There are some scathing reviews that call them a Radiohead clone that tries too hard to be overly bombastic. I can see it but I don't necessarily agree

The one thing I like about them is they have taken ownership of their own sound.

lol @ "one" thing....but still

It wasn't exactly difficult to figure out no one was going to my hometown in middle of nowhere Ohio.

this is easy

blackout.

Anyone who compares Muse to Radiohead has not listened to either one, or neither of the bands. Their lead singers are similar. Thats it.

I think some of it is that it sounds that way now. The argument then was that the Beatles want to hold your hand, the Stones wanted to rape your daughter. And who knows what The Who wanted to do (I'm assuming Pink Floyd wanted to get you to pay for their art school).

At the time, the Stones were more "real"- it's important that "Revolution" (whose lyrics are actually very anti-revolutionary) came out the same week as "Street Fighting Man" (whose lyrics are indecipherable but presumably *very* revolutionary)- but listening to them today, I think it's a wash. Like the Beatles understood these songs were going to last for more than just a few months.

touche

ruled by secrecy is the best "soft" song on absolution.

+10000

Jeebus.

when your from canada, its not exactly easy

afterall I just finished moving to middle of no where iowa for 2 weeks

do you count falling away with you or sing for absolution?

the bends.

/end discussion


but seriously i agree.. it starts and ends with the lead singers.. especially now that muse has gone all prog and radiohead has gone electronic

Oh no he didn't!

The Stones would never have made it without the Beatles.

Lennon even told Mick Jagger that they wouldn't go anywhere if they didn't start writing their own stuff.

i count falling away, blackout, and endlessly

falling away is probably muses 3rd best song.

yeah i mean being that i was born after all of this i guess i miss out on a lot of context and such.

74 jailbreak

The most underrated muse song: soldier's poem. Discuss.

lol im so rusty on muse (its probably been 3 years since i was really into them) that to me theres like a 15ish song cluster of songs all at the top that i would have trouble ranking at the moment. falling away is way good tho

i mean its so diff than most of their songs.. idk im not a big fan of it.

I used to skip it when i was going through black holes. Now its like....one of my fav songs on the album.

Whenever anyone brings up the 'xxxx > Beatles' argument, I just note that one week in 1966 (i think it was), the Beatles had the top 5 songs. Not a song in the top 5, all of the top 5 songs.

Yes, it was pop (the Beatles started off as pop, but they had amazing stuff in their last 4 years together), yes the public isn't necessarily the best barometer, but something has got to be said for a band that had the whole top 5 in one week. Most bands nowadays don't even release 5 songs from a whole album.

dark side of the moon was on the billboard 200 for 714 weeks. Then was off for one week. Then back on for another 500 + weeks.

its very well placed for like maximum effect. im a music masochist who listens to primarily albums so i like never skip tracks.