New Muse album...

Originally Posted by Xanadu

Holy shit! Congratulations, seriously. I was going to try for that but I didn't have any transport. I was also going to get them at Reading or Leeds until I discovered they were both festivals, and I didn't like many of the other bands on the bill very much at all. Guess I'm not going to see Muse for a while now.

I'm going to see them at Leeds too, and probably when they tour later this year too. That'll be 3 times I get to see them this year =D. Lucky for me I have the best mum in the world who likes Muse so she's driving me from Preston. Can't wait, 3 days to go!

As for the people who don't have anyone to go with, go on your own! Yeah it might seem sad but you could always meet people there, I found people at concerts to be friendly over here. And it's MUSE, you have to see them =D.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

You may throw your insults at me now.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

You can read all about it here =D

Oh oh!

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To: Miss S J Walmsley
Your order for Black Holes And Revelations - Muse has been posted.

=D

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

My copy came 2 days early, get in =D. I think it's stunning, especially in stereo and being played on my awesome sound system <3. The artwork is lovely too, I pay attention to detail ok >_>. I reviewed it earlier in the thread, but the thing that has changed is that i'm officially in love with every song on the album. After hearing Invincible live, it just clicked and it became a highlight of the album. Soldier's Poem is just gorgeous and Hoodoo is just amazing. I think it's their best album yet, i'm always astounded at how they can reinvent their sound with each album and make it better than the last.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Grawl

I like this album. Muse is a really good band, coming close to the best band ever alive.

You're forgiven .

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Whenever I hear Exo-Politics it makes me laugh because of this interview I heard with Matt and Dom and Matt just couldn't stop laughing when he was describing the theme behind it. I think every song on the album are strong, which makes it the best album they've done so far in my opinion. Man these guys just keep getting better and better.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Majin yami

I heard that interview. XFM wasn't it? Absolutely classic!

Yup, I couldn't stop laughing. The thing I love about Muse is that they're just hilarious in interviews and extra footage of them touring. Hullabaloo was just legendary with all that backstage footage, I got the Supermassive Black Hole DVD single and the Making of is quality.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by Majin yami

I love his laugh. It's so infectious and suits him so much. I love the bit with the sombrero in that vid.

God, I wish I'd been paid already so I could actually get the damn album. Only £9.99 at my local Safeways...

"look Dom I got a pwopa fish!" Legend.

My Dad was just telling me Woolies are selling it for £8 something.

Talking about Matt's laugh, it was just hilarious when they were presenting Rage and they just couldn't stop laughing. I've got like 10 snippets of them just bursting into laughter every 2 seconds.

Originally Posted by Xanadu

Definitely worth it. It's a really nice package. Lots of attention to detail, on the digipack version at least (is there even a jewel case?).

Yeah there is a jewel case, I have it.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Xanadu

A digipack is the big cardboardy casing that a growing number of recent releases are using, a jewel case is when you have the neat plasticcy thing which the lyric book slots into the front of.

You should be really nice to your fellow Muse fan and take pictures of the digipack for me to see =D. I would've bought the digipack, but the other 4 albums I own are jewel case and I have a weird OCD about things being the same size in my CD collection >_>.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Yeah, all these fancy names huh? They should just be "the plastic one" and "the cardboard one" =D.

How ya doing, buddy?

Have you noticed how Muse are EVERYWHERE? Not that it's a bad thing but since they've signed to Warner i've noticed they're advertising this album to the death. I even heard on TV as I was walking near my front room "the original Star Trek series is sponsered by Muse, Black Holes and Revelations". I was just like whuuuuut.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Xanadu

I hear that actually, if they had the jewel case in stock I'd have had to give it serious consideration, and would probably have ended up calling friends to ask which to get. :P

Anyway, here are les photos, they're not very good, but to compensate there are loads.

Front
Back
Spine
Open the packaging and OMG IT'S MUSE :0
Open it again and you get a neat CD, full of musiccy goodness
Take out the CD and AAAH IT'S A PLANET

And that's about it. Note the neat glossy patterny shit on the left hand side of the fourth one. It's very neat, I'm no photographer so you can't see it well, but it has lots of neat circley patterns and the words "BLACK HOLES AND REVELATIONS" floating around in capital letters and stylised text.

I like the spine a lot. It's a good spine.

Nice onnneeee.

The jewel case is pretty much the same, but it doesn't have the cool circley pattern picture and the PLANET OF DOOOOM. It has the band pic underneath the CD =D. Did it come with the inlay with all the lyrics in and such? I love the artwork, well obviously it IS the work of Storm Thorgerson who's a GENIUS.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Xanadu

Storm is the man. Love his stuff, the surreal vibe is really neat.

And yeah, there is an inlay. It kind of... uhh, comes out of the front panel. It's hard to describe, so I drew a picture.

picture..!

You are a true artist my friend.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Xanadu

Thanks, now you mention it I'm actually replacing Storm Thorgerson and doing their next album art. It's going to be called "Stick Men & Squiggly Lines."

It'll be the best album cover they'll have by far!

FELIPE NO

A little update for y'all, Black Holes and Revelations has hit number 1 in numerous album charts here in the UK. They occupy the number 1 AND 2 slots on amazon.co.uk and play.com and apparently are number 1 in shops such as HMV, WHSmith and Woolworths. And rightly so =D

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by Xanadu

Brilliant. Everyone should have a copy.

This might just dethrone Absolution as my favourite Muse album actually, they just keep getting better and better - and if the next album is full-on prog as they've said they're considering, I don't see any reason that pattern should stop with album 5.

Quoted for truth. I can't seem to bring myself round to skip any track on BHAR, I loves it all. It's a big pot of muse goodness.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Aardork

This is actually a great album. It's terrible that I almost ignored it; I somehow had got the impression that Muse is a shit band (I think I mixed it up with Evanescence, because of Sian's signatures ). ''Starlight'' is my favourite song so far.

Haha how dare you =p.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Dhsu

Am I the only one reminded of the Gorillaz when listening to Supermassive Black Hole?

Probably, everyone else seems to think Prince or Britney Spears.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Some of the songs true beauty on the album do take more than a couple of times of listening to it to be fully appreciated. I've probably said this loads of times but for me "Invincible" was the one that didn't strike me as good on the first few listens but it grew on me.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I so wanted to see a video of that interview, I could tell there were some serious sniggering going on =p.

And Knights of Cydonia is definetly one of my favourite music videos ever, at last they're starting to get it RIGHT with their videos. Muse videos are usually shite but thank god they didn't fuck up this one.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Majin yami

I reckon it's because they may have listened to their fans for this one. I know that when the track was first played that people were going on about it involving horses and lasers somehow.

Waaaaay before they started recording the album Matt was saying how the song sounded like riding a horse through mexico and being shot down by bandits, so I think the idea of horses and the dessert were there in the early days. The lasers and the sci-finess probably all came in later when they stook that intro in their for the hell of it =p.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Majin yami

Ya gotta love Matt. He's bloody insane.

Aye, an insane genius.

FELIPE NO