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  1. BlueEyedFloozy
    If you could go back 20 years and play one track from your back catalogue to your teenage selves, which would it be and why?
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    If you could cover one Queen song, which would you pick? One from each of you please
  3. BlueEyedFloozy
    Well I saw Feeder open for Reef, then I saw Muse open for Feeder, so whoever's supporting in Cologne I expect them to be the Next Big Thing.
  4. BlueEyedFloozy
    Little bit of A, little bit of B.
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    City of Delusion has suddenly entered my top 10 in all its acousticy glory. The guitars in the second verse. The string section The ending. Yay
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    Yeah, Freddie was really, really shy (and also hated his teeth, so would often hide them behind his hands). He got bitten a few times by the press and often came across as haughty or aloof because he hated giving interviews. He often left the on-stage chatter to Brian May - he was a Performer on stage but a very private person off it.
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    I just found this.
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    The "babe"s scattered throughout Drones (album) annoy me.
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    I initially thought it was "punish us and forgive us" and Matt was mangling words as only he can, and my lyrics would make more sense with the god imagery. I was dead disappointed with the actual lyrics.
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    I'll defend that one. "The toilet scene" in the UK is the slog of playing tiny gigs; the theory is that the venue's so small the band have to get changed in the toilets. If you don't know the phrase it probably sounds a bit odd (a bit!) but it makes perfect sense in the context of the song. The "make a fuss" line in Fury infuriates me and ruins a cracking song.
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    That's another guitar in the face for Dom then.
  12. BlueEyedFloozy
    Yeah you're probably right nowadays when he's playing, but he still can't get the talking bit right. I always wanted to sing. I love singing. I would really like to have been able to make something of it. My problem is that I can't sing in front of other people, which is a bit of a shitter. I know some shy singers like Freddie Mercury would overcome it by having a totally OTT stage persona or be like Matt and once the crowds get beyond individual people and because a mass they can relax and let go but that's not me. I can sing in a choir, but then the leader tried to give me a solo and...I left. I'm a motherfucking singing legend in the car though.
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    Ewwwww! Every interview I've ever seen with Matt he looks basically terrified to me. I'm shy and awkward and nervous and tend to be able to spot a fellow sufferer a mile away. He's more relaxed when he's got Dom to bounce off but he's always fidgeting, putting his hands to his face, jiggling his foot, fiddling with his clothes etc. And also foot-in-mouth syndrome: I go through phases of saying to myself right, don't say X or Y because that would be a dick thing to do, then X or Y pops out of my mouth simply because it's popped into my brain If he is as nervous or awkward as he appears to me (and my degree in armchair psychology) I'm not quite should how he has the intestinal fortitude to do what he does in front of thousands of people; I'd rather set myself on fire.
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    Cunningly deploying my secret weapon of being a brain tumour survivor to try and get attention
  15. BlueEyedFloozy
    I thought someone said they barely break even on US leg of the tour? I think it's just expected of Muse now, that each tour will be bigger, and therefore better, than the last one. It was OK back in the early 2000s but now it's more about the show than the music from what I see. All the reviews seem to be saying, from a non-Muse-devotee standpoint, that the music from a performance perspective is still excellent, but for "us" it's lacking because we know they have so much more in their back catalogue. Personally, and I'm not a performer of any kind here so bear that in mind I've never really "got" arena or stadium shows. I grew up watching Queen gigs on video and then one of my first "proper" concerts was Download 1995 and I never did see the appeal, either from a performer or an audience member's point of view, of MASSIVE gigs to tens of thousands. I never felt a connection at the big outdoor festivals or gigs I've been to, whereas Terrorvision (stop it) in a pub in Wrexham with about 150 people was frigging brilliant, and Queen+Adam Lambert in Hammersmith Apollo was far better than them at Nottingham Arena last year. I've never been to a proper Muse gig yet for reasons so EVERYTHING will be new to me and while I'm really, really excited I do kind of wish it was more like the only other time I've seen them (at Manchester uni in 1999, supporting Feeder). Well OK maybe not that small, but maybe Manchester Apollo to Nottingham Arena-sized gigs rather than MEN Arena-sized.
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    Who said the egg was a chicken egg?
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    I'm not blaming them for sets exactly, I don't think (although Muse have been going long enough now to know which sets the majority of the crowd want). If you see people bouncing to song X, you'll play it again. I've seen so many on Instagram posting footage of gigs and saying they don't know what this song is but wasn't the light show great or they don't really like Muse but heard they were good live so went to check it out. Not a mindset I really understand. I guess it's a chicken and egg situation and we're so far down the line we don't know which came first, lower standard setlists or lower standard audiences. (It was the egg.) I dunno, it must be fairly soul-destroying. Performers definitely feed off the reaction of the audience and if the audience act uninterested the gig, be it musicians, a comedian, whatever, they're just not going to be as ... engaged. And absolutely if the audience of a play is not engaging with the actors I've seen the people on stage not give their all, and I don't blame them one bit. I wouldn't want to pull out all the stops for people who look basically bored. Also see: people breaking character to call out audience members for having their phones on, which you Do Not Do during a play. That's just rude!
  18. BlueEyedFloozy
    I didn't; I said "if". Are all USA gig audiences like that or just Muse ones?
  19. BlueEyedFloozy
    I thought I'd opened the ideal setlist thread and nearly had a heart attack.
  20. BlueEyedFloozy
    If that's what American crowds are like is it any wonder they've "given up"?
  21. BlueEyedFloozy
    This is the video https://www.instagram.com/p/BBOfCp0Oksz/
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    I saw a video on Instagram that was....I think it was the start of Psycho, which I'd expect the very front of the GA to be going mental to. It was something I would have been bouncing to, anyway. Everyone, and I mean everyone, was standing still holding up their phones.
  24. BlueEyedFloozy
    Brilliant
  25. BlueEyedFloozy
    Because more people voted for them. I'm really not sure what you're not getting about all this.
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