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imagist42:
Yeah, sorry but if you thought that interest was genuine you... well, you were wrong.
GenericName:
See I liked when I could pretend that Khar just made up those big copy-paste things- just thought about a topic, came up with a dissertation and only wrote down a couple paragraphs from the middle.
David_Dovey:
--- Quote from: Ctharlhie94 on 18 Jan 2011, 12:28 ---Matt Bellamy is one of the most scarily talented musicians to be in a popular, mainstream successful band of today. Unfortunately, since the success of Black Holes and Revelations, he has shamelessly squandered that talent with some incredibly misjudged and increasingly poor songs (I belong to you, Guiding Light spring to mind) and it's a real shame, go back to Origin of Symmetry or Absolution and that talent is very much obvious.
And also, as has been mentioned already, The Resistance is shit. The whole concept doesn't hang together, one moment he's inciting Teddy Bear revolution, the next he's clumsily referencing 1984, then he's singing in French in one of my all time least favourite songs (twice as disappointing from previously one of my favourite bands) and finally he rips off Beethoven etc. It's pretentious and indulgent in ways that only the worst prog rock ever was.
@Sean; Musically, Radiohead comparisons ceased being valid about 7 years ago. =P
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This. This is exactly what is wrong with Muse. Good posting, new guy.
Even very early on I always thought of Muse as being a band in flux between their desire to sound like Radiohead and their desire to sound like Queen. And like most bands with two obvious + prominent influences, their best work was done when they struck a balance between those two influences and didn't lean too heavily on one or the other. Muse in particular are interesting because their career is very linear in this respect, starting as a band that ripped off Radiohead with a little bit of Queen and slowly introducing more Queen up until Black Holes and Revelations, at which point they became more Queen than Radiohead. The sweet spot of this being Absolution and then Origin of Symmetry and BH&R, in that order.
Also, Bellamy was never that hot of a lyricist in the the first place, and always took himself way too seriously in that respect but that was OK because he only wrote vague stuff about feelings and shit anyway. But then around BH&R he decided it would be a good idea to start writing (what considers to be) politically charged stuff with all this half-cocked talk about "revolution" and fighting the man and whatnot, which he then sings in gigantic stadium multimedia productions funded by Warner Bros. charging upwards of $100 for tickets. It's this kind of cod-political songwriting that lacks any kind of actual ideological center, because obviously coming out against anybody except roughly sketched boogiemen runs the risk of alienating somebody, anybody, which is bad for record sales et al. It also makes a lot of sense re: what has already been established in this thread as Muse's main appeal, which is to 15 year olds, basically, where it is quite common to feel a non-specific, unfocused outrage against "the man", without any actual articulation of who or what the man is or represents.
EDIT: A lot of these sentences don't even approach making grammatical sense but I'm not gonna change them because I don't give a fuck. I am aware of it though.
michaelicious:
--- Quote from: imagist42 on 19 Jan 2011, 11:49 ---Yeah, sorry but if you thought that interest was genuine you... well, you were wrong.
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My heart, she is broken.
Lupercal:
--- Quote from: StaedlerMars on 18 Jan 2011, 19:01 ---Why I hate Muse:
Seriously I dont hate Muse. I just feel like that as a whole the do not deserve the credit they are getting. I have honestly tried to listen to their albums and all I've gotten out of them is me going 'oh radiohead with a bit more rock'. Which I guess is not a bad thing, but I seriously do no understand the hordes and hordes of people that like Muse. I mean, as far as a band goes, Muse is honestly one of the most boring bands to like. And I've heard people that like 'early' Muse agree with me about this.
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To be fair, most probably do what I did which was to unintentionally discover Muse before you unintentionally discover Radiohead. And if it was also at the point where Hullaballoo and Absolution were the latest albums then you get pretty swept up in that.
I agree that they are a tight band musically and I do enjoy a lot of their stuff. But also, as others have stated, it was more of a high school fad. I really don't listen to them much anymore. I did see them live once last year and they were damn good.
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