Muse take lip-syncing to new levels, surpass Nirvana

by Luke Slater [Edit this content] ▾ 18 comments 14:31 September 22nd, 2009

Those Muse guys are pretty serious, right? Well, you might be forgiven for thinking that given their chosen musical direction but, in reality, they're actually a pretty decent bunch of human beings...and ones who are clearly up for a bit of a laugh every now and then, even at the expense of Italian television presenters and studio audiences.

See below for this particularly brilliant effort. Annoyed/bored/disgusted at having to play along to a backing track for this particular show, they decided to swap instruments and places for comedic effect, and it works.

Matt takes the stool, Chris takes over duties on guitar and Keyboards and Jenson Button picks up the bass and lead vocals. It'd perhaps be less obvious if he actually opened his mouth to sing, mind.

If anyone can decipher the interview taking place afterwards then help out. Some is audible but some isn't, being talked over by an Italian-English translator in the most annoying fashion.

Also, if anyone knows what the football game being played in the background during the interview is, we'd be happy to know, just to ease our conscience.

Anyway, here's the clip:

It maybe even beats Nirvana's effort from Top Of The Pops in 1991, for effort if not significance. The funniest part of the below performance is not Cobain's vocals but Grohl's drumming - see 2:26.

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"The Muse"

you'd think this idiotic show could at least get the band's name right...

HarperLampoonVk | 22 Sep '09, 14:52 | X | Reply

They've done it before

here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X6TyxlaJtE#t=20s

But it'll never top Iron maidens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS7W-OiPwjo

Steddy_Eddy | 22 Sep '09, 15:09 | X | Reply

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Oh and a transcript of the interview is in the description of another video:
Q: So your new album (the resistance) it's been completely recorded between milan and the lake of como... you love our country, why you love italy??

A: It's a beautiful country, we love to be here.. and our drummer Matt lives in como, so we built a studio in italy, we had a lot of fun.... you can have a lot of creativity!
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Q: I know that one of you has an italian girlfriend, a psychologist... right?
A: Yeah, our drummer..
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Q: what is better? clooney's house or the drumme's house??
A: I think George's is better... it is huge....
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Q: I had read that you love simphonic music, you have a 40 pieces orchestra here in Milan, why this mix between rock music and orchestral music?
A: the band had a kind of influence by the piano and artists such as chopin and rachmaninov so we tried tho take an orchestra to do something different from the past... it's been amazing
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Q: you talk a lot about apocalypse and real problems, your album came out on 9/11... don't think is a coincidence
A. oh no it's just a coincidence.. someone thinks about a conspiracy but we are in a different time, the world is different and there was no messages with the album release.