Muse-Absolution
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Topic: Muse-Absolution
Posted By: nancyrowina
Subject: Muse-Absolution
Date Posted: December 31 2004 at 21:20
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Hard to genre-ize, but I'd say prog rock. Anyone heard it and got an opinion? ------------- Confusion will be my epitaph, as I crawl a cracked and broken path, if we make it we can all sit back and laugh, but I fear tomorrow I'll be crying. |
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Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: December 31 2004 at 21:27
Please Absolve me for my next aMusing attempt at mirth
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nancyrowina wrote:
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: January 01 2005 at 09:42
Yep.
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: January 01 2005 at 20:43
| I want to like them but their singer is just a rip off of the Radiohead singer. It's annoying. |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: January 02 2005 at 09:52
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Matt B does imitate Thom Yorke to some extent - (like soooo many these days: Travis, Coldplay, Keane, Marillion, Porcupine Tree, etc.) but get over the similarities and the differences, especially on "Absolution" are inspired |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: January 02 2005 at 18:27
It's not like it's impossible to tell the difference between them; he's not a total clone. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: January 03 2005 at 01:24
I never said it was COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE  The singer himself has said he wants to sound just like him, so I'm not off base with my comment. |
Posted By: JrKASperov
Date Posted: January 03 2005 at 01:44
Absolution prog? No. Have ye guys ever listened to the musical simplicity on songs as time is running out and the 11th song?  Now if you were hitting us with Origin of Symmetry, there's another st ------------- Epic. |
Posted By: will
Date Posted: January 03 2005 at 08:40
 ------------- Long live progression. Will |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: January 03 2005 at 09:40
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[QUOTE=JrKASperov]Absolution prog? No. Have ye guys ever listened to the musical simplicity on songs as time is running out and the 11th song? |
Posted By: Whoa Is Me
Date Posted: January 03 2005 at 18:26
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Erm...okay Muse i would class as poppy prog ... little less progressive than say apc ..for example songs.. little more complex than most rock bands about so in conclusion ... undecided ------------- I too once thought the radio played, Let's act like children while we sleep paralyzed |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: January 04 2005 at 03:08
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What's the deal with complex? Complex does not equal prog, people!!! |
Posted By: JrKASperov
Date Posted: January 06 2005 at 14:05
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[QUOTE=Certif1ed] [QUOTE=JrKASperov]Absolution prog? No. Have ye guys ever listened to the musical simplicity on songs as time is running out and the 11th song? |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: January 06 2005 at 15:05
| Genesis?!? |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: January 07 2005 at 06:28
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[QUOTE=JrKASperov] [QUOTE=Certif1ed] [QUOTE=JrKASperov]Absolution prog? No. Have ye guys ever listened to the musical simplicity on songs as time is running out and the 11th song? |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: January 07 2005 at 11:04
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[QUOTE=Certif1ed] Prog is generally not hard to play, or particularly complex when compared to a vast amount of classical music. Almost any piece by Rakhmaninov, for example, beats most of the prog catalogue hands down for complexity. [/QU |
Posted By: JrKASperov
Date Posted: January 07 2005 at 13:53
You are right at this point of course, but I feel the necessity to fu ------------- Epic. |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: January 07 2005 at 16:35
You are right at this point of course, but I feel t |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: January 07 2005 at 16:56
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[QUOTE=goose] [QUOTE=Certif1ed] Prog is generally not hard to play, or particularly complex when compared to a vast amount of classical music. Almost any piece by Rakhmaninov, for example, beats most of the prog catalogue hands down for complexit |
Posted By: Petra
Date Posted: January 07 2005 at 19:45
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Oh dear, I got lost in the last few posts but Absolution has to be prog! Its pretentious, grandiose and down right pompous! Matt Bellamy is one of the most talented modern musicians around, Stockholm Syndrome is almost |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: January 08 2005 at 05:44
Yes, but it doesn't stop me listening to it |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: January 08 2005 at 07:55
Or me 
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