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  1. *shrugs* I'd quite happily cut the song off at the point the riff starts - it does nothing much for me at all. The Morricone intro into the slide guitar section is really beautiful and flows along nicely until that point. Perhaps it's just how it's placed in the song. Edit: Oh, and Butterflies and Hurricanes would be the best song Muse ever wrote if it wasn't for the fact they've written at least 20 better ones.
  2. It's actually the riff where this starts going wrong for me. Up until then it's a really atmospheric, sweeping song with lovely vocals. Then the riff kicks in and it's pretty average, which it then compounds by going off on a build to nowhere. The final part really does sound like they dug out an unused USoE take and recorded new vocals. It's not a bad song really, but it reminds me a lot of Butterflies and Hurricanes in that it's trying to be the epic centrepiece of the album but it just isn't quite up to the job.
  3. 1: Dead Inside - Alright I guess. Kind of like the little solo after the first chorus. Not the weakest album opener ever, but by no means the best either. 5/10 2: Shouty Man/Psycho - Burnt myself out on this after a handful of listens when it was released. Lots of loud guitars and drumming but it feels a bit soulless and by the numbers. 4/10 3: Mercy - Really like it, but then again I am a fan of layered vocals and power choruses. Decent pop song. 7/10 4: Reapers - The 'Animals' of the album for me in that everyone seems to love it, but I could take it or leave it. I do like the vocal effects though, and the finger tapping intro is great. 6/10 5: The Handler - Yeah, this is the best on the album for me by a considerable margin. Falsetto is well-used, the guitar middle piece is really good with the building drums and the ending really does remind me of Showbiz so that's a big tick. 9/10 6: American President Guy/Defector - I like this because it's so silly. Pretty catchy riff and the chorus makes me smile. 8/10 7: Revolt - Not nearly as awful as some people seem to think, but it's just not that interesting. Filing it alongside Micro Cuts, Falling Away With You, Soldier's Poem and most of the previous two albums as a song I will listen to again if listening to the full album, but won't actively seek it out. 5/10 8: Aftermath - Like it! Can definitely hear the U2 - One thing at the start. The ending goes a bit Rod Stewart but as the album's love song it fits quite nicely. 7/10 9: The Globalist - Er, hmm. The first part is really quite lovely - for me it kind of goes south when the riff kind of gets hacksawed onto what was until that point a really lovely sweeping song. Then, just as you get used to it and it starts to build, a forgotten take of United States of Eurasia gets sellotaped on the end. Starts brilliantly, ends weakly. 6/10 10: Drones - Actually, it's alright after a few listens. Not really my kind of thing, but a pretty unique album ender and quite haunting. 6/10 Overall: 6.3/10 If I have to slot it into a ranking of albums, I'd go: 1: Origin of Symmetry 2: Black Holes & Revelations 3: Absolution 4: Showbiz 5: Drones 6: The Resistance 7: The 2nd Law
  4. They're doing that to try and avoid YouTube's automated song matching system that instantly hits uploaded songs with copyright infringement notices. Sadly it does mean that the stuff you find on YT is not really what you're getting.
  5. Muse forum in theatrically OTT mixed reaction shocker I've been around 'this' place since 2001 under different accounts, now all lost to long defunct email accounts. This is my 6th 'leak' build up - yes, I was even around on OoS leak day - and the reaction to everything, even OoS, has always been pretty mixed from everyone. Album was always going to be a random jumble from the moment they said it was a concept. They're a band with so many different styles and song types that their identity is different to everyone. That makes it pretty tricky for them to ever please everyone with an entire album. I guess this is as close to being Muse's own little 'The Wall' moment as they're going to have. Anyway, it's really not that bad. The overall concept/story is as subtle as being punched repeatedly in the face and is all a bit GCSE politics essay, but some of the tunes are nice. Ending on an acapella was interesting. If I had to dole out the seemingly required list of songs that I like and don't, Mercy, The Handler, Defector, Aftermath and The Globalist (well, the first half) would be in the thumbs up camp, Dead Inside, Psycho and Revolt in the thumbs down and the rest somewhere in the middle. Can't say I am particularly offended by any of it, though. Having ridden the Muse train since Showbiz I've come to terms with the fact that at times I'll have to look past lyrics, borrowed sequences and a fair few layers of cheese if I really want to enjoy them. I do, and as a result still like them as much as when I was a 17-year old listening to Muscle Museum in my school common room whilst I was supposed to be doing economics work. tl;dr - opinions are opinions.
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