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    Drones Album Discussion Thread

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    It is.

     

    But everyones feel Revolt is the Big Freeze of the album and some people (i, too) would like if the 10 min. track was longer.

     

    I listen to Big Freeze every now and then (once a season), Revolt however, I don't think I'd go near it any more often than annually.

    Your reviews of Drones

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    Dead Inside: One of the best songs on the album. The vocal melodies, particular in the last chorus, are amazing. While the lyrics are pretty bad, the lyrical content still speaks to me. I pleasantly surprised that Matt could still write a song that is actually relateable on a personal level after the banker and Illuminati bullshit on TR and T2L.

     

    Psycho: While the riff is good and all, the song is dragged down by too many repetitions. It’s about two minutes too long and suffers greatly because of it. I’m sure it’s cool live, but even then I’ll probably get bored with it after the 128137th repetition of the riff.

     

    Mercy: Completely forgettable Starlight knock-off. Not a bad song at all, but not really good either.

     

    Reapers: Overrated by most boardies. That said, it’s a good song and as it turns out, one of the strongest on the album.

     

    The Handler: This one took me by surprise. I was excited to find out that Matt/Muse can still write a dark and broody song without making it lame. This is also the only song on the album that actually sounds like a mix between Absolution and BHAR. Sinister, melodic, heavy and epic. While the solo is too long, it doesn’t really bother me in the context of the rest of the song. By far the best song on the album.

     

    Defector: I don’t even know. I don’t think I really have an opinion on this song. Standard Queen nonsense. It definitely sounds like it could have come straight from Showbiz, but even then it would be one of the most forgettable songs on that album.

     

    Revolt: This cancerous piece of vomit-inducing shit is just baffling to me. Why Muse? Just…why? I never thought they could write a song worse than Big Freeze, but here comes Revolt to prove me wrong. This is without a doubt my closest experience to an aural holocaust. Literally everything about this song is shit. There is not a single redeeming factor to be found here. I would be ashamed to introduce this to my fans.

     

    Aftermath: One of the weirder tracks on the album. It starts off alright, but drags on too long and eventually becomes too much of a ”Heal the World”-singalong. Hell, if it wasn’t for Matt singing I’d never even guess this was a Muse song.

     

    The Globalist: While I was very reserved about this song and kept my expectations as low as possible, this song actually pisses me off to no end. What we have is a stylish western opening into some beautiful vocal melodies, which leads into the heaviest thing Muse have ever recorded. The heavy part of this song is goddamn gigantic. Unfortunately, the best part of the song is abruptly cut off after a short two minutes to make way for a boring tag-team repeat of Explorers and United States of Eurasia. Honestly Muse, what is wrong with you? This song would have been fucking legendary if you had developed the heavy part into another two minutes, finished on something big and skipped the piano ballad. The 10-minute ”prog nightmare” just turned into a three and a half minute normal nightmare instead. Even aside from that, the transitions make no goddamn sense whatsoever and all it sounds like is a disjointed piece of shit. I cannot wrap my head around how you fucked up something so brilliant.

     

    Drones: The worst closer of any Muse album. You have to be a truly pretentious fuck (or JJTheMuse) to think that this a) makes sense and b) is a good idea for a rock album. This is just Matt being really bored in the studio.

     

     

    TL;DR:

    The first half of the album (including The Handler) is without a doubt the strongest. The second half falls short in almost way, introducing us to the new worst Muse song of all time (Revolt), while also destroying what could have potentially been one of the best Muse songs (The Globalist). The second half is where the album loses every bit of focus and just sounds like another ”hey let’s do everything we can think of”-experiment like TR and T2L. The second half ruins what could have been the best album since BHAR.

     

    I very much agree with everything you said. correct in every way. Including it in this post so others read it again.

    Revolt

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    I'm a cynical old bitch, but I've really like most of what is released so far, and if I remember, you didn't, right?

    I think there's still hope for me.

     

    I like pretty much every track up until Revolt. (Defector is also a bit meh but I can handle that)

    Revolt

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    its better than resistance....but thats not hard

     

    not even close. Resistance has a decent piano melody and somewhat respectable lyrics at some points. this is all in all a disaster.

    Revolt

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    Well... your new avatar reminds me of a (I kid you not) pigeon/human dating simulation game one of my peers was playing at work. :phu:

     

    Oh, and I haven't heard the song yet...

     

    do yourself a favour and don't. You can't unhear.

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