30 Day Song Challenge - Day 07 - A Song that Reminds You of a Certain Event

Feeling Good - Muse

The hallmark of a great band is when they take a cult classic, cover it, and make it their own. Van Halen did it with 'You Really Got Me', Roxy Music did it with 'Jealous Guy', and Muse has certainly done it with 'Feeling Good'. One top notch rock musician has more talent than all the so called musicians in the charts stuffed together. They always have had and they always will have. Enough said. 

I liked Muse when I first heard them on BBC Radio 1. The first song I heard was called 'Unintended' but never really thought about them again until I heard they were coming to South Africa. I was extremely excited to see them live as they had been voted the best live show recently and convinced all my friends to come with even though they had never heard one song of Muses's. Needless to say that by the end of their set they had made many many fans and my sister and I ran out the next morning to buy "Haarp: Live At Wembley".

I will never forget Coke Fest 2008 all because of this one song. Matt Bellamy is truly spectacular when he is on stage and Muse is the best concert I have been to date. If you ever get a chance to go see them live you cannot let it pass you by

"Hyper Music/Feeling Good" is the ninth single by English alternative rock band Muse, and the fourth from their second album, Origin of Symmetry. It was released on 7" vinyl—as a double A-side—and double CD—backed with "Shine" and a cover of The Smiths' "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want"—on 19 November 2001 and reached #24 in the UK Singles Chart - the lowest of all four singles released from Origin of Symmetry.

"Hyper Music" was written by vocalist and guitarist Matthew Bellamy and "Feeling Good" was originally written by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley for the 1965 musical The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd and famously covered by jazz/soul singer Nina Simone. A softer, acoustic version of "Hyper Music" with a quieter guitar piece and a recurring keyboard piece was recorded under the title of "Hyper Chondriac Music" and featured on the second—the 'B-sides'—disc of the 2002 album Hullabaloo Soundtrack. "Feeling Good" was ranked as the fifth best cover version in a poll by Total Guitar in 2008. Later in 2010, Muse's cover of "Feeling Good" was ranked my NME as the greatest cover song of all time. Over 15,000 people voted.

I would recommend buying this following album to get this song: 

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