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I want to be free
From desolation and despair
And I feel like everything I sow
Is being swept away
Well I refuse to let you go
I can't get it right
Get it right
Since I met you
Loneliness be over
When will this loneliness be over?
Life will flash before my eyes
So scattered and lost
I want to touch the other side
And no-one thinks they are to blame
Why can't we see
That when we bleed, we bleed the same
I can't get it right
Get it right
Since I met you
Loneliness be over
When will this loneliness be over?
Loneliness be over
When will this loneliness be over?
Because, looking at the ratings distribution, the "yaysayers" keep their traps shut and just listen. I mean, there's clearly more of them
This is one of those songs that, if it would have existed 20 years ago, would have made it onto my "driving CD" that I made to listen to as I drove to and from my college town... songs like this would be playing, and before I knew it, I'd be going 90 mph.
The Resistance has carried me through from rentals at San Diego International bound for somewhere, since many a year!
Very good Bill, play more Muse. They belong here too!
Agree, can't play that latino stuff all the time!
This is one of those songs that, if it would have existed 20 years ago, would have made it onto my "driving CD" that I made to listen to as I drove to and from my college town... songs like this would be playing, and before I knew it, I'd be going 90 mph.
As a german, trust me, too aggressive music isn't compatible with high speed (ok, 120mph+)
Oh, come on! Muse can, accurately, be called bombastic, OTT, de trop, or whatever adjective you want to use for full-on in-yer-face rock, but "lack of creative thought" is just plain wrong. All the songs in this album explore science-fiction concepts, astrophysics ("Super massive black hole"), and the loneliness of the long-distance space traveller. The Resistance was explicitly about Orwell's 1984.
Overblown, sure, and you can love 'em or loathe 'em, but to accuse them of lack of imagination is bonkers and demonstrably false.
Fred, I like that you used the term 'demonstrably'
When you hear the sound of four bands playing simultaneously four different genres with a loud noise, it's Muse.
And they're all really good bands and somehow it all still works!
I always have to turn the volume down a notch for muse, they have taken the wall of sound and taken it to a new level. Yes to other comments, bombastic, OTT and excellent rock with a strong dance and even trance-on-steroids style. Excellent
Yes! Lots of reverb! But good reverb! Great Tune!
AND over the NEXT TOP!
they are over ALL the tops!!!
YEAH!
and I like them
Agreed! And playing it right after "Hush" by Deep Purple gets me rockin' right to the fridge
Oh, come on! Muse can, accurately, be called bombastic, OTT, de trop, or whatever adjective you want to use for full-on in-yer-face rock, but "lack of creative thought" is just plain wrong. All the songs in this album explore science-fiction concepts, astrophysics ("Super massive black hole"), and the loneliness of the long-distance space traveller. The Resistance was explicitly about Orwell's 1984.
Overblown, sure, and you can love 'em or loathe 'em, but to accuse them of lack of imagination is bonkers and demonstrably false.
They're just not that melodically interesting.
Oh, come on! Muse can, accurately, be called bombastic, OTT, de trop, or whatever adjective you want to use for full-on in-yer-face rock, but "lack of creative thought" is just plain wrong. All the songs in this album explore science-fiction concepts, astrophysics ("Super massive black hole"), and the loneliness of the long-distance space traveller. The Resistance was explicitly about Orwell's 1984.
Overblown, sure, and you can love 'em or loathe 'em, but to accuse them of lack of imagination is bonkers and demonstrably false.
You need to check out some Rush then.
A terrible way to end an otherwise great set of music. I don’t care about the cleverness of the lyrics or what they are “exploring.” The sound is what counts to me and this is a huge negative. Sorry, but that’s my taste.
Oh, come on! Muse can, accurately, be called bombastic, OTT, de trop, or whatever adjective you want to use for full-on in-yer-face rock, but "lack of creative thought" is just plain wrong. All the songs in this album explore science-fiction concepts, astrophysics ("Super massive black hole"), and the loneliness of the long-distance space traveller. The Resistance was explicitly about Orwell's 1984.
Overblown, sure, and you can love 'em or loathe 'em, but to accuse them of lack of imagination is bonkers and demonstrably false.
I love intelligent, informed comments on RP.
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JHZ wrote:
nottheusualkind wrote:
Thanks to the 'loudness war' obsession, a recording
like this is unlistenable. I hear distortion on it throughout and that
is completely unnecessary.
bluematrix wrote:
I bet there's a soft rock station you could find somewhere. These guys can blow the roof of a concert hall - all that loud goodness is quite welcome now and then.
I don't think nottheusualkind is complaining about the fact that this is loud. The problem with many of the contemporary production is that it is all "loud" or "up-front", which means there is no or little volume dynamic in the sound. It just all sounds loud and up-front. Which a) takes away, well, dynamics from the recording and b) can lead to distortion because it is all in the red (or close to it). The background is that too many people listen to music in compressed formats (MP3 etc) and on devices where recording quality does not matter much. If something is "up-front" and "loud" on these devices and as MP3 it initially and instantly sounds "better", so people click and download (or so the producers hope). However, upon repeated listening and certainly on better equipment you will hear that the quality is actually worse (sometimes there are distortions) and if you are used to the more elaborate and dynamic productions of the more audiophile times you will be missing the dynamics. This can also apply to remixes and reissues by the way.
Agreed. Some music I like in spite of those problems -this is one of them.
nottheusualkind wrote:
Thanks to the 'loudness war' obsession, a recording
like this is unlistenable. I hear distortion on it throughout and that
is completely unnecessary.
bluematrix wrote:
I bet there's a soft rock station you could find somewhere. These guys can blow the roof of a concert hall - all that loud goodness is quite welcome now and then.
I don't think nottheusualkind is complaining about the fact that this is loud. The problem with many of the contemporary production is that it is all "loud" or "up-front", which means there is no or little volume dynamic in the sound. It just all sounds loud and up-front. Which a) takes away, well, dynamics from the recording and b) can lead to distortion because it is all in the red (or close to it). The background is that too many people listen to music in compressed formats (MP3 etc) and on devices where recording quality does not matter much. If something is "up-front" and "loud" on these devices and as MP3 it initially and instantly sounds "better", so people click and download (or so the producers hope). However, upon repeated listening and certainly on better equipment you will hear that the quality is actually worse (sometimes there are distortions) and if you are used to the more elaborate and dynamic productions of the more audiophile times you will be missing the dynamics. This can also apply to remixes and reissues by the way.
I bet there's a soft rock station you could find somewhere. These guys can blow the roof of a concert hall - all that loud goodness is quite welcome now and then.
I want to be free
From desolation and despair
Seems fitting these days...
P-tree is da bomb......have a total listen
Rock on, Goldsmith's
To say that MUSE lacks imagination is total bullshit.
fredriley wrote:
Oh, come on! Muse can, accurately, be called bombastic, OTT, de trop, or whatever adjective you want to use for full-on in-yer-face rock, but "lack of creative thought" is just plain wrong. All the songs in this album explore science-fiction concepts, astrophysics ("Super massive black hole"), and the loneliness of the long-distance space traveller. The Resistance was explicitly about Orwell's 1984.
Overblown, sure, and you can love 'em or loathe 'em, but to accuse them of lack of imagination is bonkers and demonstrably false.
Never quite made it. Kinda blows hot-n-cold. Right now I've wound up the volume and am loving it.
Could be new names of this band that sounds like a supergroup.
I was listening without paying attention who it was.
I have to admit I thought it was new U2...with a bigger edge.
They do know how to rawk pretty good!
Yep. I like Muse in limited quantities, but every song is so over the top. More so on their newer albums - they seem to be relying too much on the groaning voices and anthemic beats to carry the songs.
Whatever you all think of this Muse song you have got to agree that it goes with the craziness of what you are about to see...
https://youtu.be/sx0s-92tXqo
Enjoy the spectacle and the music together and marvel at what it means to be alive!
Oh bummer, I just sicked up on myself...again. Are there any other songs on the album...that might not trigger such distaste?
DrLex wrote:
segue = a seamless transition between songs.
Segway = (and I'm pretty sure Vivaldi didn't have one.)
Vivaldi probably did not, but Joseph Haydn is believed to have had a segway; according to legend, he found it in some overgrown hedges behind Galileo's gazebo.
segue = a seamless transition between songs.
Segway = (and I'm pretty sure Vivaldi didn't have one.)
Not a segway but also on wheels going down the Gotthard mountain. Muse fits wonderfully in this spectacular clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx0s-92tXqo
segue = a seamless transition between songs.
Segway = (and I'm pretty sure Vivaldi didn't have one.)
Well, it is. You're right. They are masters of ripping other artists off. This particular song, while good, has direct elements of Enjoy the silence by Depeche Mode.
Then again, this is their best and *only* good album, as far as I'm concerned.
Yes, always!!
dios Mio!!!
Not that I care much for or about this band, but there are easily thousands of things more baneful than "Muse's lack of creative thought" in the first fifteen years of this millennium.
Completely agree. So much in fact that it's pretty clear that Muse's rehashmoism is a rehash of the New Milenium's rehashmo.
It just gets worse every time I hear it — straight up vomitrocious. My PSD button didn't do what I hoped, that it would actually play something different, but at least the chundering vocals eventually end, phew!
...Muse's lack of creative thought seems to be the bane of the New Millenium...
Not that I care much for or about this band, but there are easily thousands of things more baneful than "Muse's lack of creative thought" in the first fifteen years of this millennium.
Fred, clearly we each focus on different aspects of music. I don't often have the lyrics available, so it is indeed the music, not the lyrics, that I am referring to when I call their music or their "sound" derivative. Now that I think about it, I may have been trying to be kind when I compared Muse to New Order's considerable talent, because it was some of the really atrocious mid-80's dance club flash-in-the-pain bands who already paved Muse's musical path. Sadly, that sound is so damn off-putting that I can't listen long enough to make out the lyrics; I guess I should just stick to reading the real books that they're singing aria's about.
Proof: Freddy has now proven he is a Muse fanboy.
Fair enough. I feel much the same about The Who - I can barely tolerate two notes before I PSD or mute or jump out of a high window. Muse is for sure bombastic and overblown, perhaps to a similar degree that Queen was. I was a New Order fan so I find it hard to put the two into the same genre, not least because you could dance to NO.
I think I might be a bit on the, erm, senior side to be a "fanboy" of anything, other than good beer and whiskey :*)
A bheil thu a' fuireach air an Eilean Sgitheanach?
Oh, come on! Muse can, accurately, be called bombastic, OTT, de trop, or whatever adjective you want to use for full-on in-yer-face rock, but "lack of creative thought" is just plain wrong. All the songs in this album explore science-fiction concepts, astrophysics ("Super massive black hole"), and the loneliness of the long-distance space traveller. The Resistance was explicitly about Orwell's 1984.
Overblown, sure, and you can love 'em or loathe 'em, but to accuse them of lack of imagination is bonkers and demonstrably false.
Fred, clearly we each focus on different aspects of music. I don't often have the lyrics available, so it is indeed the music, not the lyrics, that I am referring to when I call their music or their "sound" derivative. Now that I think about it, I may have been trying to be kind when I compared Muse to New Order's considerable talent, because it was some of the really atrocious mid-80's dance club flash-in-the-pain bands who already paved Muse's musical path. Sadly, that sound is so damn off-putting that I can't listen long enough to make out the lyrics; I guess I should just stick to reading the real books that they're singing aria's about.
Proof: Freddy has now proven he is a Muse fanboy.
Agreed. This reminds me of a bombastic version of New Order, without the fresh edge/angst that those guys brought. Just another New Millennium over-produced derivative band in search of creativity. Everything of Muse's that I have heard has been a lame deja vu of much better music. Harsh words, I know, but I think this is my 1st 1-rating....
Muse's lack of creative thought seems to be the bane of the New Millenium
Oh, come on! Muse can, accurately, be called bombastic, OTT, de trop, or whatever adjective you want to use for full-on in-yer-face rock, but "lack of creative thought" is just plain wrong. All the songs in this album explore science-fiction concepts, astrophysics ("Super massive black hole"), and the loneliness of the long-distance space traveller. The Resistance was explicitly about Orwell's 1984.
Overblown, sure, and you can love 'em or loathe 'em, but to accuse them of lack of imagination is bonkers and demonstrably false.
I agree that the band (without the singer) rocks in a way. But, no, the singer, he wants to be a diva, not a rocker. He want's to show his vocal extension, tries to be super emotional, which to my ears sounds quite the opposite, emotionless. He would fit better to be a contester in American Idol. Which is totally fair, just not for my taste.
FWI I barelly know Tori Amos, not my kind of music either.
Actually the "diva" qualities (and to some extent the qualities of vocals) of the singer remind me of other leads, in this case, Dennis DeYoung, formerly of Styx and the late, great Freddie Mercury. To be sure he's not of the same level as Mercury, but there's a lot of potential there, from what I hear.
I agree that the band (without the singer) rocks in a way. But, no, the singer, he wants to be a diva, not a rocker. He want's to show his vocal extension, tries to be super emotional, which to my ears sounds quite the opposite, emotionless. He would fit better to be a contester in American Idol. Which is totally fair, just not for my taste.
FWI I barelly know Tori Amos, not my kind of music either.
What a cool word is "anodyne". Fits usually.
You must have loved the bland, anodyne wailing of Tori Amos who followed then!
As the man said in the post below, it rocks, deal with it :-)
PS - Seems this is one of those 'Marmite' bands that people love or hate, yet so far it isn't a double peak in the chart...
I agree that the band (without the singer) rocks in a way. But, no, the singer, he wants to be a diva, not a rocker. He want's to show his vocal extension, tries to be super emotional, which to my ears sounds quite the opposite, emotionless. He would fit better to be a contester in American Idol. Which is totally fair, just not for my taste.
FWI I barelly know Tori Amos, not my kind of music either.
You must have loved the bland, anodyne wailing of Tori Amos who followed then!
As the man said in the post below, it rocks, deal with it :-)
PS - Seems this is one of those 'Marmite' bands that people love or hate, yet so far it isn't a double peak in the chart...
Agreed. This reminds me of a bombastic version of New Order, without the fresh edge/angst that those guys brought. Just another New Millennium over-produced derivative band in search of creativity. Everything of Muse's that I have heard has been a lame deja vu of much better music. Harsh words, I know, but I think this is my 1st 1-rating....
Muse's lack of creative thought seems to be the bane of the New Millenium: Musical rehashes, musical mash-ups, dubbed/sampled music (i.e., Hip-Hop) endless movie remakes, endless movie renditions of 50's & 60's comic books, pathetically nostalgic car designs, interior designs that are convinced that now and the future look like 1950's Americana, and Tea Party politicians who really want America to behave like 1920's America. Viva la Regression, Down with progress!
NO no no no no no no.Please refrain from equating this band with Queen.
fredriley really tooted Muse's horn and compared them to Queen. Could Freddy be a fanboy?
Agreed. This reminds me of a bombastic version of New Order, without the fresh edge/angst that those guys brought. Just another New Millennium over-produced derivative band in search of creativity. Everything of Muse's that I have heard has been a lame deja vu of much better music. Harsh words, I know, but I think this is my 1st 1-rating....
Muse's lack of creative thought seems to be the bane of the New Millenium: Musical rehashes, musical mash-ups, dubbed/sampled music (i.e., Hip-Hop) endless movie remakes, endless movie renditions of 50's & 60's comic books, pathetically nostalgic car designs, interior designs that are convinced that now and the future look like 1950's Americana, and Tea Party politicians who really want America to behave like 1920's America. Viva la Regression, Down with progress!
I want to be free
From desolation and despair
And I feel like everything I sow
Is being swept away
Well I refuse to let you go
I can't get it right
Get it right
Since I met you
Loneliness be over
When will this loneliness be over
Life will flash before my eyes
So scattered and lost
I want to touch the other side
And no one thinks they are to blame
Why can't we see
That when we bleed we bleed the same
I can't get it right
Get it right
Since I met you
Loneliness be over
When will this loneliness be over
Loneliness be over
When will this loneliness be over
Thanks to Chris for adding these lyrics.
Thanks to Camille, derek.2701, Cynthia for correcting these lyrics.
I'm pretty sure that somewhere in there I heard,"You've got the looks, I've got the brains. Let's make lots of money"