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Originally Posted by Musefreak14
Has it felt to anyone else like Muse is not exactly themselves in the Resistance album? Change is good, yes. However, did they change TOO much? It's so drastically different from Absolution, and its pretty different from Black Holes & Revelations, and all the other albums too. In a lunch discussion, my friends and I were discussing this being due to the popularity given to certain songs in Absolution (Time is Running Out & Hysteria) and the use of Supermassive Black Hole in "Twilight"
So here is the question I pose:
is Muse getting too mainstream, and catering to this mainstream? or is it just natural progression and experimentation of style?
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Muse have always been mainstream, but circa 2001-2004 nobody complained because they were refreshing. I hope that Origin of Symmetry remains as timeless to me in twenty years as I find it now.
The trouble is now that they aren't particularly refreshing. Yeah, they sound different from the 100,000 indie bands that plague our charts these days but in comparison with their older material they are thoroughly disappointing. Exogenesis sounds good but they filled the rest of the album with a lot of poppy filler.
They're not bad now by any means, just uninteresting. When it comes to riffy, spacey anthemic music, there's other bands I've found.