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No Sleep planning Refused tribute

Contributed by an Anonymous Source. Posted by adam on Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 11:20 AM (EST)

No Sleep Records has announced plans for a tribute record celebrating influential Swedish hardcore act Refused. The album, titled Rather be.. A Tribute to Refused will arrive in late 2008 or early 2009 on the New Jersey record label. No Sleep is currently seeking out bands interested in conbributing. Contact information can be found on their website.

Refused split in 1998 after a series of critically acclaimed releases, including the massively influential The Shape of Punk to Come.

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24HourPriapism (January 26, 2008)

first.

there's really almost no way this is gonna be good :(

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branden (January 26, 2008)

we'll see what crazytown has to say about this.

skaboom (January 26, 2008)

Dammit, beat me to it by seconds!

branden (January 26, 2008)

haha yeah like 40 seconds. thats like a year on the internet.

PaC (January 26, 2008)

I concur.

skaboom (January 26, 2008)

They contact Crazy Town about their bitchin' New Noise cover

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skaboom (January 26, 2008)

*should contact

David_Arquette (January 26, 2008)

Do they seriously cover it?

facetofacereunion08 (January 26, 2008)

I guess I don't really understand refused. I've only listening to "The Shape of Punk to Come" a few times but to me i dont really see the differnce between these guys and rage against the machine. There aren't really good melodies, the guitar work isnt too catchy...i dont know, i guess i just dont get it.

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spoon_of_grimbo (January 26, 2008)

they're a good band, but i agree with you, i dont see where the legend comes from. i mean, they're supposed to be influential, but i don't see many bands doing anything resembling what refused did. and lets face it, before TSOPTC they were just another hardcore band.

the_cobra (January 26, 2008)

they were pretty big before that but tsoptc really put them over the edge.

iamnormie (January 26, 2008)

Heh. you obviously don't if you tihink they sound like RATM.

Thats like saying Blink 182 sounds like Metallica, the words of someone who should probably never speak about music again.

NOOB.

branden (January 26, 2008)

come on, there is at least a little semblance to rage. big nu-metal chords and a high pitch screamer guy....

Lanemyer (January 27, 2008)

Nu-metal chords?!?! You don't listen to much music do you?

Hey_ska (January 26, 2008)

There would be no Metallica if it weren't for Blink 182.

Those guys changed lives.

Sherlock_28 (January 26, 2008)

pwn3d?

the_cobra (January 26, 2008)

they were a hardcore band hence the lack of melodies.

DefianceOhioEqualsLove (January 26, 2008)

It took me a really long time to get into Refused as well. I didn't see what was so special about them, and then one day i listened to TSOPTC again, and something just clicked. And now they're one of my all-time favorite bands. Funny how that worked...

PaC (January 26, 2008)

When I got into refused, a bit before they broke up, not many bands sounded like they did. They were fusing a couple genres and played with conviction. Also, they reminded me a bit of Fugazi, I don't see how, but at the time, they did. An internet friend of mine from Sweden had sent me a tape of The Shape of Punk to Come before it came out in North America and it just blew my mind. Prior to that, I had heard of them because of To Fan the Flame of Discontent, but I didn't have any interest for that type of music. I see how if I heard TSOPTC now, I would probably not that impressed. Also on that tape from my Swedish pen pal was a band called Saidiwas that was as mind blowing to me at the time.

Smithy (January 27, 2008)

I can see why people might think they weren't all that influential but...damn, you can't say they sound like RATM! (And btw i'm a big Rage fan too so there's no bias here)

chirpy_boy (January 30, 2008)

This has to be a joke thread....

profbobo (January 26, 2008)

Comadre does some pretty good Refused covers.

maverick (scott) (January 26, 2008)

Between The Buried And Me covering "Rather Be Dead":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aKBBCSnYFg

-Scott

GrapeApesOfWrath (January 26, 2008)

Oh boy, I hope Taking Back Sunday is going to contribute. Anything they're on is guaranteed to sell!!!

eighty (January 26, 2008)

somebody better cover bruitist pome #5

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24HourPriapism (January 26, 2008)

Mstrkrft.

Shark-e (January 26, 2008)

Rise Against already covered Coup D'Etat. What did they name it again? State of the Union?

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Mikeshitter (January 26, 2008)

good point

manincognito (January 26, 2008)

this could go either way..really rad, or craptacular. all in all, in interested. 'everlasting' was intense and 'shape of punk to come' had solid hits. let's hope the bands don't fuck this up.

theshred (January 26, 2008)

i'm certain this will put me to sleep, so the record label is 0 for 1, if they get new found glory or paramore or angels and airwaves doing Tannhauser/Derive, New Noise, or Liberation Frequency tthey are 0 for life. this is the worst isea, i can't say ever because any tribute to a perfect band is a horrible band. and thanks for the news. i'll be waiting with baited breath FOR A YEAR. You guys need a little store file and then whe the news is relevant, post it. Thanks for this though.

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theshred (January 26, 2008)

edit my horrible spelling..."the worst idea", "is a horrible idea", "when the news". This is a good lesson in thinking things through, I should have re-read my post so I didn't look like an idiot. Now the label should double check there idea so they don't look like idiots and think this thing though.

Smithy (January 27, 2008)

Paramore already did that song with the Refused sample in (we want the airwaves baaaaack) That's pretty cool right?

Dsquared (January 26, 2008)

Please, stop.

VictorIkpeba24 (January 26, 2008)

Canned ice-cream?

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