Gem Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Maybe this thread should be PM'ed to kirk or something. He knows. I've spoken to him about it loads of times. The band know. And they change nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davy Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 We should just start chanting at gigs. Anyone with me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassDementia Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Sexy Plane flies here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Born Lee Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 I'm gonna wait until some more gigs before really laying into them, it's only been two gigs. I'm dissapointed for the Norway fans for being shortchanged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mozza Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 We could all sell our tickets today for lots of money on ebay. People want to go see Muse because of Muse's past reputation and maybe liking a few of the singles (which they are guaranteed to play). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 the real irony is that this could prove to be their own undoing, the choice they have is to with evolve or stagnate, and I really don't think they'll keep a lot of their core fanbase if they stay where they're at just now. however, maybe they're at that point now where they're just too big to fall back down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clunge Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 C&P from the other thread... ----- To clarify my thoughts. Stream of consciousness ALERT: Muse have five proper studio albums now giving them a grand total of 57 songs to choose from. Add live favourite b-sides such as: - Dead Star - Fury - The Groove - Forced In - Man Of Mystery - Popcorn - Osaka Jam/Helsinki Jam/Dracula Mountain That's a grand total of over sixty viable songs they COULD play live. Now, I'm not expecting them to dig as depe as rolling out the likes of Sober, Overdue, Screenager, Falling Away With You, etc, but to suggest that it would be IMPOSSIBLE to rehearse songs they have played hundreds of times like Muscle Museum, Bliss, Micro Cuts, Apocalypse Please and Butterflies & Hurricanes and then drop in 2/3 of them per gig is absurd. As for gig length, Muse's gigs on the OoS tour featured anything between 14 and 18 songs, the Absolution tour was usually between 17 and 19 songs (20 on occasions) and the BH&R tour between 16 and 20. When you're charging anything up to £45 for a ticket with a not OVERLY flashy stage show (c'mon, these towers are just screens with a few hydrolics, nout technical), 20 songs has got to be the benchmark at the very minimum. You can't start DECREASING your sets. Setlist order could easily be shaken up for each gig - what's wrong with experimenting? Why always play it safe? Muse have loads of songs that would make great openers and closers - even if they insist upon drawing them from The Resistance, Uprising, Unnatural Selection, MK Ultra and Overture would all make great openers and I'm sure Unnatural Selection, MK Ultra and Redemption would make great closers. But why not, I don't know, just for sheer shits and giggles throw a curve ball and open with Apocalypse Please, or Dead Star, or Take A Bow, or Map Of The Problematique? And similarly, why not roll out a classic closing song, Showbiz, Bliss, Stockholm Syndrome? Why not standardise the length of the sets as many bands do to give each city a fair show - Radiohead are a great example. They play a seventeen song main set, a five song encore and then a three song encore. Great, every show gets 25 songs and thanks to the standard length, it's easy to drop songs in and out for each show. Muse could easily do something like this, maybe a 15 song main set, then a three song encore and then a two song encore. Simples. Also, I don't 'buy' the whole 'but we have to tie in with the visuals' argument. Yes, fair dos if you're playing a song that has specific visuals/ideas BUT, surely there are generic visuals/lighting/camerawork that would suffice just as well for songs WITHOUT specific planned visuals? I don't get why visuals require the setlist not to change order either? Surely if each song has its own scheme, they can be played in basically any order they like? They're such simple, basic things that Muse could do to spice up their live shows which are already showing signs of stagnation after just 15 or so shows on this tour. The fact that their idea of bringing back an older song or some such is a tired cover version of Feeling Good is frankly laughable. I'd also love to think they're not pandering to a bland, generalised audience but I can only imagine they are - every show follows the same predictable pattern and contains the same predictable songs. No proper show on the BH&R was without Starlight or Time Is Running Out, and 99% of shows featured Plug In Baby, Feeling Good and Supermassive Black Hole. The fact that this has continued on The Resistance tour seems to underline who they'd chasing these days... Disclaimer: I wouldn't write a post as indepth and long as this is I didn't care about Muse or their live show. I'm still a humongous Muse fanboy at heart but I just can't bare to see them stagnate as they are. I don't care what anyone says but Muse haven't deserved any of their 'best live act' awards since Glastonbury 2004 - I almost get the feeling they've become hugely complacent about their live show in the wake of all the praise they get. A flashy 'show' or 'spectacle' is NOT a replacement for spontenaity and passion which is so desperately lacking these days. Not only are the setlists exactly the same these days, these so called 'jams' and 'riffs' are EXACTLY the same at every show as well. They can't even jam with any spontenaity any more! I pay £45 to see a fair representation of Muse's back catalogue live, not to see a meagre 17 song setlist with a few bells and whistles. It would take so little for them to do this but it would make such a difference! I cannot emphasise enough just how easy it would to implement this . /end. _______ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gem Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 And whats all this about only playing Exo Part one? You either play it or you do not. What was all this in interviews about it being a massive moment in the set? I'd call only getting part one a massive LETDOWN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seregon Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 We should just start chanting at gigs. Anyone with me? The Anti-Feeling Good parade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoanaBliss Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 i was really upset when i had to cancel my trip to cologne because i wanted to see more than 2 gigs on this tour.. after seeing this and i'm better really. spend loads of money for 3 gigs with the probability of getting the same boring setlist is just arrghh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seregon Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 And whats all this about only playing Exo Part one? You either play it or you do not. What was all this in interviews about it being a massive moment in the set? I'd call only getting part one a massive LETDOWN. Hey at least they've played it, it looks really beautiful but yeah they did promise they would play it in full at some shows let's just hope they do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mozza Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 C&P from the other thread... ----- To clarify my thoughts. Muse have five proper studio albums now giving them a grand total of 57 songs to choose from. Add live favourite b-sides such as: - Dead Star - Fury - The Groove - Forced In - Man Of Mystery - Popcorn - Osaka Jam/Helsinki Jam/Dracula Mountain That's a grand total of over sixty viable songs they COULD play live. Now, I'm not expecting them to dig as depe as rolling out the likes of Sober, Overdue, Screenager, Falling Away With You, etc, but to suggest that it would be IMPOSSIBLE to rehearse songs they have played hundreds of times like Muscle Museum, Bliss, Micro Cuts, Apocalypse Please and Butterflies & Hurricanes and then drop in 2/3 of them per gig is absurd. As for gig length, Muse's gigs on the OoS tour featured anything between 14 and 18 songs, the Absolution tour was usually between 17 and 19 songs (20 on occasions) and the BH&R tour between 16 and 20. When you're charging anything up to £45 for a ticket with a not OVERLY flashy stage show (c'mon, these towers are just screens with a few hydrolics, nout technical), 20 songs has got to be the benchmark at the very minimum. You can't start DECREASING your sets. Setlist order could easily be shaken up for each gig - what's wrong with experimenting? Why always play it safe? Muse have loads of songs that would make great openers and closers - even if they insist upon drawing them from The Resistance, Uprising, Unnatural Selection, MK Ultra and Overture would all make great openers and I'm sure Unnatural Selection, MK Ultra and Redemption would make great closers. But why not, I don't know, just for sheer shits and giggles throw a curve ball and open with Apocalypse Please, or Dead Star, or Take A Bow, or Map Of The Problematique? And similarly, why not roll out a classic closing song, Showbiz, Bliss, Stockholm Syndrome? Why not standardise the length of the sets as many bands do to give each city a fair show - Radiohead are a great example. They play a seventeen song main set, a five song encore and then a three song encore. Great, every show gets 25 songs and thanks to the standard length, it's easy to drop songs in and out for each show. Muse could easily do something like this, maybe a 15 song main set, then a three song encore and then a two song encore. Simples. Also, I don't 'buy' the whole 'but we have to tie in with the visuals' argument. Yes, fair dos if you're playing a song that has specific visuals/ideas BUT, surely there are generic visuals/lighting/camerawork that would suffice just as well for songs WITHOUT specific planned visuals? I don't get why visuals require the setlist not to change order either? Surely if each song has its own scheme, they can be played in basically any order they like? They're such simple, basic things that Muse could do to spice up their live shows which are already showing signs of stagnation after just 15 or so shows on this tour. The fact that their idea of bringing back an older song or some such is a tired cover version of Feeling Good is frankly laughable. I'd also love to think they're not pandering to a bland, generalised audience but I can only imagine they are - every show follows the same predictable pattern and contains the same predictable songs. No proper show on the BH&R was without Starlight or Time Is Running Out, and 99% of shows featured Plug In Baby, Feeling Good and Supermassive Black Hole. The fact that this has continued on The Resistance tour seems to underline who they'd chasing these days... Disclaimer: I wouldn't write a post as indepth and long as this is I didn't care about Muse or their live show. I'm still a humongous Muse fanboy at heart but I just can't bare to see them stagnate as they are. I don't care what anyone says but Muse haven't deserved any of their 'best live act' awards since Glastonbury 2004 - I almost get the feeling they've become hugely complacent about their live show in the wake of all the praise they get. A flashy 'show' or 'spectacle' is NOT a replacement for spontenaity and passion which is so desperately lacking these days. I pay £45 to see a fair representation of Muse's back catalogue live, not to see a meagre 17 song setlist with a few bells and whistles. It would take so little for them to do this but it would make such a difference! I cannot emphasise enough just how easy it would to implement this . /end. _______ This needs spreading to higher ups! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rufygirl Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 He knows. I've spoken to him about it loads of times. The band know. And they change nothing. What did he say when you told him, like what was his reaction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazzie Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 He knows. I've spoken to him about it loads of times. The band know. And they change nothing. recently..? like within the past 3 gigs? C&P from the other thread... ----- To clarify my thoughts. Muse have five proper studio albums now giving them a grand total of 57 songs to choose from. Add live favourite b-sides such as: - Dead Star - Fury - The Groove - Forced In - Man Of Mystery - Popcorn - Osaka Jam/Helsinki Jam/Dracula Mountain That's a grand total of over sixty viable songs they COULD play live. Now, I'm not expecting them to dig as depe as rolling out the likes of Sober, Overdue, Screenager, Falling Away With You, etc, but to suggest that it would be IMPOSSIBLE to rehearse songs they have played hundreds of times like Muscle Museum, Bliss, Micro Cuts, Apocalypse Please and Butterflies & Hurricanes and then drop in 2/3 of them per gig is absurd. As for gig length, Muse's gigs on the OoS tour featured anything between 14 and 18 songs, the Absolution tour was usually between 17 and 19 songs (20 on occasions) and the BH&R tour between 16 and 20. When you're charging anything up to £45 for a ticket with a not OVERLY flashy stage show (c'mon, these towers are just screens with a few hydrolics, nout technical), 20 songs has got to be the benchmark at the very minimum. You can't start DECREASING your sets. Setlist order could easily be shaken up for each gig - what's wrong with experimenting? Why always play it safe? Muse have loads of songs that would make great openers and closers - even if they insist upon drawing them from The Resistance, Uprising, Unnatural Selection, MK Ultra and Overture would all make great openers and I'm sure Unnatural Selection, MK Ultra and Redemption would make great closers. But why not, I don't know, just for sheer shits and giggles throw a curve ball and open with Apocalypse Please, or Dead Star, or Take A Bow, or Map Of The Problematique? And similarly, why not roll out a classic closing song, Showbiz, Bliss, Stockholm Syndrome? Why not standardise the length of the sets as many bands do to give each city a fair show - Radiohead are a great example. They play a seventeen song main set, a five song encore and then a three song encore. Great, every show gets 25 songs and thanks to the standard length, it's easy to drop songs in and out for each show. Muse could easily do something like this, maybe a 15 song main set, then a three song encore and then a two song encore. Simples. Also, I don't 'buy' the whole 'but we have to tie in with the visuals' argument. Yes, fair dos if you're playing a song that has specific visuals/ideas BUT, surely there are generic visuals/lighting/camerawork that would suffice just as well for songs WITHOUT specific planned visuals? I don't get why visuals require the setlist not to change order either? Surely if each song has its own scheme, they can be played in basically any order they like? They're such simple, basic things that Muse could do to spice up their live shows which are already showing signs of stagnation after just 15 or so shows on this tour. The fact that their idea of bringing back an older song or some such is a tired cover version of Feeling Good is frankly laughable. I'd also love to think they're not pandering to a bland, generalised audience but I can only imagine they are - every show follows the same predictable pattern and contains the same predictable songs. No proper show on the BH&R was without Starlight or Time Is Running Out, and 99% of shows featured Plug In Baby, Feeling Good and Supermassive Black Hole. The fact that this has continued on The Resistance tour seems to underline who they'd chasing these days... Disclaimer: I wouldn't write a post as indepth and long as this is I didn't care about Muse or their live show. I'm still a humongous Muse fanboy at heart but I just can't bare to see them stagnate as they are. I don't care what anyone says but Muse haven't deserved any of their 'best live act' awards since Glastonbury 2004 - I almost get the feeling they've become hugely complacent about their live show in the wake of all the praise they get. A flashy 'show' or 'spectacle' is NOT a replacement for spontenaity and passion which is so desperately lacking these days. I pay £45 to see a fair representation of Muse's back catalogue live, not to see a meagre 17 song setlist with a few bells and whistles. It would take so little for them to do this but it would make such a difference! I cannot emphasise enough just how easy it would to implement this . /end. _______ clap fucking clap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davy Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 The Anti-Feeling Good parade It's not really just that though, it's the lack of any surprises/fan favourites. Fuck it, i'm going to say it now. Muse are emo & gay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazzie Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Hey at least they've played it, it looks really beautiful but yeah they did promise they would play it in full at some shows let's just hope they do only playing 1 part, without strings sort of kills it though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Muse can only blame themselves for us being unhappy... We know how good they can be they've shown us before, we know of the variety they have in their back catalogue... We have high expectations because they have set the bar high from past performances and they have failed to deliver. They seem to be more interested so far in playing songs that have big radio airplay and appeal to the casual fans than bring back gems that the fans want (who are the people buying tickets for multiple shows + travel + accommodation) If they are being restricted by the visuals and props being used for the tour then those needs to be rethink... I want to see Muse live for their performance not the gizmos from the stage department. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
futurophu Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 damnit muse, be nice to your incredibly devoted fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juuso Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 And whats all this about only playing Exo Part one? You either play it or you do not. What was all this in interviews about it being a massive moment in the set? I'd call only getting part one a massive LETDOWN. Nah, it was awesome and went well into Stockholm Syndrome. I am happy that they play it than not playing anything of the Symphony at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davy Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 & Clunge, hammer.nail.head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haarpuna Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 And whats all this about only playing Exo Part one? You either play it or you do not. What was all this in interviews about it being a massive moment in the set? I'd call only getting part one a massive LETDOWN. I agree. I mean, so many people see it as one entity, and from what I've heard, even Muse themselves. So it's just completely f*cked up to play just one bit of it. The whole symphony as the final encore, that'd be ace! But just randomly playing Part 1? Where's the continuity? I thought there was a theme to the whole of Exo. Why destroy that? Ah, jeez, I'm just getting worked up here, and it's useless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meep Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 I don't care what anyone says but Muse haven't deserved any of their 'best live act' awards since Glastonbury 2004 - I almost get the feeling they've become hugely complacent about their live show in the wake of all the praise they get. A flashy 'show' or 'spectacle' is NOT a replacement for spontenaity and passion which is so desperately lacking these days. I pay £45 to see a fair representation of Muse's back catalogue live, not to see a meagre 17 song setlist with a few bells and whistles. It would take so little for them to do this but it would make such a difference! I cannot emphasise enough just how easy it would to implement this. <3 Hell to the yeeah, bub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elainekav Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 hope i wont be disapointed in dublin reading about the people who where not very happy have not seen them before hope it willl be worth the wait it in the end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mozza Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 hope i wont be disapointed in dublin reading about the people who where not very happy have seen them before hope it willl be worth it in the end If you've not seen them before then its not really an issue, because it will be a good show. We all saw them when they actually had to earn recognition, which is where the real problem lies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clunge Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 I forgot to add rules number one and two. 1. DON'T FUCK YOUR FANS UP THE ARSE. 2. Don't play Feeling Good live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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