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serpentsatellite

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  1. Certainly interesting that Dom is implying they've ditched the single-every-few-months plan since Matt was pretty specific on his plans. Have to wonder if the backlash to Dig Down in addition to it's rather lackluster mainstream appeal had an impact on that. Definitely a better idea to bury some Reapers or Handlers on the album alongside the somewhat desperate seeming attempts at repeated mainstream fame.
  2. I thought it was pretty brilliant live. Probably my favorite part of the gig, at least the Philly one for sure, and really the only reason I don't totally regret going. Was the only time the visuals actually lived up to all the effort put into the setup. If they could have done more like that throughout the gig, I wouldn't have been so negative on the stage show. I mean, if you didn't turn your head and look at the dildrone. That thing really was cringy as much as I enjoyed laughing at it.
  3. I think we just weren't aware we were allowed to make new threads. We've been talking about the Japan tour in the NA thread.
  4. That is true, I'd totally forgotten about that one. Those festivals seemed like an entirely different band. Uno was definitely a weird one for a streamed gig.
  5. They were never going to do something rare on a streamed gig. Bit of an odd choice.
  6. I also have a hard time believing this is a vocal thing, for exactly the reasons you listed, especially IT'S NOT DONE OUTSIDE THE US. I would be super happy to see something like The Gallery played over some amazing visuals. That could be stellar.
  7. In this context I am going to assume "rock band" = "plays their instruments (mostly) live." As opposed to some pop act where all the music is canned and/or electronic. (And often the vocals are playback.) So yeah, whatever, Muse makes pop tracks... but they're also out there playing their instruments (well, mostly still...) and that's sort of the key that stuff is supposed to actually be, well, live, right? There's something way more pathetic about someone miming playing a guitar live. Not that that is what Muse is doing. Yet. I could rattle off dozens of things that the band could do for a vocal rest, all of them a million times better than NKOK. For a band that's known so much for their visual show, it's kind of embarrassing that they couldn't come up with something other than that. I really enjoyed the Red Rocks gig, but that doesn't mean I can't also agree that NKOK was an embarrassment in the middle of something that was otherwise pretty awesome (comparatively.) The FB streamed gig was hilarious, though, because the constant stream of heart and like emotes just completely stopped dead during NKOK.
  8. If I can make it through a whole gig without peeing, anyone can. Do I like IS or the Jam? No. Am I okay with them (and whatever Matt's doing backstage)? Yes. Do I like that there's 3+ long instances of downtime... NKOK is embarrassing as fuck, and I've never, EVER seen a band do a full playback video of a joke song in the middle of a set. If Matt needed an extra 3 minute break I'd rather they just did a really early encore and shut the lights off.
  9. I don't like NKOK at all, but I'd have absolutely no problem with it if they actually PLAYED it.
  10. re: Madness. It was a super causal gig (sold out before the band was announced) but also one that was likely expected to skew heavily male, so dropping Madness actually makes sense.
  11. I was far enough back at Red Rocks that people near me were actually looking around for Matt during NKOK, assuming he was in the crowd, or part of the stage that was hard to see. More people just sat down and waited for it to be over, but there were definitely people who fell for it the whole time. It made me feel even worse about the whole bs thing.
  12. I've seen bands that use a second playback drum track and stuff, and sure, most people wouldn't notice it, but when you do it really harms the feel of the performance, imo. I much prefer bands that rework songs they can't achieve live (or skip the ones they honestly can't play.) The vocal playback tracks that Matt has been using live more recently were incredibly obvious. Like, Survival Live at Rome obvious. But, I was referring to the Halloween song specifically, NKOK, which having seen in person even though I knew it was coming, I can still stand by my "jaw droppingly stupid" statement. Seeing it in context it managed to be much worse than I expected, and I expected it to be one of the dumbest things I've seen at a gig. It was so embarrassing it was hard to look at, and the fact that so many people clearly thought Matt was actually on stage dressed up (I wasn't that close to the stage) made it even more of a cheap trick.
  13. While I'm sure they could still manage to make a song worse than Dig Down, and they'll find another jaw droppingly stupid thing to playback at gigs, I'm still extremely happy all the fuss wasn't over another joke song. Although the IG stuff seems to have dried up.
  14. I'd want a whole lot more information on where they came from for that price tag.
  15. 3 songs, and the speculation that those "titles" were effects and such turned out to be correct. So, probably like last time, and we'll see one of them. Still not sure what syphilis would stand for.
  16. He has very recently stated that they'd be releasing all the songs as singles, recording them at different times, and compiling them onto an album at the end of next year. I mean, I'm all for hoping they don't because I think it would lead to a bunch of shitty quality songs that people would be bored of by the time an "album" came out.
  17. I really hate this idea that a song can't be serious without being dark or emo or some bs... it is absolutely possible to write a "happy" song that doesn't sound insincere, or like a joke. Muse just sucks at it. Darkness isn't the only legitimate emotion... Also, what is this band's obsession with syphilis?
  18. It sounds like he completely ran out of breath and was trying to push out one last line. I could see it if it had some contextual meaning, but it in no way comes off like it's supposed to be that way, and sounds like a failed take or something. Just really odd. And yeah, seeing Matt and Costey laughing at the new track has reinforced my belief that something really stupid is going to come out on Halloween again.
  19. The Handler was various levels of shady pretty much the whole time. He just weirdly got better for a very brief period at the end of the first NA tour. iirc, the first part of the US tour and around the French dates were the worst? Some real flat Resistances in there, too.
  20. Was there anything on their IG directly related to the actual song before Dig Down was released? I seem to remember multiple shots of acoustic guitars (and drums!) and some waffly guitar bit that wasn't in the song.
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