Muse - Absolution

I bought Absolution on a whim in Fopp the other day (all the Muse albums are £5 each ATM) and I must say I think it's pretty good. It's exuberantly, massively overscored, it doesn't always assimilate the classical "influences" (read: plagiarism) in a terribly convincing fashion, and it's rather short on subtlety - but for all that it's damn good fun.

 

Pete,

What is 'Fopp' please?

 

Lovable high street store specialising in cheap pop music and DVDs - they also get clearance stock in from EMI Classical from time to time which is the main reason I visit regularly (you can't beat getting recently deleted full-price CDs for £3 ).

 

The Volta are hosting the next All Tomorrows Parties for anyone interested. Should be good.

 

Yeah a Muse thread! I got into Muse when I thought one of their songs was a new Radiohead song and I went from there. For me, Absolution is their most complete work yet but I do prefer OOS. Hulla' is good, theres a decent live performance on disk 2. Theres some decent b-side stuff on disk 1 including the excellent mind map. I love 'em.

 

I think muse are ok Hullabaloo being the best. Who am i to talk i like velvet revolver.

 

I'm a bit of a closet Muse fan, but my Mrs loves them...
Seen them twice at the Astoria (once showing Coldplay how to do it) and they definitely rock live - though I hear from music bizz mates that Mr B is perhaps a touch twatty They can play, though - you don't often hear such an accomplished noise from a 3 piece!

And as for Mars Volta, I heard a track on Radio 1 (in the evening of course!) a few months ago and went and bought the first, then the 2nd one.
Both grand, both take some listening to really get it.
And both remind me, bizarrely, of Hillage at the time of Green and Fish Rising - except not quite so in yer face hippy.
Still, highly recommended!