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View Poll Results: What you think of Muse.
I love them! 45 66.18%
I don't like them. 11 16.18%
I'm not sure. 9 13.24%
Who are they? 3 4.41%
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Old 07-08-2006, 02:38 PM   #171 (permalink)
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I didnt think this album was anything special
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Old 08-03-2006, 06:06 PM   #172 (permalink)
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Default Muse's Boston Concert

Did anyone else here go to the Muse concert in Boston yesterday? I arrived late, and heard Aphex Twin's "come to daddy" playing. I was wondering what was going on on stage. Oh and tell me what you thought of the concert. I thought it was great.
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Old 01-13-2007, 11:52 AM   #173 (permalink)
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Default Muse - why so popular?

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not going to say Muse are a bad band. I mean, evidently, they're not bad at all. But having come off hearing the Black Holes and Revelations album, what I CAN say is that there's nothing particularly remarkable about their music at all, at least in THIS example anyway. Nothing.

Bellamy's vocals are the most peculiarly exaggerated I've ever heard in all my life; most of the songs are not particularly gratifying or catchy; it's pretty old school at heart, really, riff sections often resembling Black Sabbath, and even Queen - speaking of whom, the voice double-tracking in some songs sounds curiously like them too; as for all the synth effects, then it also sounds fairly old school, 80s even, rather than modern or futuristic; the usage of the odd classical element here and there often seem out of place. To sum up, one can label all this "innovation" if they like; to me, it's just... oddness! The overall combination of ideas just don't merge together well enough or sound that good. It's more a retro record than anything else.

Even in spite of all the unconventionals, this is on the whole still a fairly pedestrian, formulaic, uninspiring, uninteresting pop record. Can anybody seriously admit to REALLY getting the dying urge to turn this on?

Now, I'm fully with the understanding that all major bands are sickly overrated by their fanboys... that's not the issue. What puzzles me, though, is what exactly is it is that these fanboys are FINDING in Muse that fills them with so much, to all intents and purposes, inexplicable awe? Is it just the geeky perception that because they do a few odd things, they're therefore rock revolutionaries?
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Old 01-13-2007, 12:06 PM   #174 (permalink)
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Black Holes is their worse album.
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Old 01-13-2007, 12:31 PM   #175 (permalink)
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their popular because of the the 4/5 albums they've released 2 have been of the highest quality (with absolution being one of the greatest records of the last decade), one good full debut and their latest.. which, as already indicated, is their worst album. their music post-showbiz is highly original i believe, who else sounds like muse today? and dont mention queen because thats just lazy.
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Old 01-13-2007, 12:47 PM   #176 (permalink)
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You've gotta check out Origin of Symentry...and then come back...chances are you'll see why people like them..or at least be able to realize that Blackholes is just a bad album.
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Old 01-13-2007, 12:51 PM   #177 (permalink)
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I won't praise them half as much as others do, but they are a good band. Every release has been fairly solid.
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Old 01-13-2007, 01:04 PM   #178 (permalink)
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I`ve always got the impression that Muse are the kind of band worshipped by people who bitch about how music sucks these days because people don`t make albums like Led Zeppelin IV or Night At The Opera anymore.

I really really despise this band.
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Old 01-13-2007, 01:07 PM   #179 (permalink)
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on my part at least thats not it. i genuinly dislike queen alot, and as for zep, well, though im a fan i dont want music to be like that nowadays, if i did id just put a wolfmother Album on. Is the fact Matt Bellamy was a c*ck in a chatroom a factor in your hatred?
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I think Mark E Smith is a total wanker as well but it doesn`t stop me listening to The Fall.
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