Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
Please accept my apologies. I completely misread that part of your post. For some reason I saw it as, 'In Benelux, where these guys come from'.
I either need new specs, or senility is setting in.
Love these guys, they have some absolutely fantastic songs. "Space Dementia", "Uprising", "Knights Of Cydonia", "Butterflies And Hurricanes"... big fan.
Interviewer of reprobate ne'er-do-well musicians of the long-haired rock n' roll persuasion at: www.velvetthunder.co.uk and former scribe at Classic Rock Society. Only vaguely aware of anything other than music.
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Big Muse fan here, saw them a couple of years ago and the show was riveting. Still love Black Holes best but agree with others about the Queen thing getting a bit too much - e.g. United States of Eurasia which is so out of Freddy's book he could well have written it.
No, they do have a sense of humour. Bellamy's "conspiracy theory" schtick seems to have a certain amount of tongue in cheek, and if you've seen them in the studio, for exapmle on the "making of 2nd Law", they have a real sense of fun about the OTT choirs & orchestras and the whole operatic falsetto thing. They're completely at home in the studio and I think they're like kids in a toyshop who can't believe they've been locked in for the night, so they explore the limits of what they can get away with while still making incredible music.
Whilst some of 2nd Law doesn't grab me in the same way as previous albums (the bass player's songs in particular), live they are still incredible. I won't get into the whole "are they/aren't they prog" thing, as its a subjective thing, but they are the nearest thing to a modern day Genesis, Yes or Floyd, and of course Queen, that we are going to get in terms of bringing intelligent, sometimes complex, well structured rock music to a mass audience. It's not just that they can fill stadiums, they can actually command a stadium crowd in a way that few people outwith the great 70's or early 80's acts can. Think about it, if LIVE AID were to happen again next year, who would be capable of rocking a stadium the way Freddie did, or the way Floyd did at LIVE8? Springsteen, U2, The Stones, Genesis, Bowie, Led Zep, the Who, and maybe one or two others from the 60's/70's. Hard to think of anyone who's emerged in the last 10-15 years doing this other than MUSE.
For me, Muse scratches the Queen itch of old. They are unapologetically bombastic and tuned in to a new generation. Every album ends up having 4 or 5 songs that become total earworms.
With 2nd Law, this was certainly their most well "marketed" release. They had a theme song for the Olympics, World War Z, and more appearances on American television.
For me, I dig the whole album up through track 7 + the closing 2nd Law suite. The tracks in between do NOTHING for me - which seems to be a theme I can say about all Muse albums.
I saw Muse in DC last week. Overall, it was a great show. I was, however, disappointed by a few things...
1. Set was too short.
2. They seemed to be on cruise control, didn't say much to the crowd, left with a sterile feeling.
3. They didn't play Exogenesis, which I figured was a stretch, but even the 1st part would have been gold.
WANTED: Sig-worthy quote.
Not a huge fan, but they've got some great anthemic tracks and I love the singers delivery. Like many people I guess I first heard of Muse via Guitar Hero on the PS2 about 5 years ago, it was Knights of Sydonia, and that caused me to look them up & listen to more.
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