Muse Society II - Join the Resistance!

Apparant news on the Matt/Gaia situation:
Matthew isn't with Gaia anymore. He sayed that on an interview for the Big Day Out : "when I was in Vegas at a bar, someone took photos of me dancing with a girl and posted it online saying something like "Matt trying to get it on with some girl" and obviously my girlfriend sees it a...nd shes not happy. Wel...l she my ex-girlfriend now" (from the facebook fan page of Floccinaucinihilipilification)
I call ********. People who are engaged don't break up over pictures of someone dancing with someone else

EDIT: oh, theres a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOm7VNfCVis
thats a really stupid reason to break up

really? i've not seen them. *needs to buy Q*
just watched the video, weird reaction when he talks about it.
also lol at his thoughts, he goes from variation to genetic variation and inbreeding haha

That's quite sad. Also, i don't think there was any truth in the fact that they were engaged. Just fan rumour.

They were in the big new years one and the one before or after I think. Cos they asked him how he was and he said not too good, and that he'd been having a couple of spats with Gaia

thats a bit weird to be talking to a music magazine and not keep it private

Music that is much more exciting/generally better would include Radiohead, Animal Colletive, most of Pink Floyd's work, Kraftwerk, Joy Division, LCD Soundsystem, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles....

FTR, Hoodoo is one of Muse's worst songs. Black Holes is good but songs like City of Delusion, Soldier's Poem get boring pretty quick and i haven't listened to the album for months. I guess it's a case of many more interesting albums out there! Doesn't make it a bad album, just in the grand scheme of thing it is pretty average like The Resistance and Showbiz. Absolution and OOS were their best 2 efforts but they have fillers on those both 2 sadly.

But you've just quoted some of the best bands there have ever been (LCD Soundsystem aside), who are known and loved the world over, and who have had immeasurable influence on the music that's released today. How can you go on a rant about how a band doesn't quite match up to, say, a band where hundred of millions of people - no exaggeration - could name all four members?

I would agree that a good number of those bands you've listed beat Muse hands down, but you must admit through, looking at what's currently out there it it's such a relief that at least one decent band can compete in the charts...



Oh my GOD I was just starting to like you. Seriously stop talking as if your opinion is GODLY FACT. Try replacing "FTR" with "IMO" every so often, we may actually take you seriously then.

Also, I question why you frequently post in here if you apparently don't rate any of their albums highly. I wouldn't rate an album highly if it had filler tracks

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I think we should move on from debate. Muse release such diverse stuff that they're always going to divide people. But you're ALL WRONG

I don't get how relationships work when you're going to be on world tours every few years. Must take one helluva toll when he's in a different far-flung country every day. I wouldn't be surprised if it were true. Also sounds like Matt is a bit of a kinky swine

I'd like to do the same, but I wouldn't be able to do the piano part. I can't coordinate my hands on a piano like I can on guitar.



The new album is largely based off 1984 (a fantastic book I have to say) and Uprising, Resistance, United States of Eurasia, Unnatual Select and MK Ultra are all based from it.

Hark back to progressive rock? Progressive rock is still going strong these days - listen to Dream Theaters new album, Yes and Rush are very much still active. I don't see how you can hark back to progressive rock when it's still going strong. Muse implement so many different aspects into their music - acoustic, orchestral, progressive, rock, etc. - that it does make it exciting to listen to and to watch. New Born, Knight of Cydonia, Invincible all give me chills when I listen to either the studio version or a live version.

Question is, if Muse's music is so boring and their lyrics so mundain, why do you listen to them and why are you here?

And yes, Citizen Erased is an epic song.

And on a lighter note, I've just finished learning the solo to invincible - that suckers difficult!

But you've just quoted some of the best bands there have ever been (LCD Soundsystem aside), who are known and loved the world over, and who have had immeasurable influence on the music that's released today. How can you go on a rant about how a band doesn't quite match up to, say, a band where hundred of millions of people - no exaggeration - could name all four members?

Fair point, fair point. If you want to say it's so obvious that Led Zeppelin are better that it's not worth pointing out, then I'm with you. That's just the impression that I get from Muse fans, that they think they are one of the greatest bands ever when they're just not. Lesser known bands I would say are considerably better then:

Battles (Muse fans should probably check these out actually), Grizzly Bear, Broadcast, Animal Collective, Portishead, Hot Chip, The xx, Air....

I would love to see the day when Muse make a record as good as Origin Of Symmetry again. I should point out I would mean better to mean more consistent, as Origin easily stands up against anything those bands have put out.

I don't get how relationships work when you're going to be on world tours every few years. Must take one helluva toll when he's in a different far-flung country every day. I wouldn't be surprised if it were true. Also sounds like Matt is a bit of a kinky swine

But they are all very very different to Muse as such, well Air are and Air i would class as one of my favourite 5 bands (duo whatever) as Moon Safari is one of the most perfect albums created. I'm surprised you mention Hot Chip. I don't mind them and their live set looks quite cool but i wouldn't say they're that good putting them alongside all the others and The xx too bored me apart from one of their songs which i thought was quite good.

I would echo one point put back that i read from johnny that it's nice to see at least some decent band in the charts as there isn't much to shout home about these days if you're looking for a good rock band. I mean look how crap KoL have become in the charts now. It's nice to see people who don't listen to much music say they like Muse like my young bro for example who listens to a lot of rubbish but Muse are at least a lot better than a lot of it!

I've read interviews where Matt said that Gaia went along as a stylist on some tours.

Well yeah they're different but..... they're still better. That's one thing Muse still have going, nobody else sounds quite like them. I can see why people wouldn't like Hot Chip but they have incredibly clever lyrics 'And I Was A Boy From School/Helplessly helping all the rules'. Kings Of Leon are fairly bad I agree (even they said Use Somebody has begun to annoy them), and I would sooner see Muse then most chart music get more popular. But does that really sound like much of a compliment to Muse, that they are better than the **** that gets in the charts?

Moon Safari is bloody lovely. Shame they never quite reached that height again, though they came pretty close with Talkie Walkie.