Reviews (page 12 of 13)
Sure, they wrote themselves some nice stadium-filling anthems (albeit Starlight is basically Coldplay with a big old bass) but there’s not much under the hood.
Meh
I've liked other stuff by Muse, this just wasn't it.
There's some pretty nice moments on this album, but it's not very consistent. The instrumentals remind me of Rush.
Spevákov hlas nepatrí medzi moje obľúbené tipy hlasov.
Ok I kind of think that I am much harder on albums/bands that are more recent and I never took the time to investigate but am now learning from this project that I don’t like. Season: Early Fall Favorite Song: Starlight
This entry on the list confuses me. For one, this isn’t even the greatest Muse album, that’s Origin of Symmetry. And for two, is Muse considered culturally significant enough to warrant a spot on this kind of list? I certainly don’t think so. This did not do it for me. A so-so concept of a space rock opera combined with pop hits that sound more at home playing during a Ford commercial or during the Super Bowl. The riffs were bland, the lyrics were generic, just nothing very impressive on display here. Matt Bellamy is however incredibly talented, here’s an excellent guitar player and an even better vocalist, but I see this album less as “diverse”, and more as “scattered”. Knights or Cyndonia is still a great song, though.
This highlights the issue with pop and rock charts. Beneath many singles lie an album waiting to be discovered for its collective prowess. Then there is this, which has monstrous singles, 3 of them reaching far and wide. While the album itself is soulless and boring. Solid production and instrumentation but void of passion. It serves to tarnish the singles and more impactful still it serves to tarnish the expectation that a few good songs equals a good album. Finally it tarnishes this whole 1001 list because the focus is (supposedly) on the album, and this album is just the singles buried in shitty prog alt rock.
Can't lie, really didn't enjoy this. Most of this felt very filler to me. A lot of people say this is trying to be radiohead at points, and I generally agree with that. Nothing that really impressed me here. Other than 'Supermassive Black Hole', I can't really say any of the other track will stay with me in any way. 'Kinghts of Cydonia' is decent though the guitar rocking out is pretty good, but it doesn't really sound like the rest of the album to me at least, so it is a definiteoutlier here. Fav track: Knights of Cydonia
Oh yikes. Kinda sounds like they are doing an impression of U2, doing an impression of Radiohead, doing an impression of Queen, funneled through a video game. Generic Britpop Emo. Yeah, too much of this feels unoriginal. I’m bailing on the Rufus Wainwright impression.
Sorry but Muse is a band I really should love but I just can’t get into. Like Queen for an electronic age crafted for stadium shows but lacking the light and shade .. and heart … and subtlety. I just find them to be too much …. of everything.
Haven’t listened to muse for AGES. They’re okay but they just kinda give off rebellious 14 year old. Idk something’s off but they’re still ok. My favourites: Starlight Map of the Problematique
Más o menos, tal vez para escuchar en un momento de desconexión
Did not age well for me, no nostalgia.
La plupart des morceaux pourraient être sympas pour accompagner un combat frénétique dans un jeu vidéo survolté !
Not as bad as expected. The songs could be fine, but the whiny vocals with each syllable drawn out for 10 seconds with maximum melodrama ruins it for me.
For me Muse is a band that has aged like milk. Map of Problematique is my favourite track from this album
Interesting at first, loses interest towards the end. Overly polished, metal riffs fall flat
This album didn’t really catch me I had one song invincible that stood out for me, the rest was good. Not something I would sit down to listen too
one i recognized, i liked. others ehh
Weer zo'n band die met het jaar minder relevant werd toen je meer 'alternative' rock ging ontdekken. Het begin is aardig, de singletjes hebben een sterk nostalgische nasmaak, maar overall is het mij te veel opera rock. Het heeft wat groots, dat zeker, en ik snap dat dat aanslaat bij mensen, maar ik vind het vooral een beetje pretentieus. 5,5/10 Highlights: Starlight Supermassive Black Hole
Reheating Radiohead's nachos tbh
Oh no, I just can't. This is rehashed Coldplay with extra moaning Radiohead with a Queen-like operatic flair and a bit of distortion to try to sound a bit different. Music to calm sheep.
Could connect. Seems a bit corny/crige at timer Starlight is one of my fav songs thouy
maso muse
Listened to this many time as a teen, was very into this album! A couple songs still do it for me but largely not as into Muse anymore, I think this is the last album of theirs I can find songs on I like, so that's nice!
Not my type.
Tried really hard to listen to supermassive black hole couldn’t get through it. Really liked soldiers poem. Overall getting really heavy Queen vibes.
This is a 2000s rock album. It mixes loud, distorted guitar with synthesizers and mediocre lyrics. It is often very theatrical, going for drawn-out intros and highly dramatic crescendos in many songs. It's also somewhat pretentious, going for political themes and love lyrics that don't quite land. It thinks it's very ambitious, but it doesn't really do much with the sound that's of particular interest. It's not a good album, but it isn't completely terrible either. It's mostly just mediocre, like most other 2000s "indie rock" albums.
I liked a couple of songs on here, But they sound so much like radiohead, I thought I could hear Tom Yorke😂
Some fascinating instrument things happening... but too angsty feeling for me.
Meh
Oh, how I hated Muse in late 2000s I despised them with the heat of a million suns. If I had to hear my sons play Knights of Cydonia one more time on Guitar Hero I was going to throw the Xbox out the window. They started to play it before I got home from work. I thought perhaps I had mellowed out as I've gotten older but the minute I heard the first rifts of Knights that burning annoyance came back. No strong opinions on the rest of the album but can't rate it higher than a 2 because I absolutely HATE Knights of Cydonia.
this while you play assassin's creed goes nutty. but outside of that, it just felt like TV movie radiohead
this album feels painfully pretentious, made all the worse by the fact it really doesn't gel. There's a few memorable songs on here. but it's another example of a 2000s album where the best parts are just worse versions of 80s/90s albums. in this case Depeche Mode doing some heavy lifting.
The beginning of the demise of a once decent band.
The cliché to end all clichés
Weird. Too weird for me. 2
Twilight soundtrack
Parts of this album were catchy and memorable. The rest felt like the band was doing a quasi Coldplay/Radiohead cover band. Unfortunately there was more of the latter and less of the former.
i like the unique cosmic melodies in the back of every song, but it's missing harmony, a bit out of place bit overwhelming, hit song is really good overall vocals are too similar to Radiohead (weird edition)
Not my favorite thing. Super dramatic almost to a fault. Lot of cymbal smashing.
Guitars are good, but the amount is not enough. Vocal are hardly bearable and the amount is way too much I could feel a lot of Tom Yorke’s vibes who I am not really fan of. I prefer more straight forward music which can drive my mood somewhere This music’s only purpose is to sound complex Complexity for no reason!
favs: starlight: sentimental bc it's what my 6th grade boyfriend sent to me what else.. idk everything else didn't really vibe with me. might've found it cool if i was 12
Black Holes and Revelations was how Lynda Lusardi described a night in the bedroom with Len Houmous. 2.2 2/12 Starlight
A boring 2000s alternative rock album. Most songs sound the same and are not recognisable at all. Wish I could unlisten some of that shit. Would give 1 star actually, BUT this album contains the super iconic Twilight soundtrack Supermassive Black Hole. Even though I don’t like the movies (I do like the parody though), it brings back some nostalgia from my youth and school time which I appreciate and give a total of 2 stars for that reason.
didn't make me feel anything
ACTUAL RATING: 2.5 This sounds like Thom Yorke going full-on Pop Rock. Sometimes, I'm here for it; other times, it gets old quick. Still though, Matt Bellamy's vocals are the highlight here.
This band has always sounded excessively dramatic to me.
Let's just say I'm not a big fan of Muse, and while this is not their worst album (Ignore their new stuff) I really dislike it because it marks a massive step down in quality for them. Before this, their albums were mostly decent to slightly likeable. This one is... a bit rough to listen to. Straight from the intro track you get hit with over-the-top guitar passages, gimmicky synths that try too hard to sound alternative and cool and very edgy lyrics that read more like a bunch of angry teenagers writing a protest song. From there you get a bunch of sci-fi inspired alt-rock with a lot of singing about space, planets and so on. I don't really mind the topics but the execution kinda blows. I think Starlight is a good ballad, but Supermassive Black Hole on the other hand has some very weak and thin instrumentation and sounds like a pretty failed attempt at being sexy which comes off kinda gross. Then Map of the Problematique sounds like a bad Depeche Mode interpolation and Soldier's Poem is this sort of minimal folk cut which is listenable but very uninteresting. Meanwhile the song Invincible is kind of unbearably corny as it just reads like a motivational poster in musical form. The album's second half is mostly more of the same - production that lacks edge, weird gerne mashes and a lot of cringe. I do wanna highlight the closer, Knights of Cydonia, which proves that the band could still write good songs at that point in time. It's a really fun prog-rock epic with fire guitar solos, a very solid vocal performance, a good song structure and just a lot of punch to it. It remains a mystery why most of this album is so weak with a closer this good. This song and Starlight save this album from being a total disaster and elevate it to 2 stars. That being said, the album is mostly an unflattering mess and the whole time I was waiting for it to be over.
I love a lot of Muse's many influences. However, the way they channel them leaves absolutely no room for creating their own voice (just listen to the Depeche Mode-esque “Map of the Problematique” besides of all the obvious Radiohead influences). Muse often sound like “X and Y” copycats who put an arpeggiated synth on every chorus; way too often homage tips into imitation. Besides, a lot of those tracks are … boring? That may sound harsh, but it’s the predominant reaction I have when trying to sit through the album from start to finish. While Bellamy’s high register is impressive, but he seldomly leaves it. They greatest craft starts to wear if you are being exposed to it for 50 minutes straight. When I was a teenager in the early 2000s, just beginning to immerse myself in music, Muse were everywhere. I even saw them live (pardon me, what an atrocious kitsch). For years, I tried to find my way into their world, to hear what so many others clearly do. But I suspect I’m more than ready to close that chapter. A shame - because on paper, this band could work for me. Also the cover… Storm Thorgeson artworks are often hit or miss. This is a miss. Big time.
Dit was het derde album wat m'n luistermaatje mocht aftikken, dus ik weet al een album of 800 dat dit er op enig moment aan zat te komen. Kun je een band super goed vinden zonder dat je er ooit naar zou willen luisteren? Ja. Muse is die band bij mij. Maar vandaag onderga ik ze, voor het eerst in m'n leven meer dan één nummer achter elkaar. Ik vind Muse zo ontzettend vermoeiend. Zeg ik na de helft van het eerste nummer. Ze hebben een heerlijk dik geluid, maar dat gekloot met die synth (die arpeggios hakken er in) in combinatie met die gitaren, de vermoeiende manier van zingen van ome Matt en een aardig stukje reverb en delay trekt m'n batterij compleet leeg. En dat begint al op track 1. Ik vind die track eigenlijk wel gaaf, maar het zijn teveel prikkels tegelijk. En dat geldt voor veel tracks. Er is altijd wel een instrument bezig om er 16 of meer noten per maat uit te persen. De combinatie daarvan met wat ik eerder al noemde, die reverb en delay, maakt het voor mij vermoeiend. Een muur van geluid met de akoestiek van een kerk. Ik snap 100% dat dit album in de lijst staat: Het is steengoed en geen 13 in een dozijn. Maar het feit dat je me na 5(0) minuten kunt opvegen moet ik mee laten wegen in m'n beoordeling.
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2.5
Pompous, effects-pedal-heavy nonsense, punctuated by random bits of opera, salsa, and spaghetti western, among (many) others. Most of album tempo at 6.2km/h, coincidentally my treadmill walking speed, so that helped me plow through it.
Muse feels like one of those bands you’re supposed to like. For some reason, though, they’ve never gone down easy for me. I don’t care for the singer’s voice, and the big hits have been thoroughly ruined by endless radio play. There are a few fleeting moments of light on this album, but nowhere near enough to earn it more than two stars.
Massive stadion rock was never my favourite style within the brit rock scene, while some would argue Oasis is one of them, I'd disagree. The massive songs with tons of layers, that start sounding like the 70's prog behemoths in their time. Muse has always been a pop band with rock vibes to me. They don't work too well as either, in my opinion, and end up falling flat somewhere in between. Especially the dancey-pop bits in there throw me off big time and wound me to quite annoyed to be honest.
It was good. Loved the beat
No.
Not a fan
Mostly inoffensive, always pretty dull and often quite annoying. Just sounds like a lot of bands of this era.
This whole album sounds like such a soundtrack for a dramatic tv show and I can't really imagine a scenario in which I would ever put this on by choice.. I would rather just listen to Radiohead
First off, I have heard and like some of these songs but I expected to hate this album. First track, not off to a great start. Yes meets Radiohead…second song pretty lame. Supermassive Black Hole I kind of dig. Next song is video game music. Then blah and blah. I skipped to Knights of Cydonia which is alright
Tem ótimos pontos altos, especialmente Supermassive Black Hole e Knights of Cydonia. Fora isso é tudo um grande BLOB.
Fell asleep twice tryna listen. Not for me
Muse is not aMUSING to me.
Dumb
Aight
Starlight is good, the rest not to much. Honestly worse than I expected, did nothing for me.
Einzel(s)(ni) lied(er) guet aber irgendwie hend mi dir generell crinshed
Starlight is a good song but I couldn't sit thru all the rock opera. 🙉
not really my style
- I kinda respect how big it sounds but also it kinda sounds so empty and wailing to me - Top 2000 boomer rock - I get the radiohead comparisons but also Jesus - Starlight fucks though - Supermassive Black Hole just plain bad - No this is just bad just because you try new things that doesnt mean you should like em
Dislike. Hard to get through.
Outer space laser horses fired through operatic jam cannons over the top of over-the-topness into histrionic nebula of business-casual prog.
Er dybt imod dem som princip af at de har ingen originalitet, men det lyder jo fint
so first thing i have to say is i felt like i was in some old american movie listening to this!! my fav is supermassive black hole. and i must admit that i was lowkey bored/the songs sounded the same 💔 but that’s prolly just me! anyways yes that’s pretty much it
I feel like Muse is a band I would have pretended to like as a kid in 2006 if I knew of them. This dude’s voice really takes away from the music. Too over the top.
Better than I expected but wouldn't purposefully listen to again. This would have been better without vocals. 2.4 Deserve place: No
Muse aren’t for me.
Muse’s greatest song was featured in a film about shining vampires. Take that as you will. I’m giving 2 because I thought it would be much worse actually and because Supermassive Black Hole is a very good song (I just cant take it serious as Muse would like to because it’s intertwined with lines of the likes of “BELLA THIS IS THE SKIN OF A KILLER”)
A couple songs are cool, a couple songs are forgettable, a few songs are annoying, and a few songs are total garbage. Their album prior to this, Absolution, is mostly good and would have been better on the list.
Eh
Me no likey. Dull and pretentious
A couple of tricks that many bands do much better and with some soul.
Un autre album qui me ramène à l'adolescence. J'écoutais surtout quelques singles isolés de plusieurs albums à cette époque. Je me suis dit qu'une écoute complète avec une oreille plus mature me permettrait peut-être de dénicher quelques pépites. Ouff. Non. Ça n'a pas très bien vieilli. Je retenais un rire tout le long ou presque tellement c'est beurré épais (sur-produit, la voix mélodramatique washé dans le reverb/delay, runs de toms partout, les synths corny pas vraiment à leur place). La Juliette de 14 ans n'écoutait pas les paroles, et celle de 30 pas tant non plus et se rend compte qu'elles sont un peu sans intérêt (espèce de lore de rock de l'espace pas trop clair). Je reconnais quand même quelques points qui m'ont fait trippé plus jeune. Le sens de la mélodie et du riff, le drum technique et assumé. Knights of Cydonia reste une pièce épique. J'ai aimé ça dans le passé, ce n'est plus le cas
Worse than I thought it would be. Sounds like a generic and uninspired version of the Radiohead
I found this music boring and uninspiring when it was first popular and still do.
I remember reading Q magazine back in the early 2000's and in a review for the single 'Plug in Baby', the author described Muse as "Masturbatory". This description has stuck with me ever since and unavoidably swims in to my mind whenever I lay ears on this band. I saw the band live around the same time and their performance was very good - for that reason I have always had a favourable memory of their first two records. Beyond those, Muse just seem like a synthetic retro-futuristic Coldplay with classically inspired guitar riffs. Retro-futuristic like a starry sky projector from Poundland. A lot of the deeper cuts follow the same template; guitar riff built around a particular scale run through six effect boxes, Bellamy's voice wavering in the gentle verse, howling in the bombastic chorus. It all becomes a blurry pile. I would probably be able to pick stuff out I like if I made the effort, but over the years I seem to have developed a real dislike for these guys. All the good stuff, boiled away, leaving nothing but a metallic and unappealing taste in my mouth. Masturbatory, indeed.
If Radiohead decided to stop their arty experimenting and put out an album aimed squarely at mainstream sales, this is what it would sound like. It's not a terrible album, but I couldn't get past the singer trying to sound like Thom Yorke.
Cool fuzz effect ... then less cool ... then less cool ... then annoying fuzz effect.
So this album is immaculate. It is utterly brilliant, but for those same reasons, I'm just not into it. It feels like a very overproduced Radiohead, technically impressive, but a bit too polished and distant for me. The songs are complex with weird time signatures and structures, and I do like the general sound, with the combination of synths and huge guitar riffs, and Matt Bellamy's vocals are incredible. They just sort of lack any personality. They don't inspire anything, I don't feel any emotion in the tracks. I think if some parts had a bit of a rougher feel, a little more mud and grit, it would resonate more. If I were to compare them to a band like Kasabian, whose sound is also a mixture of guitar riffs and electronics, their overall sound while polished has that underlying dirtiness that feels a lot more real to me.
I couldn't wait for it to be over. But for one song I found this unlistenable.
Pretty much meh for me. I felt like it was just boring.
2.75/5 Really derivative. I can't listen to Supermassive Blackhole, without laughing about the Twilight baseball scene. With every other song, I kept thinking this reminds me of Radiohead, U2, and even a little bit of Queen with the spacerock/synth/vocal harmonizing songs. I think Origins of Symmetry is a better album than this one.
The poor man’s Radiohead
Honestly pleasant enough but can’t remember any of it.
I’m not sure how I feel about it which doesn’t bode well.
a pretty boring 2.5
I kinda liked the first two tracks, but the album kept going…
1. bouu -1 2. light -1.5 3. black - 2.5 4. Map - 1 5. Poem -1 6. Invincible -1 7. Assassin - 1.5 8. Politics - 1 9. City - 1 10. Hoodoo - 1.5 11. Knights-1 12. glorious - 1.5
*2006 *I’ve never really listened to muse other than the title song. thought I would like them more than I do. *Just didn’t hit for me. RATING - 5.5/10
Completely NOT my type,
2/5 - I don't mind listening to Muse as much as some of the other 2s I've rated, but I hardly think this is essential listening. It's overly bombastic arena rock, that I have to admit works really well on the big stage, having seen them in a festival setting ages ago (and enjoyed the spectacle they put on). This album feels like the music equivalent of a cheesy, summer blockbuster movie. You know it's not high art, but if you know what you're in for, you can enjoy the manufactured drama, and then go do something else with your time.
I don t know*
i wanted so badly to like this album because it has Supermassive Black Hole on it. the generic Radiohead sounding songs i actually liked. it’s kind of all over the place. the rest of the album i couldn’t get into.
Bland music disguised as a cool album. Disappointed with this one.
Fun pop rock. Off its time
Geloof best dat het heel goed is etc. maar gewoon echt niet mijn ding
Whenever I heard these guys on the radio, I had assumed it was Coldplay or Radiohead. Doesn't mean I like it, just that I recognize the singles. Seem a little....unoriginal?
Nem Supermassive Black Hole consegue salvar esse album!
It's okay. It was distracting for me how much the singer sounds like Thom Yorke. 2.75
Weird cross between radio head and bad truck commercial guitar tracks. Some truly interesting moments on here nut the whole thing falls a little flat. 2.5 stars.
They’re just trying too hard. I’ve never been able to get into them.
Did not realize several songs I like were from this album. Regardless, I do not care for this album.
Oh boy, was this boring. I tried to listen intently to these albums, but on this one, my mind kept drifting to where I forgot I was listening.
Cheesy mid-2000s stuff. I liked it less the more I listened.
No disrespect to Muse, but why is this album on the list?
Kind of ambivalent about Muse. Sounds okay, just nothing that stands out.
Bombastic Proggy Noughties Indie-Rock - so definately faced an uphill battle to win me over.
I can't stand the singing of Matt Bellamy, the gasp at the end of every line I can't unheard.
This is a band that on paper I should love. And try and try and I just don’t. This album is good, but I would not listen again. I can’t put my finger on why yet. It ticks a lot of boxes for what I like.
Yeah I don’t know, I thought I’d like this but that’s purely because I like Supermassive Black Hole. The rest of the album just isn’t that great. Pretty bang average electronic rock. Probably the reason why I just never fully got into Muse.
Muse are one of those bands like Coldplay. I know they exist, I know people enjoy their music, but I just can’t connect with them.
Ensformigt. Muse trænger igennem med enkelte stærke sange, men drukner i en lyd der er bange for at gå ud over dens egne grænser. Ellers en stærk start på albummet med "Take a bow" og "Starlight", men kraften ebber derefter ud.
Alright I guess. A couple of classics like supermassive black hole and starlight. There's a grandious nature to it that I am not quite a big fan of. long elongated whiny vocals at times put me off a couple of songs. 5/10
I rolled my eyes a couple of times at the most preposterous bits. It's all a bit silly and doesn't really rock like it thinks it does. Some decent pop melodies I suppose, but this is nowhere near as good as their first two, brilliant, albums.
4/10 Having only heard bits of Muse before, and never being convinced to seek out any more, I always used to dismiss them as “Budget Radiohead”. Turns out I was right, but not in the way that I’d originally meant. They’re actually “Big Budget Radiohead”. Strip out all of the grit and charm of a band who do things on their own terms and replace it with over-slick production and stadium pleasing musical choices and this is what you get. It’s cold. But there are moments when things teeter on the edge of being pretty good. Knights of Cydonia and Assassin have some great, heavy riffs, for example, but those moments are too fleeting among the easy ‘stadium rock’ choices of much of the rest of the album. And I don’t like Matt Bellamy’s vocal style at all. It seems to be always delivered in this drawling, legato manner that just washes over the top of everything. It wouldn’t be as bad if he switched it up a bit, but it just feels like he’s whining and crying about everything from start to finish. In short, my opinion on muse hasn’t really changed. There are times when they sound a bit like other bands that I like, but if I want to listen to that, I’d rather listen to those other bands do it better. Take a Bow - Well they’ve found the arpeggiator on their synth. Make that multiple. I think this is supposed to be building to something epic. But it’s still building and it all sounds a bit thin. It finally kicks in and it just clomps along. The pace never really picks up. It’s stadium rock with synthesisers by numbers. Starlight - This starts off with a bit of weight for the first few bars. And then the piano kicks in and we’re in stadium corporate rock (Coldplay) territory. Meh. Every choice they make is the obvious one. There are hints here and there that they could do something that sounds decent, but they don’t bother. I mean, it’s not like it’s completely unforgivable, it’s just uninteresting. Supermassive Black Hole - The big hit. It at least has a bit more swagger to it. But it still feels a bit of an artificial swagger, if that makes sense. It’s all too clean and calculated. It straddles the line between a pop song and a rock song and doesn’t really satisfy either brief for me. Map of the Problematique - It builds and builds and builds and… never gets anywhere. Songs that feel like an endless intro just bug me. Thing is, I really dig unresolved tension in music, but in something that is supposed to be massive and epic like this, it just feels like they never bothered to write a chorus to go with all of that tension build-up. It has got a toe-tapping drive to it, but it’s also annoying. Soldier’s Poem - What happens when Matt Bellamy tries his best to sing like Thom Yorke and the rest of the band try to sing like Queen? This is what happens. It’s ok, I suppose. Pretty forgettable though. Invincible - Ah, another Coldplay song but with Matt Bellamy trying to sing like Thom Yorke again. It takes two and a half minutes to kick in, and when it does it’s so anaemic. Fuck me, this is thin and boring. Give it a bit of welly, lads. Oooh, 3:40 or so, something happens! Is it going to kick off? Oh, no. Just a shit (really shit) guitar solo. Assassin - Oh god, this is actually good. Actual pace and intensity. It’s a bit Queens of the Stone Age. Except now Matt Bellamy has ruined it with his whiny little voice. This could actually be decent, if a little straightforward, but it doesn’t really offer much in the way of development and the insipid vocal just takes all of the weight out of it. How annoying. Exo-Politics - This one has some decent riffs and weight. The chorus is still pretty run-of-the-mill stadium rock, but it’s not bad. There’s even some somewhat interesting sound design in there. It’s got a decent driving pace to it too. Still not keen on his voice, but it’s less distracting here than it is on other tracks. City of Delusion - This is another one that has a decent amount of pace to it. The drums are pretty good on this, in particular. They don’t hold on too long to the build up sections, and it has a decent amount of variation. The string arrangements are pretty cool too. His voice is still annoying though and it all seems a bit artificially grand somehow. Hoodoo - Got enough reverb? And a weird spaghetti western guitar intro? This vocal part reminds me of something that I can’t quite put my finger on. It’s a bit dull, and then when the other parts kick in it does that ‘building to nothing thing again. And then drops back away to the dull thing again. Knights of Cydonia - This has got a bit more of that western feel to it, but at least it’s more interesting. Not a big fan of the guitar tone though. Sounds super scratchy. It’s all a bit messy, especially given the context for the rest of the album. Not a big fan of the gang vocals, they sound very wet mouthed. When it kicks in it’s a really great riff. Nice and heavy and again, quite Queens of the Stone Age. But the gang vocals come in again and it just doesn’t do it for me. It’s a decent enough song though.
god i hate muse
Ergh
Never really connected with this
4/10
What if Radiohead were dogshit?
Feels really large but hollow at the same time. I don't get the hype behind this album. 5/10
I remember a time that Muse was often mentioned in the same breath as Radiohead. I saw the comparison at the time. Now I think that’s pretty insulting to Radiohead, and I don’t even really like Radiohead. 1.5 rounded up because there are definitely worse Muse albums than this one.
Oh boy I forgot about Muse. Never heard this one. It was ok. I liked the Showbiz album! It’s been like 25 years since I listened to them. I used to think it sounded like a big label arena rockin version of Pulp. Who’s so good. Be still my Brit pop space rock lovin lil heart!
It’s not horrendous but I would never in a million years choose to listen to this of my own volition. I got pretty sick of it by the end. But it didn’t actively repulse me and I can see why people like it, so whatever.
Radiohead from wish.
I liked this ever so slightly more than I expected I would. Still solidly “meh”. Like, they’re clearly talented musicians but it’s just too polished for me.
Black Holes and Revelations has some moments, but it's mostly annoyingly over the top. Don't understand the need for a weaker Muse Album to be included.
gr
these aren’t all bad, but it’s such retail music. nothing to really hold onto
It's as I thought. The Hits on this album, "Starlight", "Supermassive Black Hole", "Knights of Cydonia" are great tracks and invoke a feeling of nostalgia. The rest of the album is unremarkable, same-y tracks. Not bad at all, to be sure, but needless. This would have been a decent EP.
If theater kids put on a Radiohead tribute show.
Like Bono recorded an album with the Black Keys and no one had any fun at all.
"Overblown" is right. The grandiosity doesn't let up once. It's a lot.
City of Delusion was worth a listen
People are always accusing Muse of aping Radiohead. But this album is pretty varied stadium rock: Depeche Mode, Queen, Coldplay and System of a Down all come to mind - but never all at once. The looping synth arpeggios are nice. Matt Bellamy is very talented. But I just can’t help but find them annoying. 2/5
2,5/5
The first half is some of the most generic Imagine Dragons-type shit I’ve heard. The second half saves it a bit by having some guitars and some riffs.
Sounds like U2 trying to sound like Queen.
I liked original recipe muse. Secret sauce aural explosion muse never interested me and still don’t.
Boring. Would’ve been a one-star album but it gains a star for Supermassive Black Hole being in Twilight
Breathing over (mostly bad) 80s game music. 2.5
Starlight Supermassive Black Hole Invincible Knights of Cydonia
I enjoyed it less, I didn't listen to it all because of how the day panned out, but I wasn't really bothered not to be able to hear more. The first track I could tell it was well made and that and there were fun elements but it definitely wasn't my thing
Listened to this when it first came out. I was much, much more naive then.
Not my favorite.
Boring
FRED: its time to find out who this so-called "muse" really is! (Everyone gasped as the mask is removed, to reveal...) SHAGGY: U2?!
Drama, baby! Drama!
Already forgotten
Muse sometimes sounds like Queen under steroids...indulgent at times
Some of the tracks are pleasant to listen to, but some are too rocky for my ears.
Flashes of something but mostly barely average.
Well, I made it this far without listening to a Muse album, so begins a new era for me. There's something compelling about the singer's voice, but it really doesn't work for me. It sounds like Blue Man Group, which isn't a bad thing. Soldiers Poem feels like a Queen sound-a-like song. Glorious sounds like it wants to be a radiohead song, its not a bad attempt.
This wasn't a mid-'00s emo album, but it sure benefitted from its proximity to it. Instead of using punk-inspired theatrics for the the overwrought drama and bludgeoning sense of self-importance, Muse taps into a weird mix of glam rock, pseudo-prog and other pretense. It's never particularly good at any of it, and even almost 20 years later, seems just like a bunch of nerds trying to come off as something more meaningful than they are.
I thought I liked Muse once… I probably did. Which is why I’m loathe to say bad things about this album. Not because of me, in the narrow sense, but rather because it’s a reminder that lots of music can be competent, even quality, without necessarily speaking to everyone. This doesn’t talk to me at all, but that don’t mean nowt. In case it isn’t clear: this rating is all me.
altern. rock, electr., 2006 -> 2
I don’t understand Muse. Three guys all immensely talented at their instruments, can write really nice chord progressions, and yet their songs are absolutely meh. I don’t get it. 2 stars.
I liked this at the time of release but don’t feel it’s aged that well.
4/10 I guess the instrumentals are okay, somewhat fun compositions, but I fucking HATE the vocals, they remind me of Bono, who annoys the shit out of me also, it’s so fake-deep Muse is like Roger Waters with twice the ego and half the talent
The theatre kids, taking themselves too seriously, went through a “what if trans Siberian orchestra was into sci fi instead of Christmas?” phase. Nope
They’re trying to show off just a little too much for me. A few good songs, but wouldn’t seek it out.
A bit cheesy and the voice is whiney. Some interesting riffs and moments but not worth relistening for me.
⭐️⭐️ 1001 ALBUMS- # 47 An absolute revelation that a big black hole is where this album belongs 🕳️ I always thought Muse was an apt name for a band that blatantly (and poorly) ripped off their fellow UK counterparts- how very disappointed Radiohead must be that this if the influence they have had on such lesser bands… The production on this album is so sanitized that you can literally hear that squeaky clean shine ✨ There is very little intrigue behind these songs and I find Matt Bellamy’s vocals to be as palatable as nails on a chalkboard with his over the top attempt to mimic Thom Yorke (‘Invincible’ is particularly egregious). 🎧 Classic Track: Starlight 🎧 Deep Cut Gem: Assassin 🚫 Skip Track: Hoodoo How in the hell did this overwrought record produce 5 singles?!? Unoriginal, saturated in gloss, aimless, superficial, pretentious and overstays it’s welcome…well, perhaps a perfect fit for those mainstream kids! 🖼️ Album Artwork: Contemporary art fail Muse never gave me a reason to dig deeper into what they were doing and this release confirmed why. ‘Starlight’ is a banger, inspire of Bellamy’s Bono-esque delivery. Hit the Thumbs Up icon below if you enjoyed my hot take 🔥
It was fine. Good for the time, get the appeal. Won't be listening to it again.
Really cool sound
I was never really a fan of Muse - theoretically I should like them, it's space rock with a bit of prog rock, they are from the UK...yet, they play too loud, too bombastic, too much, and overall just too superficial music to me.
2 sterne
I have mixed feelings about this album. 4 ⭐️ stars for the band. I really dug their sound, but only 1 ⭐️ for the singer who sounds like he’s struggling to squeeze out a huge uncooperative shit.
It's very spotty; like most Muse fans. It has plenty of bad Depeche mode and queen pastiches. Some moments are likeable but not loveable. Exo-politics onwards is forgettable as. Knights of Cydonia brings it back around a bit.
Spanish dad
Muse is kind of a guilty pleasure for me. At times, I give in to it, but then I wake up feeling dirty.
I like it when they do more interesting musical stuff with less singing, like Knights of Cydonia, but otherwise Muse just gives me flashbacks to my youth spent being an outcast for not really liking them.
Meh
I can’t explain why but I’ve never really liked Muse even though it should be something I like because it has all the right elements. Maybe if I had to pinpoint something it’s the fact that the singers voice doesn’t really match the music. Too operatic.
did not like, agree with the top reviews that this is a smarmy and overdone piece of work, the vocals are like bad Radiohead, the tracklist is disjointed, maybe if I had heard it at age 13 I would feel different but it just feels so pretentious
I’ll be honest—I've never been a fan of Muse. This album was always going to be a tough listen for me. I remember Black Holes and Revelations being everywhere when it was released—praised to the skies by the music press. At the time, I just didn’t get it. To me, it sounded overproduced, overblown, and unnecessarily theatrical. Revisiting it now, almost 20 years later, those feelings still hold up. There are a couple of standout tracks—Supermassive Black Hole and Knights of Cydonia still hit hard with their bold, dramatic sound. But much of the rest feels like filler: overly polished, lyrically weak, and lacking real storytelling. The band leans heavily on loud, cinematic bombast to carry the songs, which often ends up feeling more like a wall of noise than meaningful music. Favourite track: Supermassive Black Hole and Knights of Cydonia – they’re solid, memorable tunes. Least favourite: Assassin – sounds like polished noise with whiny vocals and no real substance but I could have picked 6 other songs as the worst. Album artwork: I’ll give credit where it’s due—very cool cover.
Rock progresivo de principios siglo, lo mejor de Muse no es este álbum sino Origin of Symmetry 2001 y Absolution 2003, pero este no queda lejos, y su tema Knights Of Cydonia está en el podio sin duda. Podríamos decir que forma parte de lo mejor de su carrera. 5 singles nada menos: "Supermassive Black Hole", "Starlight", "Knights of Cydonia", "Invincible" y "Map of the Problematique". Fue bastante criticado, e incluso despreciado por el propio grupo en su momento pero luego ha ganado mucha consideración. Una apertura de miras que le dio nuevos aires sin perder calidad y evitó la repetición de sonidos. La portada, horrible como de costumbre (salvo The 2nd law, son todas muy malas). La apertura, canónica con Take a bow. Starlight ya suena más a Coldplay o Keane... pero no es una crítica. Invincible también. El resto caminan por sonidos pesados, electrónicos y demás parámetros de Muse. No son en absoluto de los que más disfruto pero no se hacen pesados, los hay mucho peores.
never really cared for muse ngl. i felt really bored by this record.
Njaä. Nån bra låt.
I listened to some of it. I thought it was cool maybe one day I’ll finish it
Pretentious to the extreme. Extravaganza in production, a lot to admire here technically. Muse are just the cold dead end of musical artistry, soulless self-indulgent wan*g. Never a band with souch potential sacrificed for clicheed bombast. You get what I mean. Still, sometimes I start listening, just to get even more infuriated.
I like the synth stuff and some of the riffs but it's too over the top while still being completely conventional.
"Hey guys - what if we mixed the pretentiousness of Radiohead with the blandness of Coldplay?" "Yeah that sounds good but let's change it just a little so we don't get in trouble..." Pretty sure that's how Muse got started. I mean the songs are decent I guess. I don't really have any complaints but I also don't have any praise to give. Supermassive Black Hole was sooo overplayed and I can't really stand it now. And to me, that's the mark of a bad song. And I don't like the way Matt Bellamy sings. Not like the tone of his voice but they way he sings the words is irritating. Like he stretches out the sounds in a way that is off putting. Hard to explain. Well, 2.5/5 on this one and I fail to see why it is on this list. Gonna round down.
Canada's U2. Yawn.
I was looking forward to Walter White but never heard him
Vocals reminded me of Thom Yorke at times. A couple decent songs but not my jam for the most part
These guys want to be 'Queen', rather badly. They're not. They lack originality. What you might hope is "drawing on influences to form their own style" was revealed as something less by track 7. It's more a case of "let's do this in the style of..." That probably works well if you're young teenager, so I can understand why it sold. If you've heard all the earlier bands they're merrily doing turns as... well it just grates. 2/5.
Muse members listening to Radiohead "Hey, we can do this!?" No you can't, you can't even Coldplay
I can hear and feel the allure of this sound, it's not bad... But maybe just a little too prettily tweaked for my taste.
n sei explicar, mas eu acho muse uma banda meio fake, sintética, sem emoção, sei lá
All the other reviews nailed it.
I used to like Muse when I was younger, but listening to this again did just absolutely nothing for me.
I can’t give a specific reason why, but I do not like this
Good musicianship, led by a guy who can sing, but It's not my thing. It's like they're trying too hard to be anthemic.
Like T. Rex and Queen took Molly together at an EDM festival but then accidentally got locked in a porta-john overnight?
It is musically impressive at times and the production is excellent. But the songwriting is all from this violent point of view of a victim lashing out at an oppressor. I just don't enjoy listening to this sort of aggression.
This album felt really dramatic and angsty, but without being in on the joke. It was sort of like if Queen tried to be edgy and moody, but also less good. I dunno, I liked a few of the earlier songs on the album alright but as it kept going it felt more and more immature and monotonous.
didnt quite care for it
Nothing to grab me, pull me in. Just as things did get interesting, the vocals would push me out. Just a bit too emo for me.
I can’t abide by that which is clearly inspired by Radiohead. Weak, wavering vocals, anxiety-inducing instrumentation, and an overall terrible time.
Bald guy music
What Radiohead sounds like to people who hate Radiohead.
First? 3/5 Again? 1,5/5
I liked this album abut this is buttrock with an electronic veneer. This album is basically the time they turned away from Radiohead-lite to become, uh, freddie-mercury-radiohead-lite. Actually, a lot of these sounds are stolen from other songs. It's fine, I guess, and I have a soft spot for Starlight, painful corniness notwithstanding. Whatever, man, feel like I'm eating Kraft Mac 'n' Cheese. No reason for this album to be on this list.
Not offensive to the ears but not for me. Lyrics felt contrived and an attempt to be 'deep' in a way I would have thought in middle school. I'm not a fan of the dramatic vocal style. Decent production. Best track: Knights of Cydonia
Annoying and bad. Can't believe I liked this band in middle school. I should be shot for that
Bless, what an innocent band.
Day387 - muse, radiohead put’em in a blender and you couldn’t tell them apart
So tediously obvious, not the music per say (though it is) but that this is favoured by the music critics that make these type of lists. And yep it was nominated for whatever critic award in its year of release. Not the worst album ever, but pretensous;, band name, song titles, lyrics and music, cover the whole thing really - ie the usual critic bait and unoriginal. The odd bit ( which echoes bands gone before) because the rest is just boring up it's own arse. Again music is individual, just this does nothing for me. 2 star - not terrible but nothing to make me ever listen to it again.
This a competent but overly polished and uninteresting stadium-ready Radiohead rip off, as many have already noted. Definitely not something you need to hear before you die.
Songs i knew: 3 Songs i like: 1 and a bit Can't remember who I was speaking to pissed up lately who said they have always loved Muse and was even trying to defend their most recent shite, safe to say whoever it was is a cunt. Other than knights of cydonia this is just Meh, good memories of that song from hours of guitar hero but otherwise I basically have labeled muse as shite and refuse to give them any credit even if they pumped out bangers for the next 10 years. Low 2.
I don't think I've listened to this album since it came out but I remember it being a bit of a return to form and the last album before they rapidly disappeared down their own cosmic wormholes. Very cringe to admit to being a Muse fan nowadays but their first two albums slap so looking forward to revisiting this. Opens well. Nice build-up and operatic without being too self-indulgent. Never liked Starlight as it sounds like Going for Gold or a bank advert. Supermassive Black Hole tries to sound sexy and fails. Really quite draggy this album. Some good riffs like in Assassin. Bellamy's warbling vocals are bad and some of the effects are wibbly and annoying. Most of the songs sound the same. And then comes Knights of Cydonia which is a bonkers sci-fi western song that we all know. Batshit song with a MASSIVE RIFF which still sounds ace. The only properly decent song on this album. A mid 2. Still have fond memories of seeing Muse play Doncaster Dome on the Showbiz tour but if my kids got into them now I'd be worried and see it as a dangerous gateway drug to bands like Tool, Ghost and Dream Theatre.
They are polished and have a few ok songs, but mostly its just monotonous and repetitive. They feel like a slightly less annoying version of Coldplay.
For a band that hates being compared to Radiohead, they sure sound a lot like Radiohead.
Why is this album on this list? Not the best english rock out there, not even close.
I'm just not a fan of this. I know Muse were a huge band but it isn't for me. It's like worse versions of Radiohead and Thirty Seconds to Mars combined to make "grandiose" mopey rock songs. Meh. 4/10 (2/5)
Kind of tiresome. Didn't really enjoy.
When some songs from Muse' "Origin of Symmetry" had crossed my tracks, I felt like checking them out more thoroughly and then that feeling died. These polished, larger-than-life theatrics do little for me and this has more and worse of those. Dialed up bombast, that features way too much Queen and stadium era Coldplay for its own good. Another comparison? Radiohead, but for teenage anger and stupid haircuts. NEXT!
Muse just feels artificial and insincere in a way that I find a little off putting. This album sounds like they basically just ripped off Bends era Radiohead with a sprinkling of Coldplay for good measure. Musically, there is some interesting ideas with keys and rhythms, so I do give it some credit.
just no
Indie com tentativa de pesar nas guitarras.
Not the album Of my life
I remember really loving this album when it came out. That being said, this was exhausting to listen to. Definitely a band that does not subscribe to less is more.
Dumb album. I never liked Muse. The comparisons to Queen are fitting since they're both hacks.
Forgettable
I went into this thinking I’d like this more than I actually did. Average
Ouuuh.... theatrical albums. Ah. Not for me I fear, the dramatics just annoy me. Supermassive blackhole this post is not about you though baby
Yawn... when will this be over?
Fine; unremarkable.
the album where must finally stopped hiding that they were actively taking the piss out of people buying their records
Yeah, this didnt grab me first time around and it doesnt this time around either. Its overblown and empty. Its well made and im led to believe they are good live, but its music for people who dont like music.
I don’t necessarily like the lead singers voice. All the songs sound almost the same except for Super Massive Black Hole- which is in Twilight. I will appreciate that they said the name of the album in a song though. I would rather listen to Black Keys.
This is very mid tier wannabe Radiohead with a dash of Queen. It's mehh at best.
A dull and turgid outing from Muse, in which they failed to capitalise on the goodwill of their three good-to-great albums prior, and disappear up their own arseholes chasing US commercial success by sanding off all the rough edges or anything that could be considered even mildly unique or interesting of what was already a pretty derivative band. This one introduces a Gap-approved, mid-aughts light-guitar-and-synth aesthetic, which just amplifies rather than compliments Matt Bellamy's preposterous vocals. Lead single Supermassive Black Hole is a truly dire sellout alt-pop anthem firmly targeting that year's EA Sports video game soundtrack placement, but overdoing it so much that it ends up in the hands of 12 year old girls everywhere via the Twilight soundtrack. The one bright spot is unquestionably Knights of Cydonia, but its placement on the album is also a jarring reminder of how bland and uninspired the preceding 45 minutes were. (At least the authors came to their senses and removed it from subsequent revisions of the book.)
It was alright, but very early 2000s. I would always turn on the killers or coldplay before this
again, not much in this one for me..
it's difficult to be in a right moodset for Muse. I always struggle with frrling their music right
Bit stuff but the staff were ok. Helped my mum with her chips. Ok …
Zeneileg teljesen oké, sőt van, ami még tetszett is, de a csávó hangjától nettó agyfaszt kapok.
I should like Muse. I am pretty much their target audience, but outside of a couple of singles they just dont click for me. It's like someone made a supergroup of all the bits I don't like from bands I love.
Kind of bland. Everything is too similar and nothing really stands out. 2/5 Won't listen again
I hadn't listened to this album before, so it was new to me with the exception of its two huge hits (Starlight and Supermassive Black Hole.) After a couple of listens I think not only doesn't this belong on the list, but the album is just filled with cool sounding, soulless crap. There isn't much to the guitar playing or riffs. The lyrics are typical Muse overblown platitudes. I don't think I would ever listen to this again on my own although I would listen to a Muse greatest hits mix.
There’s an urgency and intensity to this album that’s a lot like Radiohead, but at the same time tempered by Oasis and Coldplay. On all accounts, not in a good way. It’s too much for me.
Meh not that great
The intro track going into this album was a bit too crude for my taste and killed my enthusiasm. That was until I heard Starlight which to my surprise was decent. Most of the tracks here were just ok. I couldn't find anything to gush over and couldn't find anything to hate besides the first track. When I saw the overall rating for this I thought I was gonna be in for a hell of a ride. Instead I was handed a big Nothingburger. Best - Starlight Worst - Take a Bow 2.50/5
so lala, also teile von liedern waren ganz cool aber ich würd mir keins von denen in ne playlist machen
Another album I remember from middle school. I think I had a few tracks off of 'Origin of Symmetry' on my WalMart 30-song mp3 player my dad got me, but I was also 13 and dumb as hell. I don't know what to make of Muse. A more handsome Rush? But honestly, that's unfair to Rush - a band that I would defend! A brief aside: when '2112' and 'Moving Pictures' come through, be sure to find me. I'll have a lot to say! Look: I don't want to be unfair here. But if you are a Muse fan who can string together a few words, please let me know what Muse's musical innovation is. It can't be incorporating the aesthetic contours of modern pop radio on prog music because that had been done and perfected elsewhere (ie. Genesis, Yes, the aforementioned Rush). Maybe you could replace 'modern pop radio' with 'house or disco.' Like Radiohead (who they're often compared to), they read the writing on the wall. Except they just don't do anything interesting with pastiche. I don't know, I listen to this and can only conclude it's sophomoric. C-
Depressing rock anthems. I wanted to like them more.
A few years ago I discovered a cache of poetry I'd written in my early 20s. If it were recorded and put over a heavy synthetic instrumental track, it would have sounded a lot like this. I had the luxury of burning my poetry and keeping my embarrassment private. I'm afraid the members of Muse are not so lucky. As one reviewer noted, it would be better if I couldn't understand English. What might have been decent background music is ruined by a whole body cringe. Two stars for the instrumentals.
2.2 - I actually used to listen to Muse when I was like 16/17 and thought they were the shit. Now I think they are shit. For me they sound quite arrogant. It's like they are trying to show off and think it's the best shit ever. The vocals are so predictable and uninspiring and just couldn't wait for the album to end. Supermassive black hole is good, but even that song has this generic loop. I did think I was gonna enjoy this.
Radiohead lite.
I think this is an illustration of why less is more. There's just too much going on here, and as a result it leaves me a bit cold. It's so emotive, but the emotion seems forced and unnatural. Side note; that album cover's very Pink Floyd, isn't it? [Edit: oh, it's a Hipgnosis/Storm Thorgerson cover, that explains it]
The Chris Balestrini album! I have to say this didn't give me a huge nostalgia smack in the face like I expected it to. Nor did I really like it that much. The hits were fun but the rest of it...well a bit annoying really! Just a bit much and intense.
A really self important sound and self indulged singer doing a Thom Yorke impression, yet I would totally have listened to them if I was in their age demo.
poor mans radiohead
That's not my taste in musik.
I thought this was a pretty boring affair as far as Muse go. Nothing overly memorable for me, not bad by any stretch, just utterly forgettable.
Where to begin!! this album, as all of Muse's music up to that point, where in my daily rotation back when you could rip your own CD's and upload them to your ipod... I remember that our first reaction (mine, and my friends) to the first single was: this is like Muse by Britney Spears producers. We meant it in a positive way but I guess that (as Muse itself) did not age well. Now, Muse had a good career start, but the way they went for, from this point on, makes them one of the most overrated and down bad bands of our generation. I saw them live back in 2007 and the show was excellent. They do not miss a note... but that matches them to the likes of Coldplay and that's it. And then the downfall: sometime around those days my mom said to me something like "that person cannot sing, he breathes horribly between the lines!!" and, even as I dismissed my mom, I could not stop hearing it from then on. It's horrible, and distractant, why does he do that? that "aaaaahhhgg" is in all of their grandiloquent songs, and thats most of them. Since then, I've had the opportunity to see them live free or at a festival at least twice, but its always a hard pass. I won't get into the shit music they do nowadays. This album has a good production but it's glossy and annoying. I did enjoy their subsequent album a bit more but not that much. That "Soldiers Poem" song is beautiful and the breathing is almost absent too.
Not completely awful
I like Starlight, Supermassive Black Holes; I almost like Take a Bow
Poppy 4-chord versions of Radiohead/Beirut/U2/Queen. Not the worst thing but not my thing.
Three songs in, and I'm bored. Just not interesting to me. The last album was Bowie, 2 stars, and this one sounds like the child of Bowie. I skimmed the album. Not for me. 2 stars. Not terrible, just not for me
Second time hearing this one.....still a 2.
Æji, mér finnst þetta band alltaf vera dálítið ofmetið.
Sounds like something I'd imagine would play well in Europe. It didn't take long for bombast fatigue to set in and I found myself feeling kind of irritated and annoyed trying to listen to this. I'm unaMused.
Listened to this a ton in high school. Even then wouldn’t have said top 1000 albums
Generic WBR for a bar in a standard city centre on a Friday night sometime in the 2005-2010 period. Just background noise.
Some good
I thought I liked Muse but realized I only know the singles. Was surprised by how this is much more prog rock than I realized - which ultimately came across as bloviated arena rock that wasn't really about anything.
eeeecht nicht mein Geschmack lustigerweise aber ich fange nix damit an.
Overly grandiose and over-produced. I don't like the singer's voice. Most of the big hits are very overbearing, and the album sags in the middle. Also the anti-government, anti-surveillance messages are in retrospect charming after things got much much worse since the release of the album.
Remember liking this more when I was a kid. Knights of cydonia is still fun and a lot of the tracks are at least interesting, but the majority of the album isn’t doing much for me. Vocal and synth tones are my biggest gripes.
The guitar solo on invincible was wild. The rest of this album was just ok. Not bad but I wouldn’t listen to it again.
Mä en koskaan oo innostunut Musesta. Tää levy ei ollut poikkeus. Ei tämä ärsyttävä tai megahuono ollut mutta jotenkin köykänen. 2/5
Jaa-a, onhan tuo mahtipontista. Knights of Cydonia on aika bläst biisi, mutta muuten levy on tylsä. kakkosen ja kolmosen välissä arvon, mut varmaan kakkoseen jää.
Not sure how I enjoyed this when I was 13? It turns out to be completely uninspired and boring . I didn't hate Assassin so it can have a 2.
ok. vocals got boring and repetitive halfway through
2.5
In 2006 someone heard that I liked prog rock bands such as Rush and Yes, and they emailed me the mp3 of "Knights of Cydonia". I was not all that moved by it, and promptly moved on with my life. I had never really delved into the rest of the album, until today. In my opinion, BLACK HOLES AND REVELATIONS is your typical Muse record that rips other people's good ideas but doesn't provide any truly of their own. I admire the bands that Muse admires, I just don't admire what they tend do with the influence. For example, when I hear this album, I hear "Dude, we love Rush's record 2112". I love Rush, but I'd love to hear a Muse record, not a pale Rush knockoff. Perhaps I am being harsh. I confess that Matt Bellamy's singing style and vocal sound is very unpleasant to me. He sounds like Thom Yorke, and I cannot stand Thom Yorke's voice either. Asides from the lyrics that are overly paranoid about everything, Muse does hold together as a tight rhythm section. If you can ignore the lyrics and Bellamy's unpleasant croon, there is a fairly tight electro prog act underneath all of that. After listening to the album, I actually added "Map of the Problematique" to my favorites, but I definitely don't think this is an album you should hear before you die. If I were to recommend a Muse album for this list, it would be their 2018 album SIMULATION THEORY, which I think shows something a bit more original of themselves, while still showing off all the prog geekery and power rock that fans of Muse enjoy.
I heard the first track and thought, they are trying really hard to be Radiohead. Then I listened to the rest and thought, ok, maybe they are sort of Radiohead meets Eurovision. It's not really my thing but it's not terrible either. I saw them live some time ago and it was a fantastic spectacle. Probably won't re-listen.
#168. I've spent years trying to get Spotify to stop playing Muse at me, and surely all that progress will be lost after listening to this album. I've never listened to a whole ass Muse album before, and now that I have, I realize that I had made the correct decision before. They seem way too try hard. I don't know what exactly it is they are trying to do, but I'm pretty sure they never actually achieved it. Seems like music for people that unironically wear New Balances and cargo shorts. 2/5: wack
2,5
Ja kijk dat ene nr is natuurlijk super nostalgisch dus leuk, de rest is alleen echt niet voor mij
If you gave me a compilation of Muse's best songs I would happily listen to it. But not the albums, something about them just really gets on my nerves and I struggle to listen to them. They do this whole space sounding stuff but for some reason it just feels so cheap to me. I could just be being a snob but I would never go running to listen to Muse album. Still not terrible just 2/5. Stand out songs: Supermassive Black Hole Knights of Cydonia
Knights of Cydonia is great. The rest is decent at best and mind-numbing at worst. Soldier's Poem sounds like if Radiohead covered Orange Juice. Somehow this is not a great song. Overall rating: 4/10
Some riffs are good. Like real good. But... I can't stand Bellamy's voice. And the majority of it feels like a reheated mash-up of not even digested inspirations.