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UD actually got quite a lot of radio play in the US, and it's from their most popular US album, as well.
None of those songs you listed were even a blip in the US.
It makes perfect sense to play UD in the US, and I was rather surprised last tour when they dropped it and didn't replace it with anything.
Sorry I think I put the comma in the wrong place - I meant "in terms of chart performance, in Europe a Muse biggest hits setlist should contain..." - i.e. that Europe setlists should contain those songs. Agree that UD should be played in America based on chart performance (though it's not great live)
Crowds weren't reacting, I assume.I wasn't really paying much attention throughout the US tour but would be interested to know - what songs were US crowds reacting to? I think I read somewhere that Resistance got a huge reception in a few gigs, which surprised me from the UK ones I went to
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Lame indeed.
Can't remember how it did in the US but, for a band so obsessed with playing the hits and getting a strong reaction, it is baffling that one of their worst charting singles and biggest live buzzkills manages to survive so long.
Yeah - pretty sure that in terms of chart performance in Europe, a Muse biggest hits setlist should really always include New Born, Bliss, Dead Star and Butterflies and Hurricanes (as well as possibly Muscle Museum and Sunburn), and UD should be out of the picture. Maybe they choose it based on Youtube video views or something colossally stupid like that.
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As tiny snippets go, it's way less worrying than those first two seconds of DEAD INSIDE which we got before that came out in full (and it turned out to be a good song). I wouldn't be surprised if the new song is a cheesefest though.
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Hmm... nothing new today then!
Muse can't even do hype properly ffs
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I like Dead Inside as a song, but the opening I find annoying. Especially since it's the first thing you hear listening to the album.
I remember when that radio station previewed the first 2 seconds of the song a few hours before its official premiere, and all we could hear was 'dddDEAD INSIDE!!!". Pretty sure the general reaction was
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Getting a bit of a Julian Casablancas vibe from the 80s graphics at the end.
(Also, please don't be another disco song...)
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What's hero vocals?
It's when Matt sings like he's the narrator of a musical at a theatre - for example, the opening verse of Supremacy, all of Survival, and the beginning of Follow Me
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...What?? Where??
https://twitter.com/Nowherethomas?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
#PrettyDarnSoon. Which could mean months. Or tomorrow. As usual, who knows.
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He'd hit all the notes, it's just it would sound far more nasal. His voice sounds far nicer on record now than it did in the early '00s (although his Shrinking Universe-style falsettos were cool), so long as he isn't doing his hero vocals.
And yeah, OOS Muse would never have written anything as slushy as Aftermath
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Maybe we should try to encourage him to design his own piano too to increase the chance of a proper piano slot?
Although knowing them it will just be Feeling Good with the occasional AP or Eurasia
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Matt's instagram also suggested they're filming a new music video as well
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According to this person who talked to Matt at Coachella on Friday, we can expect "a single coming out soon".
But how soon is soon?
Supposedly Matt said (or the fan hazily assumed) beginning of summer. That can be June 21st in a literal sense, but hoping for earlier than that, like say...oh...May 20th in West Palm Beach!
Aren't people sick of reading the word "soon" in relation to Muse? They could be waiting years
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Taken from the Hartwall arena set(which was actually above average for the tour considering we got Map, TaB and Reapers):
*Isolated System(shortened)*
The Handler
SMBH + Voodoo Child intro
Prelude
Starlight
Feeling Good
Munich Jam
Madness
*JFK*
Interlude
Hysteria
That is actually some meme-tier shit. JFK INTO INTERLUDE and then Hysteria? Wtf man?
Yeah, this was beyond a joke. Just a load of crap. What's worse is that half of those indulgent wanky intros like Voodoo Child and IS were played at Glasto, where they didn't even have the excuse of big screens and drones to accommodate (The Handler's visuals were a complete fail on the festival stage)
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Wee update, gonna be sometime next week I'm in London (could be early on tho, hopefully). They likely won't be there but I'll pop round to Air just in case, it's only a 30min journey and it'll be cool just to see the place anyway.
Good luck! Hampstead is a lovely area anyway happily
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I'm thinking one acoustic ballad with kinda Unintended vibes, one synth-pop/rock thing and one 'heavy' glam-ish track like Uprising or Psycho. Pretty pleased though, was genuinely not expecting anything at all even with all the hints
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Another problem with this album (and Muse generally post Absolution) is that they seem to have lost the ability to make genuinely dark and chilling songs.
And this time they seemed to suggest those songs were back. Fairly sure it came up in the interviews all the time before Drones was released about how it was going to be about abandonment, despair and rage against the system, before the eventual defection, etc. blah blah blah. Then we got all the track names - "Dead Inside", "Psycho", "Mercy", "The Handler", "Revolt" - and they backed that up.
And then the songs come out and there's no depth to them whatsoever. Dead Inside is almost poppy, with kinda corny lyrics in places (as discussed). Psycho's chorus is "your ass belongs to me now". The less said about Mercy the better (but "tell me why the men in cloaks always have to bring me down!!" - those darn men in cloaks, eh?). Reapers ("babe") and The Handler are sort of saved by their heaviness, and the post-chorus vocal thing in The Hander is the closest Muse come to sounding a little unsettling (not sure that's the right word, but anyway) on the album. But then Defector is just Queenish and Revolt sounds like something out of a cheesy musical, and both have utterly vapid lyrics.
Drones ends up being equivalent - musically and lyrically - of what I imagine a Michael Bay movie about warfare would be. All big bangs and no subtlety and no emotional heft whatsoever.
But they used to be able to do this stuff properly! The erosive atmosphere of Hyper Chondriac Music, the taut claustrophobia of Dead Star (or Hysteria), the eeriness of Ruled by Secrecy, etc. It's a shame that it's been gone for a long time.
TL;DR, what happened to creepy Muse
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Then the greatest guy line comes and it ruins the whole thing
I still can't hear it as anything other than "the grainiest guy".
I dunno, I think the best bits of Drones are better than anything else post-BH&R, but the lows are really down there with the worst stuff they've done, and there's a lot of fluff.
I remember that bit before the second half of the album had leaked when The Globalist and Revolt had these promising preview descriptions and we'd got the snippet of the great Defector solo as well. So full of hope
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Why would they re-record overdubs? That awful(ly obvious) overdub in the Rome dvd had the studio vocal of Survival.
Some bands really do push it out there - I remember that I had a Rolling Stones CD once where I found out the suspiciously excellent vocal from 50-something-year-old Mick Jagger on Street Fighting Man was actually a product of a trip to the studio months before the live album's release, long after the gig.
It wouldn't be anything like that with Matt, more likely a botched Defector solo that needed replacing or something (and even then, you're right, they'd probably use the studio version). That post was just my attempt to think of the worst-case scenario for the recent studio work (aside from it just coming to nothing at all). I do think it's most likely to be a single.
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I know this never usually involves the drummer but what if it's all just studio overdubs for the tour dvd release
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Given the political climate here these days, it'll be interesting to see if they are heavier on those types of songs this year.
Nah I reckon all that will mean is that Matt makes a little lame speech before Uprising about toppling corrupt fat cat politicians
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YBI22dvHSM
Shout for best modern PIB? Literally everything's on point imo, shows it can still be one of their most fun live songs with even just a smidge of energy behind it. Though I still usually have a good time with it anyway tbf.
(also at what point does TR stop being 'modern Muse' - next album?)
Yup. It's between that one and ACL 2013 for me (26:40):
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You had one jobThe fact that you included COD in that means I have nothing to explain.City of Delusion is better in every way imaginable.
Knew another bout of CoD-bashing would produce some responses
Here we go then.
CoD's not a bad song, but it seems to be treated as if it's close to top-tier on here a lot of the time, and I don't get it at all. The bit before the second verse is great (especially the guitar crunches) but the chord progression isn't that interesting, and it's repeated so much - even through the solo. I know this is true of MoTP too (for example), but Map's guitar parts and harmonies are far more interesting than CoD's.
The lyrics also aren't that great considering how forthrightly they are delivered, especially in the chorus. It's not catchy, it's not compelling - someone once suggested "just-i-fy my reea-sons" was one of the big dramatic moments within Muse's works, but those lyrics are hardly gripping, are they? - and it's so immediately overblown. Chucking all the drama with the strings and big vocals into the first chorus means there's no real sense of climax at the end, and you know exactly what's coming when it arrives.
I think it had the potential to be a much better piece than it is (like Exo, Assassin etc.). They could have done more with the trumpet, instead of have it noodle over the same melody we've already heard 3 times. They could have added a bridge with a different melody, and pared down the first chorus, I dunno. As it stands it's not more than a 7 or 8 out of 10 though.
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Might've posted this before but Knights is the worst song on Black Holes.
Explain what makes SP, CoD and particularly Exo better than it
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stadium stomp
Isn't that how Big Freeze was described, pre-release?
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I can open the links but can't access the song - reckon the page has gone up too early. Good find though