forevermusic
-
Posts
15,894 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Gallery
Blogs
Events
Articles
Store
Downloads
Posts posted by forevermusic
-
-
I lurk a bit on the Reddit but I've never felt really like its something I want to get involved with. Maybe its just a distrust for the platform in general, even if I'm aware its not really a million miles removed from all the other social media/forums I post in.
-
I was thinking more along the lines of putting out a track that reeks of Imagine Dragons/Fall Out Boy and talking about trap in interviews, really.
I'll be honest - I had no idea what trap is/was before TC appeared. Although I suspect I heard it in the background somewhere.
-
1. Psycho
2. Supermassive Black Hole
3. Thought Contagion
4. Hysteria
5. Butterflies and Hurricanes
6. Citizen Erased
Isolated System
7. Stockholm Syndrome + riff + riff
8. Uprising
9. Showbiz
10. Apocalypse Please
11. Munich Jam + Dig Down
12. Plug in Baby
13. Starlight
14. Time is Running Out
15. Reapers
16. Space Dementia
17. Muscle Museum
18. Knights of Cydonia
19. Dead Star
20. Map of the Problematique + Township Rebellion riff
21. Bliss (extended)
-
I like The 2nd Law more than The Resistance, which remains the weakest album IMO (even if I'm starting to re-appreciate bits of it).
-
I swear the '80's pop culture revival has been going on for longer than the 1980's themselves by now.
-
Chicago makes sense being they've promised a make up gig for their Lollapalooza set being cancelled last year.
I bet they do both that and LA.
Be cool if they did, but I guess we'll see. I honestly thought Chicago was the likelier due to the whole Lolla Chicago thing, but I suppose LA wouldn't be that surprising.
What makes you reckon they’ll do both? I’d be surprised tbh. The last 2 were about 6 months apart and in Matt’s interview before La Cigale, he only seemed sure of one more, with a third European one being a maybe.I kinda want a Europe one given I missed out on both SBE and La Cigale.
Would've happily suggested Saturday before Rock Am Ring/Rock Im Park, but that's the Bottle Rock weekend so maybe not.
-
I think it was mentioned in passing in an interview on Apple Music when Thought Contagion was released.
-
Tbf I don't think any of the festivals Muse are booked for this summer are that close to Chicago. Although I assumed Austin given I saw a fan asked Matt & Dom when they were there for Matt's Beatles band if they'd do one there and they seemed receptive to the concept.
Either that or maybe it'd be a make up for Lollapalooza getting washed out last year.
-
I like Explorers. There's something quite workable to my ears of the fact its a bleak apocalyptic lullaby. But then its main working point was SBE in 2013 when we all needed after a particularly raucous Knights of Cydonia.
-
I kinda live in my own musical bubble so I've not really heard much Kendrick Lamar, or at least without turning on something the songs are soundtracking. Kind of a bad habit to disappear to some degree tbf. What I heard on Black Panther was decent, mind, although I preferred the African percussion score to the more rap-oriented tracks in that film. But hey. All opinions.
What I've heard of Villains is decent, but I do agree its over-produced.
-
1. Psycho
2. Supermassive Black Hole
3. Thought Contagion
4. Hysteria
5. Citizen Erased
Isolated System
6. Uprising
7. Starlight
8. Madness
9. Apocalypse Please
10. Munich Jam + Mercy
11. Bliss
12. Time is Running Out
13. Knights of Cydonia
14. Dig Down
15. Plug in Baby
16. Stockholm Syndrome + riff
17. Agitated + riff + riff
-
Volbeat are Elvis and Metallica crossover band from Denmark, they're big in Scandinavia, Benelux countries, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. People hardly know them outside of that part
That's different.
Maybe there's a profile to them here I wasn't aware of - they're 3rd on the main stage at Download UK, below Bullet for my Valentine and headliners Avenged Sevenfold.
-
30STM are as big as Muse in Germany.
Yeah, I know, our taste in music sucks.
Volbeat can headline Rock am Ring as well... I don't know why.
Random. But then that can happen. I know Editors are huge in Belgium and Holland, but in the UK, I can still get tickets to all of their shows for their October tour, which is all in academy/theatre rooms.
Also, I'm not entirely sure who Volbeat are. Which might be further proof I live in my own little bubble musically.
-
There's been some glorious ones in the Facebook comment section.
-
yeah london olympic stadium is a possibility but i would prefer a come back at wembley, 9 years after their last gig
Well this year, Rolling Stones, Jay-Z/Beyonce and Foo Fighters are doing it, plus I've heard some say Arctic Monkeys are playing there (although maybe not - hard to know what they're doing until they announce something). Its nice to see it get the use for something though, and given recent events, it looks a better use for concerts than as a home for West Ham.
I saw Depeche Mode at the Olympic Stadium last year. The sound wasn't great for The Horrors, but when DM came on, it sounded very good. The seats are a mile from the stage though.
A return to Wembley would be good too though for shows that big. But tbf having missed out on SBE and La Cigale, I'm more tempted to wait around in the hope of another request gig. Especially if they begin to do more of them.
Yeah and also you’ll be near Nuremberg which is a great city and not so far from Munich to go exploringBy the look of the map, the venue seems to be in Nuremberg itself, and relatively close to the main train station. Certainly, it looks a lot less of a pain in the arse to get to that the Nurburgring.
Speaking of RaR/RiP, when they announced the bill I thought 30 Seconds To Mars would be a co-headliner, rather than the actual arrangement of them outright and a Foo Fighters/Gorillaz co-headline. Didn't realise they were that big.
-
Apparently Matt's said in a French interview that they're intending to do stadiums on the next tour.
Will have been a while since the last stadium dates by then tbf. Wonder if one date would be London Olympic Stadium given I seem to recall a previous comment about wanting to play there.
-
Tbf I reckon it'd be a little bit of fun to see people from bands like Muse and Blur playing The Beatles at the RAH. Particularly if they can get Paul McCartney to play with them again like they did the other month.
-
1. Take a Bow
2. Hysteria
3. Reapers
4. Psycho
5. New Born
6. Citizen Erased
Isolated System
7. Uprising
8. Time is Running Out
9. Butterflies and Hurricanes
10. Sunburn
11. Munich Jam + Dig Down
12. Map of the Problematique + Township Rebellion riff
13. Supermassive Black Hole
14. Mercy
15. Plug in Baby
16. Bliss
17. Apocalypse Please
18. Muscle Museum
19. Knights of Cydonia
20. Stockholm Syndrome + riff + riff + riff
21. Showbiz
-
That Trump Tweet of Matt's actually surprised me, tbh, because Matt's prior communications were just along the lines of "it'll be fine, Congress won't let anything terrible happen" which shows his incredibly naïve understanding of American politics and the damaging forces that led to the election of Trump in the first place.
And also Matt's clear nationalist stances, which he was talking about in interviews as recently as last year. (And I suppose it's hard for me to think of nationalists as anything other than far right, right now.)
Brexit, for example, became heavily anti-immigrant in nature for a lot of the population, the same as the nationalist movement in the US has been heavily protectionist (and bigoted.)
So, seeing Matt call Trump a Nazi made me wonder if he was really not self aware (or educated) enough to see that one couldn't be pro-Brexit (for example) with caveats like "well, except for THAT" part...
Sometimes you have to say that things aren't worth the cost, no matter how much you agree with one of the parts of the whole, or admit that you're supporting something ugly out of selfishness.
And this is what completely went wrong with the US; the checks and balances failed and people embraced some really evil beliefs.
(The "king" line in DD is a bit scary now that Trump has suggested it would be cool for the US to move to a "ruler for life" system...)
But yeah, mostly I'm just a bit in awe of how un self-aware telling people not to buy into "thought contagion" is coming from someone who's dealt in conspiracy and anti-government themes for a very long time.
There's probably better examples but the big nationalist pop/rock star in a UK perspective that I can think of Morrissey, who has backed Brexit with big enthusiasm, praised Farage, slagged off multiculturalism, and was unhappy UKIP failed to elect a very anti-Islam candidate as leader. Unless I missed something, has Matt - someone who backed Scottish independence, for instance - done anything on that scale?
Maybe I'm aware of the whole placing of people being away from the similarities between the two movements because I know people who voted for Brexit but thought Trump's election was a shit idea, or people who think there's more degrees of separation between the two events. I would also say that there's a number of people out there that didn't vote for Brexit because of immigration, but given that's the topic that did as much to lead to it, they are effectively wedded together as themes, and its hard not to let that influence it.
Meh, I always thought that all the conspiracy and dystopian stuff were just part of an act to build a certain image of himself and thus appear "cool" to the musical world. Many love to buy into the "eccentric rockstar" cliché, so that wouldn't surprise me.On the other hand, he also seemed genuinely fascinated with those sort of things, not to the point of believing them, but rather using them in a heavily ironic fashion in his lyrics to "mock" them and point them out as paranoid and manic constructs. Maybe it's just me, but that's part of the appeal that BHAR had when I listened to it for the first time, coupled with the great music, of course.
I think once the conspiracy stuff could have been interesting, and I do recall Matt once saying he brushed up on them so he'd have more interesting shit to say in interviews.
But of course, I would say a lot of that came before we knew more about both the people who spread these theories, and the people who consume them to the point of believing in them. Which has definitely ruined it.
-
If we're just talking about different productions, yes. About the sound, it might actually be less so. In DD and TC you can make out some similar elements in both if their arrangements, like the electronic drums and the synth parts that gives them a vague hip hop flavour in some points.
Anyway, the fact they'll be working with Timbaland has been quite of a shocking news for me to read. I thought I'd never see "Muse" and "Timbaland" put together in the same sentence, and I don't know what to make of this...
It could be genius, it could be a complete dogs**t. We'll see. The idea of them experimenting with hip hop intrigues me, though.
I do agree that some synthy sounds are similar for both Dig Down and Thought Contagion, but there's a production feeling in the latter more reminiscent of the production on Absolution and Black Holes, which is somewhat faithful given Rich Costey's involvement in those LP's.
There's been hip-hop elements in some previous tracks like Madness or UD (although there's an argument that some of those sounds are in Supermassive Black Hole, not least given the band talked up a Kanye West influence at the time). But a full-on hip-hop-rock track is an interesting challenge, assuming it makes the cut.
-
As far as I recall, Timbaland has been busy doing stuff for the TV show Empire. I liked the first series of it then couldn't get into season 2 so hadn't been looking out to see if it was still going on.
I'm already a little wary as to the mix of producers, given this'll be the 3rd one involved after the ones at the desk for the first 2 singles. There's a difference in sound clarity between Dig Down and Thought Contagion, as the latter has a bit of a muddier mix, and I do wonder if this could lead to the upcoming album being even more over the place than it would've been if it was just same producer and different genres.
-
Yeah. Plus I'll probably go for the day ticket for RiP (unless they get announced for Rock Werchter) which makes it even better
I was hoping for Werchter but I think The Killers are outright headliners for Friday, which was the last slot to fill.
If a Muse/Killers co-headline was on offer I'd be very much in favour of heading across the Channel for that. Especially at a festival with Gorillaz, QOTSA and Arctic Monkeys as other headliners.
-
Apparently Matt told French radio they're working on a song with Timbaland.
Something like Undisclosed Desires with extra guitars?
-
Did it at SBE as well, which was also used to tell them the set so no spoilers came out via paper ones.
I’d say only do it if it feels like something you reeeally wanna do, not just feel like you should at some point. Otherwise, idk, you might risk feeling like you totally wasted your money after seeing an average/mediocre set or two. My first abroad gig was the Eiffel Tower one I think, which was nowt special other than the setting really, but I had a great time anyway ‘cos the whole experience felt like an adventure and I’ve gotten that kick every time I’ve done it since as well.
I always go alone to gigs tbh. Two way sword - you don’t have to worry about looking after someone else or them killing your vibe if they have a shit time but you also don’t have anyone to share the memories with.
I thought the SBE thing was just set, no lyrics. Although I'm pretty sure it was mentioned that for last night, the paper setlist was floating around on Instagram before the show even began.
I don't really see it as an obligation, but I've been talking about the idea of doing it for years then not actually gone and done it. Indeed, a friend has pointed this out of late when discussed.
So it might be worth a go. And yeah, even if the gig itself isn't the best, a good experience all round might well still worth it.
Your Perfect Muse Setlist
in Tours
Posted
Nearly 3 days to spot... time was it was busy enough to have been picked up on instantly.
Either that or as I'm yet to see it, its called making up for lost time.