How Long Has Muse Sucked?

[Jimmy Higgins]

So, it seems sad. I get into a band, just at the point they start to suck.

Okay, suck might be the word to use, maybe more appropriately, 'stop being a rock band'? Via Pandora I started hearing this band and liked it... the Origns of Symmetry stuff. I was then shocked to find out this band had mainstream appeal.

So yeah, they had just released Resistance or whatever it was called, and I liked the album overall. Then their next album came and I got it, without thinking twice... and it really sounded mostly like an album where they began forgetting their rock roots and were getting way too electronic and almost 'spoken word'. Very disappointed in the album as a whole. Yeah, it had a couple songs that were good, but that was it. Sad.

Time passes, so I thought I'd listen to some of their newer stuff while on a long drive, and give it a good chance... and their latest few albums seem to take what I hated about 2nd Law, and concentrate on expanding on those qualities.

Is it just me, or does Muse really suck now?

 

[KeepTalking]

So, it seems sad. I get into a band, just at the point they start to suck.

Okay, suck might be the word to use, maybe more appropriately, 'stop being a rock band'? Via Pandora I started hearing this band and liked it... the Origns of Symmetry stuff. I was then shocked to find out this band had mainstream appeal.

So yeah, they had just released Resistance or whatever it was called, and I liked the album overall. Then their next album came and I got it, without thinking twice... and it really sounded mostly like an album where they began forgetting their rock roots and were getting way too electronic and almost 'spoken word'. Very disappointed in the album as a whole. Yeah, it had a couple songs that were good, but that was it. Sad.

Time passes, so I thought I'd listen to some of their newer stuff while on a long drive, and give it a good chance... and their latest few albums seem to take what I hated about 2nd Law, and concentrate on expanding on those qualities.

Is it just me, or does Muse really suck now?

I've never really gotten into them, so I can't say. The only song I have heard from them that I really liked is "Reapers" from the album Drones, which came out in 2015. That song has a smoking guitar solo, but the rest of the album was not that great from what I remember.

 

[Politesse]

My very favorite Muse album is Absolution, followed closely by Origin of Symmetry and Black Holes. I never took to their debut album if we're being honest.

If you ask when they started sucking, my guess might be that it was connected to the terrible last track of 2nd Law. If they're a good band, why would they need to partner up with Skrillex? I ask thee- why? That album in general shows some strain. I like the Queen-esque aesthetic, but it also comes at the expense of their own; "Panic Station" is the only one from that album that really gets in my head, and it could easily have been written by Freddie Mercury.

 

[DBT]

I'm not aware of any music being produced since the late seventies or early eighties...

 

[rousseau]

Well you could call it sucking, but others might be grateful that they're actually exploring new sounds rather than making the same album over and over again.

I listened to them briefly in the mid 00s, but figured all of the elements of their music that I liked existed in Radiohead's sound, but I liked Radiohead better so I just went with that instead.

 

[J842P]

So, it seems sad. I get into a band, just at the point they start to suck.

Okay, suck might be the word to use, maybe more appropriately, 'stop being a rock band'? Via Pandora I started hearing this band and liked it... the Origns of Symmetry stuff. I was then shocked to find out this band had mainstream appeal.

So yeah, they had just released Resistance or whatever it was called, and I liked the album overall. Then their next album came and I got it, without thinking twice... and it really sounded mostly like an album where they began forgetting their rock roots and were getting way too electronic and almost 'spoken word'. Very disappointed in the album as a whole. Yeah, it had a couple songs that were good, but that was it. Sad.

Time passes, so I thought I'd listen to some of their newer stuff while on a long drive, and give it a good chance... and their latest few albums seem to take what I hated about 2nd Law, and concentrate on expanding on those qualities.

Is it just me, or does Muse really suck now?

Rock is dead dude. Been that way for a while.

 

[KeepTalking]

So, it seems sad. I get into a band, just at the point they start to suck.

Okay, suck might be the word to use, maybe more appropriately, 'stop being a rock band'? Via Pandora I started hearing this band and liked it... the Origns of Symmetry stuff. I was then shocked to find out this band had mainstream appeal.

So yeah, they had just released Resistance or whatever it was called, and I liked the album overall. Then their next album came and I got it, without thinking twice... and it really sounded mostly like an album where they began forgetting their rock roots and were getting way too electronic and almost 'spoken word'. Very disappointed in the album as a whole. Yeah, it had a couple songs that were good, but that was it. Sad.

Time passes, so I thought I'd listen to some of their newer stuff while on a long drive, and give it a good chance... and their latest few albums seem to take what I hated about 2nd Law, and concentrate on expanding on those qualities.

Is it just me, or does Muse really suck now?

Rock is dead dude. Been that way for a while.

Long live rock!

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Well you could call it sucking, but others might be grateful that they're actually exploring new sounds rather than making the same album over and over again.

Steven Wilson does this... even made a quasi-pop album with To The Bone right after a Dark Side of the Moon like Hand Cannot Erase. Different sounds aren't my issue with Muse. It was that they seemed to transition to a heavily repetitive electronic sound with little in the way of electric guitar.