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Survival - Official 2012 London Olympics Song

Niall

By Niall
in Songs & Releases

How would you rate Survival, on a scale of 1-5?  

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  1. 1. How would you rate Survival, on a scale of 1-5?

    • Poor - What is this shite?
      75
    • Fair - Well, it's tolerable, but I'll skip it a lot.
      82
    • Good - Decent song, some good parts.
      167
    • Very good - Mostly enjoyable, some really great moments, but not perfect.
      314
    • Excellent - Holy crap, I love it. I had to change my pants.
      162

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Jordasm Escapee

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Listening to it again....Yeah I think it was crap.

 

Instrumentally it was just your standard over the top bullshit that Muse tend to do all the time these days :LOL: They have the potential to produce some amazing headbanging riffage fueled rock godlike amazingness. If they just could just drop the OTT Queen stuff and revisit some OoS vibes.

Lyrically, I tend to find I enjoy the Muse songs that talk about more personal shit, because we all know his grandiose, sporadic inter-galactically themed and conspiracy theorist lyricism is shit. But then it's hard to make a song about the Olympics interesting...Personally, I think Hoodoo is the most creative thing they've ever written. It's sure as hell the only track to show a shred of poetic lyricism/genuine emotion.

 

Still looking forward to the album though, hopefully there will be something akin to Hoodoo/Map of the problematique on there.

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Wingardium LevioSIA Escapee

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The intro is nice enough, and then when the actual song starts it sounds like Queen meets Maroon 5, and isn't very good. The lyrics are pretty awful. I like the guitar parts following the choruses, so that's a bit more encouraging, but the whole thing is a bit of a mess to be honest. I hope it's a standalone single and not going to appear on The 2nd Law...

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Tesseract Uno

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The intro is nice enough, and then when the actual song starts it sounds like Queen meets Maroon 5, and isn't very good. The lyrics are pretty awful. I like the guitar parts following the choruses, so that's a bit more encouraging, but the whole thing is a bit of a mess to be honest. I hope it's a standalone single and not going to appear on The 2nd Law...

 

They said it was on the album.

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Popey Escapee

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I'm still acting like such a fanboy. I'm SO unbelievably happy with how mental this song is. It's shit, I acknowledge that, but it's shit in a good way. I don't think non-muse fans quite understand this love for the absurd and bombastic.

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CarrieB Escapee

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People keep mentioning the intro being disney like but isn't that Rachmaninov?.

 

Though I recognised it initially from the song All By Myself which is played in Bridget Jones when she thinks she will end up dying alone and being eaten by Alsatians. :LOL:

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The intro is nice enough, and then when the actual song starts it sounds like Queen meets Maroon 5, and isn't very good. The lyrics are pretty awful. I like the guitar parts following the choruses, so that's a bit more encouraging, but the whole thing is a bit of a mess to be honest. I hope it's a standalone single and not going to appear on The 2nd Law...

 

Deleted my original post to +1 this!

 

Though as someone early mentioned, how freakin' awesome/surreal it would be to have Elton John on the piano for this?!

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Rage Kitty Escapee

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I'm still acting like such a fanboy. I'm SO unbelievably happy with how mental this song is. It's shit, I acknowledge that, but it's shit in a good way. I don't think non-muse fans quite understand this love for the absurd and bombastic.

 

So camp it could have it's own float at a Pride event

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Peter. Escapee

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I think most of the negative feedback somehow derives from the hate for the lyrics, wich are absolutely horrendous. worst lyrics I ever heard. not just muse. but apart from that, i think the song is just absurd brilliance, and that is something we haven't seen from Muse in a while. it's strange, bobmastic and 'wtf?' at the same time. I love it. just give me an instrumental.

and I don't wanna see no elton john who-knows-who-the-fuck playing piano during a Muse performance:mad:

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L. Escapee

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I'm still acting like such a fanboy. I'm SO unbelievably happy with how mental this song is. It's shit, I acknowledge that, but it's shit in a good way. I don't think non-muse fans quite understand this love for the absurd and bombastic.

 

You are such a fanboy! Lol

 

I just want the instrumental starting after the piano. The rest is bad but not in a good way for me.

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