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That's got to be the cleverest bot I've ever seen.
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What's with all the trolls posting here?
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You're saying the album is cohesive because all the songs have melodies? Origin of Symmetry's more cohesive then as it has melodies too, and a more consistent style. The only vocal melody that sticks out from the album to me is MK Ultra's verse - the rest is nothing special compared to their previous work.The Resistance is a great album.All songs contained in TR are basically melodious in nature. And I always salute Bellamy on this skill. While the album moves the music in similar style from start to end with various melodies among songs, it seems like cohesive as a whole. Therefore the album passes the test on structural integrity. And most importantly, the harmonies resulting from the interaction among instruments, programming as well as vocals are also excellent. And I'm all about the harmony.
How does a song like Uprising have an excellent harmony? The guitar's just playing chords and the bass isn't doing anything interesting. Exogenesis for instance is more interesting harmonically, but this isn't common throughout the album.
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Biffy know how to do an arena tour:
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What Muse should have done:
-Changed the order of songs around like they did at the end of the last leg more (rotating Uprising and Overture as openers and TaB and Knights as closers, opening encores with different songs such as Uprising or Take a Bow, etc.)
-Played longer sets (19-20 full songs would be reasonable)
-Rotated more songs (they've played B&H, CE, Bliss, RbS, Cave and Take a Bow at some point - they should have appeared more often)
That would have been a pretty good tour. It's a shame they could only manage to do a maximum of two of those things at a time.
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USoE will almost certainly be dropped I think
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This is what I'm expecting:
New Song
New Song
Supermassive Black Hole
Resistance
Hysteria
New Piano Song
Feeling Good
Undisclosed Desires
New Song
New Song
Starlight
Time Is Running Out
Plug In Baby
New Song
New Song
Knights of Cydonia
Occasionally one of the new songs will be dropped for New Born, Stockholm Syndrome or Unnatural Selection and we'll all celebrate.
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The album version of The Small Print is really boring.
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I like MotP live better though... well at least at when Matt does those noises at the end with the guitar that arrent there in the studio version.... Im sure evrybodyunderstands what im talking about, god im shit at explaining musical things
Those bits are one of the reasons I like the studio version better.
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:LOL:
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I loooooooove it
Cave
Showbiz
Sunburn
Muscle Museum
then I don't care much for the rest of the album
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I can't believe they played Cave the other night. I appreciate that they're playing songs from Showbiz, but why couldn't they have done something more people would have prefered, like Uno, or Muscle Museum?
Cave's the best song on Showbiz though!
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Ha I can't believe this has gone into a second thread!
Actually the first one was accidentally merged with a sixth album thread.
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also, Hyper Chondriac Music
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whoops, I forgot to put 'piano intro'
It won't be long before Morgan does the whole song and Matt just plays keytar on it though.
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Unless they do something with UD - ditch the keytar, find some string players - and The Resistance - i.e. write a piano acoustic version - they should go. They sound like loud album playbacks.
I think UD would work great if Matt played it on piano and Resistance could potentially work either on guitar or piano entirely.
He needs to start playing the Starlight riff on guitar again too (and the New Born piano intro of course).
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OK Computer
Kid A
Absolution
In Rainbows
Origin of Symmetry
The Bends
Amnesiac
Black Holes & Revelations
Hail to the Thief
The Resistance
Showbiz
Pablo Honey
However, and this is just opinion... If you take Airbag, Paranoid Android, Karma Police & Lucky off of OK C*, painfully average is all that remains.*and yes, those songs do make up a significant percentage of the record, but how it can regularly top 'best album ever' lists with 4 great songs is totally beyond my comprehension...
Let Down and Climbing up the Walls are two of Radiohead's best songs and the other four are still good.
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My friend's boyfriend thinks SMBH sounds extremely similar to Bodysnatchers.
Yeah, we don't get along.
I can kinda see where they could get that from.
Bodysnatchers is by far the better song though.
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I'm not the biggest fan of Stockholm Syndrome. That's not to say I don't like it, I love it. Just not as much as some people on here seem to. Anyways, I thought the performance on the Wembley DVD was immense. One of their best live performances of any track i've ever seen.
I quite like Stockholm Syndrome but the HAARP performance is one of the worst IMO.
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Ruled By Secrecy by Thom Yorke would be amazing.
It's one of Muse's more Radiohead-ish songs so I can imagine it working well.
Hyper Chondriac Music is probably their most Radiohead-like song.
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Bliss is more interesting musically and much more up-tempo so you don't notice the lyrics.
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I liked the loud synths, they helped with the wall-of-noise effect during the bridge that I adore on the studio version.
It wasn't a wall of noise - the synths overpowered everything else instead of merging with the guitars to form that effect
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CE '04>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>CE '10
it's really lacking the energy it used to have and the awful mix didn't help (why were the synths so loud)
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Glasto '04 is really overrated.
Not to say that it wasn't a great, legendary gig for the band, because it was. But, like I've said before, Muse from '98-'04ish had some really questionable factors in their performances, mostly things with tempo and mic distortion choices. It was a great gig, and a big piece of Muse "history" and something that has obviously shaped them as musicians today, but you can compare some of the stuff from '04 and '10, and see how much they've grown as a band and as individual musicians. As far as musicanship itself goes, 2010 was a better gig. Say what you will about the setlist, but the '04 setlist was essentially the same idea. The big singles, a lot of Absolution (newest album release) stuff, and a one or two "rarities" at the time. Same can be said for 2010, except bring it into the Resistance era.
Take out Stockholm Syndrome and the following riffage/destruction and Glasto '04 doesn't seem as great.
I'm not sure what tempo or mic distortion choices you're talking about. The distortion worked well for them back then. The '04 setlist was nothing special, but it was solid and the songs they chose worked a lot better than those in the '10 setlist.
They played Hysteria, New Born, Citizen Erased, Time is Running Out, Plug in Baby and Stockholm Syndrome at both gigs. Time is Running Out is the only one they played better this year.
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I have to agree that while Glastonbury '10 was a great performance, it wasn't anywhere near as good as '04.
Im sure evrybodyunderstands what im talking about, god im shit at explaining musical things
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I love the vocals in MK Ultra, especially the verse. That'd be one of Matt's best vocal performances in recent times I'd say.