Muse

Anyone here recently purchased Muse's new album "absolution"? i've heard their new song "Time is running out" and i think its a pretty good song, so i'm thinking about buying the album - is it worth buying it?

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No afence or anything, but i never heard of that group where can i here them and how can i find out about them, what kinda music do they play?

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thanks!

It is splendid. Definately worth the purchase. Has a bonus DVD with some footage of how they recorded some of the songs.

I have a couple of their cds, and got origins of symmetry while ago. What's the new cd like?

I like them, but I don't own any of their cd's thou

Quik! Run to the nearest record store and buy Absolution. It's a fuckin' excellent album and their best work to date. I said hurry!

it is good, oh yes, it is good...thanks to musemefish and musely for playing it to me...over...and over...and over...and over....

...still, I'm sold. it's fucking great.

dont buy it this album, it is not as good as their first, "time is running out" is their worst song yet.

there you go if he hates its probably the best recommendation you will ever get.

ha ha!! good call.

yeah i heard its good. Aparently the herald gave them a bad review but then again russel bailie is full of shit

I once got a letter from a record company exec complaining about a review I did, and she was like "well Russell Bailey gave it Five Stars" and I was like "be that as it may, I do actually have different taste from him..."

His reviews are well written but his tastes don't often represent mine.

I actually found Russel Baillie's review of the Muse album to be almost exactly what I thought. I didn't really like the album much. I suppose they are being more experimental on this album and it shows and for me, they don't really pull it off. They seem to be trying too hard to be weird. Having said that, there are some fucking good songs on there - Time is Running Out, Hysteria and Apocalypse Please are all good and fun. I'd recommend listening to it before buying it, because it might be too arty for some.

You should buy it.
Yes.

yes.

are they the band who got played on m2 alot and sing bliss and plug in baby :S?

That's them.

Absolution is an awesome album ... go ahead and buy it! Although if you don't have any other albums of theirs you probably can't go past Origin of Symmetry.

I like Absolution but it seems to me to be one that you should sorta listen to in order. Individually the tracks seem a bit weak, though there are still some good tracks.

i think muse are pretty shit really . .
i admittedly haven't heard their entire catalogue (probably because their singles have been so weak, thus giving me no reason to add them to my ever growing list of 'bands worth checking out further')
but honestly, they seem to be missing something . .. their new single just sounds boring to me, almost as if they have sat down as a band and tried to make a really nondescript song, and succeded in doing so..
plug in baby was crap as well, .. . weak lyrics, bugger all melody, slick but dreadful video, .. in fact i can't think of anything good to say, so i'm gonna shut up before i get myself in more trouble .. .
apologies to all their fans, but muse doesn't do it for me i'm sorry :)

hush hush fanboy ;)

grusome - I thought that his melodies were a major strength, lots of clever key changes shifting underneath. There's a real classical feel to his melody like you could replace his voice with a violin or a clarinet. I would be interested to see how they translate their complexity live, I assume they gig as a three piece? I posted somewhere else on nzm about all the influences I can here in his writing, and I really like that when you are listening to a song and you hear something that reminds you of supergrass or radiohead or qotsa or powerman 5000 or beatles or jellyfish or queen etc which is what absolution does for me.

But this forum would be pretty boring if we all agreed eh.

//But this forum would be pretty boring if we all agreed eh.

indeed my good man ..

theres probably a lot of music that i listen to which you can't stand, it makes it all so much fun if everyone likes different stuff to everyone else

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yep you made your point now impale yourself on this, but I'm warning you, you will hate it. Cool eh!

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we'll b able to check out muse live at the BDO! January is gonna b fat.