WORST IS FEARED FOR CHRIS MARTIN & COMPANY
Omaha, NE – Furious Press
The plains are ringing with Scott Morris’ response to the challenge issued recently by Coldplay on their record X&Y. Calling for “rhythmic and harmonic warfare,” Morris is accusing the sensitive Brits of biting sounds he forged two years ago on howie&scott’s album signs.
Morris’ composition “Choose To” was explicitly altered to avoid repeating the 3-3-2 eighth-note pattern on Coldplay’s hit “Clocks”; Scott developed a distinctive 3-2-3 alternative for his work. Imagine his reaction when X&Y‘s first single, “Speed of Sound,” rips its harmonic framework from Coldplay’s own “Clocks” and its rhythmic drive from “Choose To.” “What is it with Coldplay creeping on me?” asked Morris.
The alleged “creeping” doesn’t stop there. On signs, Morris made extensive use of a vintage drum set, removing all the bottom heads of the set’s toms for a unique, deadened sound. It reminded this reporter of old Chicago records. This development was also assimilated by Coldplay for their new album, which features similar-sounding dead toms prominently in several tracks, such as “X&Y”. “I appreciate the recognition,” says Morris, “but this calls for harmonic and rhythmic warfare.”
Sources close to Morris suggest that he fully intends to back up his declaration. Rumors from the Scomo camp in recent days include the possibility of new GILMO tracks, and inclusion on the upcoming holiday compilation from Mr. Furious Records. “This man is nearing the edge,” said a friend of Scott’s who wishes to remain anonymous. “None of us can know what he’ll do next.”
Suffice it to say that the next salvo will be fired at a time and place of Scomo’s choosing, and the chaps in his sights had better watch their backs. Good men and women the world over shiver at the thought of GILMO armed with wave after wave of synth-strings and a boyish falsetto.
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5 responses to “SCOMO ISSUES BATTLE CRY; ENGLISHMEN HAVE YET TO RESPOND”
I love this post. Scomo is a badass. I love the link to http://www.mrfuriousrecords.com in a blog on http://www.mrfuriousrecords.com, and I love that I just linked it twice now.
Good reporting.
Cory
Scomo is a badass; let’s hope his students read this post! They’ll tremble in their Chucks next time they hit the band room!
“Good reporting” – highly debatable. Good reporting tends to avoid embellishment, conflicts-of-interest, and baiting arena-Brit-rock bands (unbeknownst to them). Thanks anyway.
Wait, goddamn it, you meant that ironically! HOW MANY TIMES must I remind you to use quotation marks (“”) when you’re wearing your hipster hat, Cory?!?!?!?
The link is in case any blog-lurkers get interested in our music. Isn’t that kind of the whole idea?
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Okay, I’m a dummy- I forgot- people might come across our blog and not ever have visited MFR.com at all… so it would make sense to link us. I disregarded the fact that you can go strait to mrfuriousrecords.blogspot.com. My Bad. Dang it.
DANG IT. Well, let’s just say that your reporting is a lot more objective that a news program that rhymes with “box blues,” and happens to be the same network that airs “The Simpsons,” and who is named after a wolf-like, weasel-like creature, and who Rupert Murdoch is in control of. No, wait, that’s too obvious. We’ll call her “Lisa S.”
I feel ScoMo’s pain- I wrote a song called “Routine.” A year or so later, I bought Superdrag’s album, “Last Call for Vitriol,” and found that John Davis (not from Korn, but from S-Drag) had bitten the melody from “Routine” and put it in a song called “So Insincere.” I mean, come on! Learn to write a melody, Superdrag! It’s about time you wrote something catchy and original! Jeezum!
Hipster hat… too…. tight… making my skull….. more pretentious…. and… iron…. ic…
Actually, somehow, I meant “Good Reporting” sincerely… but I don’t know how I did that… maybe I was sooooo ironic that I became sincere!?!? OH MY GOD!
TO PITCHFORK-LOVING HIPSTERS EVERYWHERE: SINCERITY: “THE NEW IRONY!”