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Muse uprising album8/3/2023 All I could say for sure was that their latest stab at mixing electronic music, theatrical progressive rock, and classical music was impressive to behold, even for a former nay-sayer. Maybe I’ve learned to see the good in bands whose lead singers I find off-putting at first, or maybe I’ve come to believe that every band deserves a second chance (or sometimes a third!), or maybe Muse just tweaked things enough that I could no longer picture Thom Yorke fronting a band that sounded anything like what they were doing these days. So I remained dismissive, not expecting that their newest release, The Resistance, would come along in 2009 and totally knock my socks off. Suggestions of tracks from Muse’s follow-up, 2006’s Black Holes and Revelations, caused me to respond with similar indifference, not being able to get over Matthew Bellamy‘s “vocal histrionics” (you know, the whiny sort of way that he can draw a note out into a moment of indulgent drama), and honestly not listening closely enough here to realize the band had carved out a very different musical path from Radiohead’s. Deal with it.)īut man, that first impression just wouldn’t die. (Yeah, that’s code for “I’m not a huge fan of The Bends. I had only just gotten to the point where I was starting to appreciate Radiohead’s genius, and that wasn’t even something I thought was displayed consistently on every track they did, so to hear a band doing more loud, bombastic rock with a vocal approach that seemed to unabashedly mimic Thom Yorke at Radiohead’s brooding high point in the mid-90’s, which I thought was a bit irritating even coming from the source, you can see why it wouldn’t be my thing. I downloaded it and gave it a try, and the only thing I could manage to hear was, “ Radiohead ripoff”. It was back in 2003 or so, when their album Absolution was brand new and the band came highly recommended by a few friends who were really taken with the band’s theatrics. And I had pretty shallow reasons for doing so. I have a confession to make: I used to hate Muse. I’m kicking myself for resisting this band for so long.
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