Tapsearch Com EditorMegadeth re-records "A Tout le Monde"
March 4th 2007 17:07
...is the news from Blabbermouth. Great song, but I'm unaware of any band that's ever successfully re-done its own well known song. (I say well known because some acts put the best of their underground recording on major-label records and do well. See Staind's "Mudshovel.")
I remember Motley Crue's remake of "Shout at the Devil" was rather lame on Generation Swine. And even "unplugged" versions rarely hit the mark unless they barely change the sound.
It seems this is a personal task for singer/guitarist Dave Mustaine, not a move calculated to make the record the best it can be:
"[The original 'A Tout Le Monde'] video was banned, the single was shelved, and without [the fans'] loving support of a truly beautiful song it would have died. MTV banned it because they said it was a 'song about suicide,' as did many people, but why would the line 'I'd love to stay with you all' be in there...And I had a manager at the time that was told, along with me, by MTV not to use director Wayne Isham because we had used him too much; odd request, but I heard them loud and clear. Of course, management didn't listen and tried to slip it into MTV under a pseudonym and MTV flipped....Then after the [college] shooting in Montreal [in 2006], where someone tried tying this song into that horrific act, I knew it was time to follow something that had been haunting me from the start of that song."
Even Mustaine himself didn't plan to put it on the record:
"Well, its intention was only to soothe my wounds, and it was meant to be a 'B-side' for Japan, but that didn’t happen, as you will no doubt read. The song was finished and turned in to the record company and the radio department and everyone, including people that have heard the song before, are saying, 'This is the single for America!' There was excitement and a buzz, and they ALL agreed on this, which is a feat in itself when you have some many creative people in one place at any given time."
The good news is that it's now a duet with Lacuna Coil's Cristina Scabbia. The jury is still out.
By Robert VerBruggen.
I remember Motley Crue's remake of "Shout at the Devil" was rather lame on Generation Swine. And even "unplugged" versions rarely hit the mark unless they barely change the sound.
It seems this is a personal task for singer/guitarist Dave Mustaine, not a move calculated to make the record the best it can be:
"[The original 'A Tout Le Monde'] video was banned, the single was shelved, and without [the fans'] loving support of a truly beautiful song it would have died. MTV banned it because they said it was a 'song about suicide,' as did many people, but why would the line 'I'd love to stay with you all' be in there...And I had a manager at the time that was told, along with me, by MTV not to use director Wayne Isham because we had used him too much; odd request, but I heard them loud and clear. Of course, management didn't listen and tried to slip it into MTV under a pseudonym and MTV flipped....Then after the [college] shooting in Montreal [in 2006], where someone tried tying this song into that horrific act, I knew it was time to follow something that had been haunting me from the start of that song."
Even Mustaine himself didn't plan to put it on the record:
"Well, its intention was only to soothe my wounds, and it was meant to be a 'B-side' for Japan, but that didn’t happen, as you will no doubt read. The song was finished and turned in to the record company and the radio department and everyone, including people that have heard the song before, are saying, 'This is the single for America!' There was excitement and a buzz, and they ALL agreed on this, which is a feat in itself when you have some many creative people in one place at any given time."
The good news is that it's now a duet with Lacuna Coil's Cristina Scabbia. The jury is still out.
By Robert VerBruggen.
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