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NEW ALBUM!
Trilateral_Symmetry_Com'n. replied to Trilateral_Symmetry_Com'n.'s topic in NEW ALBUM!'s NEW ALBUM! Topics
I am always in favor of albums over singles and of new Muse albums in particular. Muse singles are all right, too, but improve when collected and released on CD, as in the studio/live compilation Hullaballoo. And I am especially in favor of Muse releasing all their old B-sides (there's what, 39 of them now?) in a nice & shiny box set, or three separate albums, whatever... and ditto for more of their concerts, I mean, jeez, such a great live band and so relatively few concert recordings to be bought in the USA, at least... c'mon, Muse, clean out your vaults! -
Hi, guys! I outed myself as a music/soundtrack/miscellaneous-musical-crackpottery geek in this thread; I trust this alone would qualify me for membership in this group. I'm also a history/literature/grammar Nazi/amateur translator geek, I wear embarrassingly unfashionable glasses, and my best friend thinks I'm some kind of alien trivia-recall device.
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Hi, Forwen. I just joined your "Older Muser's" group, but there's one thing that bothers me about it: the unnecessary apostrophe in the group's name! As older Musers, shouldn't we be setting a proper (not pwoper, ha) example to the young'uns?
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Tellytots, the worst possible scenario would be if you were to puke all over their shoes... really expensive, irreplacable shoes... My only question right now is, why isn't this group the most populous on the site? I mean, to be perfectly honest, what fan wouldn't want to meet their idols? Maybe this is just something too geeky and embarrassing to admit to... but a shameless band should have shameless fans, no?
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We Want You! Join In!!
Trilateral_Symmetry_Com'n. replied to lee-robins's topic in Pink Floyd's Pink Floyd Topics
Hi guys... I just joined the "Floyd" group because I like that group and a few other proggy artists, most notably King Crimson (esp. 1980-on, including spinoffs). I wonder if Adrian Belew is a notable influence on Matt's guitar style; both are really into distortion and whammy bars, and sometimes I pick up a strong Belew-ish vibe in Matt's playing or some stage movement or gesture. But AFAIK Bellamy has never acknowledged Belew as an influence, and he's been forthright about so many others... I did catch a short set by Spock's Beard (the new- or nu-prog group) inadvertently at Vintage Vinyl a couple of years ago. I was simply there to comb through the stacks, and an in-store gig happened to break out! They were alright, but nothing really grabbed me, and there were at least a couple of tracks that I simply didn't care for. I have a long, long way to go, though, before I'll be anyone's idea of a devoted prog-rock fan or expert on the subject. -
Well, I plan to attend... do you want me to email you on how it went? And do you have any particular interests or details WRT this production that you would want someone to pay extra attention to?
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Trilateral_Symmetry_Com'n.
(Stephanie)
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Thanks... I keep screwing up on details like that... and I haven't completely figured out Twitter yet, either!
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Okay. I keep screwing up on various, uh, webby details... and I feel I haven't quite figured out Twitter yet, either!
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Last night I dreamt I was at the Plymouth U. [or was it College?] graduation ceremony where Muse were awarded their honorary doctorates in music. A happy occasion to be sure, but what made this electrifying for me was the chance to see the guys up close, if not exactly personally. Almost everyone there was there for a legitimate graduation-related reason and were utterly oblivious to the band, and all told there were only about a half-dozen of us fans there. None of us were wearing any Muse logos but we were really easy to spot anyway: at one point Muse were asked to move from the middle section of seats to the wing on the left, and when they got up, so did a handful of us in the audience to follow them to empty seats on the left side (traditionally referred to as the sinister side... ooh, dream symbolism!), and we were all just giddy with excitement, grinning madly, glancing around kind of embarrassed-like and exchanging glances of recognition. After the ceremony was over (my mind fast-forwarded past all the boring ceremonial stuff, thankfully), the grads proceeded up the aisles... and the Muse men couldn't wait to get outside, to play a pickup game of "football," which they were raucously talking and laughing about as they strode past. (No doubt the soccer bit came from hearing yesterday's Chicago radio interview of Dom, in which DJ Ryan Menno asked him about the incident on an American tour when Chris broke his wrist playing soccer in a parking lot, forcing Muse to cancel their Chicago gig.) In the dream I had a feeling of foreboding, fearing that they wouldn't be careful enough this time either...
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The NYC rock station 101.9 DJ not only played it shortly after 5 PM last night, he talked it up a bit too! Around 4:50 he asked if we'd heard the new Muse single "Uprising", and rattled off a lineup of the artists he'd be playing next. "Uprising" came on about three songs later, with his endorsement ("here's 'Uprising' by Muse, check it out!").
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Thanks, so's yours!
Apologies for the delay, but I only now just noticed I had a message! ::headsmack::
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What song would you most like Muse to do a cover of?
Trilateral_Symmetry_Com'n. replied to Kodack's topic in Songs & Releases
"Thela Hun Ginjeet" by King Crimson, off of Discipline [1980]. The K.C. lineup was Robert Fripp, Tony Levin, Adrian Belew, and Bill Bruford. It's right up Muse's alley: brooding, intense, upbeat, driven alternately by a walloping bassline and a rapid-chugging rhythm guitar part, with a melodic, expressive solo that would stretch Matt in a bit of a new direction (albeit with opportunities for whammy or tremolo fun & games)... and very progressive! It'd give Matt license for once to not hold back from emulating Adrian Belew's various guitar mannerisms... which I feel he does anyway, sometimes. Chris would have a ball with the bassline on the bridge, and that bridge section would force Matt to vocalize in what is for him a radically different style -- spoken word, narrating the harrowing tale of getting mugged. (Imagine "Thela..." related in his English accent! And with Matt's tendency to talkveryveryfast and nervously anyway, who knows what the band could come up with here? Some extensive vocal improvising, perhaps?) Since the King Crimson lineup had two guitarists, Muse would have a fundamental choice to make here: move Morgan Nichols to Fripp's guitar part, or have him adapt the Frippertronics to synth, which could be interesting. I'd prefer they keep kosher though, preserving the two guitars, which would be a refreshing departure from their normal sound. Still, I'd prefer Muse eschew covers as much as possible, especially in concerts. But it'd be a great release (B-side, anyone?) next year, on the 30th anniversary of Discipline!