[Least favourite song from each album?]

Where on earth is that gif from

[Speculation on future gigs/tours]

Apparently mid-January next year there's going to be a new music festival in NZ, which isn't something that happens every day. Now, I never would have considered Muse for this in my wildest dreams but listen to this

I want to get two of our major headliners on this release, and gladly (understated) one of those special headline artists locked in earlier this week. This is a band that hasn’t played here for a while (skipped past NZ on their way through Australia twice I think) and are renowned for their live shows. Can anyone guess?

http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e805285aad5f64ca37def0382&id=5c21c1fdf2

 

Ring any bells? They did play BDO in 2010 though which may or may not count...

I know Muse is almost definitely touring the US in Dec/Jan so the chance this is happening is highly unlikely, but it's not impossible if they play fewer shows (as the 360 stage suggests) and the tour ends early Jan.

 

Still it feels like a very odd detour, though if it happens I'd like to imagine it's to make up for skipping us the last two tours

 

Also from what I can tell from a quick google, Big Day Out isn't happening next year so it's not like they're heading down for that at the same time.

 

Edit - saw that this new festival is supposedly "a cross between big day out and lane ways out in the bush." They're going to have to move sheep to free up the paddocks. Maybe that's what's attracted Matt lol

[Psycho/Drones General Tour Discussion Thread]

Watching the Roskilde gig now, the audio quality is superb for a festival stream this performance is also definitely the best out of all the streams/tv performances thus far. I'm not a big fan of Psycho as a song but I've finally been convinced of its live potential, it's so energetic here. The emotional end bits of The Handler and Dead Inside seem even more powerful than before as well, could just be the great audio quality though.

[Share your controversial Muse opinions II - More Radiohead talk]

Fair enough

 

I do actually agree that Dead Inside is better then Pyscho, but there are much worse songs e.g. Guiding Light.

Honestly at the moment I'd rather listen to Guiding Light surprisingly, after seeing GL live I actually started to like it more. Probably because I was at the catwalk barrier and now associate the song with having an uninterrupted 4 minute closeup of Matt lol

[Share your controversial Muse opinions II - More Radiohead talk]

Such as The Handler?

Meh. The Handler is good and fills the role to an extent but I think Muse are still capable of going darker and weirder.

[Muse really make me Cringe with the Lyrics...]

Mostly he's great at conveying emotion in some relatively basic statements. He sings the hell out things like "When will this loneliness be over," "I want you now," "Why can't we start it over again?" and so on, all of which are hugely common human thoughts and emotions, which is why so many of us love those songs. Very rarely he'll take it one step further and actually throw in some clever turn of phrase in there and we'll latch on to it to defend his lesser moments (looking at that one Hoodoo line everyone throws out when this argument comes up), but for the most part its very raw emotional lines that work best for him. And no, that doesn't make him Julian Casablancas, but there is still something to be said for that ability.

You put my thoughts into words. The bit about Hoodoo made me laugh because it's so true

[Share your controversial Muse opinions II - More Radiohead talk]

For some reason I've started to like Pyscho again. I do agree the drill sergeant needed to be better integrated into the song, like they do with the riff rather then in separate bits. I also agree that it is very repetitive too. However in context I actually love the lyrics, for a dark subject matter you do need a fun song or two. You have to admit it has balls.

I actually don't mind the verses, the lyrics are alright and I like the melody. There are enough fun songs on the album though, Mercy, Defector, Revolt. I wish we got one truly dark weird song that delved deep into the protagonist's mind...

[Share your controversial Muse opinions II - More Radiohead talk]

Psycho has become possibly my least favourite Muse song e v e r. The drill sergent, the repetition, the awful "your aaaaaass", just ugh. I loved the riff and I hate how it's been used.

 

Dead Inside, on the other hand, has become one of my top Muse songs. It's on the same level as Reapers and The Handler, if not better.

[Psycho/Drones General Tour Discussion Thread]

Matt is still kinda strained and out of breath in the first half before Munich Jam, I thought he was going to bust a vein in Microcuts

 

The rest of the gig sounds much better though and the last "I wish I could" in SS is so good holy shit there's actually power behind it for once.

[How did you discover Muse?]

The Twilight soundtrack was my introduction to music outside of the Top 40 no regrets

 

Also the deluxe edition of the soundtrack (lol) included a vid of SMBH from HAARP and I was like goddamn that's a production

[Reapers (Song)]

The only thing I don't like is how awkward 'incidentally electronically erased' is

[drones.muse.mu]

Any luck in Melbourne?

It was just the Reapers vid (yesterday anyway)

['Drones' discussion thread (part 3): Show me your war ass]

Do the four released tracks seamlessly blend as they would on the album? Or is there some clipping?

Wait what do you mean by clipping? In regards to song transitions I don't actually know, I've been using Spotify and can't be bothered turning off the crossfading overall it's sounding nice and cohesive though!

['Drones' discussion thread (part 3): Show me your war ass]

Listening to the first four songs in order is so satisfying. Psycho is still way too fucking long though

[Reapers (Song)]

The way the guitar and distorted vocals blend at the start of the outro omg

['Drones' discussion thread (part 3): Show me your war ass]

I think Muse made it apparent that's it's not supposed to be subtle, they called the album Drones for a reason haha

I guess if they're gonna go all out they might as well go alllll out.

But goddamnit the overly hopeful part of me just wanted a more ambiguous album :'(

 

Reapers>Dead Inside>Mercy>>>Psycho

['Drones' discussion thread (part 3): Show me your war ass]

The lack of any subtlety at all with the drones theme is still kind of bothering me (a lot) but man...the music........

['Drones' discussion thread (part 3): Show me your war ass]

GOd I love the "killed by" into falsetto

['Drones' discussion thread (part 3): Show me your war ass]

The name of the video.

I was thinking about photos.

['Drones' discussion thread (part 3): Show me your war ass]

The one-piece suits are getting boring + how are we supposed to tell gigs apart if they wear the same thing every time

[Live Gig Discussion (Sexy Ass Drone) III: Now with less Fabri]

The mix is godawful

[Mercy]

The artwork for everything so far has been atrocious

[Mercy]

The layered vocals are why I like the studio version more, the chorus is too boring otherwise imo

['Drones' discussion thread (part 3): Show me your war ass]

For me at the moment it's Dead Inside>Mercy>Reapers>>>Psycho

[General Gear and Tab Season IV: Can it play barre chords?]

Did they have both AxeFX rigs there too? I don't know if they had it the whole tour but damn the guitars sounded good. The bass rig however... nope, Ashdown that sounded bleh.

Dunno, I've got a few vids up on youtube if you wanna have a look yourself