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Musical and Lyrical themes on The Handler
Matt and Dom on Radio X with John Kennedy, talking about the writing of The Handler.
The Handler contains a mellotron on the chorus and a church organ (!!), "but all that's just in the background" according to Matt. The musical essence of the piece is three mates together in a room (Matt's basement) jamming together like it was when Muse had started. It's Dom's favourite song on the album and the essence of Muse's "back to our roots" efforts on Drones. Dark, slow, heavy.
The production style is similar to Origin of Symmetry or Absolution.
Lyrically it's a lot darker - here Matt goes into the books he read on CIA brainwashing and mind-control operations from the 1940s to the 70s, that he calls "the CIA picking up where Nazi Germany left off".
He also explains the song in context of the narrative of the album, with Matt/Mary gaining awareness of being exploited or controlled, and that being the beginning of their resistance and fight back against "dark forces— in real life, in their head, or wherever you want it to be: I've tried to keep the album a little bit ambiguous so it's not completely in the military world, the fantasy world or the psychology world". Muse really write songs that you can take and make your own, which is why so many people connect with them so strongly.
#muse band#the audio has been edited in!! Hooray I'm grumpy no more :)#muse#the handler#muse drones#muse interviews#john kennedy#x-posure#radio x#2015#Muse Drones#Matt Bellamy#on songwriting#on lyric writing#music#lyrics#songwriting#muse quotes#musicians#rock music#jamming#alt rock#muse audio#hah! now there is audio.
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Zero X Posur
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Zero X Posur
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CATB Interviews 2016
Amoeba Records - What’s in my Bag?
AMBY (Alicia Atout) Round 4
AU Review - Falls Festival
Band 2 Band
104.5 Philadelphia
Virgin Radio (Edith Bowman)
Absolute Radio (Pete Donaldson)
John Kennedy’s X-Posure podcast: The Ride playback
Brit Awards: British Breakthrough Act
Brit Awards: Backstage
Brit Awards: Red Carpet
BBC News at Brit Awards
B-Sides on Air - Austin City Limits
Austin City Limits: Backstage
CATB MTV Takeover
MTV Takeover hug clip sourced by @icouldntfindquiet 🥰
Live in Limbo - Toronto interview
96 Seconds with CATB
101.9 Kink Portland
VEVO Presents: Behind the Scenes
94.3 The X (Benji & Bob) audio
107 Seconds with CATB
Honda Live Lounge
Hello Japan!
Lorne Falls Festival NYE
CATB INTERVIEWS MASTERLIST
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One Man Band Track by Track interview with John Kennedy!
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Miles is on from about 00.30.00
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Miles Kane on X-Posure with John Kennedy on RadioX - 04.08.2023
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it's probably been done before...but how amazing it is!!
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X-Posure with John Kennedy
The Snuts take John through their new album Millennials in an X-Posure Album Playback
Radio X UK | Saturday 24th February - 6 days left to listen
listen here (you’ll need the Global Player app)
#heads up fellow snuts fans!#this is really good#jack talks in-depth about every song on the album#jack cochrane#the snuts#millennials#radio x#24.02.24#podcast
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SO I KINDA WENT ON A BIT OF A RABMLE ON THE FUNNY BIRD APP…
& imma summarize my “findings” since I’m ABSOLUTELY using this for my PPG AU.
So…
Chemical X, despite almost ALWAYS being depicted as pitch black, has OCCASIONALLY been depicted as an aquamarine-ish color, such as in the episode “Twisted Sister” & in the flash game “Pipeline Panic.”
This is… a weird coincidence how the only other color it’s been depicted as is SOLELY aquamarine.
& that got me thinking.
Yes, this kind of colorization is definitely not to be taken seriously since I highly doubt it genuinely MEANS anything, buuuuuuut…
Imma make things interesting.
It’s use in the flash game is inaccurate since it depicts the “false” origin of the girls being accidentally created solely by the Professor’s hands, so I’m not using that to make my wack-ass conclusion here.
SO…
This isn’t the only time these chemicals have been miscolored.
Antidote X also got this treatment, specifically in the episode “Slumbering with the Enemy” where it is a orangish red color.
Even though this episode came before it, it should also be pointed out that Antidote X is also depicted as black in the PPG movie.
It’s been widely accepted that the Antidote X used on the girls in the sleepover episode was merely temporary, explaining why the girls get their powers back after this episode.
In comparison, the Antidote X used in the movie permanently removes Mojo’s second-dosed state of Chemical X, bringing him back down to his first-dosed stage. Imma assume this Antidote X works as a permanent fix, just for only ONE stage of Chemical X-posure instead of all of em.
With this in mind, imma make my final crackheaded conclusion.
Chemical & Antidote X in their most potent & “complete” states are shown to both be a pure black color, permanently giving or removing one mutation stage from anyone doused with it.
However, the chemicals in their incomplete states are shown to be aquamarine & orangish red, indicating that these effects will ONLY be temporary & are NOT meant to be used as a substitute for their purest forms.
This means that the incomplete Chemical X in “Twisted Sister” only added onto Bunny’s extremely unstable physical state that would eventually result in her literal self destruction at the end of the episode, which I think fits nicely into her story without disrupting what made her story so emotional & saddening in the first place.
& I AM NOW ALL OUT OF BRAIN CELLS, but at least I can use this info in my 20 years later AU in one way or another! FUCK YEAH, BABYYYY!!
LORE!!
#PPG#Powerpuff girls#chemical x#antidote x#PPG au#20 years later au#still don’t have a proper name for it#>:p#day’s morning ramblings#haven’t had one of those in a while#anyway uh#imma go eat breakfast now
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Arctic Monkeys - The Car track by track | X-Posure | Radio X
#video#interview#arctic monkeys#alex turner#matt helders#the car era#radio x 2022#track by track#god there are so many new interviews to catch up with today
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Re-listened Miles interview and I wonder...
So I went back to listen to
Miles Kane on X-Posure with John Kennedy on RadioX
Thoughts on the topic:
1. He mentions that in the song The Best Is Yet To Come there is a line “With me, Big Lew and Romeo”
He says Big Lew and "one of me best mates who we nkckname Romeo… going to a pub together".
We know who big Lew is - check this video
But who can be this Romeo…. Hm…
Quick thoughts:
- Alex talking about Romeo and Juliette in I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor "Oh, there ain't no love, no Montagues or Capulets"
- "Only Ones Who Know" lyrics being basically a sonnet covering the same ground
- Cleveland or this video
2. 14:35 and for like 2 minutes where Miles rambles (which is strange - Miles does not usually ramble), because he is honest. The moment he needs to think what he is saying and how he slows down and this happens...
"Looking back on things…
Things not working out..
it’s okay…
i'm stil in “it would be nice”
that was a beautiful little chapter.
It doesn't mean it’s bad or wrong, it wasn't right at that time "
3. Firstly, of course the look - it has been mentioned before: Talking about Baggio - men looking a certain way, sexy but powerful, having long hair (mullet ponytail)
But then he says Baggio being "puppetsy" song, reminiscent for him of Aviation, “godfather-y” guitar ....
4. Ransom having Richard Hawley vibe… About holding yourself to ransom or the person…
5. Doubles - “I miss my two player high” being a bit cheesy reference of playing mario kart with his ex
6. Heal - time is a great healer, rushing decision to take love out of equation
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Today’s compilation:
Panic In Detroit
1992
Techno / Deep House
I feel like I'm becoming a completely broken record when I sing the praises of early 90s electronic music and how, despite how advanced our music production technology has become since then, the overall uncanny inventiveness of some of these tunes from over 30 years ago allows them to still go so incredibly hard to this very day. And I think that this 1992 showcase of mostly Detroit techno that was put out by Belgian label Buzz serves as a prime example.
This LP comes with eight songs in total and seven of them are terrific. Dan Curtin takes us on a wild techno journey under his Prototype moniker with a song called "Path" that serves up a volley of abstract sound experiments with dramatic strings and ticking hi-hats to keep it all on track; techno godfather Juan Atkins, operating as M500, innovates with rough-edged and choppy, glitchy blends of packet-losing percussion and stabbing chiptuney melodies; A Guy Called Gerald, under the name inertia, does some crazy deep house with "Satisfaction," in which he sounds like he's repeatedly hand-drumming in a circle around us as he chops up some bits of sampled vocals—even giggles—which are laid beneath a leading, uncredited female vocal; and Eddie "Flashin" Fowlkes closes us out with a sweet groove called "Pure Afro Sound" that I think can only be best described as a meshing of a Super Mario-ish vibe with a Detroit techno one.
Never sleep on this electronic stuff from the early 90s, folks. That era really seems to have yielded some of the most creative music this world's ever seen. And it doesn't matter one iota that it was made with primitive gear; the stuff's still stunning and your state-of-the-art DAW doesn’t mean shit!
Highlights:
Prototype - "The Path"
Yennek - "Serena "X"
M500 - "Dimensions"
Eddie "Flashin" Fowlkes - "O.C.C."
Lucky Charm - "Double X-Posure"
Inertia - "Satisfaction"
Eddie "Flashin" Fowlkes - "Pure Afro Sound"
#techno#deep house#house#house music#dance#dance music#electronic#electronic music#music#90s#90s music#90's#90's music
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"They didn't get the third chord right! It goes, "deedleedee dee doo doo do doo"— they play a bloody major chord at the end, it's supposed to be a minor chord, that's always killed me, that one... Because the original's got some minor at the end, *doo doo*... and it's just like simple barre chords... they got the barre chord wrong."
—Matt Bellamy's musical frustrations, on John Kennedy's X-Posure podcast, 2015
#sorry for the bad transcription of deedleede dee doo do do do it's the best I could do; just listen to the audio honestly#matt bellamy#it's the music with this lad#muse band#muse#muse interviews#John Kennedy's X-Posure#X-Posure#Radio X#2015#Drones era#this was when Drones was released - a full album playback with a track-by-track breakdown from Matt and Dom#more coming v soon; within the first 3 mins Matt was already pulling Dom's leg lol#matt from muse#muse quotes#music quotes#gun band#John Kennedy
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Radio X Tomorrow on X-Posure, Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner and Matt Helders join John Kennedy for a Track By Track of their seventh studio album, The Car. 🪩 Tune in Friday from 11pm with GlobalPlayer ⏯
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Also last anon if you want some more info about what the songs are about here’s some stuff for you to listen to and watch 🖤
The Balcony
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The Ride
The Balance
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what are your favourite interviews Van/the boys have done?
It’s been a while since I’ve watched/listened to CATB interviews so I might be forgetting some! But the ones that come to mind are:
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This is a messy post but hopefully you find one that you like. Also let me know which ones are your favorites because I know I’m forgetting some!
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Isn't it interesting that Al choose to all of a sudden donne his sunglasses the second they started speaking about "Hello You" on X-posure? I just replayed it to make sure I didn't imagine the sudden appearance of the Ray Bans. Did he quite literally take cover? Interesting how it's that song where he feels like he needs the shades on. After all he wore sunglasses for the first tv performance of Body Paint, which seemed like a shield situation and he has been wearing them for specific songs at concerts all summer.
Thoughts?
I've finally managed to watch the track by track. And I love it a lot, John Kennedy always does such a great job bringing out interesting conversations and getting them to open up about stuff they actually want to talk about.
On this one in particular though, compared to the ones he's done for the other albums, I feel as though Alex is more reluctant to share intel on lyrical content than ever before. Surprising, considering how vulnerable and open some of the lyrics seem. Or not surprising, really, at all, for the very same reasons. I find myself wondering if he decides not to share too much because he doesn't want to, maybe because it's too personal and not really anyone's business. He doesn't think it's part of the deal, that people get those insights to how he feels or thinks.
Or if it's because he thinks it will take too long and bore the listeners, like he mentioned in the interview with Jo.
Either way, I think he enjoys keeping things to himself. He doesn't share details about himself, he struggles to tell anyone anything about himself, even his favourite dessert. I know it was a joke, but I think there is still a nugget of truth hiding in there somewhere. That it will be out there for everyone to hear, everyone will know, if he says it. And he doesn't want people to know. Or he doesn't know how to explain it fully in a way, where people will know it the way he wants them to.
He is a perfectionist in every aspect of life. A bit of a control freak too. And I love that about him. He couldn't create consistent material of the level of quality he does, if he was any different.
Sorry, this is getting very long and rambly, and I haven't even answered your question. I'm just very intrigued about the way his mind works and how the element of reflection and introspection and sharing those things, being asked to share those things, combines with the need for privacy whilst being in the public eye.
Or maybe he doesn't know how to describe what he feels or what he was trying to convey in the songs. Doesn't have the vocabulary he wishes to have to express it, or put it into words the way he feels it should be. In a way that people will understand.
He is so intuitive, he follows his gut, his instinct, and it's more apparent than ever before on this record. His gut comes first, thought comes second. He has often referenced how it is only during the promo and interview cycles that the work begins to open itself up and reveal itself to him, it is only now that he can look back, in retrospect, that he knows what it is. Or what it has grown to be.
One of my favourite things about his creative process is how he views his work as something that has a life and mind of its own, it grows and evolves and does whatever it wants. The work unveils itself to him and he is just along for the ride. The song goes wherever it wants to go. And he is often surprised by how and where it ended up. That's so interesting! I relate to that on so many levels.
And he has mentioned how he sometimes doesn't feel like he has quite worked it out yet. The "working it out" comes later down the line, when the instinct has been satisfied and the brain can get to work. I wonder if it's sometimes why he struggles to express himself about his work, because it simply hasn't revealed itself to him yet, and he hasn't quite figured out what it wants yet. He hasn't discovered the way he wants to divulge it yet.
When asked about his work, he has said back in the day how sometimes he just doesn't know yet, and that he needs to be further away before he can make that call or judgment.
Sometimes he has said that he suspects people aren't really interested in hearing what he has to say about it. Which is so interesting and very heartbreaking, and I hope it is meant mostly as a joke. Or as a way of saying that people should make their own interpretations and that he is much more interested in hearing what other people make of it than he is of sharing his own version. Maybe he fears people will be disappointed by his take. Or will enjoy their own fantasies more than him shutting their analysis down to prove a point.
Anyway! I think he is so deeply connected to his intuition when he creates that he can't find the words to express what it means before he's had some time to step back and really look it over, play it live and spend some more time with it before making his call about what it might mean.
He expresses vague notions about what concepts or ideas the songs might be circulation around or trying to invoke, but he sometimes seems to not even quite know it himself. Not this early in the cycle, at least.
Of course he knows more than he lets on, the lyrics are always more and deeper than we will ever know. And he created the bloody things and it all came from his brilliant mind, he knows them in and out, but I still think there is such a strong sense of the songs taking on a life of their own and him simply following the path they're showing him. He has mentioned going by instinct so many times this cycle already, and I love how he has begun to trust it more, trust his process and be confident enough to share it with us.
Again, sorry, I'm not answering your question 😂
I think, in regards to the sunglasses, they work as a bit of a shield, as you said. If he feels a bit unsure or self conscious. He is so incredibly self-aware and maybe he needs them sometimes as a bit of a distraction, a way to shut everything out for a bit and give himself a little breather. To give himself time to think without feeling like he is being watched all the time. It must be exhausting.
He's mentioned in the past how he wore them because he'd just have his eyes shut anyway, which I think is a bit of a joke, a way to allow himself to do it and get away with it, even if it made him feel like a bit of a twat for wearing them indoors 😂 I think he has worn them a lot in the past as a shield, a way to hide his soul away from the ever present judgment and curious eyes, a way to grant himself an ounce of privacy in the midst of everything.
I'm reminded of their TV performance at Austin City Limits where he kept putting them on, taking them on, and apologizing for not being able to do it without them, expressing the need for them, and then putting them back on again. He couldn't get through that performance without them, and he seemed so incredibly uncomfortable and unhappy during that performance. It's literally the lowest point I've ever seen him at, I think, and it just shows how they can act as a bit of a life preserver for him.
Now, I don't think he is struggling that much these days. He seems very happy and healthy and calm, relaxed most of the time, and to be enjoying the process so much. He loves this album, he loves the band, he loves getting to play again.
So, I think at this point it's more habit and distraction than anything. Maybe sometimes he uses it to hide if he gets a bit emotional, or if he just needs a moment to breathe, but in this case I just think it was habit. Having something to fiddle with, maybe if he was a bit nervous. I didn't notice any particular discomfort or nervousness during this interview that would usually be the reason for him putting them on. Maybe he was second guessing what he had been saying so far, regretting some choice of words or wishing he could've answered something in a more succinct way. These are things he has mentioned before, and it makes sense if it kinda hits him a bit sometimes and he requires a little breather.
He seems to be holding on to them every minute this cycle, along with his jacket, jeans and boots. It's seems to be a comfort thing. A habit, or a uniform he puts on to be Alex Turner. For now at least. If that makes sense?
Okay, I'm done rambling for now. I hope I answered your question, just a little bit at least? 😅
Forgive me, but I have a lot of thoughts and feelings and theories about Alex and sometimes they just slip out. 💗
#alex turner#answered#damselinmistress#thanks for asking! sorry it took me so long to respond#long post tag?#long post#yeaj
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