It’s not yet dawn. My coffee is lousy this morning. The medium roast has too much light in this grind. It’s bullshit on a grand scale. To console myself, I’ve put a Monster Magnet t-shirt in a cart on the Napalm Records webstore. Will I buy it? I don’t own a current Monster Magnet t-shirt, and it doesn’t have cartoon boobs on it, so there’s a halfway-decent chance. Won’t make the coffee taste better, but sometimes one needs to take drastic action to improve a life situation.
“Solid Gold Hell” isn’t the highest-profile cover on Monster Magnet‘s A Better Dystopia (review here), the curated-covers outing that bears the stamp of founding frontman Dave Wyndorf no less than an original release might, but it sure feels relevant. The hook? “I’m getting really used to living in this solid gold hell.” Set to Joe Tait art with roaches in the War Room, a Never Say Die pilot, the ever-present Bullgod and a willfully Boschian orgy, there’s no shortage of information being thrown at the viewer/listener, and obviously that is the intent. The overload is part of the hell. For further evidence, look pretty much anywhere.
By my probably-wrong tally, this is the fourth lyric video that has seen Wyndorf and Tait in collaboration on what seems to be an ongoing if somewhat obscure narrative. Tell you what — they wanna do the whole record, then in the parlance of our times, I’m here for it. Beats sitting here with this second cup of my lousy coffee almost buying a shirt and being distracted by death counts and hacks on Twitter.
I’m saying if you’ve got that restless-existence-syndrome, “Solid Gold Hell” might point you in the right direction. It’s not the Kool-Aid Man smashing through the walls of our universe, letting out a “oh yeah!” and taking everybody along for a ride to Planet Sugar Rush — I had a dream last night where I told someone, “I don’t eat bread”; that’s a true story — but you go ahead and take three minutes and escape your terrible brain for a little bit. Facebook told me it’s your birthday, so you deserve no less.
Fuck this coffee. Dawn’s starting.
Enjoy:
Monster Magnet, “Solid Gold Hell” (The Scientists cover) lyric video
Frontman Dave Wyndorf says:
I’m a huge fan of The Scientists and I just love the hell out of this song. It’s hypnotic, dark and sexual with a unique and amazing groove. In a cooler world we’d hear stuff like this blasting out of everyone’s speakers. I’d love to hear Billie Eilish take a crack at this one…”
Regarding the video, he continues:
“Joe Tait’s art is so damned interesting… Where else can one find Hieronymus Bosch, Pam Grier, Cold War Soviet monuments, the Dr. Strangelove war room, astronauts, dinosaurs AND rockers all in the same video?”
Says Joe Tait:
“Two great tastes that taste particularly great together for me because in this part of our unfolding saga, the Bull God embraces the great swamp rage of The Scientists in a version of Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights! Art by me. Script and direction with me in collaboration with the glorious Dave Wyndorf!”
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MONSTER MAGNET is:
Dave Wyndorf – Vocals, Guitar
Phil Caivano – Guitar
Garret Sweeny – Guitar
Alec Morton – Bass
Bob Pantella – Drums
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