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    Drones General Tour Discussion Thread

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    It's annoying because it makes me keep on believing they've got a great, consistent album left in them...

     

    So true, they keep producing just about enough great material per album to keep me hooked. Although frankly my pessimism has grown to the point where I'm no longer thinking "so psyched for the new Muse album!!!" so much as "so psyched for the 2-3 great songs on the new Muse album!!!".

    Drones General Tour Discussion Thread

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    I'm not sure a Radiohead-Muse comparison is a particularly useful one, because Muse seem to care far more about commercial performance and writing songs to fill stadiums than Radiohead do. Even if Muse go a bit experimental on LP8, I'm pretty sure there will still be one middle-of-the road, soft cheese fest on the album, which will harm our perception of it when it comes out.

     

    (I'd love to be proven wrong though)

    Best Live Performance of any one song

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    Posted · Edited by frozenbanana

    On a serious note though, I do love it when he does weird scale thingies (0:29). He should whip them out more often, never seen him do it irl.

     

    If I recall correctly he used to do them in some 2004 Muscle Museum performances? As far as I can tell those involved mucking around with weird descending triplets and stuff like that, so...

     

    E --13--------------------------------------------------

    B -----12---13----------------------------------------15 etc. etc.

    G---------11---12---13--------------------15--------

    D------------------11---12----13-----15------14----

    A----------------------------11---12------14------13-

    E-------------------------------------11-------13-----

     

    all played very fast and jumping around the fretboard. Probably lots of random notes thrown in as well though, I might be very wrong.

    (Am shit at tabs lol, sorry)

    Best Live Performance of any one song

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    Also not the best and not even a really good solo but I wish he'd kept going with it and improving it. So much more interesting than just rubbing off the XY pad. Early BH&R performances also had more traditional attempts at soloing.

     

    Agreed. When his pad broke in this performance from 2008 he was forced to pull out an improv solo that happens to be better (imho) than every single other SMBH solo ever (see 2:25 onwards). No pad next tour plz Matt!!!

     

    [YT]

    [/YT]

     

     

    Also just checked and I have around 15 different versions of SS live in my iTunes library. Love them all.

    Your Perfect Muse Setlist

    in Tours

    Posted

    Might do a longer one later, but for now, 2 from each gig attended:

     

    Psycho

    Bliss

    Muscle Museum

    Map of the Problematique

    Futurism

    Butterflies and Hurricanes

    Supremacy

    Citizen Erased

    Sunburn

    Assassin

    Knights of Cydonia

     

    Micro Cuts

    Stockholm Syndrome

    Take a Bow

     

    As someone who only saw Muse long after the BH&R tours, I've been very lucky.

    Drones General Tour Discussion Thread

    in Tours

    Posted

    Here's how it should go down (worth a daydream...)

     

    Reapers

    Psycho

    New Born / Bliss / Plug in Baby (< "OOS single which is great live” slot)

    Dead Star / Micro Cuts / Assassin (<heavy rarity slot)

    The Handler

    Dead Inside

    Hysteria / MoTP (<older, fairly well-known single slot)

    Mercy

    Madness

    Supermassive Black Hole

    <BORING JAM TO GIVE MATT A BREAK>

    Citizen Erased / Butterflies and Hurricanes (<i don’t know what to call this slot)

    Sunburn / Apocalypse Please / Ruled by Secrecy (<piano slot, just please not FG even though I know it will be)

    Time is Running Out

    Futurism / Fury / Muscle Museum / Uno / Hyper Music (< really rare rarity slot)

    Uprising

    Stockholm Syndrome / Knights of Cydonia

     

    The Globalist

    Drones

     

    Overture / Take a Bow (<atmospheric (lol) encore opener slot)

    Starlight

    Knights of Cydonia / Stockholm Syndrome

     

    The casuals get their fill of singles, cheese and new stuff (in red), we get some juicy stuff too. 21 or 22 songs. Done.

    Drones General Tour Discussion Thread

    in Tours

    Posted

    Anyone know what time?

     

    Also do you have the YT link?

     

    Should be 10pm GMT ish if I'm not mistaken? No idea about YT link though, the one above looks suspect...

     

    Also, is there really no vote for tonight? Would be funny (and terrible) if that one gig was literally it for polls and nice double rarities

    Drones General Tour Discussion Thread

    in Tours

    Posted

    Some people seem to be really slamming this arena tour... I don't think it deserves all the criticism it's getting. On good nights I think there's been a better balance of deep cuts and hits than in the T2L and TR arena days. Sure it's not quite there with Werchter, and the gigs are too short, but these have still been great, for example:

     

    http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/muse/2016/accorhotels-arena-paris-france-7bf0a6d8.html

    http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/muse/2016/mediolanum-forum-di-assago-assago-italy-53f14739.html

    http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/muse/2016/the-o2-arena-london-england-1bf189dc.html

     

    The inconsistency is of course the main gripe. They fail to meet these standards a lot of the time, and we randomly get setlists like this one:

    http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/muse/2016/accorhotels-arena-paris-france-2bf0bcf6.html

    which wasn't even in the US.

     

    Of course we're not entitled to anything, but there's nothing wrong with pointing out that sets like the three above will probably please more people - including the band - than the set below.

    Drones General Tour Discussion Thread

    in Tours

    Posted

    Matt's making some understandable points, if not ones that Muse have acted sensibly on in the past. Of course rarities aren't going to go down massively well in arenas compared with the hits, but that doesn't mean they should be limited to random small shows that few people can get tickets for, and which often aren't advertised as rarity-filled shows beforehand. And yes, fan votes won't produce rarities in the top spots... if they're put on Facebook, twitter or the website. So don't put them there. Keep them away from casuals as far as possible and see what happens.

     

    This might be an interesting night as far as Muse setlists go in the future. He's taking a lot of criticism and actually responding to it this time.

    Drones General Tour Discussion Thread

    in Tours

    Posted

    I always felt Space Dementia would be cool this tour if it was played Reading 2011 style. Do the outro on guitar and then bring it into a nice heavy song, like Reapers or Stockholm.

     

    Space Dementia with Guitar Outro --> Knights of Cydonia has featured in most of my posts on "Your Perfect Muse Setlist", think it would be immense

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