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    It's pure genius. It will be the most immersive album experience ever made. Next time around it will be released as a yoghurt containing an infectious virus that will be passed on from person to person. Everyone will hear it. And there's nothing anyone can do about it. It'll be like that last U2 album.
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    I think it's pretty clear. In June 2015 all pre-orders will be delivered by drones. They will fly to you, they will find you, and they will release a payload of live, raw bees. This album is brutal and can only be heard via an interactive bee-sting induced fever dream.
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    ?
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    That's actually quite interesting. Guess we'll see!
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    I just wondered how you'd react to the cup final, via your football thread persona, if you were a Spurs fan! In terms of direct post inspiration, I may have copied/adapted this one: http://board.muse.mu/showpost.php?p=10476095&postcount=9342

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    Err... What? I'd add Starlight, Madness, Neutron Star Collision, Invincible, Panic Station, and Explorers to that list for starters. Not sure I'd put IBTY in there, but I guess that one is debatable. It's difficult to judge from 5 seconds. But that 5 seconds does not sound like a return to an OOS sound. In its funk rock it sounds potentially as close or closer to Panic Station than Bliss/Plug In Baby/New Born/Citizen Erased to me.
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    It does signal that they are stripping back and returning to playing rock. But its upbeat, funky feel combined with the group-vocal shout simultaneously signals that they are channelling it through their more recent cheesy style - what they once called their Monty Python-esque humour, making it purposefully laughable and silly. I personally find the first element positive or encouraging, and the second element negative and discouraging. I was definitely hoping that they'd dropped the self-consciously silly, cheesy aspects, which were fun for a while (Knight of Cydonia, for instance), but I think have grown pretty old and off-putting by this stage.
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    I'd say it sounds more like the 80s hair funk/metal band than RATM in that clip. And that's not really a good thing... Yeah, I think that's my expectations set back to low!
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    YES! It really does.
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    Best Muse album art eh? Origin of Symmetry > The Resistance > Absolution >>> Showbiz >> The 2nd Law > Black Holes and Revelations Three good, three bad. Especially the last two.
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    I think Fabri may take the Most Devoted Fan award off Max at this rate!
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    Micro Cuts. Not that I've ever considered it anything less than awesome, but for some reason I was particularly struck by it when giving Orange in a Cemetery a much overdue re-listen (seriously, it's probably been over a year). In some ways it does what several of the tracks on that album does, by having Matt and Chris both feel like they're playing lead. Which is difficult to explain. I only really noticed it as a teenager when I was told by a studio producer that the Hyper Music-rip off verse I wanted to record couldn't work! Err... generally (no, not always) in rock music, if one instrument is thrashing or riffing then the other plays a more subdued and simple supporting role, creating space and providing a solid bedrock. In OOS, Muse separate things by treble and bass, but then tend to have nothing except the drums playing anything simple and steady. Take Hyper Music. In the verse Matt is playing those trebly thrashing chords and Chris is playing a complex, climbing distorted bass riff. Or Bliss, with spiraling trebly arpeggios on one side and another distorted, spiralling bass riff on the other. It's not totally unique, but it is still unusual enough to be ear grabbing and gives the music a noisy, bordering-on-chaos excitement and energy. Microcuts doesn't do this to the same extemes as those two, but it still works off that idea. You have these floaty, yet eerie trebly arpeggios, but they are constantly interrupted by aggressive, punchy, distorted bass (as opposed to Chris playing something quieter or more background). It creates an interesting contrast and sounds pretty unique. Speaking of those arpeggios, I love the way they seem to loop and cut with subtle variations. It just makes it so unsettling. Micro Cuts also features some really weird, unusual, twisted guitar chords in the chorus. And then there's those vocals! Those utterly unhinged vocals. Plus, the song's build and transition into somewhere else entirely, ending with that awesome Hendrix-come-RATM riff. It's not that Microcuts is utterly free of influence. It has them. But perhaps more than anything else they've ever done, it doesn't sound like anyone else. It sounds uniquely Muse. It feels on edge, original rather than derivative, and is just damn exciting. I have a very faint hope that they recapture something of that creative, chaotic spirit for the new record, rather than giving us Queen or U2 tracks by numbers. But it's not much of one atm.
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    It's a nice song for the inducement of narcolepsy.
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    Explorers The Big Freeze Guiding Light Follow Me Madness I think that's the first time I have failed to put Invincible down for this kind of list. But compared to those five it's bordering on being a pretty good song.
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    Ok, positivity! Maybe Muse's new album will really be a brilliant and innovative return to their 2001-06 prime and we'll then be able to nominate them for 'group of the year 2015'. But they simply haven't been 'group of the year 2014'. There are many more deserving bands for that title.
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    Maybe they mean it as positive reinforcement! Muse, you didn't release anything this year! Thank fuck for that. Take this award and continue not releasing any more 2nd Law-grade rubbish.
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    Secret Machines were brilliant. Especially on their debut. Seeing them at Cardiff in 2006 was another of my favourite gigs ever! They were very good at Earl's Court too, but I sadly only got to see the last 3 or so songs from their set. Seemed to be one of those rare occasions where the support bands were given almost as good sound quality as the main act. Either that, or they were so loud that they managed to fill Earl's Court with sound anyway!
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    N1) Thoughts Of A Dying Atheist N2) Space Dementia - N1) Crying Shame N2) Glorious - N1) Dead Star N2) Blackout. There's not a huge difference in setlist. Both are pretty fantastic. If I could have a free pick and match I'd have taken Space Dementia, Dead Star, & Blackout, so one from Night 1 and two from Night 2, with both new ones cut (although I'd personally take Night 2's Glorious over Crying Shame). The only thing I'd change about Night 2 is the positioning of Glorious in the first encore, which (as a completely unknown and slow song) didn't really work there. Other than that it flowed superbly. From looking at the setlists, I'd say N2 had the better structured main set, & N1 had the better structured/most epic encores. Although to take both would be to repeat songs! Tbh, whichever night you went to, you saw an absolutely epic gig of Muse at their height, the rest is just going to be nitpicking.
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    I was at night 2 and it was easily the best gig I've ever seen them play. They were just so pumped up and on fire all night. Matt had smashed up his Ibanez guitar by 3 or 4 songs in! Plus, comparative reviews at the time said night 2 was better, and when Muse reviewed the footage they decided to use (if sadly highly edit down) tracks from night 2 on the Absolution DVD. So, . EDIT: Infact, here is the 2nd night as streamed by XFM (wrongly labelled by this video as the 1st night - look up the setlist details/MuseWiki): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paz48hGEgdM ^ But it replaces Glorious with the 1st night's performance of Dead Star (presumably because Glorious was a new track).
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    Were once awesome.
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    1) Bliss 2) New Born 3) Stockholm Syndrome 4) Plug In Baby 5) Citizen Erased 6) Dead Star 7) Fury 8) Map Of The Problematique 9) Hyper Music 10) Hysteria
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    Kinesis were a pretty cool if now largely forgotten band from the early 2000s, whose guitarist was influenced by Muse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JnDDtlc9uk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCmdWt-7LpI
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    I'd agree Muse have some King Crimson touches. But not on that bridge. Again, I'd agree that Muse and Dream Theatre sound similar at times in their use of riffs and synth arpeggios. But the track you've posted was released two years after Absolution, so it definitely didn't influence Hysteria or Stockholm Syndrome. edit: Whoops, misread that bit, sorry! The last one has a string that hits the same note for a second. That's really it... If you want to explore their influences, then the biggest is definitely RATM (for both the riffs and the pitch-shifting - Matt has always been very upfront about that). Lightning Bolt have inspired riffs too. Jeff Buckley's debut encouraged Matt to sing in falsetto. Tom Waits has influenced a few tracks (especially Screenager). SOAD and Deftones, as Alex said. And for their earlier stuff Nirvana was a HUGE influence on them, especially in spirit, to the point where they regularly imitated them in their live shows. E.g. compare the end of Nirvana's famous to Muse's end of gig gear-smashing routine (especially around OOS & Absolution - squealing guitar>smash into amp>pull amps over>dive into drum kits), or Matt wearing a lab coat in tribute to Kurk Cobain's for their Glastonbury performance in 2004. Plus, all those Nirvana tributes or riffs between songs.
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    I can't even remember where my user name came from! But I probably was first discovering post-rock around then. I still like it. In my mind it does still kind of capture two of the things that I'm most drawn to in music: noise and atmosphere, preferably with a futuristic or unsettling feel!

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    Explorers The Big Freeze Guiding Light Invincible Madness That's one of their best.
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