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[Adsolution]

I haven't even listened to this recently - or much at all for that matter - and yet it's been stuck, playing in my head non-stop for the past week:



I used to be indifferent toward it, though this random intrusion of it into my mind lately has turned it into one of my favourite songs on the album.

[Dark Lum Lord]

Interesting. I personally never got into Muse as I haven't heard too much from them, but what I have heard I rather enjoy and I still acknowledge that they're a great band. I've never heard that one before but it's easily my favorite from them from what I've heard - I also relish that album cover.

[THEdragon]

Pearl Jam - Daughter

[rolesfamily]

Tear drop - Massive Attack

[Snagglebee]

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 - Labratory Level

[Master]

[Slogbait]

Nepsotic - Induction

[Master]

Hello again, Slogbait, how're you doing?
Rediscovered a game that was bloody difficult when I was a kid, I'm not playing it again, but I've been revisiting some of its soundtrack, it's not too bad:

[Rulez]

Oh shit I remember Gubble! It was kinda scary and nerve-wracking when I was a kid. Aw, nostalgia kinda!

[Dark Lum Lord]

[Master]

[Stryj]

[THEdragon]

It's not really music, but I'm listening to this: http://www.radioforest.net/radio/uvb-76 ... ter/256618

[Master]

[Zikken]

[Adsolution]

I'm about to begin watching/listening to the entirety of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, a sixteen-hour long Ring Cycle made up of four operas. I'm currently studying the third act of Die Walküre, the second opera in the cycle, and I'm absolutely in love with the story and the production itself, it's emotionally breathtaking, both musically and narratively. I don't have anything now, but I'll surely be posting excerpts that I'm especially fond of here.

[Serza5]

Heavily considering buying the album this track comes from as it's all gorgeous.

[THEdragon]

Not the entire thing, of course.

[Snagglebee]

[Keane]

The Flaming Lips - Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell

Interesting. I personally never got into Muse as I haven't heard too much from them, but what I have heard I rather enjoy and I still acknowledge that they're a great band. I've never heard that one before but it's easily my favorite from them from what I've heard - I also relish that album cover.

I have a bit of a love/hate feeling towards Muse. On one hand I feel like they really had something going and have certainly contributed some great music that likely inspired a few musicians. Origin of Symmetry is a great album. On the other hand, however, I feel like Muse never really managed to become anything I take very seriously because it's the presentation that doesn't work.

Origin of Symmetry's got some fantastic stuff, but then the music videos are all about making sure that you know how totally cool Muse is while they have angry expressions on their faces and play their guitars. For me, everything around the music also counts as the complete image of it. I find it very hard to take The 2nd Law serious when the music videos and live performances have been nothing but "MUSE IS AWESOME WHOOAAA". It could just go a lot, I don't like using the term, but, deeper. The video's for both parts of The 2nd Law are fucking cheesy and didn't "hit" me like it seems they intended it to.

I'm not saying bands can't do something commercial. Arcade Fire's done some commercial stuff, I like them. But I feel if the words that Bellamy are singing were something he truly meant, he'd want the rest of the "art" around it to further express them. Instead I'm starting to feel more and more like The 2nd Law was just another go at "The world is so dark and evil" just to make them look dark and edgy. I fucking love Radiohead (not comparing them) because from documentaries to music videos to interviews it's clear that albums like Hail to the Thief are honest as fuck albums made by artists who really wanted to say something or share their opinion on something through their music.

Musically though, Muse is fucking rad and gnarly.