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Those of you who read my review of Muse's latest single 'Unintended' would not expect it, but yes - I voluntarily went to see Muse on Pinkpop's main day, Monday. I was only partly a-Muse-d (ooh, that was easy). The main problem with these twenty-year-olds is that they just know they are incredibly popular. Didn't they learn anything from Oasis? But okay, it has to be said that Matthew Bellamy has a wonderful voice, and he could easily be related to Jeff Buckley, but why not use it to sing beautiful songs? Of course it wasn't their fault that the sound was not as good as it could be, as some songs were literally a wall of noise (though they have quite some metal elements in their repertoire), and it could happen to anyone that you mess up a song a bit (as they had some rhythm problems with their hit 'Muscle Museum'), but maybe, just maybe, they grew popular just a bit too fast, without really having been able to grow up musically. I have to admit that after hearing it live, I do now think 'Unintended' is a very beautiful song, but do we really need this? Maybe we do, but maybe we should just wait a little while.
Because Live was just too depressing for me (not being able to see or hear anything because the rest of the crowd is about twice as tall as I am is not a lot of fun), I'll move on to Travis, the band that really convinced me to lose my Pinkpop virginity. They were the last band to play at the Radio 3FM tent, and a good headline they were! They started off with 'All I Want to Do is Rock', and singer Fran Healy was as talkative as always, telling us (as always) the story behind 'As You Are' (which is about "lowering your guard", yadayadayada), about how you really have to blow your nose before playing the harmonica, etcetera, etcetera. The crowd got a taster of the next album (Fran: "Although we haven't actually recorded it yet.") with a new song called 'Safe' and their biggest hit to date in the UK (it went top five the previous day), 'Coming Around', which is simply just a very happy song. The front rows got treated to refreshing water during, how appropriately, 'Why Does It Always Rain On Me?', which is their biggest hit in Holland, a fact proved by the many people singing along. All good things must come to an end, however, and without playing the eagerly anticipated Britney Spears cover 'Baby One More Time', they finished their set with one of their most beautiful songs, 'Blue Flashing Light'. They may sing that there might not be a design for life, but Travis sure come close.
The headlining act was none other than dance guru Moby. Now, Moby, you are a great man, and your music is quite, quite good, but to end your headlining set with a song you say is the fastest song ever according to the Guinness Book of Records and therefore totally not danceable to, just so you can stand on your keyboard and pretend to be God, is just not on. But let's not condemn Moby on one single song, as the rest of the set was simply amazing and got nearly the entire crowd dancing. He only played the popular tracks like 'Go', 'Bodyrock'? and 'Natural Blues', but that was perhaps the best choice. Like Travis' Fran Healy, Moby is a very talkative man in-between songs and kept saying "Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou" after each track. However, when you are a dance act, people don't want to have to wait minutes for the next song. But still people were eating out of his hands and did everything he asked them to do. And to see sixty-thousand people point their middle-finger at him, simultaneously shouting "FUCK YOU MOBY!!!" is a very impressive sight, I must say. Well, he did ask for it himself, didn't he?
http://www.kindamuzik.net/live/pinkpop/pinkpop-it-s-just-another-manic-monday/325/
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