FIRST ENCOUNTERS: Where did you first hear Muse? What song?

[Chris D B]

Unknowingly was feeling good on that advert. Knowingly was knights of cyndonia on guitar hero 3. I only became a fan after hearing assassin a few times on guitar hero 4. I feel a little bad that it was guitar hero that introduced me but at least it is not twilight.

[crazydays]

I'm so glad I didn't find out about muse through twilight or guitar hero, I don't think I could take the muser guilt... My only regret is not finding out about them sooner so we could have had a longer history! All the way from showbiz! , but I was about 6 years old when showbiz was released, and america didn't really get into muse until quite late so I'll keep regretting it my friend showed me muse during the BHR era when I was 13, loved it .

[MerAngel]

I'm so glad I didn't find out about muse through twilight or guitar hero, I don't think I could take the muser guilt... My only regret is not finding out about them sooner so we could have had a longer history! All the way from showbiz! , but I was about 6 years old when showbiz was released, and america didn't really get into muse until quite late so I'll keep regretting it my friend showed me muse during the BHR era when I was 13, loved it .

 

I agree with the Twilight/Guitar hero comment, but I don't think the path really matters. If you are a fan, you are a fan!! Don't get me wrong, I love ALL Vampires, yes even the sparkly ones. But I am NOT a Twilight "Fan". I haven't read the books and I've only seen each of the movies Once in Theater. Granted I found the guys after Twilight, but that was not my path - the local college station was. (As I posted previously.) {I'm older than the guys!}

I'm hooked and NOBODY better remove the hooks!!!

[Jupiter_Moonchild]

My first encounter with a Muse song.

 

 

It was free with a box of Golden Grahams back in 2000

 

[MUSEirik]

I "discovered" Muse after Twilight (I can't believe it's not longer ago ). I saw the movie, and I was like "Meh. The movie was stupid. Stupid sparkly gay vampires. Kinda liked that baseball-scene, though..." My subconsciousness loved Muse already

[Madic]

Mine was a year or so ago. Mitzutsu spammed me with Muse on Windows Live so I eventually watched it. The one I picked was Blackout. Amazing.

[MattC13]

I discovered Muse in 2008 with Knights of Cydonia.

 

I re-discovered Muse with Uprising in early November this past year, when I actually took the effort to listen to it on the internet. 3 weeks later and 10 Muse songs on my iPod I hear it on the radio.

[gummyworms12]

The first time I heard Muse was about 2003/04. My sister had the Absolution album on the computer and I placed all their songs on my shuffle. I liked the songs but I was more into Snow Patrol (final straw heard through virginradio) at that time. Became slightly more obsessed when I heard starlight for the first time. But became absolutely hung up with muse after going to my first muse concert last March

[Cameron]

Heard Time is Running Out and Stockholm Syndrome on myspace back in 2005 (I think). Been listening ever since.

[Gurlstrange]

Well...mine was like this...

 

A few years ago I was doing my school project in front of the TV and they were showing "Live From Abbey Road: MUSE"

 

I stopped doing my project and just sat on my sofa fixed on the TV.

 

That weekend I went to a record store and bought "Origin of Symmetry" and "Black Holes and Revelations"

[TrebleRose689]

Here is my horrible, awful, shameful confession ()

 

I discovered Muse back in 2006, about two weeks or so before BH&R came out. The first song I heard was Sing for Absolution, then TiRO, and I was hooked from the start I went out and bought the entire Absolution CD, and was THRILLED to find out that they already had a new CD coming out so soon too hahaha. It took me a little longer to get into their old stuff too (I was too lazy at first to look at their older releases lmao), but I very quickly did!

 

And the rest is history

 

But here's the shameful part --

 

I discovered Muse because I really liked the book Twilight (this was back before the 2nd Twilight book had even come out) and I was interested when Stephenie Meyer said she was inspired by Muse, so I looked them up But I still defend that my situation is completely different than just hearing SMBH in the Twilight movie and going "zOMG I love this because it was in Twilight!"

 

It's different, right...?

[richcitrus]

Back in 2001, my uncle dragged my to see a band i'd never heard of. I was 13, and it was my first ever gig.

Muse at the De Montfort Hall, Leicester. I actually hated them, i didn't enjoy it at all.

When we got home, my uncle gave me Showbiz & OoS and steadily, over a period of months i became gradually hooked. By 2004, i was a proper Muser, with Earls being the first Muse show i elected to go to.

[Tay_lor]

I heard Starlight on the radio back in 2007 and fell in love <3

[MiKeUltra]

I'm ashamed to say it, but Knights of Cydonia on GH3.

 

(I don't like the Guitar Hero games anymore - poor music and a flooded market).

[Dannyveno]

Oh god, that has to be Supermassive in Fifa '07

[Gretterati]

Three years ago, I heard the intro of New Born in a really dumb flash video. It was such a pain to track the song down! Worth it though

[fizzers]

It was in 2004 and I was 13/14 years old. I was getting ready for school and decided to turn on MTV to watch a couple of music videos. I was brushing my teeth when I heard the intro to Hysteria, so I walked back into my bedroom to watch the video and sat on my bed with my toothbrush hanging from my mouth. GAWD! It was epic.

 

Then a couple of days later I started to kind of tune into the muse sound on the radio and began to really like TiRO. A couple of weeks later I bought the album.

 

What really sucked is that at the time I wasn't aloud to go to concerts, so I waited until the release of BHaR, my dad said that I could go (I was 16) but he said that I had to get the money myself... I didn't have a job. So I spent a whole 2 weeks trying to win tickets to the concert in Seattle and a chance to play pool with muse... I didn't get through until the last try...I got caller number 6 instead of 7. I was on the verge of tears.

 

What's funny is that the girl that won the night I got caller number 6 is one of my Muser friends now.

 

Yeah, but I've loved them ever since I saw that music video. I wasn't obsessed until BHaR came out though. Back in 2003/2004 I was way obsessed with David Bowie and Harry Potter. When BHaR came out I realized that DB wasn't going to release another album and that Muse were pretty much the greatest band ever, so I officially became obsessed.

 

I wished I joined the forum earlier though. I just really never had an interest in the internet until recently. I've missed out on so much!

[InvincibleMicroStar]

My dad was watching the Teignmouth gig on TV. I came in and heard United States of Eurasia, I loved it!!! My eyes were glued to the screen!! Then it was bloody adverts! So he switched over to Kerrang! Uprising was on! I loved that too especially the video! The evil teddies were awesome! So I asked my dad about the band and if he had some more albums that I could listen to.

[Izzy]

I first heard Muse at my friend's house in 2002/2003, who played the Origin of Symmetry to me. But it wasn't the love at the first hearing

The first song I heard was Bliss and tbh, at first I thought "WTH is that?!?". But my friend gave the CD to me and said: "Give it one more listen and if you come back to me tomorrow saying it's crap there's nothing that I can do for you anymore... ;)" I was like: "OK" and then magic happened... I listened to the whole CD on my head phones,at night and that was it for me, I fell in love with the music and with Matt's unique voice.

I've been a fan ever since and I can still remember that really amazing feeling, when I was listening to OoS for the very first time = it was one of those EPIC moments I'll never forget.

And tbh, I've never felt antyhing like it ever again while listening to any other CD.

 

I only regret I didn't join the board earlier ... ;(

[musecam123]

My first song was Supermassive Black Hole. I was on a guitar forum and some guy asked how to install a Kaoss Pad so that he could sound like the solo in the HAARP live version. He had a link for Supermassive Black Hole HAARP on youtube and I watched it but thought it was rubbish. It wasn't till a month or two later I went searching on youtube to find out what all this hype is about Muse, I watched Knights of Cydonia HAARP and that was it

[cherry lips]

my sister downloaded SMBH and one time she just played it.I feel in love with it and I still am

[Super Friendly Aviator]

I first discovered Muse in 2007, when I was listening to an AlternRock music channel on TV. This is where I heard Starlight, and it literally blew my mind away. It was the best thing I heard that day.

 

I downloaded the song and a few others like TIRO and SMBH, but didn't really bother to discover more of them cause I was searching for other bands to listen to. So, I didn't listen to them much between 2007-2009, other than those few popular songs.

 

However, when The Resistance was released later last year, I decided to download their album and rediscover Muse. I was blown away, for the second time, at this masterpiece of a gem. It was absolutely like nothing I have heard before. It didn't sound indie, or mainstream, or regular rock. It was like a swirly combination of everything, made special by Matt's unconventional and beautiful vocals. After listening to the album a loads of times, I listened to the entire Muse discography, and I must say, there really is no song that I didn't like. Of course, there were a few songs that I initially didn't want to listen to, namely the rockier ones cause I wasn't into that, but I eventually got into them.

 

I barely listened to music before I got into Muse cause I thoroughly dislike most mainstream music. ( I watched a Mariana's Trench video and I had to stop watching a quarter of the way because my ears were going to implode.)

 

But now, Muse has given me hope that there is some awesome music out there, waiting to be discovered.

[crazydays]

I first heard Muse at my friend's house in 2002/2003, who played the Origin of Symmetry to me. But it wasn't the love at the first hearing

The first song I heard was Bliss and tbh, at first I thought "WTH is that?!?". But my friend gave the CD to me and said: "Give it one more listen and if you come back to me tomorrow saying it's crap there's nothing that I can do for you anymore... ;)" I was like: "OK" and then magic happened... I listened to the whole CD on my head phones,at night and that was it for me, I fell in love with the music and with Matt's unique voice.

I've been a fan ever since and I can still remember that really amazing feeling, when I was listening to OoS for the very first time = it was one of those EPIC moments I'll never forget.

And tbh, I've never felt antyhing like it ever again while listening to any other CD.

 

I only regret I didn't join the board earlier ... ;(

 

Not being a fan of muse back in those days is one of my biggest regrets ever so many more good times could have been had :'(

 

I became a fan around when black holes came out and I was in Middle School. This guy was basically spamming me with a bunch of their music videos (Knights first, then Invincible I think) and I didn't particularly pay attention. But I looked into them anyways , heard the 30 second clip of supermassive, then saw the entire music video for bliss. And I fell completely in love

[Einafets]

I love all your stories!

[AviatorAsphyxiation]

I only heard about them towards the end of 08, TIRO was my first song. I think I was on Youtube, and accidentally clicked the TIRO vid instead of the one I was searching for, but then it came on and I just looked like . Then I gradually became obsessed. .

Then last year, there was a HUGE Resistance poster in the little village I livbe in, and i recognized the name, Muse, and did a major freak out. (I was walking home from school) and my friends just sort of stood there looking at me like .

Then I learned that my dad liked them

 

and for me being deaf, not bad eh?