I played the solo from The Handler the full way through today. The STAMINA required is INSANE. The website I use for tabs says the handler is EASIER than like, Supermassive Black Hole or Psycho. There is no way.
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@Muse I am *begging* you to start releasing concert albums again, I need the live versions of Kill or be Killed and We Are Fucking Fucked injected directly into my veins 😩
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I'm preaching to the converted on this website, but Drones was a really fucking good album. Just because people don't really like Revolt doesn't take away from the fact that it's a solid album. There's long been this belief in the Muse fan community in particular that just because an album has one (1) song that's a bit different, or god forbid, poppy, the whole album is trash, or no OOS, the holy grail.
The singles on Drones: Psycho, Dead Inside, Mercy, Reapers, The Handler, Defector, Aftermath, are all fantastic (I think officially Matt was all, "do singles exist anymore?" but I'm counting anything that was released with a music or lyric video as a "single". 2015 was a strange time! Looking back, it makes so much sense that Muse, who had declared the album "dead" in 2014, would end up coming out with their first proper concept album in 2015, which Matt thought was the only real reason to be doing a traditional album format at all!)
The heavier stuff on Drones is flawless. The "poppier" stuff like Dead Inside, its last verse is gut wrenching ugh. So good. Aftermath as a whole just makes me sob sob sob. And I love Muse trying out new sounds. The sound on Defector and the Handler were a new type of heavy for Muse back in 2015: slow, chugging and heavy rather the faster stuff like on say, New Born or Stockholm Syndrome. It was great to hear them keep exploring and expanding their sound. Matt talked about how the bluesy stuff on Aftermath was completely new to him. I love them for giving it a try, and it works. Everything doesn't have to have a riff or a banger chorus to work as a good song.
The Globalist: epic! Clever! A 10 minute saga! That countdown riff! The whistling! The last piano section, ooh. So good. So classically inspired. And don't even get me started on the song Drones. Four Matts singing in 4-part voice harmony? Incredible. Wonderful. Love it.
Anyway this has been quite a throwaway post, I'll properly review Drones sometime but hey. It's a really fucking good album, and even if you really dislike Revolt, it's still an incredible album. Besides, what's not to like about Revolt. Let Muse have their summer guitar pop song. Let it be ;)
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i was tagged by @torturedpoets (thank you, love!) to post 10/10 album(s) released when i was 16.
from left to right: crybaby by melanie martinez, froot by marina, beauty behind the madness by the weeknd, undertale soundtrack by toby fox, honeymoon by lana del rey, tell me i'm pretty by cage the elephant
tagging (no pressure): @jamesregulus @margarethcarter @miwtual @emilybluntt @bisexualsfromouterspace @tthrawn and whoever wants to do it <3
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Muse: “Drones is a serious album with messages of—”
Also Muse during the Drones era:
Gif Source: @map0fmyh3ad
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In honor of the first leg of the US tour ending, let’s rank their angsty songs:
Also 90% of my content in the last month has just been Muse stuff.
Should I make a sideblog? Let me know in the tags.
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Yesterday we did a quiz at work and one of the categories was heavy metal and when I answered a question right my 57 year old colleague looked at me and said "wow i didn't know you were a rock chick!" And I really think I've peaked there
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do you ever... notice a decline in the quality of a band’s music over time, lyrics/arrangement-wise, and how their newer stuff is yeah good but it just... doesn’t hit the same? like there are some lyrics that shake you to the bone and the newer stuff just doesn’t have that soul-shattering depth?
and you think that maybe, yeah, they’re getting older, getting bored of making music, maybe their creative juices are running out, and yet you keep hoping that maybe another song that they’ll release will hit the spot again
and then you realize that the band’s lyricist simply stopped doing ketamine a while back.
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listen, Muse fans are perfectly within their rights to hate anything the band made after 2009. but I am also within my rights to find said people dull and frustrating to listen to over and over.
I'd rather have my mind blown and expanded by a new listener who gushes over how Psycho and Thought Contagion changed their life than hear some 14-year-old child ranting about how the band has yet to top Citizen Erased or Knights of Cydonia.
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I am officially embarking on the Reapers solo. I can already do most of it, but I never quite managed the first half.
He also uses effects pedals I don't have so... that's fun.
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sorry for being like obsessively into muse i dont know ANY of the background i just really ucking like all of their music because i guess im just a LOSER but listen its good music. ok. i wont say its bad i cant do that it fucks sooo hard
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Muse: we dedicate this most recent album to Ukrainians and Iranian women, people who are going through horrible shit and are fighting back!
Gaza: *continues to go through a genocide*
Muse: *crickets*
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