25 Best Muse Songs

[IrishMagpie]

Did a wee article on the band for What Culture. 25 best songs, as obviously hinted at in the above title..

 

Hardly the creme de la creme of music writing, I'm pretty inexperienced at it, but feel free to have a look, maybe post your own choices, and of course, most importantly, slate my own.

 

Enjoy

 

http://whatculture.com/music/25-greatest-muse-songs-time.php

[Clunge]

Shine Acoustic, Resistance and Invincible have no place in that list for my taste! . Otherwise, pretty good call. Maybe a bit to Origin focused in the top 5.

 

For what it's worth, my top 25 below (yes, I have a day off work and nothing better to do!).

 

 

 

New Born

Take A Bow

Muscle Museum

Apocalypse Please

City Of Delusion

Dead Star

Map Of The Problematique

MK Ultra

Ruled By Secrecy

Survival

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Stockholm Syndrome

Bliss

Showbiz

Citizen Erased

Supremacy

Hyper Music

Sunburn

Hysteria

Butterflies & Hurricanes

Hate This & I'll Love You

Space Dementia

Host

Thoughts Of A Dying Atheist

United States Of Eurasia

Exogenesis

 

 

[Hat]

Couldn't even get passed the first song. "One of Muse’s many anti-establishment anthems, ‘Animals’ was one of the few moments on ‘The 2nd Law’ that seemed to have a beating heart and genuine emotion at its core."

 

Let me guess, the rest of the album isn't as genuine because...it's not something you can connect with?

 

Because songs like Madness, Follow Me, Save Me and Liquid State aren't songs totally built around genuine emotions.

[serpentsatellite]

I would actually have put Animals at the lower end of the "emotionally driven" spectrum on T2L...

[asleygo]

Animals shows that has not gone slavery besides ambition and selfishness of this world makes us a true nasty bipedal beasts.

[Hat]

If you say so.

[redneonfish]

Animals shows that has not gone slavery besides ambition and selfishness of this world makes us a true nasty bipedal beasts.

 

Totally agree. I wish that us bipedal humans would take a leaf out of the quadrupedal beasts' book. We could learn A LOT.

[Spectrum IV]

This has way too much "hardcore Muse fan" bias for an article that will be read largely by casual fans. In other words it needs more Blondie, more tits and more black holes.

[forevermusic]

Bit of love for Shine acoustic. That's awesome stuff.

[frozenbanana]

Agree with number 1 but also about there being too much top 5 Origin love; perhaps B&H should be higher. Also IMHO Bliss should be in there, and at least one of the TR tracks should be off the list

[serpentsatellite]

I didn't read it all the way through (or much of it, tbf) but no Bliss?

 

I'm still on the fence about celebrities and/or rich people going on about the state of the world, to an extent... stuff like Uprising, US, Animals... (particularly US)

 

Something about it just rubs me the wrong way most of the time.

[Strangeseas]

I'm still on the fence about celebrities and/or rich people going on about the state of the world, to an extent... stuff like Uprising, US, Animals... (particularly US)

 

Well Muse is a not a punk band. They write songs like Survival and United States of Eurasia. Hell, the video of Uprising includes oversized teddy bears. Enjoy the absurdity.

[FabriPav]

I'm still on the fence about celebrities and/or rich people going on about the state of the world, to an extent... stuff like Uprising, US, Animals... (particularly US)

 

Take Animals. Why couldn't Muse have something to say about the bankers?

[serpentsatellite]

Take Animals. Why couldn't Muse have something to say about the bankers?

 

Animals is probably the least concern; the banking crisis does effect everyone, after all.

 

Unnatural Selection, as I said, was probably the worst for me. Something about talented rich people singing about how the "lucky" don't care about the rest of us doesn't exactly seem right to me.

 

Stuff like Uprising has always felt disingenuous to me, as well, but it's just a personal bias, I suppose.