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The official Muse thread

Started by Marian Schedenig, Jul 23 2009 10:25 PM

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#1 Marian Schedenig

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Posted 23 July 2009 - 10:25 PM

I know there's at least one more Muse fan on this board. Anyone heard the United States of Eurasia yet? Anyone notice a vaguely familar theme?

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#2 Samiraaa

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Posted 23 July 2009 - 10:28 PM

Too Queenish for my taste, and the ending was so lame.

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Posted 23 July 2009 - 10:39 PM

wow muse has changed..

at 1:25 I thought, they are gonna burst out "We are the champions"
and I thought that I herad Nimbus 2000 at 1:40... but no its not

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#4 Marian Schedenig

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Posted 23 July 2009 - 10:49 PM

They've always been changing.

Too Queenish for my taste, and the ending was so lame.

Queenish can't be bad. I loved the Morricone meets Queen stuff in Knights of Cydonia.

This seems a little subdued at first. After several listens, I'm liking it more. We'll see what else the album brings... the 3-part "symphony" should be interesting.

...and nobody mentioned Temple of Doom yet?

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Posted 23 July 2009 - 11:07 PM

I don't like Queen at all.

I don't think Knights of Cydonia sounded Queenish, but some parts of United States of Eurasia really did (for me, at least). And I felt like the song wasn't complete... the ending was lazy and lame in my opinion. So I really hope ''Collateral Damage'' will finish the song.

I'm really looking forward to their new album... Can't wait for those symphonies.

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#6 Mark Olivarez

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Posted 23 July 2009 - 11:35 PM

Who?

#7 Trent Hoyt

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Posted 23 July 2009 - 11:38 PM

Yes, I'm a fan.

#8 Marian Schedenig

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Posted 24 July 2009 - 12:36 AM

I don't like Queen at all.

I love Queen!

I don't think Knights of Cydonia sounded Queenish

The multitrack vocal choir in the middle has a decidedly Queenish sound to it. Not as strong as Eurasia, of course, which could be straight out of We Are the Champions.

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Posted 24 July 2009 - 03:09 AM

I like it. Very nice. Odd little TOD quote, but it works well in the song.

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Posted 24 July 2009 - 03:16 AM

It sounded very similar to "Parade of the Slave Children", but it would be a mistake to consider it a direct quote.

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Posted 24 July 2009 - 03:49 AM

Pretty close, though. Only a couple notes off, which are played in the same timing. Just the beginning part, of course.

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#12 Marian Schedenig

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Posted 24 July 2009 - 01:20 PM

It might wel be coincidental. But perhaps not. Bellamy has been opening concerts with the CE3K theme on his guitar, as heard & seen on the live album (and Williams gets official credit on the album).

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Posted 24 July 2009 - 03:21 PM

Wow. Definite ripoff of Parade of the Slave Children!

I'd go with "homage" if the lyrics of this song had anything to do with the relevant material in TOD...

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#14 Marian Schedenig

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Posted 04 August 2009 - 09:24 PM

Nice cover artwork:

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Posted 11 September 2009 - 02:01 PM

He totally ripped off Chopin!

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Posted 11 September 2009 - 06:14 PM

Ha ha, I've heard that record a few times lately and never noticed the nod to ToD. Which is what I think it is. The snares say it all and I think its quite deliberate, consciously or otherwise.

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Posted 28 January 2010 - 03:34 PM

I've been listening to this album a lot since it came out. I love it. Though I hardly ever listen to the last 3 tracks; Usually just the first 8

How do Muse fans find it compares to their othe albums? Its the only one of their albums I own.

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Posted 28 January 2010 - 04:38 PM

You need to get Black Holes and Revelations, which I think is just as good if not better.

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Posted 28 January 2010 - 05:46 PM

I love all 3 singles from BH&R! However, I do like everything on The Resistance more than any of those songs. I'll have to give the whole album a spin, though.

I would LOVE to see Muse in concert

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Posted 28 January 2010 - 06:14 PM

I would LOVE to see Muse in concert

They're touring Europe these days. No Austrian dates so far though.

I like the new album very much. The so-called "symphony" is a slight disappointment in that it's nice but nothing really outstanding. After all the rave reviews and Bellamy spending years arranging the orchestra parts, I was expecting a bit more then endless string arpeggios. Not that it's bad, but I like pretty much all the other stuff on the album more.

When I started out, Black Holes and Revelations was my favourite among their albums, even though it apparently gathered mostly slightly disappointed reviews compared to their earlier ones. It's probably my second favourite now since Absolution took the top spot (and not just, but also, for the absolutely brilliant Butterflies and Hurricanes).

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Posted 13 July 2012 - 03:46 PM

Muse has a new album coming out on September 17th, and here's the track list!

http://www.nme.com/news/muse/64899

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Posted 13 July 2012 - 05:06 PM

And here's the awesome official video for the first song from the album:

Anyone else seeing Muse on their 2nd Law tour this year?

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Posted 13 July 2012 - 05:41 PM

I'd love to! Wish I had seen them before though, as now there will be that much less of their older songs I won't get to hear live. And, The Resistance is my favorite album of theirs, so I really should have seen them on that tour. Oh well

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#24 Marian Schedenig

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Posted 13 July 2012 - 06:03 PM

Absolution and Black Holes and Revelations are my favourites. Around that time these were new they were in Vienna the last time, but I wasn't aware of Muse back then. This is going to be my first Muse concert.

Judging from their live albums, there should be plenty of classics still on the set list though. I'm certainly hoping for Butterflies and Hurricanes.

Reading backwards through the olders posts, I mostly seem to be repeating myself in this last one.

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Posted 13 July 2012 - 07:11 PM

And here's the awesome official video for the first song from the album:

Anyone else seeing Muse on their 2nd Law tour this year?

Awesome indeed !
Love the song.

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Posted 14 July 2012 - 10:04 AM

I'm not all that familiar with the band, but their album Black Holes & Revelations was really good. Some film music influences in there.

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Posted 14 July 2012 - 11:28 AM

I do like what I've heard. But it's only been fairly recent stuff.

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Posted 30 July 2012 - 08:46 PM

The 2nd Law cover art:

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#29 Marian Schedenig

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Posted 30 July 2012 - 10:46 PM

Looks nice. Their previous album cover looked nice, too.

But both are a far cry from their earlier designs, like the fantastic Absolution cover. (I have that as a poster above the piano, actually)

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Posted 31 July 2012 - 08:05 AM

Absolution and Black Holes and Revelations are my favourites.

"It's still baffling to me. I sit down with a pencil and a piece of paper and do my best... The remarkable thing is that my music is heard by billions of people." --John Williams

"Let me say, however, there is no "next" John Williams. Sadly, he is unique--- a figure who simultaneously embodies and transcends the music of all the masters of film music who preceded him (much like Brahms and Wagner of the Romantic era). He comes from a time when the craft of music in film was still one of the ear, heart and mind. Today, sadly, the craft is largely technical. Most composers do not conceive their music "inwardly" but rather at the computer--- and with rather limited skills, musically, at that. The inner spirit knows no boundaries--- our plastic abilities, sadly, do. John is a man of spirit, heart, intellect and soaring music." -- Conrad Pope about John Williams

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Posted 31 July 2012 - 10:53 AM

My favourite alternates between Origin of Symmetry and Absolution. The former boasts some of the most crunching arena rock songs while the latter is slightly poppier but also more experimental, with hints of cinematic influence. Black Holes is really good too, although two or three tracks weren't that good. Showbiz has many excellent single-ish songs. The Resistance sounds a lot softer and feels like they lost their rock edge, plus Bellamy's vocals were a far cry from before. I still like it though, always a fun band.

Survival sounds like they were trying to take the piss out of the Olympics.