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Hi all, I'm trying to find a video interview where each of the members of Muse listens to a few songs and gives their thoughts on it. Kind of like this Geddy Lee interview. I remember this in particular because Chris winces hard when listening to "Save Me," one of the songs they played. I can't find it on YouTube, and I'm starting to be convinced that I just imagined the whole thing. Do any of you know what publication may have posted it or, better yet, the source? Thanks in advance!
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Hmm. The new album is supposedly a return of guitars, but I swear that when I listen to "Compliance," I can't hear guitars anywhere in the track. Even in the live footage I've seen, I can't tell which part is Matt's when he's playing. Anyone else been able to figure out where the guitars are?
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What's the best live performance of Uprising? I need to send one to a friend.
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Their biggest hit in the US was Madness, by far.
Starlight does remain their most universally recognized hit, though, it seems.
Having checked on Wikipedia, I discovered something interesting. Though both Uprising and Madness made it to #1 on the alternative charts and both went 2× Platinum, Uprising also peaked at #37 on the Billboard Hot 100, while Madness only went to #45. So technically, that makes Muse a one-hit wonder in the US.
Man, our country really does suck, doesn't it?
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I don't think they have an out-and-out biggest hit. You can narrow it down to a small bunch and, even then, it differs between countries/continents.
Now that's also true. I think their highest charting one in the US is Uprising, but I don't know about other countries.
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I can understand their playing their biggest hit as a closer, and I don't really mind. It just felt weird the first time because I wasn't expecting them to close with Starlight so I had this "huh? Is that it?" moment.
Starlight is their biggest hit?
I mean, I always assumed it was Uprising, which I would honestly prefer as a closer over Starlight.
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I went through a phase where I would've murdered to see Muscle Museum but, yeah, I'm weirdly not as fussed anymore. Think the only reason I'd particularly wanna see it nowadays would be to fulfill younger me's dream, I guess.
Still massively keen for HT&ILY and Showbiz though. Bet Showbiz in particular would be fucking rude at a club gig, imagine the crowd reaction.
Actually, it would be awesome to see the song Showbiz live (if Matt can still hit the notes), but I would honestly prefer it with the extended bass and drum intro that was on the album as opposed to just starting with guitar like in most live performances.
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I really don't care if Muse brings back Muscle Museum or any of their songs from Showbiz.
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Showbiz is the worst Muse album. It's still damn great, but the ones that came after it are even better.
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Dude, I'm pretty sure Morgan's involved on literally every track
So he even made contributions on "Hysteria," "Apocalypse Please," "Feeling Good," "Time Is Running Out," and "Plug in Baby"? I mean, if he did, don't correct me about it; my point is more that he hadn't started to take over Matt's job yet like he seems to have done now. In their 2013 tour, he had more of a presence than Dom--see "Unintended."
(To be honest, I don't even know what he does on those songs I listed currently. They don't sound much different than when Muse were a three-piece band.)
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The newest music video from my band Dark Matter recently crossed the 60k mark!
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If we're counting live videos:
Hullabaloo
Best: The tracklisting is great and it shows Muse at their peak of onstage energy, before the uses of pre-programmed synths and big screens and huge production value. The behind-the-scenes footage is cute, too.
Worst: The video's shaky camera angles give me a headache after watching it.
Absolution Tour
Best: This is arguably Muse's best show and the enhanced sound and camera angles from the BBC footage make it even better. The bonus tracks are also really good.
Worst: Why, oh why did they cut "Citizen Erased" and "Stockholm Syndrome"?
HAARP
Best: The tracklisting is phenomenal and Muse is great live as usual. Plus, this was back when Morgan didn't play on every single song or pointlessly join in on guitar, so that's another bonus. I also like the addition of trumpets, and the live version of "Take a Bow" beats the studio one by a mile.
Worst: I guess the fact that the colors are so washed out in parts of it?
Live at Rome Olympic Stadium
Best: The bonus tracks ("Stockholm Syndrome," "Unsustainable," and "Liquid State"). The filming is much more steady here, too, than it was in HAARP or Hullabaloo.
Worst: The pointless grayscale in parts of it. Matt singing without playing an instrument. Cutting out whole songs or parts of songs. "Starlight" as the closing track.
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Neither am I He's admitted a few times that his pronunciation's pretty awful and, from what I've heard, French-speaking fans don't seem to think he's wrong. Mine's about as good when I sing along though tbf.
Funny, pretty much my entire knowledge of French is from this scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9DCAFUerzs
And this isn't even French. This is just English with an outrageous accent.
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Hello, is it not an idea the Dvds or Bluray from Live AID to republish, eg. for the Syrian refugees or for Africa? Also as Blue Ray. Or a new live AID. The old LIve Aid DVDs are used very expensive, why not an new one?
Kind regards from Cologne Ingo
This doesn't seem relevant to Muse though.
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You rate Agitated and Yes Please higher than Screenager and Megalomania? Not saying that the former two are in any means bad, but the latter pair are so much better imo.
Not to mention that Agitated and Yes Please were both Showbiz era b-sides anyway.
I guess they do have appeal in that they're heavier, harder rocking songs, but that doesn't always equal good. As for me, I still can't take Agitated 100% seriously because of Matt singing in the chorus about how "You do it to me sweetly, to my yeah-yeah."
Literally no one said that though.I did see one person saying there was nothing good about T2L apart from Isolated System and Animals. I counted that because it was close enough. What I was more shocked about was when Jobby initially had nothing good to say about Absolution, though I guess I shouldn't be shocked about that given that he's told me how much meh it is.
That's the point and it's glorious Joint best song with UD by a mile for me. It's an oasis of fun in a dry desert of an album.Out of curiosity, how well does he do with his pronunciations? I'm no expert at French, though I do know Spanish pretty well.
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You know, I wondered if some particularly bitter fans would say that there's nothing good about The 2nd Law or Drones, and I was right.
Anyway, let's see the best and worst of each album! And I would include the live albums, but, well, nobody else is, so...
Showbiz
Best: This was when Muse was more personal and less political. We need to get some of this Muse again. "Hate This and I'll Love You" is also particularly good. I wish there was some high quality video footage of them playing that song live.
Worst: Matt's lyrics can be a little wonky, to the point where I legitimately believe that this album has more noticeable bad lyrics than any of their other albums ("I have played in every toilet," "Its scent has been blowing in my direct-shoon," "Five thousand houses burning down," "Royal Canadian blended," "Your brain needs some assistance," "I'm young but you know that I'm aroused"). Also, what's with that album cover?
Origin of Symmetry
Best: "Citizen Erased," which is by far Muse's best song IMO. There were also a lot of other great songs here, though do I really need to explain this further? Everyone seems to agree that this album rocks.
Worst: The production is a little off on this album. I frequently have trouble understanding what Matt is singing. Also, "Feeling Good" seems like it would have fit better on a B-sides compilation instead of an album.
Absolution
Best: Now here's where I may lose a lot of people: I think this album is better than OOS. There is so much I can praise about this album: the lyrics, the proggier direction, the fact that this is the perfect transitional album between Muse's early stuff and the more mainstream material they made later (I listened to The Resistance and Black Holes and Revelations first before I listened to OOS, which kind of puzzled me; when I relistened to OOS after having listened to Absolution, I was much more ready for OOS and liked it a lot more than my first listen). If I had to praise on thing, though, it's the amazing instrumentation on every single track, with particular highlights being "Apocalypse Please," "Sing for Absolution," "Hysteria," "Blackout," and "Ruled by Secrecy." The bass lines are especially improved here; Chris really shows off his talents. This album is a must-have for any Muse fan.
Worst: Um... "Endlessly" is a little slower than the songs before and after it. Also, the album mix of "Butterflies and Hurricanes" is a little weak;
Black Holes and Revelations
Best: In my opinion, this album has the greatest opening and closing tracks of any Muse album, IMO. "Take a Bow" and "Knights of Cydonia" are pure epicness. There are also a few other great tracks, like "Supermassive Black Hole," "Map of the Problematique," "City of Delusion," and "Hoodoo." Also, I don't care what anybody else says, Invincible kicks ass.
Worst: It's kind of a mess when it comes to tone. It's split between wanting to be a full pop rock album and a more epic one. "Starlight" is a little weak, and I'm also not a fan of the shortened "Assassin."
The Resistance
Best: This is the first Muse album I ever listened to all the way through, and it's a perfect introduction for newcomers to the fanbase, with hard rockers like "Uprising," "Unnatural Selection," and "MK Ultra"; poppier numbers like "Resistance"; and symphonic rockers like "United States of Eurasia" and the prog masterpiece "Exogenesis: Symphony." Also, this has my all-time favorite Muse album cover.
Worst: The studio version's ending of "Uprising" isn't as good as the live one, "Undisclosed Desires" and "Guiding Light" are far from perfect, and Matt's French just sounds corny on "I Belong to You," which I can't think of without thinking of a certain movie series.
The 2nd Law
Best: People were far too harsh on this album IMO. "Supremacy," "Panic Station," "Survival," "Animals," "Big Freeze," and "Isolated System" were all pretty great, and I actually enjoyed Chris's two songs. He needs to sing lead more. I actually didn't mind Muse dabbling in other genres like others seemed to. I even sort of liked "Madness."
Worst: "Follow Me" was a little bland. I know he wrote it for his son, but still. Also, "Unsustainable" could have been better and the album's cover wasn't as good as a lot of the fanmade ones. There wasn't really much of a structure to the album, either, apart from "we're doing this genre now" for every other track.
Drones
Best: This is probably Muse's hardest rocking of their post-Absolution albums. Everything about this reminds me of a really great album from the '70s or '80s; the concept reminds me of other rock operas like The Wall or Tommy, while some of the songs remind me of AC/DC. The production by Mutt Lange is really great and I think they need to collaborate again. "Reapers" has one of my favorite solos from Matt, and "The Gloabalist," "Dead Inside," "The Handler," and "Defector" were awesome tracks.
Worst: "Revolt" is awful. It sets itself up to be good only to have a completely disjointed chorus that feels like it was written for a different song. Also, the lyrics may be a little too on the nose for some. The odd repetitions of "babe" throughout the album don't help matters. And the album cover just looks silly. (Call me immature, but it reminds me of phallic imagery.
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That's pretty much why they went with him, been pretty well-documented tmk
It was either that or 2000s-2010s Mutt Lange material, but I'm pretty sure Matt Bellamy doesn't think of Nickelback's Dark Horse and Maroon 5's Hands All Over as highly influential.
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But hey, at least we can rest easy knowing that calling Stockholm Syndrome amazing will never be controversial.
Are you kidding? Stockholm Syndrome su--can't even finish that sentence with a straight face. I love SS.
In other potentially controversial chit chat, call me naive but I think Reapers has the greatest guitar solo of the 21st century so far. I've yet to hear one more fun, more musical, and more emotive this millennia than it.It kind of does. As I said earlier, it has a very old school rock vibe.
Though now that I think of it, maybe the AC/DC comparison isn't so unfounded. I mean, Mutt Lange produced both Drones and AC/DC's Highway to Hell and Back in Black.
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I think he meant you can be controversial without being an orange, bigoted buffoon. There's levels of controversy, and appropriate ways to be controversial.
LOL, true. For example, there's a big difference between what Trump says and simply saying that Guiding Light wasn't that bad.
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Do you consider Invincible and Supermassive Black Hole recent? They're almost eleven years old.
Hmm, fair enough. I guess I was just assuming that "recent" meant "everything after Absolution." Can't believe it's been that long!
Being controversial doesn't have to mean "Act like Trump" though.I dunno, he's pretty controversial. Also, context is necessary to understand where I'm coming from, but I don't want to take up any of your time.
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Glad we have the Spaceman's official confirmation.
The sarcasm is high with this one...
No, seriously, the only reason I posted this was because I wanted to see if anyone else knew of other good live videos of CoD, because this is the only one I can find.
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I love Mercy and it was one of the only high points of the Philly gig for me.
Sorry you had such a disappointing show, SS.
He's admitted a few times that his pronunciation's pretty awful and, from what I've heard, French-speaking fans don't seem to think he's wrong. Mine's about as good when I sing along though tbf.
Joint best song with UD by a mile for me. It's an oasis of fun in a dry desert of an album.
Muse interview I'm looking for.
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That's a nice find, although that's not the interview I was thinking of. However, you were right that it was Deezer--I searched for "Muse Deezer" and found that someone reuploaded it on Vimeo. This interview is exactly what I was thinking of! (No idea how to insert embeds into my posts, but the link should work.)
Thanks for helping me find this one! At 7:26, Chris winced as much as I remembered when listening to "Save Me," lul.