrack (like Johnny Greenwood on There Will Be Blood) or something more traditional. I’m hoping it’s rockier, and stranger and more fun – Clash of the Titans seems like the kind of movie that could only benefit from such a thing.
Note: this is apparently all still up in the air, and it’s not too late for Muse to end up not writing the score, as they’re busy touring or some other rock star business.
Here’s Muse’s famous video for Knights of Cydonia; I don’t think there’s any question that their music is cinematic. Should be interesting.
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Muse frontman Matt Bellamy has a huge hard-on for combining OTT rock-opera with strings and piano classical (see last year's 'The Resistance' album). Could be a nice mix for a film as OTT and fun as this.
'United States of Eurasia/Collateral Damage' : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rWb43KbRD0
Yeah, that sounds so much like Radiohead.
The Radiohead comparison is not only wildly innacurate, lazy and extremely outdated but also incredibly insulting to the work of both Radiohead and Muse.
That link isn't virused at all you. Oh, and Muse are shit.
@al: Kudos for the comment. If Muse were to score Clash of the Titans, it could be the perfect marriage, and really gives us a sense of the tone Leterrier is going for. oh, and @sod: Fuck you.
Yeah, there's nothing wrong with that link. People in glass houses and all that…
Mars Volta would be a better comparison for Muse, but that would require Devin to actually know what he's talking about.
Ilove mars Volta (woul love to hear them score a movie) and muse (also a masive Radiohead fan) but wouldn't realy compare Muse to MV; Mars Volta are much more freestyle and jazzy at times – Muse (especialy lately) are very concise and pop tinged at the moment. I also find the Radiohead/Muse comparisons lazy – matt voice on the first album had similarities with Thom yorks's and there were a few minor simalarities in the music. anyone who makes that broad remark obviously hasn't got a clue about Radiohead or Muse.(Matt b was a big Radiohead fan growing up though – as confirmed by an Ex GF of mine who kind of grew up with matt)
Am interested in this news though (thanks for the heads up Dev) – Muse's music worked amazingly well with the 28 weeks later trailer (that and the Boyle directed first 10 minutes were the only good things about that film)
Muse started off trying to be Radiohead more than a decade ago but they've been their own animal for a long time now. They're not quite top-shelf but they are a lot of fun and a lot cinematic so if this happens I think it can only be a good thing
Oh god, Muse fans are just like Avatar and TDK fans…only more boring!!
Surely, the most apt Muse comparison is Queen. Pompous, overblown and tongue in cheek.
Maybe a score like the one for Flash Gordon isn't so far off.
Queen is about as bad a comparision as Radiohead. Write about movies, Devin; you surely don't know what you're talking about when it comes to music.
Muse doesn't sound like Radiohead, because I can stomach Muse, while Radiohead is like listening to sandpaper on a chalkboard.
They should use some real music for the movie, how about Black Dahlia Murder?
This is what happens when all of one's music education stems from Rockband/Guitar Hero.
Eh, I honestly prefer Muse to Radiohead and don't really see the comparison so many people make. But this is coming from Devin so his opinion is the absolute!
Well they certainly started out as a shitty version of Radiohead but have now gone of in their own shittier direction. And inexplicably picked up a lot of shithead fans on the way.
Muse definitely ripped Radiohead off big time, but they ripped off the most bombastic period of Radiohead, which would be right around how they sounded on The Bends. Radiohead sank into the electronic netherworld and Muse basically kept making the music that a lot of people wished Radiohead would continue to make. That being said, Radiohead is definitely more significant artistically, but Muse is not as bad as a lot of people say. Muse is catchy and they kind of rock sometimes, they just lack depth…. which means they would be absolutely a perfect match for Clash of the Titans which, let's be honest, will be very stylish and probably entertaining but ultimately shallow.
blackholes and revelations was there only decent album.. watchmen trailer is their finest cinematic hour.. hopefully they can match that power..
The 'Radiohead, but not as good' comparison was perhaps, at a stretch, accurate ten or eleven years ago, but not now. They sound NOTHING like Radiohead these days, except for the fact that Matt Bellamy and Thom Yorke both have excellent falsettos. I'd agree with the poster above who mentioned Queen; that's a far more relevant and accurate comparison. Please stick to reviewing movies, Devin. You can occasionally be an obtuse, disagreeable, self-absorbed asshole, but at least you know what you're talking about when it comes to movies.
all these bands are the monkey's balls.
they should score it with some of that good ol country music.
Maybe Muse don't sound like Radiohead now, but — like Coldplay and Travis — they got their start sounding like Radiohead for your mom. For people who don't like it when bands like Radiohead evolve, but love generic lyrical content.
I would totally bang Princess Kate to the sound of a Muse album.
Um RADIOHEAD sucks and is depressive as shit and makes me sad…
MUSE IS FREAKING AMAZING and WAAAY BETTER THAN radiohead!!!!
Oh no, the 13 year old girls are out in force on the CHUD boards.
Muse is like Radiohead gone retarded, fronted by a guy who would be a heavy breather if he weighed more than 90 pounds soaking wet, with a deep fascination with the worst aspects of prog rock.
But it's okay. Being a male long out of his pubescent years, I'm hardly the target audience.
Also, the last single sounded like a Dr. Who theme tune.
MUSE and Radiohead…yea I get that comparison, but ultimately, MUSE is what Radiohead would've been had they gone for a more operatic and bombastic route. And you know, had more fun while making songs.
On the flipside, as a fan of both, Radiohead so far…..I'd say is the more talented band.
Muse are magnificent.
And even if those Radiohead comments WEREN'T about 18 years out of date you'd still be revealed as an ignoramus for not recognising the all-encompassing power of Matt Bellamy and Co.
Hell, their involvement may actually make me want to see this movie, despite Worthington's shitty accent and the trailer full of Nickleback-esque bro-rock.
LOL, I really don't see the Queen comparison. They have ONE song (The Resistance) that sounds a LITTLE Queen-ish but that's it. Radiohead is still a terrible comparison, too, but at least it's a little closer than Queen.
From this, they seem kinda like Styx meets Sergio Leone. Never noticed them before because I hate most music, but I'll download every song now.
Still not paying to see Clash of the Titans though.
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