Hellishly mastered.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 16:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I have recently decided that Muse are quite good.
― chap, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 13:25 (fourteen years ago) link
His voice is the weak link though.
Nate Carson never did get back to me.
― the hubby space veggiescope (country matters), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 13:31 (fourteen years ago) link
It is perhaps a mistake to sound like Jeb Fuckley on amphetamines in EVERY song, but often I find it works quite nicely.
― the hubby space veggiescope (country matters), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 13:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I wish he'd be a bit less breathy and squeaky.
― chap, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 13:37 (fourteen years ago) link
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!"
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan noo an' aw (Tom D.), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 13:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Jeb Fuckley on amphetamines
Oh my god how did I not think of this description before!
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― chap, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 15:05 (fourteen years ago) link
That's their worst album. Listen to the middle two. They're much, much, much, much better.
― the hubby space veggiescope (country matters), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 15:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Jeb Fuckley
LOL, son of Bum Tickly (or Tickly Bum, if you prefer)
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan noo an' aw (Tom D.), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 15:07 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― chap, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
new Muse single sounds like Goldfrapp mixed with Dr Who mixed with Blondie Call Me mixed with T-rex
― djmartian, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 22:08 (fourteen years ago) link
No change, then.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 22:08 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 4 August 2009 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
(nothing, that's what.)
lol this lot and Elbow are pretty much at polar ends of mainstream British rock
― the hubby space veggiescope (country matters), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
And oddly enough, both suck.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 22:40 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 4 August 2009 22:42 (fourteen years ago) link
You guys are all so wrong. Muse is one of the best bands of the past 10 years.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 01:23 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― the hubby space veggiescope (country matters), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 01:28 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― unperson, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 01:32 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost - Sorry Country Matters. I still haven't done my homework!
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 10:12 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Moka, Wednesday, 3 November 2010 07:56 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8WP7aOD_9Qhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tugqHunwDAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99I7gpswhQ4
― Moka, Wednesday, 3 November 2010 07:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Today is revive mediocre bands day to me.
― Moka, Wednesday, 3 November 2010 07:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Widdly guitar arpeggios. Trying to pass off lyrics like "snowflakes melt into the ocean at midnight" as profound. Gets old fast.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Wednesday, 3 November 2010 09:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I repped for them upthread but in hindsight "Stockholm Syndrome" turned out to be the only one I liked, the rest was piff.
― Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Wednesday, 3 November 2010 23:43 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqFZGnfMLMw&feature=player_embedded
lol.
― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
Fuck you. (The band, not the article, which is accurate.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 June 2012 02:39 (eleven years ago) link
A truer brand of torrid velveeta:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN3oFKAsobc
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 June 2012 02:46 (eleven years ago) link
Jeez, I never realized until right now how badly Muse has been copying The The all these years.
― Austin, Thursday, 28 June 2012 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Jeff Goldblum is watching you, pope! (snoball), Thursday, 28 June 2012 07:32 (eleven years ago) link
If the Olympics were held in Ireland and they got Jedward to do the official song, it'd be better than this.
― Jeff Goldblum is watching you, pope! (snoball), Thursday, 28 June 2012 07:40 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhe3vSe-mmw
― Chris S, Thursday, 28 June 2012 07:57 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 28 June 2012 08:35 (eleven years ago) link
ghastly
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 28 June 2012 09:58 (eleven years ago) link
I guess that The Darkness turned down the offer because they didn't want to make themselves look stupid.
― Jeff Goldblum is watching you, pope! (snoball), Thursday, 28 June 2012 10:03 (eleven years ago) link
The Darkness could have done with that £250 though.
― owenf, Thursday, 28 June 2012 11:33 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't know spandex trousers were that expensive.
― Jeff Goldblum is watching you, pope! (snoball), Thursday, 28 June 2012 11:35 (eleven years ago) link
Hair club for men costs a bomb.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 28 June 2012 11:37 (eleven years ago) link
Spandex doesn't grow on trees.... or does it?
― Too Busy Thinking About Mr. Abie (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 June 2012 11:37 (eleven years ago) link
This song is a bit Lloyd Webberish, I could imagine it as the music for Seb Coe: The Opera.
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Thursday, 28 June 2012 11:51 (eleven years ago) link
This is hilarious what's wrong with you all.
― Jesu swept (ledge), Thursday, 28 June 2012 12:08 (eleven years ago) link
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'.
― Jeff Goldblum is watching you, pope! (snoball), Thursday, 28 June 2012 12:10 (eleven years ago) link
Twitter reminds us: it could be worse. It could have been Coldplay.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 28 June 2012 12:14 (eleven years ago) link
ledge otm
― goonrise zingdom (some dude), Thursday, 28 June 2012 12:15 (eleven years ago) link
I've listened to this abomination about half a dozen times now, because I can't believe it's so bad.
― Jeff Goldblum is watching you, pope! (snoball), Thursday, 28 June 2012 12:21 (eleven years ago) link
OK, I've finally got this to work on my mobile.
This is from their forthcoming light opera: Ayn Rand, The Musical, right?
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 28 June 2012 12:28 (eleven years ago) link
The guitar solo... will it never end?
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 28 June 2012 12:31 (eleven years ago) link
xp throw in some Timmy Mallett too.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 20 February 2021 16:43 (three years ago) link