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The live version is already appalling tbh and needs fixing pronto, for reasons which don't reflect on the studio version's quality that much.
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Think the lesson there is to not base your expectations of a song on short out-of-order/out-of-context clips.
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Why do people think that songs are somehow redeemed by having a "true" or "classic Muse" sound? If anything that just makes it worse if it's bad. EDIT: Also this isn't.
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They really should have made this more like Blackout, would have worked brilliantly then.
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The sheer "safeness" of Survival's main melody is one of my main beefs with the song, the more awkward sound on this makes it more interesting IMO.
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I'd actually count this in the song's favour tbh.
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It's too short because the best part - the tremolo part - lasts barely over 15 seconds. And then they basically deliberately mush everything up so they don't have to bother with any kind of actual sensible resolution of the melody into the piano bit. EDIT: I should say though, this is easily my favourite of the 2nd half songs. It's just so bafflingly structured, I'm genuinely unsure how they thought this would do justice to the potential the song had. It almost sounds... unfinished.
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Currently the track that's growing the fastest on me. It's just so totally and utterly different to anything they've ever done before that its flaws are much easier to forgive than on Major Key Pop Rock Song With Multitrack Vocals number whateverthefuckwe'reon.
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Yeah that's true as well. I'm personally not bothered by the length at all, but there are a lot of reasons why the 53 minute runtime might feel misleading when people actually listen to the album.
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I don't think he's really talking about length timewise there. It certainly feels a bit short for a 53 minute album, but whether that's because we've got the album in little bits making it feel shorter - which is not entirely their fault - or because there's a lot of repeated themes, ideas, melodies etc etc making it feel like there's "less" music in there for the physical time it lasts for - which is definitely their fault - I don't know.
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Yeah agree with this. Weird to think that a 10 minute song is too short, but it definitely is. I really hope they do something similar to what they do with B&H live and draw out that tremolo bit to make the transition to piano a lot smoother.
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The synth on Guiding Light still has that "title" for me.
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If you think the rest of it are beautiful, that's hardly grounds for disappointment though.
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Haha, I'm just going to ignore that completely and still think of the lyric as "transformation" tbh.
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This doesn't make any sense to me.
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In fairness, (as I said in the other thread), this is far from the first time they have written a song or a massive chunk of a song directly on top of a well-known classical piece. It used to be a signature thing of theirs. (though perhaps not... quite this obvious)
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Always a good sign when the most upvoted comment is "it's not THAT bad"...
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Just like the bit you could actually mosh to.
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Listened to it far more than the other second half songs already. Probably indicative.
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"As usual"?
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Yep.
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Perhaps people don't like acapella. I mean, I like it, but it's kind of an all-or-nothing sort of deal.
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Because Matt more or less straight up implied it was CE2, IIRC
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Defector ought to be good live where I don't feel like someone has come up next to me and every now then shouted FROM SOCIETY in my ears
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Muse blatantly quoting/copying a piece of classical music? Well I never! I actually think the fact that it is a straight copy saves it, mind