Quietus review pretty hilarious - http://thequietus.com/articles/18182-muse-drones-review
― Benjamin-, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 23:40 (eight years ago) link
Ah, it's Mr. Agreeable.
It doesn't seem like five minutes since Muse were playing Wembley circa Black Holes and Revelations, but that was actually 8 years ago... fucking hell! The new record does have moments of hilarity, but I'm quite sure the band didn't plan it that way.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Friday, 26 June 2015 01:26 (eight years ago) link
They played Bluesfest here last night and I decided to try to catch it from the fence; got a good view of a video screen and decent sound. I really thought they were great! Lots of old stuff, hit all the right bombastic stadium rock buttons.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 16 July 2017 13:55 (six years ago) link
I was just thinking of this lot the other day when thinking about stuff from the '00s...
...when this band first appeared, I had 'em pegged as yet another band that sprang up in the wake of the success of "old school" Radiohead, particularly when I heard 'Unintended' ... I certainly wouldn't have banked on 'em becoming the huge stadium act they were briefly about 10 years ago.
I still like Absolution and Black Holes and Revelations ... the last three albums have really failed to set the world on fire though, eh?
Having said that, I really haven't spent much time with The 2nd Law.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Sunday, 16 July 2017 16:19 (six years ago) link
UN-SUS-TAIN-A-BLE
pneeeeeeeoooowwwsqueesqueesquee!!!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
Absolution > Black Holes and Revelations > Drones> The Resistance > Origin of Symmetry > Showbiz > The 2nd Law
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 2 September 2018 08:32 (five years ago) link
Drones > The Resistance > Origin of Symmetry
get out
― imago, Sunday, 2 September 2018 08:56 (five years ago) link
Drones and The Resistance are very good records - Origin of Symmetry is a wildly overrated one, especially by Muse's own fans. Muse's lyrics have been silly from the beginning.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 2 September 2018 09:21 (five years ago) link
I have to say, Simulation Theory sounds like they finally skipped ahead to the level of pop streamlining they've always longed for.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 16 November 2018 02:27 (five years ago) link
it's their most enjoyable album in at least a decade. nothing i'll rep for on the level of Knights of Cydonia, but Something Human is pretty good at least
the p4k review was otm about them finally finding the right level of camp, they've finally made something that sounds fun in how it plays around with silly genre experiments, without any overly earnest stadium rock clunkers or attempts at both 'getting political' and 'rocking out' that dont really succeed at either
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LgLcDg15SM
Propaganda is a ridiculous song - Prince imitation with dubstep wubs and a bluesy acoustic solo - and this sort of nonsense is what i want i've been wanting more of from them for a long time
― ufo, Friday, 16 November 2018 02:54 (five years ago) link
and Propaganda was produced by Timbaland? lol
― ufo, Friday, 16 November 2018 04:16 (five years ago) link
yes to what ufo says - their clear best since at least bh&r
― imago, Friday, 16 November 2018 06:51 (five years ago) link
I listened to the new one yesterday, and I don't like or enjoy it all that much - for me, their second worst after The 2nd Law. Drones and The Resistance both leagues ahead.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 16 November 2018 18:57 (five years ago) link
i finally decided to play something besides The B-52's and threw this on for the first time. it checks off everything that i love about this band. way over the top ballistic music and hits my guilty pleasure zone.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 21 November 2018 01:55 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0UWT0dFSQE
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 21 November 2018 01:56 (five years ago) link
The main problem that I have with the record is that all this supposed '80s synthpop influence is mere window dressing on a batch of songs which at their core are Muse by numbers. Far too many times on this album did Matt's vocal melodies remind me clearly of other Muse songs. I think he's finally ran out of melodies.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 26 November 2018 20:28 (five years ago) link
i have only heard this once and can see this as Muse by the numbers. will be interesting to see if i go back to it much. ILM hates Muse so i didn't expect many to even listen, glad you gave it a go.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 00:56 (five years ago) link
Since then I've given it a few more listens and there's a couple of songs that have grown on me, but I still feel that Drones and The Resistance are better records. I don't have a problem with Muse at all - in fact, I think when they're at their best they're fantastic at what they do! I just feel that at his point they've painted themselves into a bit of a corner - they need something new to write about, and to stop going over old ground melodically.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
Ok which one of you fuckers secret santa'd me the new Muse cd? Recently moved and been keeping my address under wraps, but I do know three ilxors have my address. I didn't ask for this. This is an outrage. Out yourself.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 27 December 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
please rank the tracks
― ogmor, Thursday, 27 December 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
jesus christ don't make me do that
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 27 December 2018 16:03 (five years ago) link
:D
― imago, Thursday, 27 December 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
(not me I hasten to add)
― imago, Thursday, 27 December 2018 16:11 (five years ago) link
A Christmas miracle!
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 27 December 2018 16:48 (five years ago) link
Also
This is an outrage.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTe_4HwsYK8kzYItcQqjH10MNx6NUdR2411NNmNLEBbmIsZq-ruFQ
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 27 December 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/uSOX5xg.jpg
Return address is Sandbag ltd Reading, but that's the shop it's been ordered at. No note accompanying this ball and chain of a gift.
Would be happy to pass this on to someone on here who might actually care. It's still shrink-wrapped and I can guarantee you it will stay that way.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 27 December 2018 16:59 (five years ago) link
This is genuinely one of the funniest things I've seen in a while.
You guys are alright.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 27 December 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
I've commented negatively on the cover of this cd on the noteworthy album covers thread, I confess, but this was *not* what was supposed to happen.
LJ, have to admit I pegged u as the culprit for a sec but kind of knew you wouldn't blow yr wad on a dire Muse cd.
I've ruled out my irl friends. It *must* be someone from here, or else it's Muse themselves sending out cd's because the thing ain't selling. Otherwise itisamystery.jpg
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 27 December 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link
dissident anti-bildt dutch loyalist and language extinction fan imo
― imago, Thursday, 27 December 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link
:DDD
Thought abt the title being a ~subtle~ clue about/towards me, but it's 'Simulation Theory' and I've got nothing.
(well, I can think of something, but the Ms. doesn't simulate iirc)
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 27 December 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
ffs
― imago, Thursday, 27 December 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
Otm. First one to come up with a relatively tight explanation gets the cd. Or just say 'I want the cd'. Otherwise it will be binned.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 27 December 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
Plenty of Muse fans in Holland, give it to a random person in the HEMA.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 27 December 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
I almost want to claim it, just so I can possess a piece of ilx lore.
Almost.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 27 December 2018 17:26 (five years ago) link
Send me yr address thru ilxmail and it's yours Austin.
(I will have to fp you, ofcourse, for wanting Muse's latest, but you can take it on the chin iirc <3)
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 27 December 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
Haha, I wouldn't do that. I'm on the west coast of the US. It would probably cost you as much to mail it as it would for me to just buy a copy of my own.
Which certainly isn't going to happen.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 27 December 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
Uhmm.. You don't seem to understand how much I want to get rid of this awful thing.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 27 December 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
Is it the Super Deluxe edition?
― DT, Thursday, 27 December 2018 19:39 (five years ago) link
I would love to hear this rip off of synthwave just so I can hate them even more.
― mark e, Thursday, 27 December 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
If you seriously want to get rid of it enough to send it to Canada, 'I want the cd. They put on a good show last year.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Thursday, 27 December 2018 20:45 (five years ago) link
I underrated Simulation Theory. cringe all you like, this shit bangs.
― Simon H., Monday, 21 September 2020 14:40 (three years ago) link
it's at least ridiculous in a pretty fun way which is more than they'd managed for a long long time and reminded me of why they were so formative for me lol
― ufo, Monday, 21 September 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link
more ridiculous Muse = better Muse
― Simon H., Monday, 21 September 2020 18:13 (three years ago) link
New Song:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d55ELY17CFM
― Bee OK, Friday, 14 January 2022 03:06 (two years ago) link
Metel Muse
pretty dire
― ufo, Friday, 14 January 2022 03:44 (two years ago) link
one of their worst singles ever lol
― ufo, Friday, 14 January 2022 03:59 (two years ago) link
tbf muse have for a long time (always) been an experiment in bad taste that's occasionally brooked fun results. this is a catastrophic-to-the-point-of-near-enjoyment verse married to a very Muse chorus. it doesn't really work. the guitar breakdowns are terrible. there's very little way to really think about this productively. i probably won't listen to it again
― imago, Friday, 14 January 2022 09:26 (two years ago) link
it's such a clunky disjointed mess and even the individual parts don't work at all let alone all smashed together, the only thing of theirs i can think of that's this much of a mess is "unsustainable", that dubstep disaster track
there are plenty of muse songs where the hook sucks or the guitar sucks or whatever but this is a low they rarely manage to reach
― ufo, Friday, 14 January 2022 10:07 (two years ago) link
yeah I was thinking they'd brought back the 2nd Law wubs for this, but made them somehow worse
― imago, Friday, 14 January 2022 10:17 (two years ago) link
it's weird coz at their biting-Rachmaninov peak the songs really did hold together, even the ambitious stuff like Citizen Erased or Butterflies & Hurricanes (both of which are up their with their best imo)
― imago, Friday, 14 January 2022 10:20 (two years ago) link
feels like Bellamy has kind of unlearned songwriting
i like it
― StanM, Friday, 14 January 2022 18:20 (two years ago) link
The wheat-to-chaff ratio with Muse is very high. There are four Muse songs that I can sort-of listen to: Plug In Baby (the song that launched a million YouTube guitar videos), Hysteria (because the guitar solo is actually a proper solo rather than the same arpeggiated sequence again like most of their songs), Supermassive Black Hole (didn't trad Muse fans hate this when it came out because it's relatively unlike their previous songs? anyway that might be why I like it), and Survival (which manages the kind of pompous ridiculousness this new song tries to hit but can't).
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:37 (two years ago) link
given this four listens and now i'm out, i tried. liked the heaviness of it on first listen but really this just has a bunch of their ideas recycled.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 15 January 2022 01:53 (two years ago) link
I tried listening to the new album but lost my hearing by the second song.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 29 August 2022 14:17 (one year ago) link
I sampled a few songs out of morbid curiosity.... just terrible.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 29 August 2022 14:33 (one year ago) link
new one is dreadful and leans into all their worst tendencies which is a shame because the last album was actually pretty decent
― ufo, Monday, 29 August 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
"they're great live"
― boxedjoy, Monday, 29 August 2022 21:12 (one year ago) link
I haven't unreservedly liked anything by them since Black Holes and Revelations and I've thought everything since Drones has been downright terrible.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 29 August 2022 21:19 (one year ago) link
I haven't unreservedly liked any of their albums, which, from a peak of Origin Of Symmetry, have declined at first slowly, then precipitously, with as ufo says only Simulation Theory as very slight respite from just about the worst music possible
― imago, Monday, 29 August 2022 21:33 (one year ago) link
They were, at the one show I saw!
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 29 August 2022 21:38 (one year ago) link
To be fair, I haven't listened to any of their older albums in probably 7-8 years. The newer stuff has been so awful that I don't really want to grapple with how those ones I used to like might hold up or not.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 29 August 2022 21:46 (one year ago) link
origin of symmetry & absolution are decent but a bit inconsistent, bh&r doubles down on that inconsistency, the next three are mostly dreadful, and simulation theory is actually remarkably solid but doesn't hit the highs of their best material
― ufo, Monday, 29 August 2022 21:54 (one year ago) link
basically this yeah. OOS and absolution are in the main unrecognisably great - like, clearly the same band but with wildly improved writing and sonics - compared to most of what they've come out with lately
― imago, Monday, 29 August 2022 21:56 (one year ago) link
oh and showbiz is just a bizarre debut album, i have no idea what they were listening to because a lot of it is deeply alien and sounds like nothing much else at all, though it's largely not very good either. i have no idea how they got signed
― ufo, Monday, 29 August 2022 22:01 (one year ago) link
the song 'sunburn' alone probably. yeah it is a weird, bad album
― imago, Monday, 29 August 2022 22:04 (one year ago) link
"cave" is pretty great too but those are about the only worthwhile tracks on it
― ufo, Monday, 29 August 2022 22:05 (one year ago) link
This is exactly how I feel. Albums 2-4 had their moments, I even kinda liked The Resistance, but everything I've heard since (just a song or two here and there) has been so unbelievably bad I'm terrified to revisit the old stuff.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 29 August 2022 22:06 (one year ago) link
people always say they're great live, and really lean on that they're meant to put on a spectacular show and be amazing live, but if all they do is play songs by Muse surely it can't be good
― boxedjoy, Monday, 29 August 2022 22:11 (one year ago) link
I can definitely imagine their music going over really well live. I saw Coldplay in 2003 — they were great. Similarly, Rammstein put on an incredible show in 2010 and I never listen to their studio albums, even though I own most of them. Iron Maiden are also a hell of a lot more fun to see than to listen to at home.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 29 August 2022 22:13 (one year ago) link
i saw them in 2010 during my teen muse fandom & it was pretty good but i don't think i'd be that moved if i saw the same concert now. stage set-up was the most ridiculous they ever had, with video screen pillars that they performed on for a bunch of the set
― ufo, Monday, 29 August 2022 22:21 (one year ago) link
I saw Coldplay in 2005, my grandparents bought tickets for the entire family after hearing me talk about being a big fan of Goldfrapp and confusing the two because they sound similar (!) I don't really remember much about the show per se but I do remember seeing a man take a line of cocaine during "Fix You" so someone had a wild night at least
― boxedjoy, Monday, 29 August 2022 22:29 (one year ago) link
if all they do is play songs by Muse
Fake news. They actually play the Third Eye Blind catalogue.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 29 August 2022 23:05 (one year ago) link
One of the weirdest things about Muse: they were teenagers who were into Mega City Four and Senseless Things in about 1994
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 31 August 2023 02:13 (eight months ago) link
i still want to know what they were listening to when they made their first album because a lot of that is deeply strange rock music that doesn't really sound like anything else i've ever heard. it isn't very good for the most part, but where are all those weird latin-sounding chord progressions coming from, for instance
― ufo, Thursday, 31 August 2023 03:08 (eight months ago) link
Beyond the basic tenants of classical piano, Metallica and what not (also maybe stuff John Leckie was showing them) I'm not sure what all the touchstones were, but I do know Matt's travels around Europe as a teenager and hearing lots of flamenco apparently fed into it - especially Uno.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 31 August 2023 03:12 (eight months ago) link