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  1. Kramnidorach

    Nov 9, 2018

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    Can't blame Muse from trying new things. Sometimes, this worked well (Black Holes & revelations, Resistance), sometimes it worked about ok (Drones). Even 2nd law, which I didn't really like, had a few good songs. Here.. it's the void. Back are the electronic shenanigans from 2nd law, mixed in a more current manner, with the same Muse epic singing. yet, overall result doesn't feel fresh at all. And apart the Dark side maybe, nothing good popped to my hears. Easily the worst album of Muse of all times. Let's hear you in 3 years maybe. Yup, not even wanting to hear that garbage on tour this time (for the first time in almost 2 decades...)

     

    Wow!

  2. Does anyone else feel that Dom has regressed a drummer in the last few years? It's almost as if they're using a drum machine half the time and Dom isn't bringing anything to the table. Remember how on "Screenager" he had the inspired idea to use bones, or his drum intro on "Map of the Problematique"? Where did it go?

  3. I'm talking about tracks that are not typical intro-verse-chorus-bridge-verse-chorus-outro structure. Meaning not pop structures, but more acylical type songs found in progressive rock. Also bonus points for extra arpeggios, classical piano bits and odd time signatures.

     

    A few off the top of my head:

     

    Spiral Static

    Space Dementia

    Citizen Erased

    Con-science

    Butterflies & Hurricanes

    Take a Bow

    Hoodoo

    Knights of Cydonia

    Glorious

    I Belong to You

    Exogenesis Symphony

    Animals

    The 2nd Law: Unsustainable

    The Globalist

    The Dark Side

  4. I've said that before as well. If Muse can't find it in themselves to drop any of the greatest hits for a rarity once in a while, at least they could try to rework a well known song for something fresh. They don't even change up the intros and outros to the songs. The snippets of Back in Black, Heartbreaker, House of the Rising Sun etc. might feel like a cool spontaneous improv to the newbie crowd but Muse have been doing the same ones for years.

     

    I mean, what's the worst thing that could happen from playing a stripped back, piano version of Starlight? People might not do the hand-clap?

     

    They're addicted to the adulation they get with those hand-clap songs. "Starlight", "Uprising", "Supermassive Black Hole", "Panic Station". I swear those songs will be played to the end of time before we'll ever hear the live debut of "Falling Away With You".

  5. I'd imagine the artwork fell for the same reason that singles fell, in that it just wasn't something people cared about too much. This is a very visual album so far and they've found a good place doing single releases online with videos rather than CDs with b-sides.

     

    Are you saying that nobody cared about the artwork on BH&R? I personally found it very engaging and part of the whole experience. To me the artwork on the BH&R singles gives an extra 'heft' to the songs that is missing in the TR/T2L era.

  6. Maybe it's just me and my unpopular opinions. But I feel the last 4 Muse LPs(TR, T2L, Drones, ST) have been very lazy & derivative. BH&R was already on the edge of that problem, but I feel it still exudes a confidence in the songwriting that is largely absent from what followed. Also notice another thing - no B-sides after 2006. Also look at artwork on BH&R(album, singles). All super classy and interesting. Artwork on everything 2009-present, not so much.

  7. Yeah, Fabri shouldn't be taken seriously. I mean he said St. Vincent doesn't write stale music while her last album was just shitty 2009 Lady Gaga impression

     

    Exactly. A total shocker to see Annie Clark sell out like that. It's like in the history of music the only acts to never 'sell out':

     

    The Beatles, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Radiohead, David Bowie, Aimee Mann

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