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I love them! 45 66.18%
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Old 08-13-2009, 11:03 PM   #551 (permalink)
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The more I think about the more I realise it must be bloody hard to engage a stadium audience, with all those faces staring at you in sea of people, it's gotta be hard to make that vital connection, but it sounds like Muse have a trick or two based on your descripttion of their DVD footage...
I remember Bruce ****inson of Iron Maiden saying when you play a big show everything you do has to be big and grand so the person in the back doesn't feel so far away. Which Matt certainly does.

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HAARP is awesome. It makes me wanna see them live so bad.
Yeh, actually my interest in them sparked when I saw some vids of the HAARP show on youtube.
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Old 08-14-2009, 01:18 PM   #552 (permalink)
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I was actually at that HAARP show. Well, technically, I was at the show the day before, heh. Pretty much the same thing, though. Anyway, you've already said it: they really, really know how to play to a stadium crowd. It's funny you mention Iron Maiden 'cause I think Muse and Maiden are the only two bands I'd rather see play to 90,000 people than to 3,000.
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Old 08-14-2009, 01:55 PM   #553 (permalink)
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Yeah some bands are just built for the big stadium stage both sonically and visually... Muse are definitely a big stadium statement band, and more power to 'em.... its hard to pull off!
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Old 08-14-2009, 02:00 PM   #554 (permalink)
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I think the sound on HAARP is fairly poor for a modern live album. It fails to capture the atmosphere of a huge live Muse gig, instead it sounds as though they're only playing to a few hundred people. Also, the capturing of the instruments isn't as dynamic as some of the great live albums out there. It's a shame because big Muse concerts are generally good but I feel this album is pretty poor, sound wise.
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Old 08-15-2009, 12:57 PM   #555 (permalink)
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I think the sound on HAARP is fairly poor for a modern live album. It fails to capture the atmosphere of a huge live Muse gig, instead it sounds as though they're only playing to a few hundred people. Also, the capturing of the instruments isn't as dynamic as some of the great live albums out there. It's a shame because big Muse concerts are generally good but I feel this album is pretty poor, sound wise.
Yeh I have to agree. I listened to abit of the album before I watched the show and thought the quality was pretty bad. But when I heard it again after watching the show and it sounded better, but it's probably because I had something visual in my head to help the music.

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Yeah some bands are just built for the big stadium stage both sonically and visually... Muse are definitely a big stadium statement band, and more power to 'em.... its hard to pull off!
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Old 08-15-2009, 04:27 PM   #556 (permalink)
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not to mention some of the clearly non-stadium songs they played like Soldier's Poem and Unintended
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Old 08-15-2009, 04:42 PM   #557 (permalink)
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I think both of those songs are pretty awful. =\
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I love Unintended, but I'd hate to see it in a live show in the place of much more energetic songs.
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Old 08-17-2009, 01:23 AM   #559 (permalink)
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I just got Hullabaloo and am listening through it right now. I have to say it's awhole lot better than I expected it to be. Really great stuff, Shine (Acoustic) is what I think to be their best acoustic numbers and the background water noise just add to it's beauty and Yes Please is an amazing piece of pure distortion. I think the band sounds better here than they do now. That whole OSS era was really their peak. To bad the dressed so awful, I mean really Matt and his hellraiser spiked hair looked so ridiculous. But nowadays the band is really styling.
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Old 08-17-2009, 08:47 PM   #560 (permalink)
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You can now listen to 30 second samples of every song on the itunes store.

I think the album's going to suck besides the symphonic song(s).
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