New Muse album...

Originally Posted by Majin yami

So, did anyone pick up the single yet?

Bought the CD and DVD versions the day they came out. Brilliant song. I'd heard it on the radio and liked it, and eventually like billowed into love, and as a result it's actually the only -single- I've ever bought the day it was released. Really looking forward to BH&R now, from what I've been told it experiments more than the others. Refusing to download it because I want the surprise when I buy the album.

Crying Shame, the non-album track, is quite fun, but the prechorus grates on me a little tbh. There's something about it.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

They were only £2 each in the UK which is pretty reasonable imo, I ended up getting both the CD and the DVD versions. [edit: aha, I already said that.]

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I love the cover of the single...however, I probably won't be buying it. That's the only thing that kind of irritates me about Muse, is the release of sooo many singles and random things on all different albums. It's like how they release 5 different covers for one comic book. I would love to have all their music videos, or all their B-sides in one collection instead of spread over many different singles.

That's kind of a double edged blade. I love having little rarities to collect (that kind of thing's one of the nicest bits about having a music collection) but I don't like the weight off my wallet. Similar deal going on with Porcupine Tree; loads of limited editions, singles, weird stuff like that.

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Originally Posted by Sian

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I think I might cry with excitement.

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.

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

My mum LOVES Muse. However, she also has work, and she also has to pick my brother up from school (school days for him), so there's no chance of making the voyage. I had a friend I was hoping to win tickets for, too. D:

Better luck next tour, I guess. It's a shame, I've been listening to them in a major way lately, too.

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

AHHH. STOP TEMPTING ME, MUSE YOU DEMONS.

I want to go to the shop in... ooh, about six days now :D:D:D, put it in the CD player, and have everything (except SMBH :P) totally fresh. So I'm going to have to keep well away from their MySpace for a while.



In other news, I'm also really excited for this...

http://uk.news.launch.yahoo.com/dyna...ml&e=l_news_dm

Not the thunderstorm, third paragraph onwards. I loves prog me, so Muse + prog is a really exciting combination for me.

How ya doing, buddy?

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You may throw your insults at me now.

YOU FUCK D:

Seriously, holy shit that's awesome. And, I love Chris's beard. Jordan Rudess much. :P

Only two days before it's released over here, and I'm so glad I managed to resist the temptation to listen to any samples. Monday can't come quick enough.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Holy shitmice.

Just got back with the album. Map Of The Problematique just came on (this is my first listen through), and it is PERFECT. I love this album.

[EDIT: I'm also very much enjoying City Of Damnation. :D]

FELIPE NO

You're right; I didn't check the title before posting, that was from memory.

So far, I'm loving the first four and the last three the most. It's all brilliant, though. This and Synchestra have to be the best releases of 2006 so far.

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

That interview is awesome, loads of stuff to sink my teeth into. Thanks loads.

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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?).

The slipknot thing is hilarious. Even funnier when you see how offensive some people found it, if you look at the comments on youtube. Don't think I've laughed so much at anything on the internet recently.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Ahh, I didn't see any in HMV when I went. Either way, it's a very nice digipack. I don't generally like digipacks very much, but this one's earned my respect. :P

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

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.

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Originally Posted by Sian

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 >_>.

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.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Sian

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.

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..!

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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."

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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.

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

Only track I ever skip is Map Of The Problematique sometimes. I like it a lot, but every now and then it feels too... I can't think of the word, "heavy?" Like it takes an effort to listen to it. This is really odd for me because most of the music I listen to is generally quite challenging... I enjoy it when I don't skip it, though.

Originally Posted by Dee

Nice pics. And the drawing. Very nice.

Why thank you. ;D

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Off topic, Xanadu, does your name come from ELO by any chance... not the horrific movie?

Comes from the Rush song, actually. It's on A Farewell To Kings if you want to check it out. :P

How ya doing, buddy?

Supermassive Black Hole. I love the song to death myself, but it's definitely the most detached from the rest of the album, everything else is very different.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Aardork

I somehow had got the impression that Muse is a shit band

Whoawhoawhoa. I think someone has three more albums to check out.

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

I think the white stripes and the beach boys myself.

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Haha, it's cool, the song's way better than either of those (actually right up there as one of my favourite songs right now). The simple drum beat and the vocal style in places are what gives me the WS vibe though. "I thought I was a fool for no-oneeee," that bit in particular.

I was speaking idiomatically.