Clunge
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I've just realised... I saw pretty much the first and last shows of the TR tour - Teignmouth #2 and Reading. They were both ace, the tour show in the middle less so... I don't think it was a gash tour, just a very predictable, overly safe, overly rehearsed one. It still packed a punch and made for a spectacle.
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The BH&R sets were great. The 2006 arena tour had the most variety of any Muse tour ever, and the sets were usually 17-20 songs a night.
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Also, Muse tickets are XX for no reason other than they can be. The band don't have a say in the charges either - I just hope/wish the band would take the price set by their promoters into account when they think about the show... but at 14/15 songs a night at times, it doesn't really seem they do . Promoters will charge whatever they think they can get away with and obviously selling out the O2 Arena twice at £45-£50 a pop is feasible so they do. Doesn't make it right or good or preferable but it boils down to business. If anything, it's the punters' fault for not being perhaps as discerning as they could be.
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Since pretty much forever . They're a hugely popular band who write popular songs and while I know someone is going to point of 'Pop' is indicative of a genre of music these days, Muse still tick that box pretty accurately with somes like Undisclosed Desires, Uprising, Resistance, Starlight, Time Is Running Out, Supermassive Black Hole, etc.
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Perhaps not, but it's inflated massively over the last few years to the point where it is pricing a lot of people out of going all together. It's all well and good putting on massive shows so lots of people can go but at nearly £50 a pop, they begin to look increasingly like massive cash cows.
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Ticket prices are a huge thing too., of course. The last arena tour (2009) I paid £45 for my ticket after fees. Before that, I had seen Muse at Earls Court for £25 (2004), Eden for £33 (2006), Wembley Stadium for £40 (2007), Teignmouth for £40 (2009) and RAH for £45 (2008). All totally unique and yet cheaper or at least equitable with a bog standard tour gig. If it's priced the same this time for tour shows, I ain't going. Simple as.
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Hehe. I was 14 I think when I first saw them, my second ever gig and probably to this day the greatest set I've seen from them. Just wish it was fresher in my mind... eight years ago, jeez .
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Once a year for the last eight is NOTHING compared with a lot of people here . Plus, any more and it would feel like overkill. It's just worked out quite well in terms of locations/dates and having a student loan to blow.
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And? Tough shit for them . Sick of bands hawking their latest wares at every big venue under the sun at every conceivable opportunity. How about coming up with a quirky or original idea for a tour? That's why the two Teignmouth gigs were so good - they were unique. I've seen Muse eight times now in last eight years and the two worst by a country mile were the two bog-standard arena gigs - Manchester MEN 2006 and London O2 Arena 2009. Both dull as dishwater compared with Eden Project 2006, Teignmouth 2009 and Reading 2011. Those gigs stick with me because they were special. Tbh, I rarely go to gigs these days unless there is a very compelling reason to do so. Otherwise, they just become a mulch in my brain, especially if you see the same band over and over again.
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I never understand why people want big gigs? . I'd much rather Muse did some small warm up gigs and fight for tickets. I'd rather try for those and miss out than go and see Muse again at another enormous gig. They're boring. Festivals, fine, but please no more O2 arena shite - they were awful back in November 2009 compared with say Reading last year. Brixton Academy would be awesome for some warm ups. 2/3 nights there .
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I think Resistance will go. It was crap live and it was a crap single. In fact, Uprising was the only remotely successful release from The Resistance. I can it and USOE surviving but not much else.
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If Invincible comes back, I quit.
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Glasto '04 tone > all other points of Muse history.
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Most of the songs on Hullabaloo do that - Recess and Nature_1 in particular.
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Just listened to Hullabaloo for the first time in years. It sounds like a brand new album after all this time . Forgot just how good and raw some of the tracks are. Muse really did go all-out in their outros back then, the ends of Shrinking Universe, Recess and Nature_1 are insane.
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Any excuse to post this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0r8MURRQCY
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Anyone notice how bad Origin of Symmetry sounds?
Clunge replied to sangforabsolution's topic in Songs & Releases
Just listen to Bliss and compare it with nearly anything Muse have done since. It sounds so bright and spacious . -
Paranoid Android #1 .
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Muse were in Outnumbered this week.
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Me . None of this 'Murican nonsense here .
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Showbiz Sunburn x2 Muscle Museum x1 Cave x2 Showbiz x2 Unintended x1 Origin Of Symmetry New Born x8 Bliss x6 Space Dementia x1 Hyper Music x1 Plug In Baby x8 Citizen Erased x4 Micro Cuts x3 Screenager x1 Darkshines x1 Feeling Good x5 Megalomania x2 Absolution Apocalypse Please x1 Time Is Running Out x8 Sing For Absolution x1 Stockholm Syndrome x8 Hysteria x8 Blackout x2 Butterflies & Hurricanes x5 The Small Print x1 Thoughts Of A Dying Atheist x1 Ruled By Secrecy x1 Black Holes & Revelations Take A Bow x4 Starlight x7 Supermassive Black Hole x7 Map Of The Problematique x6 Soldier's Poem x1 Invincible x4 City Of Delusion x2 Hoodoo x2 Knights Of Cydonia x7 The Resistance Uprising x3 Resistance x3 Undisclosed Desires x3 United States Of Eurasia x2 Guiding Light x1 Unnatural Selection x2 MK Ultra x1 Exogenesis Pt. 1: Overture x1 Others Dracula Mountain x1 Dead Star x1 Crying Shame x1 Forced In x2 Man Of Mystery x1 Fury x1 Osaka Jam x1 Popcorn x1 Man With A Harmonica x3 Nishe x1 Helsinki Jam x2 I think that's it.
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Silly 'Muricans . Don't rob us Brits of our 'titbits'.
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Hate This & I'll Love You. One of Muse's finest, dare I say, 'lost' gems.
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Also, wtf happened to the whole 'oh, the towers restrict the setlist argument'? . Fucking joke; can anyone who backed them before now see where we're coming from? Eh?
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