New Born Lee
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My first impression was that it was naff. That said I was humming it today.
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I don't think it's similar enough to be worthy of comparison. Slayer's riff is the same ascending riff over and over. Muse's is more complex, ascending, ascending again, arpeggiating down and up and back again. Both have different effects that are good in both songs.
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Some point during LP8’s lifespan. Potentially Dom on vox for the ‘hugs for you’ bits. Deadly fucking serious.
It could definitely work, though I'm not sure they could do a whole lot with it.
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I feel like, as Muse have consistently went for more epic, over the top and apocalyptic themes, they've been chasing the same perfection they captured with Take A Bow.
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Really impressed that they played Eternally Missed. I loved that song when I was a Muse megafan and I can always hear why Muse fans love it. I listen now and I can see why it didn't make an album - honestly it's kind of a mess conceptually, there are parts I love and parts I could do without. It's no surprise at all that they don't play it, which is what makes it really nice that Muse did so by request.
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It's not harmonies or chanting. Unfortunately I'm too musically illiterate to describe what exactly I mean. There's something in the sound that I associate with Queen, but maybe it's just something generally 80s. Something Muse has started employing from The Resistance on.
I mean, it's generally very theatrical and melodramatic in delivery, that's very Queen. Matt's also singing in a gaspy, feverish yet clean style that isn't too far from some of Freddie's work. The resemblances have been in place for a long time, it's just that they've been much more overt in the past.
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The Final Solution line sticks out a fucking mile because it's the only concrete line in the song that refers to a specific thing. Other than that line the song is so vague that it's essentially about nothing. I can't believe no-one has sat Matt down and explained to him that the abstract is best expressed through the concrete. That's poetry/lyrics 101.
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This...actually might be worse than Dig Down. Dig Down is painfully slow and overwrought but at least it's got a sort of fist-clenching general inclusiveness, a message vague but widely optimistic. Thought Contagion seems like a criticism of...something? Or is it just a bad thing happening? What's a thought contagion? Oh, it makes the sky sad? Oh dear.
The chorus. The woahs. The desperately delivered yet meaningless lyrics. The painfully obvious, pantomime evil melody. There's no musicianship to the track. It's like all the instruments are compressed into one sound.
Am I just tired? I'll sleep on it, okay.
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I wonder how native speakers of English deal with the lyrics sometimes.
As a non-native speaker I find it easy to just ignore how bad certain lines sound (not the Rio one though), so maybe that makes Muse more easily enjoyable for us.日本人ですか？
I wonder how many Japanese and Korean songs I'm understanding while blissfully ignorant of the lyrics. I like Dir en grey a lot but apparently their lyrics are very divisive.
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For the ones who are too young to remember:
I completely forgot that was a thing.
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Wow this is random.
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I haven't seen this much mutual masturbation since...well, since Muse's last album.
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Ah the big meaningless 'real'.
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They released a video of a live version of this song. Granted it was in a venue where people didn't come for Muse but it's such a static performance. But it's not because of the venue or the boys' energy level. It's because this song is devoid of pace and energy. There's nothing to move to.
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Can I be that guy and ask...can you even say 'What lyrics can relate to you?'
I mean, lyrics are inanimate, they can't relate to anything in that way.
Is the proper grammar not, ""What lyrics can you relate to?"
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I despise T2L but
Huh, I've never noticed the harpsichord-esque noises following the piano in that song before.
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Showbiz: Cave
Origin of Symmetry: New Born (duh)
Absolution: Stockholm Syndrome
Black Holes and Revelations: Map of the Problematique
The Resistance: MK ULTRA
The 2nd Law: Animals
Drones: Defector
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Supermassive Black Hole. Saw it on a music video channel.
Edit: hang on, this is different from the other thread?
Um, I guess the song that convinced me they were worth being obsessed with was Take A Bow, when I first gave BHAR a spin. I remember listening to the distortion at the end, I was rather naive and had never really heard a song cut to something like that. It was fucking cool.
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We're talking Unintended, Screenager, Blackout, Soldier's Poem, Guiding Light, Save Me and Aftermath.
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Meh, Great, Great, Good, Awful, Okay and Awful, in that order.
Ruled By Secrecy and Hoodoo are the best slow Muse tracks for me.
As a non-native speaker I find it easy to just ignore how bad certain lines sound (not the Rio one though), so maybe that makes Muse more easily enjoyable for us.
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I'm glad few people are indifferent about it. That way Muse releasing a song continues to be at least funny.