forevermusic Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Interesting. Maybe Dark Side is being held back until the album fully surfaces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bai-Lee Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Going from the 3 videos we’ve seen so far, I wouldn’t be surprised if the box set of this album came with a VHS. Digs old video machine out of the loft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartianSpaghettiRider Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Digs old video machine out of the loft. I still have mine and it's still working. Quite incredible, considering it's 23 years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bohemian-Cygnus-Running-Out Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Aside from DD, I'm happy with this direction. SH is definitely gonna be one of my fav singles this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bohemian-Cygnus-Running-Out Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 hm.... Anyone else noticed that the font on these singles keeps changing? Like, the DD single has a font which is new to Muse, and they even use it on their name rather than their usual logo. Then the TC single has Muse in a different font, while the word Thought is in the DD font and Contagion is in another new font. Now the SH single has Something in the same font as Contagion, but Human is once again in an entirely new font, and Muse is in a different font as well. I'm sure it doesn't probably mean much of anything, but it's kinda cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citizen Erased 01 Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Why is this album so depressingly inoffensive and bland so far? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FabriPav Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Because nowadays muse are depressingly inoffensive and bland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bohemian-Cygnus-Running-Out Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Why is this album so depressingly inoffensive and bland so far? because Psycho was "too offensive for radio" iirc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goyaaargh Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 If it’s a double effort, perhaps the main album is called Dark Side and the other half is Simulation Theory? For example, SH could be on Simulation Theory because it has that dreamy quality like the world is sunshine and roses and machines aren’t actually controlling us. Dark Side probably will be just a song tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Man_In_Showbiz Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 I'm pretty hyped about Album 8 so far. Ironically, the pressure will come when they release "Pressure". If this "classic muse track" fails to deliver then a large chunk of the fan base may be turned off for good. I like to look at it this way: For all we know, we could have heard the album's version of Screenager, Feeling Good and Hyper Music, or Soldiers Poem, Starlight and Exo-Politics, with little indication that Citizen Erased, Take A Bow, New Born or MOTP are just around the corner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clunge Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 I like to look at it this way: For all we know, we could have heard the album's version of Screenager, Feeling Good and Hyper Music, or Soldiers Poem, Starlight and Exo-Politics, with little indication that Citizen Erased, Take A Bow, New Born or MOTP are just around the corner. The hopeless optimism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Man_In_Showbiz Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 (edited) The hopeless optimism. I'm certainly not saying there will be songs on this album of the quality of those I mentioned. Just that there is the possibility that the better material has yet to be heard. Edit: Their latest interview on Beats 1 kinda backs up my thoughts. Algorithm: Classic piano on top of a weird blade runner, computer game soundtrack Blockade: Really heavy track sounding something like Newborn The Dark Side: Has ties to tracks they've done in the past, and this is the best version of them (whatever that means) I'm liking the sound of those + the acoustic/alternate versions. Edited July 20, 2018 by Man_In_Showbiz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobby Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 Implying Screenager isn’t the better material on OOS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clunge Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 ^^This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Man_In_Showbiz Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 It's certainly not the best song on the album, but that's digressing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobby Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 Honestly v hyped for this record now. Algorithm’s descriptions continue to make me sweat. Have a feeling the initial small gigs are gonna be particularly fun as well. It's certainly not the best song on the album, but that's digressing. Highly debatable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kueller Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 I'm not holding out for small gigs here which cuts excitement down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenAroused Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 I wonder on which song they worked with Timbaland lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartianSpaghettiRider Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 I wonder on which song they worked with Timbaland lol They didn't even mention him lately, iirc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OriginOfAbso Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 (edited) Really hate how they describe so many of their new songs now. They just compare them to another one of their songs. "Citizen Erased pt. 2," "Fury 2," "sounds like New Born," "the best version of a bunch of our old tracks," etc. I wonder for The Dark Side, when they talk about how it ties back to a bunch of their old tracks, if they literally mean they took different exact elements from those tracks and put them together, e.g. the Showbiz bassline in The Handler. Edited July 20, 2018 by Matthz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hat Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 Yeah especially the last two. Straight up saying it sounds like New Born? Jesus. So far this album has been very promising in terms of trying new things and not just doing Muse by numbers, but at least 3 songs sound like Muse almost intentionally copied themselves. Oh well, we'll see how it turns out. I'll probably end up loving at least one of them. Btw I can't remember the exact wording but I think he was talking about "ideas" rather than actual melodies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OriginOfAbso Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 Btw I can't remember the exact wording but I think he was talking about "ideas" rather than actual melodies. Ok that's what I figured he meant, but with Muse I really wasn't sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobby Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 New Born 3??? fucking hell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigGeorge Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 If its just another New Born/Unnatural Selection i'll honestly not mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bohemian-Cygnus-Running-Out Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 New Born's a top 5 Muse song for me, so I'll take anything in that vein, even if it's just US two. Also Screenager took a long time to grow on me, but it's easily one of the most interesting songs on OoS. Love the bluesy, latinesque guitar lines too (this is the kind of thing that makes Muse doing acoustic songs interesting). I'm picturing The Dark Side is gonna be a huge cheese fest in the vein of songs like GL/Survival. Either that or Endlessly part 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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