Please explain Muse to me

muse and queen occupy the same sphere for me: bombast that I can see why it's fun, but does nothing for me. muse are slightly less corny than queen tho, admittedly.

Hellishly mastered.

I have recently decided that Muse are quite good.

His voice is the weak link though.

Nate Carson never did get back to me.

It is perhaps a mistake to sound like Jeb Fuckley on amphetamines in EVERY song, but often I find it works quite nicely.

I wish he'd be a bit less breathy and squeaky.

I remember being in a record shop when they were playing a Muse album, and I was like, "LOL, he sounds like Peter Hammill at 12 years old on this song, that's quite amusing... ah, hold on, he's still singing in the same voice on this song too... Jesus, he's doing it again!"

Jeb Fuckley on amphetamines

Oh my god how did I not think of this description before!

OK, I've just tried to listen to an entire album (Black Holes and Revelations) and didn't managed it without some heavy skipping. None of the songs are bad, but severe diminishing returns going on.

That's their worst album. Listen to the middle two. They're much, much, much, much better.

Jeb Fuckley

LOL, son of Bum Tickly (or Tickly Bum, if you prefer)

I'll give Origin of Symmetry a try in a day or two. New Born is probably my favourite single of theirs.

xpost to Louis

new Muse single sounds like Goldfrapp mixed with Dr Who mixed with Blondie Call Me mixed with T-rex

No change, then.

This band -- like the band Elbow -- sounds like they'd be as dull as ditchwater.

OTOH, "Few people would dispute that Elbow have given us the album of the year," so WTF do I know?

(nothing, that's what.)

lol this lot and Elbow are pretty much at polar ends of mainstream British rock

And oddly enough, both suck.

lol

You guys are all so wrong. Muse is one of the best bands of the past 10 years.

Ned and I do not agree on everything. Sometimes, a British band comes along and my own critical faculties evaporate where his remain steadfast. It is my blessing, and my curse.

I like these guys a lot. Still haven't heard the first album, but like the two I have heard and the live one a bunch. Looking forward to the new album.

xpost - Sorry Country Matters. I still haven't done my homework!

Ok I think they're abhorrent and listening to them gives me headache but I was watching their Wembley Stadium performance from a cpuple of years ago on tv and I'll admit they seem pretty good live, manage to sound very close and maybe better than they do on record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8WP7aOD_9Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tugqHunwDA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99I7gpswhQ4

Today is revive mediocre bands day to me.

Widdly guitar arpeggios. Trying to pass off lyrics like "snowflakes melt into the ocean at midnight" as profound. Gets old fast.

I repped for them upthread but in hindsight "Stockholm Syndrome" turned out to be the only one I liked, the rest was piff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqFZGnfMLMw&feature=player_embedded

lol.

Fuck you. (The band, not the article, which is accurate.)

A truer brand of torrid velveeta:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN3oFKAsobc

Jeez, I never realized until right now how badly Muse has been copying The The all these years.

xxp that's so bad, they could have got Vikings era Prince to do it and he'd have come up with something better.
It starts off with some anonymous national anthem, then throws in the 'ha ha ha ha' bit from 'O Superman', then some sub-Queen lyrics and a guitar solo that sounds like Brian May in a washing machine. They must surely have written this as a piss take, right? Regardless of whether they did or not, this song is probably going to be played at the opening ceremony. To a TV audience of hundreds of millions. I guess maybe the organisers wanted something more stupid than Boris Johnson at the ceremony.
We could probably get Muse to represent the UK in next year's Eurovision. They'll either win outright or lose and we'll be rid of them.

If the Olympics were held in Ireland and they got Jedward to do the official song, it'd be better than this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhe3vSe-mmw

So Muse were the only band dumb enough or neo-Liberal enough to actually buy the whole "play for free, no need to pay you, think of the exposure" line?

ghastly

I guess that The Darkness turned down the offer because they didn't want to make themselves look stupid.

The Darkness could have done with that £250 though.

I didn't know spandex trousers were that expensive.

Hair club for men costs a bomb.

Spandex doesn't grow on trees.... or does it?

This song is a bit Lloyd Webberish, I could imagine it as the music for Seb Coe: The Opera.

This is hilarious what's wrong with you all.

Hilariously bad is still bad. OTOH I've realised that I've been subconsciously waiting over 20 years for a self important bombastic mess of a song that's even worse than Queen's 'Innuendo'.

Twitter reminds us: it could be worse. It could have been Coldplay.

ledge otm

I've listened to this abomination about half a dozen times now, because I can't believe it's so bad.

OK, I've finally got this to work on my mobile.

This is from their forthcoming light opera: Ayn Rand, The Musical, right?

Muse's bass player looks like this:
https://ajournalofmusicalthings.com/wp-content/uploads/Muse-Chris-Wolstenholme-SNL-06-10-12.jpg

xp throw in some Timmy Mallett too.