Spectrum IV Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 It would be the best Muse album by far. It also wouldn't be a Muse album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clunge Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Why? What's wrong with a short, lean album? I'd rather rather listen to 30 minutes of quality than 45 minutes interspersed with total dross. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bumpypotato Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Why? What's wrong with a short, lean album? I'd rather rather listen to 30 minutes of quality than 45 minutes interspersed with total dross. This. Also, I really don't get the hate for Soldiers Poem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clunge Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 I don't mind SP at all, I just don't like it in the context of BH&R. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spectrum IV Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Putting aside opinions of songs, that album would be too full-on. It's missing the dynamics and sudden shifts that make a Muse album interesting. Even OoS has them. New Born's quiet piano intro, and riff. The arpeggios in Bliss, and riff. Space Dementia's intro, CE's loud-soft-loud-soft, Darkshines, Feeling Good, Megalomania. More than that, the songs you removed are pretty crucial to the album's mythology and pacing. I mean Starlight is arguably the title track, how can you remove that? Soldier's Poem and Invincible are the album's equivalent of a piano section, slowing it down for a minute before building it back up. Exo-P is the only song that's not really necessary IMO, but I do feel like the album would be missing something without it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heyjackk Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Tbh i really do feel like BH&R is the bands best album,as a whole, other than maybe Origin of Symmetry. It's consistently good throughout. Sure Soldiers Poem may be a little dreary for some, and Assassin isn't as powerful on the album but Take a Bow, Supermassive Black Hole, Map of the Problematique, Invincible, Assassin, Exo-Politics (i don't get the hate towards it), City of Delusion, Hoodoo and Knights of Cydonia are absolute quality in my opinion and Starlight is as quality as "incredibly radio friendly" Muse is gonna get, even if it has recently turned to shit live. Showbiz for me was hit and miss, Absolution's production quality makes the album versions incredibly lacklustre compared to the monstrous amazingness of their live versions, The Resistance was eh and The 2nd Law had too many drop off points between good songs. Black Holes and Revelations to me is their best complete album and one that I can time and time again listen to all the way through or just as single songs, and have been able to since I first heard it in '08. Again, this is probably other than Origin of Symmetry which is honestly just fucking incredible in every aspect, yes even the Feeling Good cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FabriPav Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 album's mythology lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spectrum IV Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 lol Go away it's 1:30am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clunge Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 LOL. I fundamentally disagree with your entire post, but we cool brah . Plus, I'm at work. Le yawn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bumpypotato Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 I don't mind SP at all, I just don't like it in the context of BH&R. I don't have an issue with it in context of the album, but I'm not a fan of its placing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spectrum IV Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 I fundamentally disagree with your entire post, but we cool brah . This is Muse we're talking about. I'll probably hate BH&R in a few hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kueller Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 I like Big Freeze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FromTexas Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 I like Hyper Music more than Hyper Chondriac Music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FabriPav Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 That's what Texas does to people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FromTexas Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 That's what Texas does to people. Terrible, isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopix Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 I like Hyper Music more than Hyper Chondriac Music. Didn't realise that was even controversial, I thought they were regarded as being about equal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picko Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 I like Hyper Music more than Hyper Chondriac Music. I genuinely can't pick between the two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altbecky Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 I genuinely can't pick between the two. This. It really depends on my mood. Theyre two sides of the same coin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heyjackk Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 I like Hyper Music more than Hyper Chondriac Music. I love both pretty much equally depending on mood tbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forevermusic Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Seeing as its exactly 10 years since that performance tomorrow, I think Glastonbury 2004 may well have been important for Muse's career in that it made them a mainstream band in the UK, but Pinkpop and Earls Court are the better Absolution Tour gigs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alec Ferris Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Seeing as its exactly 10 years since that performance tomorrow, I think Glastonbury 2004 may well have been important for Muse's career in that it made them a mainstream band in the UK, but Pinkpop and Earls Court are the better Absolution Tour gigs. I don't think there's any one gig that made Muse a mainstream act, although Glasto was certainly a significant moment in that process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bumpypotato Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 I don't think there's any one gig that made Muse a mainstream act, although Glasto was certainly a significant moment in that process. It definitely convinced a lot of people that they were worth paying attention to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forevermusic Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 I don't think there's any one gig that made Muse a mainstream act, although Glasto was certainly a significant moment in that process. I wouldn't have said it was the single gig because Absolution had been a number one album, with a top 10 single (TiRO) and they'd sold out a UK arena tour on the back of it, which is naturally big attention. But I'd say Glastonbury 2004 is a show that would have exposed them to a bigger audience that was more willing to check them out after the gig than if they hadn't done it or had been in a lower slot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alec Ferris Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 I wouldn't have said it was the single gig because Absolution had been a number one album, with a top 10 single (TiRO) and they'd sold out a UK arena tour on the back of it, which is naturally big attention. But I'd say Glastonbury 2004 is a show that would have exposed them to a bigger audience that was more willing to check them out after the gig than if they hadn't done it or had been in a lower slot. True, true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forevermusic Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Saying that I'm playing it back right now and its probably not so controversial to say the 2004 Glastonbury show was better than the 2010 performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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