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    Share your controversial Muse opinions II - More Radiohead talk

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    I'm going to make reddit account just so I can post this on Radiohead subreddit

     

    It won't me let submit anything to anywhere :( My bad troll attempt failed before it started

     

    Aw, damn! It would have been hilarious to see the flamewars that start from that.

     

    I don't know your music tastes, but if you are a Radiohead fan, this is a bizarre thing to post. I suspect you aren't - and based on this picture, I actually wouldn't want you to ever be one anyway. I hope you really do believe their music simply involves "being depressed on top of random electronic shit", and that you continue enjoying Uprising, that glorious political anthem.

     

    I'm not a huge Radiohead fan, though I do like some of their stuff, but I'm more of a fan of the more rock side of their music than the weird electronic stuff they did later on, and in my opinion, they haven't made anything as great as OK Computer.

    Best Live Performance of any one song

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    Bliss - Two Days A Week '00

     

    Sunburn - Big Weekend '06

     

    Starlight - Shepherd's Bush +

     

    Wow! :eek: That was fast. Thanks a ton! This made my day. :D

     

    Haven't heard that in a while - it's fucking gold. Although I do prefer the piano part played on piano.

     

    My favourite video of it:

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DbvHwNQrmQ

     

    Ooh, that's another good performance. Honestly, every track on that EP was pretty damn solid, though I would have preferred a full-length audio (and possibly video) recording of the Resistance Stadium Tour shows. With videos of the UFOs and whatnot.

    Best Live Performance of any one song

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    There was one early live performance of Bliss that I heard that featured no backing synths and alternated with Matt playing the arpeggios on guitar and playing the power chords on guitar. I kind of liked that, though I can't find it now.

     

    Then I think there was a version of Sunburn where Matt plays guitar all the way through and Morgan plays piano.

     

    Oh, and an early version of Starlight that featured Matt playing the piano part on his guitar. That was pretty awesome, especially compared to the more recent version of Starlight where Matt has seemingly decided that he's too cool to play guitar (aka too cool to do his frikkin' job).

     

    If any of you know where I can find these videos, please let me know! (Because I've searched and I can't find them on YouTube.)

    Why the Muse Hate?

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    Pretty sure they came out and said as much at the time iirc.

     

    Is there a source for this? Because if so... hoo boy.

     

    How do they have no taste if they're pop fans? Their taste is obviously pop music, or does that not count?

     

    I don't know if I'd count "songs" like "Anaconda" as music. :vomit:

     

    Good Points. I listen to some of Radiohead songs and while a couple of Muse songs sound similar, they were quite old for the band and even then it was because they just sounded like a 'rock' song. It's like saying one Jazz song sounds like another. It's just because they're similar styles.

     

    At least with Showbiz and Origin of Symmetry, I could sort of hear where they were coming from, but you have to remember that by that point, Radiohead was long past the OK Computer era and had moved on to weird electronic music, becoming mostly just the Thom Yorke show, so if Radiohead wasn't going to give us rock, then why not have Muse take over? (Especially since by Absolution, the Radiohead influences were practically invisible.)

     

    Not really tbf. Back in the Showbiz days, the Radiohead comparisons were pretty fair. From OOS onwards they were obvs totally different bands but the 'radioheadlol' meme had become a thing so it stuck around, that's about the only extent that it has though.

     

    I swear if I have to hear that meme from one other Muse hater I am going to flip. :mad:

     

    Though I've heard Matt Bellamy's voice called a ripoff of Thom Yorke's, but... nah, Thom has a more somber depressing tone while Matt goes for extreme hamminess. Also, both are British singers in the alternative scene who cite Jeff Buckley as an influence. Of course they're going to sound alike. Doesn't make one a ripoff of the other, though. Saying one band is a ripoff of the other just because their singers sound alike is BS.

     

    This is like all those people in the '70s who claimed that Queen, Black Sabbath, and Led Zeppelin were all Cream ripoffs.

    Album Eight: Simulation Theory

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    Their teaser was probably the closest Muse have been to originality in a long time. If it had actually been full of that, it might have been half decent, at least interesting rather than yet another collection of weak pastiches of a variety of genres done far better by plenty of others.

     

    Please see my response to fabripav above. :)

     

    Isolated System has nothing in common with dubstep, not even the mainstream idea of it.

     

    That's what I thought, too, but for some reason a few people seem to think that the bass part is reminiscent of it.

    Best Live Performance of any one song

    in Songs & Releases

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    In my opinion, Eurockeennes 2000 contained the best performance of "Feeling Good," only because we got to see the magnificence of Matt forgetting the lyrics during the megaphone section (1:32).

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnIxlwui85Q

     

    When most singers forget the lyrics, they get the audience to sing it or maybe shout something instead. But when Matt Bellamy forgets the lyrics, it's truly something special to witness.

     

    "OUHUHUHUHUHUHUHUTARARARRARARARARARARARRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA you know what I mean, don't you know?

    DADADAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH you know what I mean..."

    Why the Muse Hate?

    in Other Muse Topics

    Posted

    I mean, it depends on your definition of 'single' but it was the first track released to promote the record shortly before Madness came out. Pretty much the same situation as Psycho and Dead Inside, and I think most people would class Psycho as a single.

     

    Okay, that's a fair point.

     

    Either way, when you're using songs like that to promote your records, build hype and/or cause a stir, you're naturally gonna be quite a polarising band. Though apparently the band have always been like that tbf, guess it just comes with the territory of making bombastic music.

     

    Yeah, that's Muse for ya. Again, let me restate that I feel as though they knew people would get upset about that and decided to post it just to troll us/get attention for the album.

    Why the Muse Hate?

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    Posted

    So, this has probably been done before, but I just need to ask. Why do so many people 'hate' (I use that lightly) Muse? I was just looking online (as you do) and have come across so many discussions on why Muse is bad. I know everyone is entitled to their own opinions, I just get confused...

     

    There are probably a few reasons.

    1. The haters are just pop fans with no taste (which applies to a lot of haters of rock bands).
    2. They think that Muse sold out with Drones (or The 2nd Law, or The Resistance, or Black Holes and Revelations, or Absolution).
    3. They think of Muse as a Radiohead ripoff (which they aren't).
    4. They resent the fact that Muse's music was used in the Twilight films.
    5. They're racist against British people.

     

    Any of these could be possible. Who knows? :p

    Album Eight: Simulation Theory

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    Unsustainable, Follow me.. then Madness and... ?

     

    I know some people consider "Isolated System" to be dubstep, though in all fairness, I wouldn't consider either it or Madness to be such.

     

    But anyway, 'Musestep' was embarrassingly shit so anyone who predicted it would be were correct. That's not 'hating', just successfully weighing up the strengths and weakenses of a band and seeing if they would suit a certain genre.

     

    A fair enough assessment, though I was less talking about whether or not they could pull off the sound and more about the fears that the whole album would be a dubstep album, which were sparked by Muse's decision to troll us all by having the album's teaser only feature the dubstep song. Because really, the album is more of a symphonic-progressive-dubstep-disco-piano-driven-ballad-pop-hard-metal genre roulette, and Matt did warn us with his assessment of it being "christian gangsta rap jazz odyssey, with some ambient rebellious dubstep and face-melting metal flamenco cowboy psychedelia." :LOL:

     

    What you're missing is that it's a Muse album in the 2010s.

     

    And what's that supposed to mean?

    Album Eight: Simulation Theory

    in Songs & Releases

    Posted

    And I'm betting on another misleading "shock value" teaser this time around; they did "fan service" teaser for Drones.

     

    Hey, whatever gets attention, right? Even if it's negative, like the teaser for The 2nd Law getting everyone riled up about "Musestep," even though only 2/13 of the tracks (or 4/13 if you really want to stretch it) counted as dubstep.

     

    Actually, you're right. Muse's teasers for their recent albums have been kind of weird.

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