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{{Videobox |
| Name = Small Minded
| Name = Bliss
| Album = -
| Release = [[Bliss (single)#CD1|Bliss CD1]] (4), [[Bliss (single)#Hyper Music Box Bliss CD|Hyper Music Box New Born CD]] (5), [[Bliss (single)#BX maxi CD|Bliss BX maxi CD]] (4), [[Bliss (single)#Promo VHS|Bliss promo VHS]] (1)
| AltTitles = -
| Length = 4:21
| First = [[Teignmouth Broadmeadow Sports Centre 1994 (gig) |February 1994]]
| Firstair =
| Latest = ''Unknown''
| Filming location =
| Recorded = 1994
| Director = [[David Slade]]  
| Writer = [[Matthew Bellamy]]
| Watch = [http://youtube.com/watch?v=XrROiUNwgCM YouTube]
| Producer = -
| Chart position = -
}}
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==Information==
==Information==
[[Image:Making of Bliss.gif|right|thumb]]
Small Minded was the first song Bellamy composed and then recorded with Dom as duo. It included some piano parts,<ref name="musechat">
[[Matthew Bellamy|Bellamy]]: "The reason I like David Slade is his ideas are way above and beyond what is even achievable within the realms of the film industry. His idea originally for that video was a person falling through space towards earth. You think the person's gonna hit the ground and die but they just go through the centre of the earth and come out the other side.<br />
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It just sounded like a weird idea, so we ended up talking about trying to make a video that did that. But obviously, planet earth was a bit difficult to conjure up, so we ended up settling for a kind of 'Star Wars' Death Star thing. I spent the whole day strapped in a harness hanging from the ceiling. That was pretty knackering. It was just a mad idea, but we went with it".
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and was played by Muse, under the name [[Rocket Baby Dolls]], during a battle of the bands contest.<ref>{{cite/intdisc2001}}</ref>. Matt gave the cassette demo of the recording of the song to Chris to convince him to join the band. By the time of the MuseChat in November 2006, Bellamy couldn't recall the lyrics, nor what the lyrics were about.<ref name="musechat"/>  
 
Matt said in 2000, later compiled in a interview of the 2007: "It was about the attitudes of people on our town, We didn't approve of this."
"We were sick of drinking cider and being beaten up," added Dom.<ref>{{cite/kerrang20060729}}</ref>
 
==Live==
 
Small Minded was performed live at the band's first performance. It is likely it was performed at the second performance the following month as well, though this cannot be confirmed. The next performances were several months away and Small Minded was not performed at the November Battle of the Bands performance. It is likely that Small Minded was not continued into 1995 was performed less than five times.  


[[Dominic Howard|Howard]]: "For the majority of the day, me and Chris just sat around doing nothing, watching Matt swing around on his harness. We were both in these weird little pods, trapped outside of the tube that Matt was falling through, going, 'No! What're you doing?'. We kinda spun around for a bit, watched him falling and that was our only appearance in that video!"
[[Small Minded (live) | More here]]


'''[[David Slade]] (director):''' Matt falls into a giant hole in a machine at the core of a futuristic city, then spends the entire video falling, watched by the other members of the band. He falls until he drifts out into space, continuing to accelerate until he reaches the edge of the universe where he comes apart as gas. We shot for two days with Matt Bellamy spinning on wires for the whole time. I believe Matt is a sadomasochist. He had bruises that took three weeks to heal and he puked three times. But still somehow came up smiling. Everyone thinks that this video was done with CGI, not so. We didn’t have the schedule or budget and so had to do it the old fashioned way - entirely with miniatures. There was a lot of 2D compositing though and Smoke & Mirrors artist Rob Maggoch created all the starscape backgrounds entirely in inferno.
==References==
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==See also==
==See also==
Making of Bliss video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=L6Jc6lCQzVI
*[[A Turn to Stone (song)|A Turn to Stone]]
*[[Pointless Loss (song)|Pointless Loss]]
*[[Weakening Walls (song)|Weakening Walls]]
*[[Yellow Regret (song)|Yellow Regret]]


Back to [[Bliss (song)|Bliss]]
[[Category:Unreleased music]]
[[Category:Videos]]

Latest revision as of 15:17, 7 May 2021

Muse song
Name Small Minded
Album/single -
Length Unknown
Alternative titles -
First live performance February 1994
Latest live performance Unknown
Recorded 1994
Writer/composer Matthew Bellamy
Producer -

Listen

Information

Small Minded was the first song Bellamy composed and then recorded with Dom as duo. It included some piano parts,[1] and was played by Muse, under the name Rocket Baby Dolls, during a battle of the bands contest.[2]. Matt gave the cassette demo of the recording of the song to Chris to convince him to join the band. By the time of the MuseChat in November 2006, Bellamy couldn't recall the lyrics, nor what the lyrics were about.[1]

Matt said in 2000, later compiled in a interview of the 2007: "It was about the attitudes of people on our town, We didn't approve of this." "We were sick of drinking cider and being beaten up," added Dom.[3]

Live

Small Minded was performed live at the band's first performance. It is likely it was performed at the second performance the following month as well, though this cannot be confirmed. The next performances were several months away and Small Minded was not performed at the November Battle of the Bands performance. It is likely that Small Minded was not continued into 1995 was performed less than five times.

More here

References

  1. ↑ a b Muse. (2006-11-29). [Musechat]. Retrieved from musechat.mu.
  2. ↑ (2001). [Interview disc Q&A]. Mushroom. Retrieved 2007-04-18. [verify]
  3. ↑ Ben Myers. (2006-07-29). 20 Things You Didn't Know About Muse. Kerrang magazine. Retrieved 2008-03-10. [verify]

See also

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