Curiosity about Muse

[AugustFall]

I was a fan since Plug in Baby. I'm a bit less into them now but certain songs like Knights Of Cydonia are truly amazing.

 

[Togs]

Meh they're good in small doses, all that wangst can get a bit much sometimes, although there's no denying they're bloody good musicians.

 

[Spudgun Man]

Yea I like muse, but only the stuff before resistance.

 

[Berethond]

They're fine, I only have Black Holes & Revelations, its some cool stuff on it.

 

[StBishop]

I like them. I can't think of anyone who doesn't like them, tbh.

You now know someone. Their music is boring. I'd rather have silence than the white noise they create.

Not an attempt at flaming, just putting it out there.

Muse has been one of my favourite bands, though their newer stuff I'm not a fan of as much. The Resistance is very different to their older albums, and is much more "mainstream". I'm into heavier stuff like:

The music in this was actually good, but the song wasn't great. I didn't listen to the whole thing due to the vocals. I haven't found anything else by them not fitting the description I gave earlier.

 

[TobiasFunke]

I am a fan of Muse and got to see them play Wembley last September and it was one of the best concerts I have ever being to!

 

[lolmynamewastaken]

im a massive muse fan. it could be said that i have a problem...

 

[electric_warrior]

I liked them when I was younger and still like a couple of their songs, Butterflies and Hurricanes for example, but generally find them a bit tedious and pantomimey. They're like Queen without the awesomeness.

 

[MysticToast]

I love them. They're my favorite band and I honestly can't get enough of them.

 

[phelan511]

I don't like them. I liked exactly 1 song by them but even that started to get on my nerves since the singer sounds like a... Well I wont say but yeah, s/hes annoying.

Edit: Actually, I half take it back. Relistening to the song I find my annoyance of it has faded but yeah, if I listened to it a few more times I would rehate it.
Muse - Time Is Running Out [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhAmug6Ts6o]

If someone could suggest say their top 3 Muse songs so I can get more of a feel for their better works then I would appreciate it.

Me personally I've always loved the songs Hysteria, Citizen Erased, and Dead Star

 

[phelan511]

Personally I kinda like they way they shift and evolve with each album to some extent. I loved Resistance, but mostly because it had a big Orwellian 1984 kinda vibe. All I know is when they came to Austin I jumped at the chance to see em live. Still is the best live performance I've ever been to.

 

[phelan511]

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Words cannot express how jealous I am of you. I'dve killed for the chance to go to that. Thats still my favorite live album of ANY band I listen to. Hearing the crowd sing the instrumental to Knights of Cydonia makes my hair stand on my arms haha. That and the insane as hell ending to Stockholm Syndrome.

 

[InfiniteSingularity]

Used to love them before they were all high profile & mainstream. They're still good, no doubt, but I've moved onto other things

 

[Nickolai77]

Instrumentally they can be pretty good, personally i'm not to keen on the vocal style however.

 

[Amyamy]

Never been that keen on Muse. They´ve got some good songs, but never been a fan really. Have to agree that their sound has become very generic indeed. It´s a shame though.

 

[Pojo-san]

I personally enjoy Muse. I have a lot of their songs on my MP3 player. I personally enjoy there Absolution album the most with my favorite songs being "Soldier Side", "Uprising", "Sing for Absolution", and "Undisclosed Desires." I got to go to one of their concerts and I really liked it. I couldn't help but laugh at a commercial once where they were using "Butterflies and Hurricanes." They were using the song to showcase some new seasons of popular shows on a certain channel with that song playing in the background. It was suppose to sound uplifting and inspirational, but I knew that they got it wrong because the song is about getting revenge on someone and bidding your time to do it. It made me laugh pretty hard.

On a side note, I enjoy them because they are much better than any of today's American rock groups. Seriously what happened to American rock music? Did the nasty drug habit known as "the 80s" leave permanent brain damage to the music industry? They are a very few songs from the 90s to the present that I enjoy.

Soldier's Side is a System Of A Down song I think you meant Soldier's Poem.

/faceplam your right. That's what I meant

 

[Snowy Rainbow]

I sort of like their first two albums. Not really a fan of the band, though.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Meh, I can take them or leave them. They're not bad, but they're not that great either. I remember hearing Origin of Symmetry for the first time and I had to be told it was this band called Muse, as I honestly thought it was a new Radiohead album (a misconception which didn't go down well).

And the one track of theirs that I like above all others has been covered (and I think bettered) by Joe Bonamassa anyway:

 

[Xerosch]

And the one track of theirs that I like above all others has been covered (and I think bettered) by Joe Bonamassa anyway

And even that was a cover version. The original is by Nina Simone and was written far before Muse started making music

Anyway, I really hated the whiny singer's voice for a very, very long time. Found my way to their music with 'Black Holes and Revelations'.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

And the one track of theirs that I like above all others has been covered (and I think bettered) by Joe Bonamassa anyway

And even that was a cover version. The original is by Nina Simone and was written far before Muse started making music

Anyway, I really hated the whiny singer's voice for a very, very long time. Found my way to their music with 'Black Holes and Revelations'.

Well there you go, I'm less of a Muse fan than I thought I was, and I didn't really like them that much in the first place!

And you're right, the vocals do take some getting past.