Muse - The Resistance

not to derail the other Muse thread that was bumped but the new single "Uprising" is out there and this artwork was just released a few hours ago:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8a/Theresistance.jpg

I like the way that Muse have embraced an almost Wu-Tang-esque obsession with theories about the New World Order - political awareness coloured by all manner of loopy theories about UFOs, conspiracies and so on. As long as they don't start quoting from Behold a Pale Horse.

leaking...

can't wait!!

four tracks in and this is on some major depeche mode jack-age.

though on track four i was really waiting for it bust into "we are the champions" at the pre-chorus buildup.

how the hell are these people opening for U2

I'm only about four tracks in, but there's a lot of drum machines (or drums mixed to sound like 'em) and blatant Queen-isms on this so far. I think it's my least favorite of their albums to date. Maybe it'll pick up as it goes on, though; I've got high hopes for the three-part suite that closes things out.

I found it amusing that the single jacked not just Gary Glitter and the "Dr. Who" theme, but also the KLF jacking Gary Glitter and "Dr. Who" theme.

don't forget the stabs that sound like "call me."

The single would be pretty good if it weren't for Matt Bellamy...

Well, I'm listening to this Exegenesis Symphony nonsense and I'm kinda disappointed. Only 9 minutes in and it sounds a bit like an unloved Hydria Spacefolk b-side. Just a bit... well, *boring*.

However, I like it more than other Muse due to lack of screaching rat-faced boy.

kinda want to hear this album, but it seems muse are regressing rather than progressing, which is sad

this album is great, i have renewed faith in Muse. it's so bombastic and over the top but seems (on two listens) to work.

I don't get the rat-faced boy hate - I mean, look at the Glastonbury 2004 show (most of it is on the Absolution Tour DVD) - how can that not turn anyone into an instant Muse and especially Bellamy fan?

A key figure in the Resistance:

http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/images/comedy/images/comedy_a-f/alloallo_bl.jpg

how could anyone who hasn't watched the Channel 4 documentary a mate taped off the telly at 2 in the morning not INSTANTLY think that Hawkwind are a far superior band to some spotty whinging rat-faced little league level conspiracy nuts?

He should totally be the special guest on the tour! (the "we shall sing this only vance" tour, obv.) (xpost)

http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/images/item/0916-becktwittermuse.jpg

LOL!

haaaa

I have absolutely no interest in Muse at all!

I thought them "like the Stereophonics" around that time they did "Feeling Good"

Since then, it's like a bombastic Radiohead.

I'm out. http://www.unrealitytv.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/duncan-bannatyne.jpg

No, from what I saw on the Jools Holland show last night, it's more:

http://www.excaliburentertainments.co.uk/TRIBUTE%20SHOWS/QEII20Poster20Pic202005.jpg

Anyone seen this alleged email from Matt Bellamy to Lily Allen (in response to this)?

Here 'tis:

Lily
My current opinion is that file sharing is now the norm. This cannot be changed without an attack on perceived civil liberties which will never go down well. The problem is that the ISPs making the extreme profits (due to millions of broadband subscriptions) are not being taxed by the copyright owners correctly and this is a legislation issue. Radio stations and TV stations etc have to pay the copyright owners (both recording and publishing) a fee for using material they do not own. ISPs should have to pay in the same way with a collection agency like PRS doing the monitoring and calculations based on encoded (but freely downloaded) data. Broadband makes the internet essentially the new broadcaster. This is the point which is being missed.

Also, usage should have a value. Someone who just checks email uses minimal bandwidth, but someone who downloads 1 gig per day uses way more, but at the moment they pay the same. It is clear which user is hitting the creative industries and it is clear which user is not, so for this reason, usage should also be priced accordingly. The end result will be a taxed, monitored ISP based on usage which will ensure both the freedom of the consumer and the rights of the artists - the loser will be the ISP who will probably have to increase subscription costs to compensate, but the user will have the freedom to choose between checking a few emails (which will cost far less than a current monthly subscription) and downloading tons of music and film (which will cost probably a bit more than current subscription, but not that much more).

We should set up a meeting with Lord Mandelson as he is on this issue at the moment, I'm sure he would meet us for breakfast!

INTERESTING

Another excellent album by them, although it may be their first album that isn't their best ever upon release.

^ OTM.

apparently the new single is somehow even worse than this album, which is impossible and I refuse to believe it

(this is the worst album of the 00's fwiw)

lol @ this garbage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU4eRnQ_-TQ

ok I'm goin' in

o Muse

their first few songs to get on the radio in the U.S. seemed okay to me and "Knights Of Cydonia" was kind of awesome but yeah this and the singles off the last album were just horrible

Knights Of Cydonia was awesome sure but it should have heralded a change of direction - they could go no further that way. But they did. Urrrgh.

This album is kind of a guilty pleasure for me. I mean, yes, they rip off just about everything under the sun, but somehow they assemble all these stolen bits into a kind of supercharged, bombastic, lyrically-daft fun ride that doesn't leave you time to get bored.

I've been coming back to this album recently, thinking I underrated it the first time around. Somehow, despite one of the songs being titled "United States of Eurasia", it only just clicked that much of this seems to be based on or reference 1984, which gives more context to the title track especially but the doomed-lovers songs more generally.

I love Muse, but the lyrics... are.... sometimes... hmmmmm....

Alternative lyrics to "Uprising" may go as forward:

New World Order is in bloom the fake news mainstream media will resume
They drop chemtrails to disturb our minds so that we will never see the truth around
Another vaccine full of 5G another packed lie to meet the zionists' greed
All the Bilderberger meetings drug our minds with endless blue pills to keep the truth confined.

It's true that if you completely rewrote the lyrics, they could express deeply problematic messages.

it is sort of relieving that bellamy didn't go full-on conspiracy brain for real over covid

On the contrary, it seems:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/muse-matt-bellamy-interview-coronavirus-quarantine-999208/

https://www.spin.com/2020/03/muses-matt-bellamy-honors-doctor-cousin-battling-coronavirus/

I am actually getting the impression he is generally less of a conspiracy theorists these days than he used to be a few years ago, and that is good.

Haha I didn't know about this:

In an interview to be published in the Observer on Sunday, singer Matt Bellamy discusses Fox News presenter Glenn Beck's embrace of their 2009 album The Resistance and the use of their hit single Uprising in rightwing conspiracy videos on YouTube.

"In the US the conspiracy theory subculture has been hijacked by the right to try to take down people like Obama and put forward rightwing libertarianism," Bellamy said. Defining himself as "a left-leaning libertarian – more in the realm of Noam Chomsky," he added: "Uprising was requested by so many politicians in America for use in their rallies and we turned them down on a regular basis."

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/sep/28/muse-rightwing-conspiracy-theorists-music