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Joined: 03 May 2008 Posts: 41 Location: A million miles away...
Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 1:58 am Post subject: Muse: not just inspirational
So. We all know that S.Meyer likes...no, no...LOVES Muse. She thinks they're the greatest band ever... ect, ect [instert more fangirl like squealing and obesessing]...ahem...
What do YOU think of them?
If you're a fan, and you know them pretty well, introduce the rest of us.
I was accidentally prompted to listen to them some 4-5 years ago...or so. I love them, but I lost all my music when my computer crashed and I had to transfer what I did have on my new laptop [at the time]. I don't have the CDs so I lost everything but five songs. I'm totally Muses depleted. _________________
I got into Muse when they released Time Is Running Out back in...'04, was it? I don't know....They're great. They're amazing in concert; mind-blowingly amazing. _________________
I really have not listened to Muse other than what Stephenie has put online or what people have used in videos and such. Does anyone have a bunch of songs of theirs that are really good. The songs that I listened to, I like but just never download them. Haha. But I have to get a bunch of songs now so I mine as well get some. _________________
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Pfff... I am a big fan of them... I have to say.
I have all songs, singles and extras haha.
If u want i can post a biography and the most important about muse... would u like? _________________
Joined: 03 May 2008 Posts: 41 Location: A million miles away...
Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 4:02 pm Post subject:
Go for it Schmetterling [there has to be a nickname for that XD].
Yeah. The only Muse I get is over LastFM since I lost my music.
They're interesting to listen to when trying to write an action scene. _________________
I love their music
I began to listen them when I saw the Stephenie's playlists and after that I can't stop listenting Muse!
they're awesome!
I really would like to go to their concert next July 20th but it is in Bogota and I'm from Medellin so I think I won't be able to go _________________
“El amor y el deseo no siempre reconocen el mismo camino”.
BIO
The English rock trio Muse consists of guitarist/vocalist Matthew Bellamy, bassist Chris Wolstenhome and drummer Dominic Howard. Bored by the sleepy life their hometown of Teignmouth, Devon provided, the three friends began playing music together. They started the first incarnation of their band when they were all 13, changing the name of the group from Gothic Plague to Fixed Penalty to Rocket Baby Dolls as time passed. By 1997 the band settled on the name Muse and released their self-titled debut EP on Dangerous Records, followed by the Muscle Museum EP in 1998. The group's emotive, Radiohead-like sound and live dates drew critical acclaim and industry buzz, and after a trip to New York's CMJ festival, Muse signed a deal with Maverick Records. Singles like "Cave" and "Uno" preceded their debut full-length album Showbiz, which was released toward the end of 1999. Two years later, Muse issued The Origin of Symmetry and had a major hit with "Hyper Music." In 2002, fans were treated to the double-disc live set Hullabaloo. Muse's fourth album, Absolution, got the usual royal treatment upon its late-2003 release. Stateside fans finally got a taste of Absolution when it was released on Warner Bros. the following March. A short North American tour in the spring coincided Muse's spot on the fifth annual Coachella Music and Arts Festival in May 2004.
The Muse that drove out of Glastonbury 2004 was a very different one from the Muse that had arrived. Following seven years of near solid touring, buzzing with nervous anticipation; their escalation from being the biggest band in Teignmouth in 1997 to one of the biggest bands in Europe by 2004 had been a rocket ride. Glastonbury 2004 saw Muse storm troop onto the high table of classic Glastonbury headline acts and prove themselves a formidable force in British rock. It was only with that triumph fresh in their throats, they claim, that they realised they'd 'made it'.
Following an extensive mid West US tour, Muse took a month off before reconvening in summer 2005 in the bat-infested Chateau Miraval studio in a Knights Templar town in Southern France. Matt: "It reminded me, if anything, of Devon. Most of the writing process started out there, being a quieter place and truly cut off from the lifestyle we had." Their previous albums, they figured, were borne of necessity; hurried in the face of impending tour dates and hobbled by the need to ensure they could be played live. This time, they took a No Limits approach - no tour was booked, no studio tomfoolery was out of bounds; they were to explore the technological possibilities of the 'studio band'.
If Muse sound like a new band on 'Black Holes and Revelations' it's because, after Glastonbury, they are: expanded of mind, settled of spirit and anything but sedentary of sound. 'Absolution 2: Back To The Planets', this most certainly is not. For continuity, in fact, we must look to the lyrical themes, where fans of the apocalyptic soundbite, the madcap conspiracy theory, the revolutionary rabble-rousing, the weird stuff about aliens inventing all earthly religions and other such classic Muse concerns will not be disappointed. But whereas 'Absolution' gazed on helplessly at the subjugation of humanity by corrupt world leaders and encroaching environmental or galactic disasters (and certainly, 'Black Holes And Revelations' has its fair share of climate change/oil crisis/global inflagration paranoia). "I think we're approaching that time," says Matt "If you look at those protests in France, the size and level of protest doesn't really relate to what they're protesting about. I think there's something underneath that people are feeling, particularly the younger generation. We feel like we've been born into some pre-created situation where we don't actually have any control over anything. We've got an aging population as well and that control factor grates a little bit. I feel, through this album, that I'm feeling pessimistic and frustrated about it all but at the same time I'm not against revolutionary moves and I wouldn't be ashamed to have incited a small riot, if it's for a good cause."
Discography Showbiz -1999-
Origin of symmetry -2001-
Hullabaloo -2002-
Absolution -2003-
Black Holes And Revelations -2006-
HAARP -2008-
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i have the absolution ablum and i really like it. i haven't heard blackholes yet though...muse isn't my favourite band but they're really good. butterflies & hurricanes is a great song!
I think tht absolution it's one of the best albums, but in black holes it's different... It's a GREAT album. I would say tht absolution was a good album, but with black holes something changed to be better... They keep their style but there's something tht i don't know yet how to call tht it's better than the other albums...
btw.... They're comming to mexico this july and guess what? I'm gonna see 'em >_< i'm so excited LOL _________________
lucky lucky person getting to see them live. grr. jealous haha.
I, um, have all the albums haha. I've always thought of Muse as a "Classical Rock" band. Their music is very intricate and ornate, like Bach on an electric guitar maybe? haha. Black Holes is a bit more R&Bish to a degree, especially on "Supermassive Black Hole". And there are definite Spanish influences like on "City of Delusion" and "Hoodoo". It sounds more... complete. I have a burned copy in my bedroom, in my car, and in my boombox haha.
But yeah, huge fan _________________
Credit goes to Enough4 @ Vesperarium
All right, so I live in western Kentucky. Two PBS stations come in here, one from Bowling Green and the other from Nashville. The PBS station from BG, where the next closest city is either Owensboro or Nashville, both about two hours away (so that means the majority of that station's reach listens to country music), just played a sort of commercial for itself, and guess what band was playing in its background? You only get one guess because, you know, this a Muse thread. Right, Muse. Starlight. Not that I object. It's just odd. I would have expected folk/bluegrass/country. WEIRD. _________________
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