MartinSM
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Unnatural Selection was a staple until the second US leg, then disapeared, so I'm not all that confident it will feature at all, same for MK, but I can hope. I can't see Undisclosed going. He got two keytars just for that song, so unless they make another keytar song (please no!), I think it will still be played pretty regularly. I'm begging they prove me wrong, though. Stockholm will stay, surely. It's a key part of the set, especially with the riffs and everything. Maybe dropped once or twice, like this tour, but they surely won't make a habbit of it, If any Origin song comes back, it will probably be Screenager over Darkshines, considering how they feel about Dark Shines. Guiding Light simply has to go away. If Invincible didn't return on the last tour, GL can't return on the next one, surely. It can take Resistance with it, too.
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The way New Born was played at 99% of gigs on the last tour, I couldn't care less if it gets played less. I accept older stuff won't get as much of a look in, but I can't see why they don't leave two slots in every setlist to rotate older songs. I just hope that we don't get a repeat of the MK Ultra/Unnatural Selection fiasco with they next tour.
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Pretty sure they were played more than once, but If you've just trawled through the wiki then I can't argue with that, but when they did start playing the rarer songs, it was as they got towards the end of the leg, which is my main point. They started bringing in more songs, and then stopped as soon as they got to BDO, when the setlists started to get shorter pretty quickly.
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Definately. They were so close up until the BDO tour. Playing 20+ songs most nights, including CE, Bliss, B&H semi-regularly, MK Ultra every other gig and Asia got Dead Star. Plus some gigs even got Unintended after the piano section. They had it more or less right. The setlist was pretty static, but they were playing a bigger range of songs, so although at certain points you'd know what was coming, Uprising opening, followed by Resistance, Starlight into Plug In Baby and so on, there were still points where you could end up with B&H or Bliss or something. The length was good and the standardisation of the structure meant no one got treated too unfairly. Why they couldn't do this in the US and festival/stadium legs, I have no idea. It just stopped and they started playing like 18 songs, dropping the rarities, and generally getting worse and worse setlists with even less variation until they randomly decided to start opening with Exogenesis and ending with Take A Bow twice, making us all think they've switched on, and then going back to normal again.
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Because Matt pulling the amp to the front of the stage and jumping all over it at the end of Stockholm Syndrome was really spontaneous and unpredictable. Alright, compared to most of The Resitance Tour it was spontaneous and unpredictable, but it wasn't all it's made out to be either. There always needs to be that one band willing to take things further and make live performances bigger and more spectacular. What if Pink Floyd had said after the In The Flesh tour that instead of doing The Wall, they wanted to do a plain, simple stage?
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They do it because they can. They're big enough and have the money to do it. I don't think they should stop it at stadiums, it's part of what makes Muse who they are. They should probably tone it down in arenas and at festivals, but I think they can still go even further with the stadium stuff. The UFO, floating stage and all that makes it feel like a bigger, more special event. For most gigs, something like the Reading stage would be fantastic, but when they get the opportunity to put on a massive production, I still think they should go for it.
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New Born x2 Bliss x2 Space Dementia x2 Hyper Music x2 Plug In Baby x2 Citizen Erased x2 Micro Cuts x2 Screenager x2 Dark Shines x2 Feeling Good x2 Megalomania x2 Uprising x2 SMBH x2 Hysteria x2 TIRO x2 Helsinski Jam x2 Undisclosed Desires x2 Resistance x2 Starlight x2 Stockholm Syndrom x2 Knights of Cydonia x2 I think you can guess what two gigs I've been to.
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I used to really, really hate Darkshines. Then I heard it live. Mind. Blown.
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I've always wondered that. We can only judge proshots and the few decent recordings floating around. There could have been some amazing performance of Guiding Light, and none of us are aware of it.
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Wembley 10's Bliss was the best I've ever heard, last night's was good, but not the best, and the synth intro isn't as good. Can't decide whether Hypermusic was better than that 2002 Montreoux one. Matt's voice is so much better now, but the performance didn't have the same rawness and aggression. Megalomania was certainly up with the best versions of that, as was Space Dementia, and for what it's worth Screenager. Starlight felt really beefy last night aswell.
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I'm sure Pink Ego Box and Instant Messenge came up, even though they're the same song. It's weird how some of their most obscure songs are in there but half of their newer songs don't seem to be in there. What the hell is Muse TV?
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SMBH is one of my Muse guilty pleasures. I always find myself really enjoying it, nomatter how much I don't want to.
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A couple nights ago they used Uprising and Overture on Russel Howards Good News on Dave. So this is probably mentioned 18 months ago when it was on BBC.
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Matt's hair! Looks like he stood on am electricity cable going on stage. Incredible performance, though. Say what you like about Glastonbury 2010, but this is the best performance of TiRO I've ever seen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFvMSMt-6W4
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I'm starting to have lots of R&L dreams. Last nights for some reason I was only watching on TV though. Started with Bliss, but the little guitar intro was shorter, then after the scratchy bit, they did nothing for ages, then Matt almost whispered something like "You ready, Reading?" Then it kicked off big time. I thikn they played somethign else after that, then HotRS+TiRO. Hopefully the setlist is a bit more organised next week!