Boombleeb Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 Aftermath is good, The Globalist is the one that's bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zepp Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 I don't think I've ever agreed with anything you've said Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boombleeb Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 I don't think I've ever agreed with anything you've said Yeah, no one really does agree with me. I'm used to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EveryToilet Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 Aftermath is good, The Globalist is the one that's bad I might sign off on this one. I don't hate any of their songs, per se. I would call it "passionately apathetic". But since so many have named Aftermath already, The Globalist would be my choice. I liked the intro, I liked the hard rock section, hated the USoE redux. Even then, the intro was too long and the hard rock payoff felt way too short to be fully satisfying. In their defense, I allowed my expectations to get the best of me. Honorable mention: NSC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Man_In_Showbiz Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 There isn't any song I hate all the way through, but there are definitely a few that are only palatable for a certain duration of the tune. I can't stomach listening to I Belong To You once he goes all french. Up to that point the song is nothing more than okay filler. The only section of Explorers I can listen to and enjoy is from 3:10 onward, when the jingles start during the chorus. I've said it before and I will continue to say it, The Globalist is terrible apart from that middle breakdown & solo which should have been it's own track between Reapers and The Handler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LewisF Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 I really enjoy the opening “third” of The Globalist (particularly once the lyrics come in), some really good melodies and chord progressions, but it would have worked so much better as 3 ( or at least 2) separate, fully expanded songs, one for each section Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobby Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 I can't stomach listening to I Belong To You once he goes all french. Up to that point the song is nothing more than okay filler. The french bit I can understand being polarising but Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kueller Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 Reepones a ma tendrisseee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zepp Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 It took me a year to realise that he was singing in French Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoyonco10 Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 The french bit I can understand being polarising but Lmao, yeah i’m All in on IBTY, that bass and drum groove in the verse though? Fire 🔥 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forevermusic Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 I think The Globalist was victim of its hype as being a Citizen Erased 2 that it could only really suffer in comparison with the original. On its own terms, I do like it and think each individual part kinda works, even if the transitions are a bit awkward. Though I personally would prefer it if the heavier bit was longer and had a better transition into the piano section, as well as the piano bit being something more than Elgar with extra lyrics/bass/drums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clunge Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 I don't like any of The Globalist. Not one bit. Even the heavy bit is dull af. It's even worse with all three bits strung together. It reminds me of Anesthetize by Porcupine Tree. None of it fits together, and it's plagued by pomposity and delusions of grandeur. It's almost as if both songs respective writers didn't know when to stop and then stepped back, admired their creations in their full glory and treated themselves with a wank over the first vinyl pressing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobby Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 I think the CE comparison almost helps it for me tbh, at least with that I can see what Matt was going for. Without that context, I can just see myself listening to it thinking “Christ, what was this meant to be?”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hat Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 I think the whole thing is just Matt at his most uninspired. I've said this loads of times but the fact that he took one Morricone ripoff, one melody from Unnatural Selection, one riff inspired by Helsinki Jam and then ended the whole thing with a cover is just...mind boggling. And to follow that up? Oh just another cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kueller Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 one melody from Unnatural Selection Where? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hat Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 Where? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobby Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 + Soaked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hat Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 Well that's because Soaked sounds like Nimrod, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OriginOfAbso Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 I like the slide guitar bit alright, but that's about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel_Tufnel Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 It seems a bit paradoxical that Exogenesis is one long piece separated into 3 tracks while The Globalist feels like 3 separate songs forced together into a single track. I also find it strange that they didn't decide to include Drones in the track since it basically serves as a coda anyway. Maybe they really wanted to have a title track. The Globalist/Drones combo has some bright spots but not enough to justify it taking up a quarter of the album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kueller Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 That one completely slipped by me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobby Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 It seems a bit paradoxical that Exogenesis is one long piece separated into 3 tracks while The Globalist feels like 3 separate songs forced together into a single track. I’d say the exact opposite tbh I can’t imagine any of TG’s parts being isolated tracks and I’ve said for years that Exo feels more like 3 separate songs that loosely flow into each other than 1 long piece to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel_Tufnel Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 I’d say the exact opposite tbh I can’t imagine any of TG’s parts being isolated tracks and I’ve said for years that Exo feels more like 3 separate songs that loosely flow into each other than 1 long piece to me I don't totally disagree with you but I'd argue that the Exogenesis tracks flow together a lot better than The Globalist's sections. I don't think that The Globalist's sections could be isolated tracks unto themselves as-is but they sound like 3 incomplete songs jammed together to make one disjointed song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hat Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 The Exogenesis parts flow together because they are separated imo. They all benefit from having proper endings and full stops before the next one begins. They flow about as well as any tracks on that album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel_Tufnel Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 They flow together because they're separated...hmmm? Actually, I agree with you. Separate tracks or not, Exogenesis feels like a complete piece with appropriate transitions. The Globalist sections are jarringly juxtaposed together without much sense of flow. Either way, I wouldn't necessarily call either of them "a Muse song that I hate." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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