Art is the music we make from the bewildered cry of being alive. ~Maria Popova
11 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
in Video of the Week Tags: muse
Shortly after their 2009 album The Resistance debuted atop the Italian charts, Muse were invited to appear on an Italian daytime TV show.
When the band learned the show wasn’t set up to let them sing live and they’d have to lip sync, they decided to, as drummer Dom Howard put it, “arse about”.
Howard took over lead, uh, vocals and bass while front man Matt Bellamy sat in rather unconvincingly on drums. Bassist Chris Wolstenholme moved to keyboard and guitar.
The resistance, indeed.
11 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: muse, unintended
Muse: “Unintended” (1999)
From their debut album, which didn’t chart in the States. Thus, American listeners mostly missed out on the band the English press were comparing to Radiohead until “Uprising” landed them on modern rock radio a decade later.
And yes, there’s definitely a Thom Yorke-ish quality to Matthew Bellamy’s vocals.
See also: https://edcyphers.com/2012/11/09/songs-you-may-have-missed-217/
09 Nov 2012 Leave a comment
in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: muse, undisclosed desires
Muse: “Undisclosed Desires” (2009)
Weird band, Muse. Sometimes they sound like they grew up listening to ELO. Sometimes they sound exactly like U2. They definitely seem to merge a bunch of influences and don’t seem to try to hide them.
Prog websites and publications claim them for prog, but I don’t hear that at all. Some consider them one of the great bands of this era. I’m not sure I hear that either. But each of their last few releases has had at least a couple of tracks that caught my attention–like this one.
See also: https://edcyphers.com/2020/01/11/songs-you-may-have-missed-645/
Every Moment Has A Song 