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    Share your controversial Muse opinions II - More Radiohead talk

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    OOS has Newborn, Bliss, SD, CE, Megalomania and Plug in Baby, and probably others that I've overlooked.

    Absolution has AP, SFA (some would disagree with me), Blackout, Hysteria, Stockholm Syndrome and Ruled by Secrecy. I think they're more solid than the songs on BH&R.

    Soilder's Poem is vastly underrated. I think it's pretty decent. It's not the worst on BH&R.

    I agree. I never understood the hate.

    Share your controversial Muse opinions II - More Radiohead talk

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    I'm sure this has been discussed before but Idk if this is correct:

     

    the cover of Absolution: it's a picture of the Rapture, when all true christians are taken into the sky by God and taken to heaven (at the end of the world), hence all the identical shadows on the ground. The man on the ground looking up in awe is a non-christian staring in disbelief.

     

    what do we think? correct? :happy:

    No, they only stated it's people ascending or descending from/to the earth - it's open to interpretation which one it is.

    Share your controversial Muse opinions II - More Radiohead talk

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    I don't think their "new" music are especially modified to be "commercial". (Does anybody here think that, by the way?)

    I do agree with that; they, with the exception of NSC (which is a song I'd rather not talk about :LOL:) seem to just like experimenting with these genres (e.g. UD).

     

    I'm not saying I hate the old songs, I just wouldn't have gotten into them had I not know it was Muse who was behind them. "Cave" and "Uno" (two songs I know very well now and I really like, that's why I name them) sounds like rather standard rock songs that could have come from any indie/garage college rock band, if you see what I mean.

    I personally disagree (plus Uno has the tango twist to it and Cave has the piano outro). You've got Sober, Overdue, etc. on the first album, all of which are admittedly quite bland, and it's because of those songs that it's arguably Muse's worst album. But you've also got Sunburn, Showbiz, and Muscle Museum, for example, all of which showcase Muse's earlier rawness and passion in their music. I don't see how those songs, for example, could be considered either generic or boring.

     

     

    I don't see a clear difference between the first two, no. I always mix up which songs are from which album. Saying they have no melodies was a bit of a stretch, but at least it's easier to listen to the newer songs. (With a few exceptions.)

    Which exceptions? And is 'easier to listen' really a good thing? Personally, I prefer the albums where the songs grow on you overtime - often the albums that do that are much deeper. E.G. OOS. And can you give examples of the songs that you consider to be difficult to listen to from the initial albums?

     

    (read: aka not electric guitars with an enormous load of distortion and yelling and screaming on every track)

    This doesn't refer to Muse's earlier material does it? :noey:

     

    As for the Resistance: I like it, and I think it's quite a decent album. But I don't think it lives up to the quality of some of their earlier albums - with songs like Newborn, Stockholm Syndrome, Space Dementia, Bliss, Megalomania, Blackout, Citizen Erased, Micro Cuts and so on. Although I like all the tracks on TR except for Guiding Light and Resistance, there aren't really many notable tracks. UD, United States of Eurasia and Exogenesis are the only ones that come to mind.

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