frozenbanana
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Exeter Muscle Museum plz. Or my usual request of RBS from Glasgow.
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Wasn't there some chat from some fans that met them about Muse bringing back Showbiz in London?
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We are so predictable... "They're shit... I love them!!!!"
Making this my sig if that's ok
EDIT: and likewise am going to three of the nights really just to maximise chances of seeing rarities
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Just got tickets to this and the 15th on AXS, which worked pretty well. Very excited for all of these.
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The thing is, Matt used to swamp his vocals (especially the falsettos) in tonnes and tonnes of distortion, which I think often disguises any thin voice or strain and generally makes him sound more epic and intense. Nowadays he uses far less of it.
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Glorious > Crying Shame > Many, many songs > Easily
Also, OOS is definitely overrated. It's also weaker than BH&R.
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Where to begin?
Aftermath - redo the first and last lines, cut the shit guitar solo and the "we've gone against the tide section", make some of the last chorus instrumental (so there's a Blackout-style guitar thing going on)
SS - the last chorus features a guitar in the right channel of my headphones that drops out randomly seconds in. Annoys me every time, it should stay
B&H - the record version should have the guitars
CoD - have something else going on instead of the same intro and verse melody over and over again. Maybe an extended or modified solo.
Psycho - shorten the intro, cut out the guitar breakdown before the third chorus etc.
Dead Star - put the scratchy guitar stuff from Download 2015 in the verses
Bliss - falsetto background vocals (like at the end of Megalomania) in the background for the final chorus
The Globalist - trumpets instead of whistling, and make the slide guitar sound not like it was recorded on someone's phone in an echoey room
Survival - less choir plz
Unsustainable - make the middle section different from the opening orchestral stuff and have a more interesting 2nd "dubstep" section
etc. etc.
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Some pretty melodramatic responses to this song on here, but then again I know how badly I react to MK Ultra so fair enough.
To me this isn't that bad a song and it certainly didn't/shouldn't ruin the album as a whole. If the chorus had heavier guitars and lost those queen vocals then it would be miles better, but the verses are a lot of fun and Matt's vocal delivery is great. Aftermath is just as cheesy but Matt's vocals are absolutely rubbish (especially the first and last lines of the whole thing) and the guitar solo's terrible. Definitely the weakest for me.
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What was the other one?
The one at the beginning of this
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-Muse put out their shittiest album to date
-people forcing themselves to like it because it's "rock"
No
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By7RZf8X_kU
This version is up there. The intro, the atmosphere, the guitar tones, the drums are insane throughout (the fill before the verse in particular), and the riffs at the end sound immense.
I watched this performance a few days ago and it made me kinda sad. Apart from the drums, I think it's a sub par effort that benefits from an amazing mix (Roskilde was a better 2015 performance imho). Matt's all over the place in the choruses nowadays, which are ruined anyway by Chris' backing vocals.
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This Reapers (or Manchester's) wins so far, mainly for its outro
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They hit a very good formula with Rock Werchter, so it's a shame they didn't really replicate that again. They could have even gone for something like:
- Psycho
- Supermassive Black Hole
- The Handler
- Rarity (Micro Cuts / Assassin / The Groove / Uno)
- Plug In Baby / Bliss
- Dead Inside
- Interlude
- Hysteria
- Munich Jam
- Supremacy
- Citizen Erased
- Apocalypse Please
- Time Is Running Out
- Mercy
- Reapers
- Stockholm Syndrome
Enc: - Uprising
- Starlight
- Knights of Cydonia
- Psycho
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City of Delusion is nowhere near as good a song as some people make it out to be
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Supremacy would be so much better in the set if instead of that final Bond-esque chord, they just went straight into CE.
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I still like this song
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Showbiz: Overdue
OOS: Darkshines
Absolution: Intro
BH&R: Exo-Politics
TR: IBTY
T2L: Save Me
Drones: Aftermath
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Setlist.fm is up to its usual shit
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Okay, so this has been bothering me for quite some time now.
I noticed that over the last years (I think starting from around TR's release) Matt's vocal delivery has changed, and not only in the way that it deepened or got weaker/stronger. I'm referring to the way Matt approaches his notes (so the beginning of a phrase) and how he ends them. Especially evident on Drones (album), Matt really tends to 'slide' up to the note instead of instantly hitting it. Also when ending a note/word, he slides back down with his voice.
He not only does this live (for example I noticed he does it in Uprising when singing "We will be victorious"), but also on albums (for example The Globalist: "...great, nation, we were"). There are numerous other examples, although mostly from live performances; just put on any recent gig and you'll notice it.
I really don't like the way it sounds. It sounds like he's putting too much pressure on reaching a note, suggesting that he's really struggling to do so. However when one assumes that this is not the case (having difficulties), I think it still just sounds... amateuristic? I'm in no way a professional regarding singing or anything, but I believe being able to immediately hit a note is one of the basic things to do.
Anyway, I'm aware Matt has done this for a very long time, or perhaps even since Showbiz, but I think it has increased a lot and now it's starting to bother me.
Any thoughts on this matter? Does it bother anyone else?
I don't notice it too much, except in the Reapers live chorus (where he tries to do it, but doesn't even make it to the note and ends up sounding flat)
This performance contains one of his most obvious examples of sliding up to a note in the final chorus, and it sounds absolutely epic:
.. but I appreciate that's not quite the same as what you're talking about.
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that last falsetto makes me cringe.
It's really weird, isn't it? The enunciation is really bad and it sounds so forced and nasal.
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This isn't a joke song, nor was it intended as one.
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Matt's final scream in the live versions is so epic.
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Don't see what's good about being the best part of a really shit song.
but Defector isn't shit
Psycho/Drones General Tour Discussion Thread
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Bet they love Reapers with its attack on American foreign policy and all that