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| | '''Z.Vex''' is an effects pedal company, a Minneapolis-based company, that specializes in producing niche guitar and bass pedals, led by Zachary Vexter, from whom the company name derives from. Many people describe Vexter as a "mad scientist" in the guitar and bass effects pedal area. |
| | Name = Butterflies & Hurricanes
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| |[[Absolution (album) | Absolution]] <small>(10)</small>, [[Butterflies & Hurricanes (single) | Butterflies & Hurricanes]] <small>CD (1), vinyl (1, 2), DVD (1, 2)</small>
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| |[[Absolution Tour (live) | Absolution Tour]] <small>(8)</small>
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| |[[H.A.A.R.P. (live) | H.A.A.R.P.]] <small>CD, DVD (6)</small>
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| | Length = 5:01, 4:10 <small>(Radio Edit)</small>
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| | AltTitles = Butterflies <ref>[http://muse.mu/images/official/photo/291/ Setlist Melbourne 2003]</ref>
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| | First = [[Belfort Malsaucy 2002 (gig) | 7{{supo|th}} July 2002]] <small>(interlude only)</small>, [[Amsterdam Melkweg 2003 (gig) | 3{{supo|rd}} September 2003]] <small>(full)</small>
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| | Latest = [[Downtown Las Vegas Fremont Street 2017 (gig) | 23{{supo|rd}} September 2017]]
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| | Recorded = [[Air Studios|Air Studios, London]], 2002/2003
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| | Writer = [[Matthew Bellamy]]
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| | Producer = [[John Cornfield]], [[Paul Reeve]]
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| | Chart position = 14
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| | Previous = [[Blackout (song) | Blackout]]
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| | Current = Butterflies & Hurricanes
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| | Next = [[The Small Print (song) | The Small Print]]
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| | Previous = [[Hullabaloo (album) | Hullabaloo ''(2002)'']]
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| | Current = [[Absolution (album) | Absolution ''(2003)'']]
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| | Next = [[Black Holes and Revelations (album) | Black Holes and Revelations ''(2006)'']]
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| ==Description==
| | Muse are well-known for incorporating Z.Vex effects into the songs, most notably Bellamy, who has been using a [[Z.Vex Fuzz Factory]], their most known effect, built into some of his guitars, both live and in the studio, ever since [[Origin of Symmetry (album)|Origin of Symmetry]]. Besides the Fuzz Factory, Bellamy also has a [[Z.Vex Wah Probe]] built into the [[Manson 007]]. Other pedals Bellamy has been seen using in the studio are the [[Z.Vex Super Hard On]] and the [[Z.Vex Super Duper 2-in-1]]. |
| Includes a romantic piano section. This romantic piano section takes influences from, among other composers, [[Sergei Rachmaninov]]. Sweeping arpeggios and dramatic chords are a staple of Rachmaninov's music.
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| [[Matthew Bellamy]] declared about that song: "It's about hope, about trying to find the strength to get through any given situation, I was trying to find a classical type of piano style that would be heavy and work with bass and drums. It had that sort of mechanical paradiddle thing all the way through, and then it breaks down into this kind of romantic, flowing weird bit in the middle". | | Alike Bellamy, Wolstenholme also incorporated some of Z.Vex's effects into his setup. Ever since Absolution, he's had a [[Z.Vex Woolly Mammoth]] in his pedalboard, supposedly using it live on [[Time Is Running Out (song)|Time Is Running Out]], blended with a synth track, and can also be heard on [[Guiding Light (song)|Guiding Light]], and possibly more songs. Another pedal he's been using is the [[Z.Vex Mastotron]] as well as the [[Z.Vex Basstortion]], as noted in the 2015 issue of Bass Player Magazine.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/zvexeffects/photos/in-the-new-issue-of-bass-player-magazine-chris-wolstenholme-of-muse-discusses-th/928468393880131/</ref> |
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| In another interview matt said: "One of my favourite songs is 'Butterflies and Hurricanes' because it's accepting that things are all over but it's going fuckin' go for it!', d'yaknowworimean? there's a few tracks that are trying to find that strength, the raw energy that keeps you going through that jadedness as opposed to just resigning"<ref name="NME20130913">
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| title = It's the end of the world as we know it | desc = NME Interview | date = 2013-09-13 | url = http://www.microcuts.net/gallery/photo-muse-press-4-2010-441-nme-icons-muse-18290.html | auth = Mark Beaumont | dom=microcuts.net | type = ext
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| For Dominic Howard: "This song is about finding hope and fighting things to make the best out of such situations. And this probably can be connected to a certain absolution." <ref>{{cite/laut20031002}}</ref>
| | == Z.Vex pedals used by Matt Bellamy == |
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| ==Additional information:==
| | *[[Z.Vex Wah Probe]] (built-in) |
| | *[[Z.Vex Fuzz Factory]] (built-in & pedal) |
| | *[[Z.Vex Super Hard On]] |
| | *[[Z.Vex Super Duper 2-in-1]] |
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| Parts of the song existed at least as early as 2000.<ref>
| | == Z.Vex pedals used by Chris Wolstenholme == |
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| desc=Making of Showbiz | date=2000 | auth=Muse | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JLp7MmnZ40 | dom=youtube.com | type=ext
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| }}</ref> Bellamy had suggested a song featuring the band and an orchestra over a "constant paradiddle" to Dom, but Butterflies & Hurricanes really took shape when Matt spent a few hours fiddling around on Steinway in a hotel they were staying in:
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| "I was just alone in this piano room for hours and hours and hours... I found myself playing this paradiddle, that goes [imitates paradiddle] like that over and over again. And I started playing that on just two notes, constantly playing it, over and over again until I got to a point where extra notes were sort of finding their way in there, d'you know what I mean? And it ended up building up to the point where I was playing five-note chords with each hand and playing these massive chords on the piano and it was sounding really fucking heavy, d'you know what I mean? And a chord structure started to come out of that, and I was thinking, "This could be something"".
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| The single version features guitar rather than piano aside from the piano interlude, and excludes a voice saying "oh" at 1:21. The radio edit takes the single version and omits the piano interlude and vocal harmonies entirely. The single version features slightly heightened vocal harmonies compared to the album recording.
| | *[[Z.Vex Woolly Mammoth]] |
| | *[[Z.Vex Mastotron]] |
| | *[[Z.Vex Basstortion]] |
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| The song was used as the main theme for the BBC Sports Personality of The Year 2007, with the BBC Orchestra playing parts of the song as well and for a commercial on Austria's TV channel ORF 1. It has also been used as interludes between different articles and as closing credits on ''Ski Sunday''.
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| | == References == |
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| Featured as the theme song for a racing game called Need For Speed: Most Wanted.
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| == Live ==
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| It is played live like the single version (with guitar). Occasionally the band will perform an 'Extended' version of the song, whereby the heavy section just before the piano solo is played repeatedly, often including a mini-solo from Bellamy. It was performed on the Wembley DVD, and the sixteenth note hi-hat beat leading up to the piano section was moved onto the snare drum instead.
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| [[Butterflies & Hurricanes (live) | More here]] | |
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| == Covers ==
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| Butterflies & Hurricanes was covered by [[William Joseph]] on his 2004 album "Within". The cover is an instrumental, and at 3:43 long does not include the piano mid section.
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| ==Trivia==
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| At 4:01 on the Absolution version of Butterflies & Hurricanes, If you listen closely, Matt can be heard getting off the piano stool he sat on to record the solo.
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| ==Lyrics==
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| |Change everything you are
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| And everything you were
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| Your number has been called
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| Fights and battles have begun
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| Revenge will surely come
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| Your hard times are ahead
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| Best, you've got to be the best
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| You've got to change the world
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| And use this chance to be heard
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| Your time is now
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| Change everything you are
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| And everything you were
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| Your number has been called
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| Fights and battles have begun
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| Revenge will surely come
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| Your hard times are ahead
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| Best, you've got to be the best
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| You've got to change the world
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| And use this chance to be heard
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| Your time is now
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| Don’t let your self down
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| And don’t let yourself go
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| Your last chance has arrived
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| Best, you've got to be the best
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| You've got to change the world
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| And use this chance to be heard
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| Your time is now
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| }}
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| ==References==
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| ==See also==
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| *[[Butterflies & Hurricanes (video) | Butterflies & Hurricanes video]]
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| {{Backto | Absolution (album) | Absolution}}
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