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Best Songs to Introduce Someone to Muse?


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A friend of mine don't like Muse at all and there's two songs he liked when i showed him Forced In and Fillip. And now he likes Showbiz (not the album, the song only :D )

However, i think Sunburn is a great song to get into Muse or maybe The Groove and Space Dementia :musesign:

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A friend of mine don't like Muse at all and there's two songs he liked when i showed him Forced In and Fillip. And now he likes Showbiz (not the album, the song only :D )

However, i think Sunburn is a great song to get into Muse or maybe The Groove and Space Dementia :musesign:

Piano Fan (worked on friends mum)

Butterflies and Hurricanes

Cave

Apocalypse Please/Sing for Absolution

if they really like it, use the wild card Space Dementia

 

Metal Fan

Dead Star

Stockholm Syndrome

Unnatural Selection/MK Ultra

Citizen Erased

 

Pop Fan

Uprising

Starlight

Supermassive Black Hole

Time is Running Out

Bliss

 

And with the Radiohead Fan, just edit their iTunes and slip some muse songs in their Radiohead albums, and tell them after a few weeks, they won't notice :p

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I made a mix CD for my brother with songs lie Apocalypse Please. Stockholm Syndrome, Knights, Hysteria, City of Delusion etc.

He complained that it was all a bit too theatrical and over-the-top for his taste so I made him another one with lower-key songs with strong basslines. I'm still awaiting his verdict. But he's coming to Wembley anyway whether he wants to or not :LOL:

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Just keep them well away from Micro Cuts.

Save it for when they're well and truly hooked.

 

:LOL: I actually think I forever ruined my chances of getting my friend Shauna to ever like Muse because of Micro Cuts.

 

I was listening to it about a week or so ago and kind of humming along (I actually really like that song... but it's definately an acquired taste :p )and she was like "What are you listening to?" and I told her it was Muse (which I had mentioned to her before) .

 

And she goes "Oh, let me listen." And I tried to tell her to wait a minute and I would find a better song, but she pulled the earbuds out of my ears and put them on and her face goes like this :stunned: and she goes "Is he speaking English? What the heck is this?" And then starts the song from the beginning, listens to the whole thing, and laughs her ass of trying to decipher the lyrics. (Admittedly, the stuff she came up with was kind of funny -- "Hams are red river beds. Butterflies screaming in pain" etc :LOL:).

 

But now she thinks of Muse as a huge joke (though she did say "the guitar at the end was kinda cool") and won't let me try to play her a better song... Ugh! :rolleyes::LOL:

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:LOL: I actually think I forever ruined my chances of getting my friend Shauna to ever like Muse because of Micro Cuts.

 

I was listening to it about a week or so ago and kind of humming along (I actually really like that song... but it's definately an acquired taste :p )and she was like "What are you listening to?" and I told her it was Muse (which I had mentioned to her before) .

 

And she goes "Oh, let me listen." And I tried to tell her to wait a minute and I would find a better song, but she pulled the earbuds out of my ears and put them on and her face goes like this :stunned: and she goes "Is he speaking English? What the heck is this?" And then starts the song from the beginning, listens to the whole thing, and laughs her ass of trying to decipher the lyrics. (Admittedly, the stuff she came up with was kind of funny -- "Hams are red river beds. Butterflies screaming in pain" etc :LOL:).

 

But now she thinks of Muse as a huge joke (though she did say "the guitar at the end was kinda cool") and won't let me try to play her a better song... Ugh! :rolleyes::LOL:

 

Oh dear :LOL:

You're going to have to force her to listen to another Muse song. You can't leave it like this.

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Oh dear :LOL:

You're going to have to force her to listen to another Muse song. You can't leave it like this.

 

I know! Hahaha. I'm seeing her tomorrow, so I think I will demand that we listen to something less-bizzarre :LOL: I'm sure if I bug her enough, she'll let me ;)

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Anyone who appreciates heavy riffs

- New Born

- Stockholm Syndrome

- Assassin (GOB)

 

Teenage girls

- Starlight

- Supermassive Black Hole

- Glorious

 

The elderly

- Blackout

- United States of Eurasia

- Overture

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Newborn has worked well for me. It's really introduced me to Muse and helped me get a friend into them as well :) I think that if you're going to introduce Muse to a friend you might want to start off with singles. Those are the things that stuck with me when I was first listening to them.

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I just made a playlist for my boyfriend with these songs:

 

Sunburn

Showbiz

New Born

Bliss

Space Dementia

Hyper Music

Citizen Erased

Dark Shines

Apocalypse Please

Stockholm Syndrome

Butterflies & Hurricanes

Endlessly

Map of the Problematique

Exo-Politics

City of Delusion

Unnatural Selection

MK Ultra

Exogenesis

 

I had a REALLY hard time narrowing it down. My first attempt at a playlist had 30-something songs and was more than 3 hours long. I took out the songs he already knows and likes (Time is Running Out, Hysteria, Supermassive Black Hole, Knights of Cydonia, Uprising, United States of Eurasia) plus a few others. His main complaint about Muse is that he thinks all their songs sound very similar and have the same tempo. I hope my list convinces him otherwise! I'm also pretty sure that he'll be a diehard fan after we see them live in October.

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I got a friend into Muse with Stockholm Syndrome, Assassin and Execution Commentary :D He was a real Metal-fan so I thought that would be a good start, turns out his favorites right now are Glorious, TIRO and Exo-Politics.

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i got my best friend into them a few weeks ago. i had been listening to stockholm syndrome and she was like "ooh i like this." then my ipod shuffled to i belong with you, and she fell in love. we listened to it like 3 times in a row until i got control of the ipod and brought us to butterflies and hurricanes. she still wanted to hear "the song with the french." :rolleyes:

 

the verdict is that she likes the newer stuff, obviously.

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I just made a playlist for my boyfriend with these songs:

 

Sunburn

Showbiz

New Born

Bliss

Space Dementia

Hyper Music

Citizen Erased

Dark Shines

Apocalypse Please

Stockholm Syndrome

Butterflies & Hurricanes

Endlessly

Map of the Problematique

Exo-Politics

City of Delusion

Unnatural Selection

MK Ultra

Exogenesis

 

I had a REALLY hard time narrowing it down. My first attempt at a playlist had 30-something songs and was more than 3 hours long. I took out the songs he already knows and likes (Time is Running Out, Hysteria, Supermassive Black Hole, Knights of Cydonia, Uprising, United States of Eurasia) plus a few others. His main complaint about Muse is that he thinks all their songs sound very similar and have the same tempo. I hope my list convinces him otherwise! I'm also pretty sure that he'll be a diehard fan after we see them live in October.

 

Really? The exact opposite is true.

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I gave my friend a Mix CD of Muse songs. It started with the HAARP recording of Knights of Cydonia. It then went to other core songs like Hysteria and Plug in Baby. Those are the best to introduce someone to Muse.

 

He's now a Muse fan. :)

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I'd probably go for:

 

Bliss

New Born

Plug in Baby

Uprising

Undisclosed Desires

United States of Eurasia

Sunburn

Muscle Museum

Hysteria

Starlight

Take A Bow

Map of the Problematique

Knights of Cydonia

 

Maybe Cave or Unintended could go as well.

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Supermassive black hole was the song that I first heard, and it certainly got me interested!

 

I'd say...

muscle museum, new born, plug in baby, feeling good, TIRO, hysteria, SMBH, KofC, uprising, undisclosed desires...

 

Basically I'd go with their singles as introductory songs. prob why they were chosen as singles lol

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