American Idolist Chris Sligh recommends Muse and Mute Math
By Andy Denton on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 5:17 pm
I was playing around on geek-focused website, Digg, the other day and noticed a post about Chris Sligh’s favorite songs. Chris Sligh, is the chubby American Idol contestant from Greenville, SC. He may be the only local boy in the contest this year, so when I saw the story link I clicked on it.
The link took me to Chris’s blog (which has been taken down due to AI contract clauses, I’m sure). The first thing I noticed was his “About Me” section of the site.
I am first and foremost a Christ-follower. I am also a rock star. I don’t feel the two are diametrically opposed. If you do…I feel bad for you.
I thought this was cool. Love that he proclaims his devotion to Christ, and his love for music. It’s interesting how his personality is transparent in his writing.
The story originally linked has now been removed, but Chris’s blog entry was a list of his top 100 songs. Seen here now. Obviously, I skipped through songs 100-11 and got right to the good stuff. There I found bands which I personally hadn’t heard of before. The two which caught my eye were Muse and Mute Math.
So, off to Google and Myspace I went to find samples of these artists. What I found was pretty cool stuff. Muse and Mute Math have a distinct feel which really isn’t heard much on radio today. Kind of an electronica, punk, orchestrated, rock feel. Much different, and much cool in my book.
Here are the songs I was able to find by Muse.
Butterflies & Hurricanes
Hysteria
Stockholm Syndrome
And here are the songs I was able to find by Mute Math.
Chaos
Typical
Plan B
I think these are all great finds. What do you think?
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Comment from Will
Posted on Saturday, 17 March 2007 at 11:02 am
It’s really nice to see someone who isn’t afraid to say that they are a Christian and that they are devoted to Christ. I wish Chris luck.
Muse caught my ear, but seemed a bit “hard” for my taste. Mute Math, sounds like someone….but I can’t put my finger on it. I will try and download some of their stuff today.
Comment from Jeff
Posted on Saturday, 17 March 2007 at 3:46 pm
Yea, MuteMath is amazing. You should also check out their “Reset E.P.” You can listen to some of their stuff on their myspace http://www.myspace.com/mutemath. Also, their live show is probably the best I have ever seen, if you can catch them in concert sometime, you will not be disappointed.
