Reviews (page 13 of 14)
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.
não gosto de muse!
Meh
I've never watched Eurovision Song Contest, but I imagine this is what it sounds like.
An ok album
I think I'm in the minority with my opinions on muse. Yea the dudes got pipes and the music is technical and impressive but I just find them still a bit...bleh
Meh
I don't it. I didn't get it in their prime and not again now. Sometimes you think you hear a banger. And then it goes on for just too long. Or there is an immediate dip into drole-ness taking any intensity and excitement out of the song.
Live mag es ganz gut sein, aber auf CD geht mir das Gitarren-Gegniedel ziemlich auf die Nerven.
Sounds like an AI generated Radiohead album
the banger from Muse is called "Uprising" but it's not on this album.
Had already heard this one several times. Mostly written off Muse as an over-earnest combination of Radiohead and Rachmaninoff. From this point in their career it felt increasingly ham-handed and on the nose in its political treatments ('you'll burn in hell' obviously directed at George W. Bush, the cover to Drones, "United States of Eurasia"), to the point my friend and I started referring to Muse as Matt Bellamy and The Tinfoil Hats. Willingness to overlook the clumsiness in favor of its world-conquering pop appeal has me utterly convinced this list was written by a British man who was at least young-ish when Black Holes And Revelations was present in the zeitgeist. Even typing that title confirms it. Despite the obvious gifting the group has in dynamics and harmony, it's difficult to overcome Bellamy's lyrics - though it does work at times when it feels like you can hear it in the arena ("Starlight"). Absolution still feels like the purest iteration of their shtick - though "Map Of The Problematique" remains utterly compelling when you gloss over 'why can't you see / when we bleed, we bleed the same'. I am looking forward to "Knights of Cydonia" at the finish, though, even if it again recalls Radiohead in its opening soundscape straight from "Lucky". Edit: how did I ever get past 'no one's gonna take me alive'? Another review decried Muse's fans as prattling on about the band's 'skills' instead of paying attention to the songwriting, which feels about as concise as it gets. Bonus track "Glorious" reminded me of hearing this album for the first time - the fireworks are awe-inspiring, until you get hold of the lyrics and yet again feel like its reach far exceeds its grasp.
Very same-y sounding to me
Never listened to this band before, sounds like they listened to a lot of Radiohead. Not bad but I don’t think I’d listen to it again.
Meh Mostly discordant Almost liked Starlight Knights of Cydonia reminded me of Night Begins to Shine.
I swear if there's more than one Muse album in this list, then that's mental, and if this is the only one, then it's the wrong one. Both Absolution or Origin would be more deserving. I haven't listened to either in years though, this record put me off the band completely, ultimately. This was my jumping off point with Muse, I remember how disappointed I was after they'd released 3 records which each rocked harder than the last in interesting ways, then this came out, signalling the full on overproduced guitar and keyboard wankery-mode of Muse. There are no more good songs beyond this point. I have a feeling they're still going, so that's U2/Foo Fighters levels. Listening to it now I can see that most of it has seeped into my consciousness through relentless radio play or on TV adverts, none of this record is bad per se, it's just the point where they stopped trying new stuff. Absolution sounded so fresh, this (and the rest of their career from what I've heard vicariously) sounds like Absolution flogged to death. Actually, I take that back - much of the second half of the album is actually bad. Good lesson in how a huge sound and massive overblown-ness absolutely does not stop the listener getting bored. Despite everything else I've said, and somewhat ironically given it's the epitome of all my criticisms, I do genuinely like Knights of Cydonia just for it's sheer batshittedness. I think it does help that it follows 3 or 4 dud songs.
When I was delighted at first by Map of the Problematique and then disappointed when it turned out not to be an instrumental, I realized I just don't like the singer.
ehh. definitely not a fan of muse going in. apparently this is muse at their peak – not entirely sure if that makes the album better or worse. on the first song all I can think is that it sounds like "we have Radiohead at home". the second song – we've all heard it so many times it's literally grating. these two descriptions can be applied to pretty much all the other songs as well. there were maybe one or two songs that I *relatively* liked – incidentally the least popular songs on the album – because at least they didn't sound like a Radiohead cosplay, or at least less so. however, once this is over, I'm blocking muse on Spotify so that it doesn't get into my recommendations and I will never listen to this album intentionally again.
I can take a Muse song here and there, but listening to that album straight through was too much.
Knew I’d hate it, was not disappointed. Starlight was okay.
Ist so nicht meins …
What’s this over ambitious, megalomaniac, artificial nonsense all about? It’s a Blockbuster Movie turned into music. Pink Floyd on steroids. Rock Whores. Stadium crap without a soul. I guess you have to have the same desperate mood to like it. I don’t dare to read the lyrics…I guess it’s the old „I wanna hold your hand“ kind of poems. I don’t like it very much. My fault. Although I hear the stadium choruses and the perfect production.
Not my jam. All of the songs sound the same. Remind me of an opening band at a concert that I’m waiting to get over.
Not my cup of tea. Not super exciting
Nichts besonderes
I’ve avoided listening to Muse for years. Mostly because acquaintances that were fans had otherwise middling taste in music at best. That kind of describes how this sounds to me. It’s almost like a parallel universe Radiohead where they try to be more radio-friendly. Both too edgy and not edgy enough. It’s a little try-hard at times. I don’t hate it. My ears weren’t ever really offended by it, I just was kinda bored by it. For something that sounds so grandiose, it’s remarkably non-compelling.
2000s groove rock plus synth and a Thom Yorke impression. A few standouts, but I'm not really a fan.
Just don't get it
49/100
Sometimes an album is close to being good but is just a miss. This was to frenetic with no real hook to grab my attention. Scale: 5 - My absolute favorites. 4 - Albums I like. 3 - It was ok to listen to but I wouldn't seek it out. 2 - Didn't like. 1 - Absolute shit.
Pretentious, portentous, slick, camp, competent. Not for me but can see why it's popular. Sort of.
already had a song saved from this album, supermassive black hole, but besides that it’s not a genre i usually listen to.
Was great when I was 15 but it just sounds cringey now. A couple of decent songs.
A couple of the songs are really good but the overall album does not keep pace with those songs.
10 black holes and 2 revelations. Starlight och Glorious är väldigt bra. 4/5. Resten är total skit.
Nooooo, my most hated band in the entire world fuck offff. Tbf I did quite like Bow, dunno why, electronic-ness?? Starlight will always be a Mhairi song so I like it for that. Hate supermassive black hole and knights of cydonia. Stuff in between was okay but I still hate something about it like it makes me feel sick and idk why lol It’s the voice coupled with weird sliding guitar thing just…no
Vim escutando o album no caminho pro trabalho, no patinete, e parecia que eu tava num clipe. As músicas tem uma vibe legal, energia boa, mas eu acho que só na primeira vez. Eu não adicionaria nas minhas curtidas pra ouvir de novo. Interessante esse conceito de one-time álbum... No fim, voltando pra casa, apenas 1 música me impressionou e me fez curtir: Knights of Cydonia, parece música de vídeo-game, da horinha.
I had heard of Muse prior to this but never really listened to them. I will say, I believe the musical talent displayed on this record is impressive. The drummer is absolutely killing it. However, I couldn't really get into the songs themselves. It seems a bit too orchestral and theatric. If I had heard this in middle school, I would have probably thought it was so cool.
2006ish
I never liked Muse, although I can recognize they’re technically fine and deliver a good live show. Always had the feeling that it’s a wannabe band, if that makes sense.
I know there are some diehards out there but I’ve never really been a Muse fan.
Uh. Not great. Obviously incredibly talented musicians — amazed the so ich depth achieved by only four people — but I got bored and tired of waiting for the soundscape to evolve into something interesting. At points, it came close, but mostly just a frustrating listen
Not terrible, but listen again. Vocals are more interesting than the instrumentals 2
Favorite song was Starlight. First half sounded like a Radiohead cover band, with the middle being more grunge and unique (which I preferred). The backhalf of the album went back to sounding like Radiohead.
Sort of U2 but not good.
BORING! Thank you nerds, I'd love to listen to you sing about space. NOT!
Too operatic and melodramatic for me. Something inescapably nerdy about Muse, despite their obvious talent. If you like every song to feel like its humanity's last moments on Earth, maybe its for you.
Not a fan of this band. Saw them on whe Plug in Baby was released. Feels like something Queen fan would like. I mean I like some 70s prog but this just sucks at times. I think it his voice and stupid lyrics (Some times I admire it) Go away.
Too disjointed as a whole
Solider' poem, with piano arpeggios and voal harmonies is nice. Invincible is a good song but not a fan of the guitar solo. If not already, will be advert music for a new phone or something. Driving music but the lead singing is bland, even when he goes for power, like in Exo-politics. Hoodoo interesting with its Western Then ballad
I didn't like it. I am not sure how to describe it. It is like they are trying way too hard to be something else than what they should be. I am not sure what they are trying to be or what they should be but I wasn't feeling this album. Thankfully it was relatively short. I do not need to listen to it again.
what's that? even shittier Radiohead?
Urgh. Muse are such tryhards. My daughter asked me “Is this Radiohead?” and I was like “Absolutely not!” I’ve liked some tracks and the albums before this were way more interesting to me. This one, nope.
I gave it a listen, and decided it was not that great. Not sure why, it lacked something. 2.5/5
Most of this album just sounded, sort of, noisy to me, though 'Super Massive Black Hole' is still a banger. The quieter/slower tracks are better on the whole, but not enough to save this album from mediocrity. Just on the wrong side of boring, really.
Worse places for prog to end up, to be fair. However, while shortening the form sounds like an excellent idea, it ends up emphasizing a cardinal sin which seven-track double LPs seem to unconsciously avoid. There simply isn't enough distinct material to pad out the record to a dozen songs. And there's little propulsion between the tracks. As repetition goes, Muse is more straightly rockish than noodly: A wash there.
Sounds a bit like Coldplay or something. This is not a compliment. All a bit boring and overblown really. It might have got a 3, but Soldier's Poem is dreadful, so it's a 2.
Today, the 1001 albums app made some welcome changes. The font for the numbers in our summary sections is both larger and thinner. I'm no expert in fonts, so I don't know the name of that one, but I like it ( I'm fond of "calibri" and "verdana", for example). And it's not the only thing that's new on the app: if you go to your summaries, once again, we now have the names of our favorite and worst artists at the top of all those wonderful album covers. Yeah, good idea. I wonder why David Bowie doesn't appear there for my own favorite arists, though. Black Sabbath does, but I've rated less album from them than ones by Bowie. Is it because I've rated *Let's Dance* less than four stars? You tell me... But no worries: Pixies, Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey and the Beatles are there, that's all that matters. And I hope Neil Young, The Cure, A Tribe Called Quest and Kendrick Lamar will soon join them. Apart from that, nothing much happened today. Oh, yeah, there was an album popping up on the app this morning, I almost forgot. 🤔 Do I *really* need to speak my mind about this record? Today is Sunday, after all. Maybe I can take a break... Alright, alright, let's do this (heavy sigh). I would start with the understatement of the year: Maybe the production on this LP is a little overblown, don't you think? 🙃 There, I've said it. I hope Muse fans are not too shocked by this hot, hot take. 😜 Let's be fair, half of the tracks on this LP are catchy--albeit with quite a few laughable moments in them, both musically and lyrically. And I can appreciate the wide range of influences inspiring those songs: Philip Glass for "Take A Bow", wide-eyed pop for "Starlight", modern r'nb for "Supermassive Black Hole", Ennio Morricone for "Knights Of Cydonia" (except that Other Lives have since used that latter influence for far better results), plus a little bit of Queen here and there... In other words, it's a bit ridiculous, as nice as those influences are on their own. I know Muse have publicly stated that some of those tunes are tongue-in-cheek "exercises", but still... And the other half of those tracks is just a terrible borefest anyway, not even worth a good laugh. When you listen to the whole thing in one sitting, you're just left wondering if the band is totally naive or incredibly pretentious. But maybe they're *both*. I've just read this LP is not even in the latest editions of the 1001 albums book. It didn't take long for Dimery and co. to realize the sort of shmaltzy blokes Muse had become by the time of *Black Holes And Revelations*. Hence why they needed to go to leave some room to other, more worthwhile artists. And it's exactly why I'm gonna exclude them as well. After all, Bellamy and co. have had their share of the spotlight for a long time. They're incredible musicians and performers, and sold millions and millions of units, I hear. But that sort of thing never meant that a band was really *good* or relevant artistically speaking... So next please... Number of albums left to review: 538 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 221 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 108 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more essential to me): 134 (including this one)
Muse has never been my particular cup of tea, but their earlier stuff is a bit more entertaining for me. Mostly decent stuff here, with a few standouts as pretty good. Not much to go nuts over, but pretty good overall
I really enjoyed Showbiz (released 1999), this album doesn't reach me.
Same vocal intervals on most songs?
I find this music to be pretty generic and sterile. This is supposed to be soaring, epic, dramatic music but I was just bored by it all. I had only heard a couple of the singles before, and otherwise don’t know a lot about Muse. I’m sure everyone makes Coldplay and Radiohead references- they definitely sound like a boring Radiohead. Maybe a deeper dive into the band would show those comparisons to be unfair, but I’m not interested in listening to any more.
Boring catchy made for radio rock.
Radiohead lite.
I already knew Supermassive Black Hole, which I actually quite liked. The rest of the album is too clean and "epic" for my taste, the lyrics also do nothing for me at all so I will probably never revisit this ever.
I can't listen to a full album with this voice. I get it, you have range. Reign it in.
Let me just be frank. Over the top music. Over the top singing. Listened to Pixies (pure, direct, no BS) and then to this one (exactly opposite). 2 stars and not 1 because of, well am in a mild mood.
Noisy and not what I was in the mood for. It was okay.
Ill-advised U2/Radiohead collaboration.
Like a more rocking, but less interesting Radiohead. I actually recognized a few songs that I didn't know was them. Not too bad, but nothing thrilling. It could be a 3 I suppose but I'm dropping it to a 2 because this thing reeks of pretension and Muse fans are overzealous. This does not nearly live up to the hype.
"Black Holes and Relevations" is the fourth studio album by English rock band Muse. The album was recorded in three countries and noted for a change in style incorporating influences from Depeche Mode, Millionaire, Lightning Bolt and Sly and the Family Stone. OK. I see that. The music is classified as alternative rock, progressive rock and space rock. Yep. Sometimes in the same song. Sometimes all three at the same time. There is a lot going on in their songs. The lyrics address political corruption, alien invasion (one song), revolution and New World Order. There are some just love/relationship songs. "Take a Bow" begins things with a swirling blend of classical, electronic and rock. A Moog synth. Dramatic guitar at the middle and end. Lots of drama in their songs. An attack on NWO leaders controlling everything. This sounds like Queen. The second song and single and probably my favorite is "Starlight." A more straight-foward alt rock melody and the heavier guitars. OK, on their third single "Supermassive Black Hole," we get their 90's Depeche Mode imitation. Lead singer Matt Bellamy going falsetto. They then go space rock with the guitar. I think this about getting sucked into a relationship with a person that inevitably going to dump you. The last and fifth single "Map of the Problematique" had the riff written wuth a keyboard and then translated and split into three guitar signals. This is when this album tends to lose me; there is so much going on, way too busy. The album ends with "Knights of Cydonia," best known by me as one of the last songs of Guitar Hero III. It was tough. The song itself goes from space and laser sounds to a driving guitar and keyboard to a guitar jam. And a lot more. This was frustrating. I like a few of the songs and parts of most of the songs but they try to do so much on every song it was giving me a headache. When I need to draw a diagram of the musical changes in each song just to keep up, I don't find that fun. Muse has had a very successful career so there is a lot of people that like them. And, heck, I saw them in the last few years and enjoyed it. Not today.
This sounds like Billy Corgan forced Radiohead and Coldplay to collaborate on an album about conspiracy theories at gunpoint.
Highlights: All and none If you've heard one Muse album you've pretty much heard them all. I'm almost grateful because they're like America's one dose of clownish Eurovision bombast. They do "experiments" from one to the next that are more just savvy cash-ins; here it's on Beck's renewed popularity ("Supermassive...",) and Coldplay mania ("Starlight"). They also fart around at the end with Spanish-ness, orientalist motifs, and spaghetti western surf, and it's honestly their best because it knowingly embraces their campiness. They're like Nicolas Cage -- sometimes you're not are they're in on the joke. They do have very fleshed out cadences, almost Rufus Wainwright at times, but just because they have more chords doesn't make it fresh. The musical ideas tend to be stiff while the power comes from the performance, and the performance had exactly two dynamics. I will say this -- it's hard to make the Zvex Fuzz Factory sound good, and he manages to use its oscillation just enough to breathe some life into the arrangement. They are veteran stadium rockers. They can nail all of this live. If you're a middle manager in retail with no strong opinions on art that just wants to check Rock Concert off the bucket list -- accept no substitutes.
Just don't really get muse
He sounds distractingly like Thom Yorke on a lot of the album. Did not enjoy. Putting arpeggiated synths over boring rock music doesn't really make it better.
instrumental album would've been better
Didn't hold up to multiple listens. Got real sick of it real fast.
Abit bland
Too noisy for me. It didn't make narratively sense for me.
Bono?
There's something fun about this, but then on the other hand it's sort of like if Thom Yorke got a lot cheesier, lost a lot of IQ points, and then started writing songs about space.
Another post-2000 album that didn't survive long enough to stay on the current version of the list, which is fine. This should never have been on the list. Muse is butt rock masquerading as prog, it's arena garbage for people who think they are smart, it's pseudo-intellectual pap, it's music for people who think they are smarter than the room but never bother to enter rooms they know will challenge them. It's music for people who think it's clever to talk shit about NIckelback. It's an evolutionary stepping stone to Imagine Dragons. Burn it and bury it in a shallow grave.
Knights tietenkin on edelleen loistava, hitit ja rakenne kantaa, mutta mahtipontisuus, sanotukset ja Bellamyn maukuminen kyllästyttää nopeesti
Avausraidan kaltaiset "fiilistelyt" ovat täysin hyödyttömiä: ne edustavat soundeilla kikkailua sen itsensä vuoksi. Toisaalta Starlightin kaltaiset "fiilistelyt" sisältävät riittävästi melodista sisältöä toimiakseen kappaleina. Invinciblen kaltaiset "biisit" (jotka koostavat suurimman osan levystä) ovat geneerisiä ja ohitettavia. Toisaalta Supermassive Black Hole ja Knights of Cydonia ovat hittejä, jotka voivat saada kuuntelijan palaamaan kokonaistasoltaan heikommankin levyn äärelle. Onko tämä kakkonen vai kolmonen? Riippuu siitä, kuinka paljon on valmis skippaamaan kuullaakseen hitit uudelleen.
Wiki mentions the bands that influenced Muse and I was very surprised that they didn’t mention Radiohead. The lead vocalists of Muse whines and wails exactly like Thom Yorke. I listened to this album twice and both times when it was done Spotify sequed seamlessly into Radiohead and Muse sounded almost the same. A noisy pompous Radiohead though. This album was much more listenable when there was less singing, eg Knights of Cydonia, but I’d rather have the original
Helt ok men låter ba int jättebra nånsin... o de lyrics ja snappa upp sög as
I'll be honest I wasn't feeling like relistening to this album so I put on their new album that came out today instead. Probably a mistake as it was a huge waste of time. Yeah I really just couldn't give two shits about Muse. Possibly the most uncool band on the planet.
boring
Kinda like the killers but unique in their own way. Not my thing
Muse can’t decide if they want to be Radiohead, Coldplay, British alternative from a few years earlier, a grunge band, or a wannabe metal band. This identity crisis leaves Muse sounding like they’re constantly trying to reference something instead of incorporating their influences into their own sound. The obvious Thom Yorke imitation vocals really place this into a lower category for me.
A few standouts like knights of cydonia, starlight, and glorious, but overall it was quite repetitive (especially the vocals)
Sounding like a cross between Coldplay, U2 and Radiohead with "anthems" for the noughties generation this is generally as dull and insipid as you would expect, although to be fair "Supermassive Black Hole" is quite a sinister sounding track with a catchy chorus.
Yeah again why is this album on this list, not that exciting or interesting, definitely nothing new when it was launched? They are one of those bands that are made for adverts they have like 30 seconds of intrest in a couple of songs but the rest is just dull.
Just not very exciting, is it? Far too safe and dull
I’d rather be listening to Radiohead
--- muse black holes and revelations --- take a bow 2/3 k maybe a bit long, but overall i like it. it _sounds_ like a minute long intro track, but lasts almost five minutes? --- starlight 3/3 this is the title track, the chorus repeats the album name. i always forget this is the title track cause it's not named for the album --- supermassive black hole 2/3 too slow --- map of the problematique 3/3 --- invincible 1/3 i just want to go listen to (the good tracks from) neutral milk hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea hate the marching snare and this song is not fast enough to walk to hate hate hate this --- assassin 3/3 oh yeah this is why i remember liking muse --- city of delusion 2/3 not mad at this --- hoodoo 3/3 good if in the mood for big and operatic? which is not often, but.. --- knights of cydonia 3/3 oh yeah this is why i remember liking muse they saved the best for last --- glorious 1/3 did not need a bonus track, cydonia is the correct ending
I wanted to like this one so much better cause it had some of my favorite elements. Super cinematic moments and a dusty desert sound but to manny misses in between
bleah
When Radiohead stopped making proper guitar albums after OK Computer, other bands moved into the space that had been abandoned. Coldplay took the softer end, and built a stadium sized career out of it, and Muse ditto with the louder end. It is no surprise that the bombastic end of Radiohead crossed with a healthy dose of Queen also turned out to be a stadium-filling beast. With magpie like references to other moments of bombastic excess (Soundgarden, Ennio Morricone, ELO), this is cleverly composed, schmickly produced, and expertly played, but really, at the end of the day, this is sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Veit ekki hvað skal segja, fílaði þetta einu sinni. Geri það ekki lengur.
I mostly like their first 3 albums but this is a fair load of wank
Take a Bow: the tinkling lasted about 3 minutes too long. The blame at the end was something. Longest outro ever. Supermassive Black Hole: more like supermassive suck hole, amirite? Map of the problematique: equally as loud as the previous three songs. No decrescendo/crescendo, just loud. Set the metronome to 140 bpm and go. Soldiers poem: first down tempo song, almost lullaby like. Somehow still loud though.... Invincible: quieter intro. I have bass boosted on my earbuds as most songs are quiet on bass lines, but these guys pump up the bass. Cool little bass riff halfway through. Hoodoo: started surfer rock/Mexicali, ended goth rock. Weird. Glorious: I don't think I like this album. It's not necessarily "bad," but it's an album that has a lot of notes, but none of them memorable. Almost like a more frantic Coldplay. PS: I did not realize that Glorious was the last track of the album when I made the above note. I am glad it is over.
too theatrical/dramatic/overblown for my liking
Whilst a fun enough listen, I ultimately found all the bombast rather empty and unsatisfying.
Of its time, a bit overblown for me
For a supposed progressive rock group, Muse manages to come off as quite a superficial bunch. Every song here follows a formula, which wouldn’t be an issue if the formula were compelling, but it isn’t. Very few of these tunes are catchy, and even fewer interesting. The music is bombastic and decidedly safe, almost distractingly so, and the lyrics are humdrum bullshit. They want to make a political statement, but the best they can muster is jejune blather about fighting corruption, fighting for your rights, fighting the establishment, fighting for what? Freedom, of course. If you’d ever wondered what The Vines would sound like if they ventured into space, look no further. This sort of vapid, milk-and-water nonsense might appeal to you if you’re the sort of person that likes corporate dad rock, but if you can’t dig it, steer clear.
Dad Rock for teenagers
Some cool tracks but pretty unimpressed overall
It was okay. I'm not a fan of the whiny/angsty rock lead singer voice...it becomes too much when listened to as a whole
OK. This is really a bombastic one, but I wonder about the purpose. All over I can hear Radiohead, Queen, and U2. None of these bands I particularly like, but if I have to, I much rather listen to the original ones. Not that Muse are bad, they just don't catch my interest, my attention continually wanders in and out. Starlight has that synth pop thing going on and the distorted bass, which is okay until Bono comes in. Map Of The Problématique becomes a bit more interesting as it sounds like Depeche Mode (or like Paradise Lost when they were trying to sound like Depeche Mode, without, exceptionally, really sounding like a copycat) in parts, until Bono auditioning for Radiohead comes in. Some beautiful vocal harmonies on Soldier's Poem. I liked that at the beginning it sounds very 60s, somehow doo wop (many have mentioned Beach Boys but I couldn't agree less), but at the end it morphs into a Queen tribute. The last, proggy bit of Invincible was interesting., while its first part really sounds like U2, not only the singer this time around. In general the use of synths is interesting all over the record, but again, if I wanted to listen to some prog I would go for some 70s band, and this not only excludes Muse but all the post 90s new prog bands. Some NWOBHM on Assassins mixed with bits of System Of A Down, which is kind of surprising. Liked also the bits where they incorporated some world elements in the last few songs. All in all, a band that seems to wear its influences on their sleeves. Highly visible though. To the point where you wonder if it's just influence or they are actually mimicking. A curious fact: although the edition I have is from 2011, my book doesn't feature this 2006 album, which probably means that the it was kind of an afterthought for the authors destined to be featured in some future edition.
Pompous
One star album with one extra star for Starlight.
Not the best of Muse, though Knights of Cydonia is an outstanding track.
So this album came out when I was 16, and I remember being really disappointed with it then :( feels like their attempt at doing a Night At The Opera that just falls a bit flat. The lyrics aren't as clever as they think they are, and it's super overengineered. Forced myself to relisten to it this morning though. First track is really quite dire, don't want to sound too much like a grandpa but it's just noise, isn't it? Starlight is decent twinkly pop, Supermassive Black Hole is less good twinkly pop. Map of the Problematique is ok, but it'd still be one of the worse tracks on the previous albums. The next one is a floppy wander with no energy. I like Invincible at the very end, when it sounds more old school Muse, but it spends way too long getting there (and the lyrics are SO cheesy). Assassin sounds like a proper Muse song and is probably the second best song on the album. The next two I have no proper opinion on, they are in the old Muse style but just doesn't really get going at all and are in no way memorable. One after is half Muse, half theme tune to a Western and it is not a combination that works. Then Knights of Cydonia - the only song on this album that actually achieves the level of theatre that they're going for. Almost prog-rocky, I do like this. Should have left it at that, would've been a nice closer, but they added on another track at the end that is similar to the 8 and 9 in that I am utterly indifferent to it.
The first track is ok. A bit nothing really. I'm trying to remember some lyrics, or the basic tune, but I've got nothing. Sums it up quite well. The second track I'd heard before. Quite decent tbh, memorable tune, I can remember the basic lyrics for the chorusy part. It's fine. I may have heard the third track before as well. Seems kind of familiar, but not enough that I remember any lyrics or anything. Fourth track I have no memory of at all. The fifth track had me scrambling. Had I downloaded a dodgy copy of the album and someone had mixed up the tracks with another band? No, apparently not. That is the intended fifth track. Doesn't fit, at all, and isn't very good tbh. Sixth track. I've had enough now. All I'm hearing is loud noises. Seventh track is worse than the sixth. Louder and more annoying. Eighth track is a bit better. Less noise, more of an actual song. Again though, not one that's stuck in the memory. For the ninth track we've gone acoustic. Nice. Oh hang on, it doesn't last. They threw some trumpets in towards the end. Then scrapped them for more LOUD GUITAR AND SHOUTING! Tenth track. Tarantino. Not sure why he's popped into my head. Maybe there's a bit of Pulp Fiction similarity at the start? How long before we get back to the shouting and the guitars on this one? Not bad, just over half way. They've thrown in some piano on this one, just to mix it up. At last, the final track. Thank God. Oooh, more Tarantino. Long intro on this one. Hang on, this bit rings a bell, "no-one's gonna take me aliiiiiiiiive". Was this a single as well? This is alright. And it's over. Good.
hm. pretentious. vibey. annoying. guitar-nice. > Gave me a headache but i have got Covid so idk > opening track got on my nerves > second track was generic and didnt sound nice enough to get away with having no meaning > something lacking but i cant recognise what > i disliked it and dont know why but were too bored by it to listen again to recognise what i didnt like > the third track is the most popular on the album and i was hoping it would bring some power to this album but it was only a little less annoying, meaningless and generic as the other two tracks i'd already listened to > the album was underwhelming > i would NOT say that somebody must hear before they die > i might go as far as to say that i would recommend not listening to this album for its sheer boringness
i listened to this before and it was mid and im not putting myself through it again. good job to Supermassive Black Hole though
Alltid gett mig sura uppstötningar
This album is one of the worst examples of one of my least favorite trends in 2000s rock: taking musical elements from metal and making them so overblown and polished that they lose all potential weight and emotion. It makes it feel like the band is trying to convince you of how epic and grand everything is without actually doing anything to demonstrate it, and it all feels so empty and hollow as a result. There are very few compelling melodic ideas, which could work if they committed to the heaviness that the guitars and drums are going for, but it lacks anything of denseness or messiness required to pull that off. Apparently the lyrics here are supposed to be meaningful and politically charged, but I couldn't get past Matt Bellamy's incessant moaning to fully take it in. His singing sounds like what Thom Yorke must sound like to people who hate Thom Yorke's voice. The best track here is Exo-Politics, where he finally drops the moan for a decent hook. I can sense the ambition from this band but to me it just felt like any other obnoxious 2000s rock band, just with more synths.
Really intense song opening that I really enjoyed. Soldier's poems has almost the exact melody as Can't Help Falling in Love by Elvis Presley. I'm not sure if that was intentional, but I think it is; it's a well-too- known melody to not recognise it. I loved the songs, but I found the voice to become really tedious as the songs went by. The voice could've made a more interesting choice in the melody, changing registers. It feels like I'd prefer to listen to the instrumentals alone because the voice, by the 6th song, becomes insufferable. The style is so unique that gets old when it becomes that repetitvie. Might also have to do with the fact that this isnt my go-to gengre and might be bias. 6.5/10
It's shite. Don't get this at all. Whiney cod prog with very little of interest, and I am a metal fan generally. Great musicians but left me incredibly cold.
Muse always sound like they’re DESPERATE for me to take them seriously. They want me to think they’re so cool so badly. They’re big dorks. And not in an endearing way. But a sad way. Pwease like us here’s our cowboy song, you like cowboys right? Why are you doing a cowboy epic. Uhhh cause it sounds cool. Any other reason. No. Ah. Like Supermassive Black Hole has A BILLION streams. And it’s just comparing what…banging a lady? WANTING to bang a lady? Is she the black hole? Is she just that good at sucking dick that you compare her to a black hole? That’s so fucking lame. Not just a black hole, a SUPERMASSIVE black hole. What a bunch of fucking nerds. Music for the I Fucking Love Science crowd. Shut up
muse are bad
Music for mams
Although it's not a bad album, Muse's music is definitely not my style.
Har aldrig gillat rockband som överpoducerar sin musik så mycket att det inte ens låter som att de spelar några instrument längre. Närmare housemusik än rock
there’s just something i really don’t like about muse, something just doesn’t sit well with me
Shite. Not subjecting myself to this dross any more than necessary.
This album is all over the place musically, I found myself physically frowning at some points while listening to it. Can't imagine anyone really liking this if they didn't already like it in their younger years. I thought the radiohead comparisons were lazy but no, it really does sound like a bad radiohead imitation attempt. 1.5/5 Top tracks: starlight
Still something about this band that doesn’t click with me. Oh look at me I’m classicaly trained but I make ‘rock’ music now. Ohhh I’m so edgy. Yawn
The Imagine Dragonification of Tool.
J'ai toujours eu un peu de mal avec la discographie de Muse. C'est là un parfait exemple. Je connais très bien Starlight par la promo radio mais je n'ai jamais accroché, ni à l'époque, ni maintenant. De cet album, je ne retiendrai que Take A Bow et Supermassive Black Hole.
Wack
Whining and moaning
SHITE
This really rubbed me the wrong way. It’s not just that the vocalist’s preferred tone is whining. It’s also annoying that this band is so derivative of Coldplay and Queen that you might think you were listening to a mashup of those two bands. There are a few songs where they introduce metal elements with the other two sounds and, in those moments they sound a little unique & interesting. But even then you can hear the whiny singer doing his best imitation of a prog rock singer whining the worst metal lyrics in his whiny voice. Ugh. A 1.