Venus of the Hard Sell by Mucous Membrane (Spiderlegs) Hellblazer 2012

[@cpc874]

Wow. Really captures the essence of 70s punk ... and John Constantine. It really seems as though the character is singing the song. Like he's truly the living urban legend of the East End as described on the opening page of Hellblazer #1.

[@Fernyxferny]

You've hit another nail perfectly. Hellblazer always felt real. Part of its charm and MAGIC -yes, pun fucking intended- was bringing the supernatural into the mundane, but being strongly rooted in that mundane world. John didn't feel like a friend or an acquaintance because he sold himself like that; it was because he felt like a real person. He talked like one, thought like one, suffered like one. Not just a magic man, nor a conman, nor an everyman, but a combination of all.

[@LMuertoOFFICIAL]

The barf at the end gives it the final charm.

[@jasonwilson4560]

That Gary Lester was a hell of a guitarist. What ever happened to him?

[@luisgustavo5210]

*computer god by black sabbath plays*

[@mundane2macabre]

Only the roaches know

[@InjuryArrow]

@@mundane2macabrewhy did you do this

[@lucianoprado7910]

Wow! I wrote "Mucous Membrane" on the KZbin searcher just for fun, and this video appears, great job! Greetings from Argentina by a big Hellblazer fan.

[@sulaymanzaraei8473]

OMG I LOVE THIS BAND SO MUCH. THIS ONE TIME I WENT INTO THE BASMENT OF THEIR LAST GIG IN LIVERPOOL AND THERE WAS THIS SICK ASS PARTY WITH EFFECTS. Idk where their manager went after though

[@daybit1961]

One night, i drunk with leader of band. Now i kinda possesed by bloodseeking demon and slowly dying, but gosh, what a night!

[@robobrando]

I want this song sang at my funeral. *raises glass* this is to you, Johnny boy.

[@mrmannyman2]

The fact that Jamie Delano has given this his blessing is wonderful

[@Andreas_Chatzi]

really?

[@mrmannyman2]

@@Andreas_Chatzi Yep!

[@lucasmiguel4734]

@@Andreas_Chatzi he wrote the song

[@FieldMarshalFry]

they need to use this in the new Constantine TV Series

[@shaolinwisdom]

110% exactly sentiments. As the reader many times in Hellblazer you're almost never quite sure if he's actually doing Magic or if it's all some elaborate Con. In the New52 in JLD he's as much a superhero as any of the capes & masks, and now they've made magic feel like a superpower.

[@DelDeepsCheck]

One more toast boys, to the Great Con himself. Here's to 25 years, John our boy.

[@SargeInAbsentia]

Having just finished re-reading Hellblazer, this was perfect to seal my mood after the last page.

[@wavecapsule]

And thank you all very much for listening and for your kind comments. you guys rock...cheers!

[@BillSmithWins]

Cheers mate thanks for the awesome tunes.

[@wavecapsule]

Thanks for your kind comments. Someone recently told me on twitter "I like it but wasn't the point that it was supposed to suck?" I said, sure, but if it totally sucked, no one would listen to it, would they? And the first version sucked horribly as several members of the Hellblazer forum can attest. I know it's not everyone's cuppa, and I have heard that other bands are thinking about doing their own versions which would kick ass. I was a yank punk--more into black flag, husker du, minutemen, etc. Though I loved crass, UK subs and too many others to list. You can hear the difference betw US & UK punk through my shit Brit accent but understand this, oh blazers of hell: it was a labour of love, innit? Cheers to all of you!

[@MarkDNF]

Actually they refrenced it! Did you check it out? And yeah... It's kinda hard to keep characters from the 70's-80's young enough for t.v.... Like 30 and such, he'd just be a band in the 90's and oh wait that's for whatcha it, the english... so yeah... But idk they could just say he has some really long life span, like papa midnight.

[@MarkDNF]

Damn... Been a year :/

[@bilbobaggins3464]

Dude making a music for Mucous Membrane is enough to make you awesome :D

[@cezzv]

Is the forum still around? Sorry to reply to this 6 years later lol. But I think the song is at that perfect spot where it's good enough to be enjoyable but also kinda suck enough to feel real?

[@emberd-l795]

I want Matt Ryan to sing this.

[@Monarchflies]

Ember D-L yess

[@xstevenxcorex6]

I just tweeted Matt Ryan this video and asked him to sing it.

[@timbackman5915]

@@xstevenxcorex6 good job! Hope he sees it and does it to celebrate the return of Constantine if they decide to give it another go!

[@ryuku1903]

Yes certainly i want him to sing this too

[@wavecapsule]

@@xstevenxcorex6 Matt Ryan has had this video sent to him 5000 times. He’s pretty much sick of it by now

[@StephenGalet]

I'll always carry this song in a dark corner of my heart. Love, adventure, death and glory! Cheers!

[@JamesTheWise_]

Recently discovered this song after reading The Devil You Know. Needless to say, this is a very good adaptation of the song. I'll always be a huge Hellblazer fan & it'll go down as one of the greatest comics of all time.

[@Gilhelmi]

Ow, my ears are bleeding and a bloody demon just came up through the floor. Fucking John Constantine.

[@Fernyxferny]

It's funny, I didn't really like this version the first time I heard it, primarily because I expected something more raw and violent, rather than melancholic. Now I'm here mourning the end of good ol' John and his immediate replacement by a sad impostor, and reading the lyrics again it all hits me really hard. You nailed it. You know you did, and I'm sorry I ever doubted it. So here's to a future with more really touching comics with really touching songs like this. Let us hope.

[@VVeltanschauung187]

They say Batman is the greatest DC prepper and non-superpower character there is. They are wrong, all wrong.

[@iamtenzin4409]

+John Constantine A few trips to hell and back kinda puts things in perspective, doesn't it John?

[@charthezombiehound8952]

Constantine has magic, so I don't know if he counts as a non-superpower hero. also, only an ignorant says Batman is the best prepper character. it has been established several times that Constantine is more intelligent and a better strategist than Batman in the comics.

[@2ChainZsensai]

You should count him as non-superpower cuz he mostly dealt things without magic. He use magic when he is desperate

[@МЕЫЕР]

@@2ChainZsensai Constantine is not an "homo magi" like Zatanna or Dr. Occult, he learned magick, he did'nt born with it. So, magick is like a hability, like kung-fu and all.

[@postpunk5967]

unlike zatanna and dr. occult constantine was not endowed with power in silver tray he had to work to gain power.

[@UKMikey]

It's like there was a spell on me... I couldn't stop listening

[@Drokai13]

Listening this while reading some Delano's Hellblazer. The song made my day (hell, it made my week). Cheers mate!

[@wavecapsule]

they don't let us post links in the comments, but if you go to reverbnation and find "Spiderlegs," it is included on the singles collection (greatest hits, I guess). You can purchase it by itself or with the whole album AND I send Hellblazer author Jamie Delano (who wrote the lyrics, obviously) half the cash (for the song) every time someone purchases the song or CD.

[@whiteraven011]

I have had that Annual for a couple years now and always thought that someone should actually make this a reality... but I never thought to actually look for it, well gents you made this Hellblazer fan's night, cheers.

[@mary2point5]

best video on youtube, ever.

[@Ak-de5yv]

RIP Gary

[@OttoVonKrieg32]

Love this song!!! It's about nothing, but it's about everything. Also has a very authentic sound, good job man!

[@RRWALL]

You did this justice. Sort of how I think it would sound like.

[@wavecapsule]

cheers!

[@TKgeek]

I like it. Reminds me of a young David Bowie and I think this is how that young Constantine would have liked to imagine it sounded.

[@gabaghoul8507]

Three years late, but this is bloody fuckin' brilliant, man. Exactly as how I pictured it. Well done.

[@SnoopyChicken]

I read this today as part of "the devil you know" volume and knew someone would have done it! Good job man!

[@wavecapsule]

Synchronicity, yo!

[@BillSmithWins]

once again youtube holds surprises for the casual random searcher, so glad i went out on a limb and tried googling this.

[@mundane2macabre]

To me constintine was Resurrected by Silk cut ashes and then faded into the crowd at the pub never to be seen again

[@svenlittlecross]

ive said it before and ill say it again - this is fucking phenomenal

[@iamtenzin4409]

+svenlittlecross I'd love to do this as a cosplay performance.

[@reckless1ify]

This is almost exactly how I imagined it would sound when I read the Hellblazer issue, It sounds absolutely awful however it's brilliant as Constantine himself isn't fond of Mucous Membrane lol. Good job

[@TheMeanMongoose]

+reckless1ify Pretentious, drug-addled social commentary, off key singing, simple chords, belching, it's fucking perfect. It's the quintessential 70s punk song and I love every second of it.

[@neuralmute]

@@TheMeanMongoose Exactly! It's a perfect bad punk song, and that's why I fucking love it.

[@davyvankerckhove4204]

reading Sandman vol.1 when my favorite Chainsmoking magician shows up. bloody awesome

[@rudevoices9204]

After the Sandman audible, I need TARON EGERTON singing this

[@wavecapsule]

You can order a prop replica of the devil's vinyl record from the Constantine episode entitled "The Devil's Vinyl." The A-side is the song from the TV show complete with the devil's voice. The B-side is Mucous Membrane's "Venus of the Hard Sell" performed by Spiderlegs. Get info from [e-mail].

[@mrminerva2]

Oh my god. I love the Hellblazer Comics and I'm so happy someone did this! Thank you!

[@sentiospoot5806]

I've listened to this like 80 times in the last couple of days, thanks so much for making it!

[@punkstara]

This is absolutely wonderful and perfect. Thank you for making this.

[@Filbi]

Good old M.M. Whatever happened to Johnny Con-Job? He was going places.

[@NorthForkFisherman]

You know he's still Laughing....somewhere.

[@advancetotabletop5328]

Reminds me a bit of The Clash's "London Calling". Good job!

[@wavecapsule]

Thank you for you kind words. I appreciate it very much! It was a labor of love.

[@hamlet5737]

Yup, just like I imagined PERFECT

[@robertcreighton4635]

Hahaha I'm so delighted some one made this. But in my head I always felt it would sound more shambolic like Sid vicious

[@postpunk5967]

I feel a pang of pain in my heart when I see a Hellblazer or Sandman cover with the Black Label stamp and not the defunct Vertigo. Sometimes it seems that the of the seal is ''Batman Label'' lol lol Lovers forever Zatanna and Constantine 😄😄😄 Magicblazer JohnZee 😀😀😀

[@ProductsForRobots]

I found this and liked it. Just cuz i like obscure stuff

[@pilgrimm23]

Gratia tibia ago. I did not know this had been actually performed...

[@suvetar]

Synchronicity made music!

[@GangstaChefShow]

Bloody brilliant!!! I came up with music for this soon after the Hellblazer annual came out but never recorded it. But I am a Yank and I was not gonna put on a sh*tty fake English accent. This is amazing! Cheers... Buzz Cartier

[@Sewertoad43]

Any of you hear the urban Legend that Constantine exist? Look up Alan Moore's sighting of Constantine

[@harleycao13]

I've heard about that! Hasn't there been someone else who also sighted him??

[@Sewertoad43]

@@harleycao13 few other writers and junk

[@MuriKakari]

LOL. Are we sure it wasn't just Sting?

[@Sewertoad43]

@@MuriKakari well, he thought it was at first

[@bilbobaggins3464]

You are fockin' awesome mates :D

[@wavecapsule]

Thank you!

[@wavecapsule]

The key is to get a good writer in there and stop with the super team-ups with superheros and other DC properties. At least in Vertigo's universe, Swampy and Zee were the only other DC characters John ran into, and the only other Vertigo one was Morpheus. I like John living more or less in our universe more than the new 52. But we'll see, I try to keep an open mind because it's easily in my top 3 all time series of comics.

[@haithamkhot911]

Kudos for John

[@bruhmoment3849]

Is it weird that I actually like this song?

[@neuralmute]

Probably, but I sort of like it too, so...?

[@wavecapsule]

I don’t think it’s weird

[@harleycao13]

Maybe, but I do, too!

[@rebeccaoberlender4451]

Would really like to have the mp3 of this song/video. Is there a possibility of having it emailed to me or is it on one of the Spiderlegs CDs? Either way, I really want this song because the song, this band, and the video make me insanely happy. After being a Hellblazer fan for years and to hear someone breathe life into favorite character...saying I am overjoyed doesn't do it justice. Especially since this song and video do it justice! It wasn't half assed and sounds great! Thank you all!!

[@hainerammsteiner3042]

Great song! Love it. Sounds between Punk and Magic Occultism at the same time. Love the chorus. I Dont know why... but the voice reminds me of Greg Graffin from Bad Religion. Anyway, Love the song!

[@soljoez]

This sounds great, wow!

[@ComicsFromScratch]

Does there exist actual punk music wit lyrics this good?

[@InimicalRabbit]

Chuffed as nuts! Here's to you, John. A nice Newcastle Brown....or twelve.

[@giantred]

Lucas George *thousand yard stare* Why would you bring up Newcastle?

[@nickdirienzo2849]

I'd like to see The Libertines tackle this one. I always imagined Crass when reading the lyrics. Bet they would have nailed it!

[@BillSmithWins]

Thank you for this it made my night :)

[@wavecapsule]

thanks!

[@thebarbaryghostsf]

Strewth!

[@wavecapsule]

cheers!

[@richtheking7078]

That was fun while reading the comic haha

[@bilbobaggins3464]

I think it's just like what it should be. Singing, music, style and composition are all very spot on. Only thing it needs is a better english accent and that's all.

[@wavecapsule]

Yeah, sorry about the accent. I had pneumonia when I did the vocals

[@MuriKakari]

I mean, John's a chainsmoker and singing erases accents.@@wavecapsule

[@Angel_Donoghue]

Only here coz of dc legends and Constantine and all I want is a flashback of Matt Ryan as Constantine singing this

[@harleycao13]

SAME!!!

[@steve_bal4]

This sounds more Psychadelic Furs than Sex Pistols to me, I expected it to be faster & rawer for '78.

[@wavecapsule]

One guy says joy division, another guy says psychedelic furs…it’s at 160 bpm. That’s pretty fast

[@CorvusMetus]

I'm a little more hopeful than most for the new Constantine series. A lot of folks forget that early issues of a lot of Vertigo titles were clearly set in the DC universe, including Hellblazer. The Delano run makes reference to it, as does Gaiman's Books of Magic.

[@wavecapsule]

Wow after 2.5 years posted, someone finally gave it a downvote.

[@agnosticpagan]

It was Nergal. Took 'im awhile to notice. Other shite bothering 'im, ya know,,,,

[@Sewertoad43]

Constantine sounds like I thought he'd sound... Like shit... ^_^ I love it!

[@VVeltanschauung187]

The first downvoter was First of the Fallen! Jokes! Right?

[@iamtenzin4409]

+Sewertoad43 Silk Cuts will do that to ya.

[@yourdaytripper4186]

please i NEED MATT RYAN SINGIN THIS ! I BEG YOU SEASON 6 OF LEGENDS OF TOMORROW

[@TheBlackSquirrel]

I think the Legends writers are definitely bonkers enough to bring this song in (after all, they got fricking Sisqo performing the Thong Song). ...I am *carefully* optimistic that we'll get some possible reference in episode 3 of season 6, since it looks like the Legends might be in song contest, and Constantine's look was a bit punk/rockish. I'm probably wrong, but we'll know for sure on Sunday. 👀

[@KebabSinan]

Well i hope but it didnt happen by the 5th episode

[@wavecapsule]

Hey if you go to the 8tracks website (add a dot and a com to 8tracks) and type in "Hellblazer" you'll find the soundtracks for each graphic novel/TPB in the entire Hellblazer library. They are broken down by each writer the book had. I'd post the url, but the UTubes won't let me.

[@BillSmithWins]

Awesome website by the way thanks for recommending

[@SazDenny]

I'm desperate.. I need another fix lol - please email me tooooo this is so good.. been searching for this for years... hehehe knew there'd be a bit of real mucous membrane if I carried on searching!! there is no such thing as fiction!!!!! ;)

[@Beerbottles123]

When are they gonna play it on Constantine

[@d20Daddy]

Rebecca, there are numerous programs that convert youtube videos into mp3 format files. I suggest doing a web search and trying a couple out to find one you like. Hope this helped.

[@Jrainbowfist]

For those of you who don't know, Helblazer and New 52 Constantine are in two different universes

[@tayflue372]

A fanfic brought me here 😆😆😆

[@DOSsector]

Oh, sod off, dragon.

[@wavecapsule]

usually he sounds like Ian Mac from the bunnymen. that voice he uses for John's vocals was only reached after downing a 12 pack of beer, smoking a pack of cigs, hitting a pipe that looked like an eye dropper, and vomiting. Apologies for his fake accent but had he sung it in his texas accent, it would have been gross.

[@marcelomagno1250]

Encontrei essa música no anual de hellblazer

[@play7700]

Spinoff? Foi no anual não?

[@cassiacardoso9061]

Qual edição? Acho que não cheguei a ler

[@omarzobal8621]

worry when the hounds arent fed

[@NorthForkFisherman]

Especially if your name is Ramsay Bolton.

[@omarzobal8621]

that was a hard lesson for him,

[@wavecapsule]

This is the same video as the other version but with different audio.

[@SazDenny]

yeh I'm on my 10th time in a row listen hehehe

[@mikegarrycomedy8598]

I just keep coming back!!

[@ARKHAMASYLUM-qc7bw]

We love Constantine humans vs demons and angels

[@luckynumber6664]

I honestly really like the sound of this track ahah, have they done any other songs?

[@makvande576]

No, the band broke up due to the lead singers' heroin addiction and the fact that the guy can't keep his friends alive.

[@Snurglefluffs]

I like it. But it..it's not what i expected. I expected a rougher punk than this. More suicidal tendencies esque. Still a brilliant job though.

[@wavecapsule]

I think other bands should do it. I originally had planned it to be a collaborative project with other musically inclined Hellblazer fans back in '06 when it was first recorded, but I got really sick while it was going on--I actually had pneumonia when I recorded the vocals. I was told through a grapevine of sorts that a friend in Norway is considering doing a version. That would rock--maybe we could put out a CD with the different versions if other bands throw in their lot. Obviously I take no ownership of the song nor do I find it any sort of bother if someone recorded a better version that mine. Mine is first, not necessarily best. Though I really hope they don't do a Green Day version for the show. Please Constantine producers: you don't have to use mine, but for fuck's sakes, don't cheese the shit out of a new version just because you wanted it for the show. (no offense to Green Day or their fans, but it should be something MORE authentic UK punk sounding than mine or don't do it at all). I don't want to get tweets after the fact saying "your version was better" because that's not good for the show, right? God, don't I sound like a prick. I'm not, really!

[@neuralmute]

wavecapsule In punk rock, pneumonia only helps vocals! Strep throat has helped me out in the past... ;)

[@alfan0079]

this version is good and perfect, knowing that hellblazer comic was started in the early 80s and zed was the equivalent of siouxsie, this version is the perfect one. having it in suicidal tendencies is a bit too american for the sake of constantine's setting

[@thelmadickinson2740]

I think this pretty much nails the 79/early 80s UK punk style John would have been rocking out in seeing how he was based on Sting in his early Police days! Dude I first thought your voice was that of the Psychedelic Furs singer! Musically I hear the Clash (just throw in a Mick Jones solo), the burgeoning Oi scene via The Business-esque gang vocals, Gen X/Billy Idol and that place in time when punk broke through to British radio. Well done sir 👍

[@moonkeele]

The singer has got a Psychedelic Furs sound

[@zachymuhammad]

Ahhh... bloody BOLLOCKS, Constatine brough me here

[@KebabSinan]

Ur pfp looks like rachel roth from titans

[@andrewgraves9636]

John...

[@RubenWasson]

¿Cuál es la canción que suena en la radio en Legends of Tomorrow temporada 5, capítulo 5?

[@LMuertoOFFICIAL]

This is good...Weren't Mucous Membrane supposed to be a soddin terrible band? :D

[@wavecapsule]

So this version is better, yeah? Than the previous one, then?

[@wavecapsule]

I'm a big fan, too. And sad that #300 is the end. I don't care for DCU John. Mucous membrane doesn't exist in the DCU, either. Soooo...

[@YepItsZak]

Yeah, but they still weren't watered-down and censored for content.

[@themadmattster9647]

i like it, but its a bit too "hardcore" for 78/79 or whenever John was supposed to be doing his band (or it may had been a bit earlier). Cool song though overall

[@romas1995]

Question : I see this is version 2 ? Well, i'm not dumb but i can't undestand (Kinks reference) where i can listen to Version 1 ? and what are the differences ? Also i checked piratebay and i found nothing. Is there a place i could download it ?

[@wavecapsule]

#saveconstantine

[@rebeccaoberlender4451]

But, really, I would really appreciate it if you could get back to me and let me know how I can get the mp3 ^_^ Thanks ~R~