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Take That's Progress album gets many comparisons with Muse (various reviews)


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http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/nov/11/take-that-progress-cd-review

 

"Progress takes their sound closer to that of the Killers (the blaring arena-rocker Underground Machine), Scissor Sisters (the glam stomp of Happy Now) and even Supermassive Black Hole-era Muse (the alienated electro marching tune Kidz)."

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-take-that-progress-polydor-2133933.html

 

"The real star here is producer Stuart (Madonna's Music)Price, who manages to turn the band into a different act for every song: Muse here, Bowie there, and everywhere an electro-pop sheen and a camp and knowing smile. (And not, note to Robbie, a smirk)."

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/qvwx

 

"The latter sounds like he’s having a ball throughout, particularly on another Owen/Williams duet, Kidz, which exhilaratingly combines martial beats, glam guitars, Atari techno and the kind of absurd dystopian pomp ("Daggers of science evolving into violence / We're not sure where the fallout blows") usually found on Muse albums."

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/nov/14/take-that-progress-kitty-empire-review

 

"You suspect it's down to Robbie's grandiosity and paranoiac tendencies that it also sounds like Queen and Muse."

 

I can definitely see the resemblance. Can anyone else?

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no way

 

"Kings, Queens and Presidents. Ministers of the government... Welcome to the future of your world. Through the talking heads that took liberties, the monkeys learnt to build machines. They'll think they'll get to heaven through the universe. They say nothing, deny everything and make counter accusation. My friends, my dear and my God... There'll be trouble when the kids come out"

 

"The daggers of silence evolving into violence"

 

I'm sorry but that is so so Bellamy. Government conspiracies and dystopian futures are subject that Matt's touched upon over and over.

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I agree :) I got the Q magazine which had the Take That album review in it and I was kinda a bit shocked to see that it was compared to Muse :LOL:

So i got the album, as i would have anyway, because i'm a big TT fan, and the song Kidz sounds SO musey! As well as many of the other ones too! :D

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I have this album :happy: i love it as i'm a massive Take That fan, i can see a bit of Muse in there if im honest, but as Robbie's back in the band, i think him and Matt have some similar views on things... oh, and Gary Barlow said that Muse where his favourite band so, there's another reason :happy:

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Wait, you mean Take That, the band where Robbie started and where all the catchy pop songs I heard when I was a kid were from? :stunned: well, I liked Take That when I was really little...but it's different. And that song is quite cool, I have to check them out again then :erm:

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Oh well, seems like they're Muse fans :p I remember stumbling across this interview of Robbie from about a month ago:

 

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/playlist/view/158405/Robbie-Williams-How-Take-That-will-kick-JLS-butt/

 

I told him when I first heard The Flood it gave me goosebumps.

 

“It’s epic,” he agreed. “It was noted that it sounds like Muse. I did have a word in Gary’s ear. Both him and I are big Muse fans. They do epic records but are crap at football – I played them the other week.”

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I'm impressed - a thread about Take That and all the replies are positive!

 

Tbh they're a different band now. You can't go around being the way you were in the 1990s as a band when you're all late 30s/early 40s.

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I'm impressed - a thread about Take That and all the replies are positive!

 

Tbh they're a different band now. You can't go around being the way you were in the 1990s as a band when you're all late 30s/early 40s.

 

I was thinking about that too when I opened the thread for the first time

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"Kings, Queens and Presidents. Ministers of the government... Welcome to the future of your world. Through the talking heads that took liberties, the monkeys learnt to build machines. They'll think they'll get to heaven through the universe. They say nothing, deny everything and make counter accusation. My friends, my dear and my God... There'll be trouble when the kids come out"

 

"The daggers of silence evolving into violence"

 

I'm sorry but that is so so Bellamy. Government conspiracies and dystopian futures are subject that Matt's touched upon over and over.

 

I think a lot of people sing about conspiracy theories and governments and shit but each of them in a different style. Matt´s writing stylo is so so different. It´s like.."wow they´re singing about love and peace..that´s so Lennon"

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I think a lot of people sing about conspiracy theories and governments and shit but each of them in a different style. Matt´s writing stylo is so so different. It´s like.."wow they´re singing about love and peace..that´s so Lennon"

 

Yes. Same subject matter, sure, but not at all stylistically like Matt.

 

Still, a fun track.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjVM3-pRX5I&feature=player_embedded#!

 

The lyrics could have been written by Mr Bellamy himself.

 

In my opinion,

the marching sounds like Apocalypse Please and the bass is kinda like in Uprising, when he said "Mirror Mirror on the Wall" I really thought it sounded like Gorillaz's Feel Good Inc. :stunned: so I think it's a mix of uprising and a.p.

 

Though I think it's a good song, I haven't heard any songs from Take That (haven't heard about them lol)... I kinda liked it a bit.

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