I am now the official owner of BHAR!!!!! woohoo!!

 

 

I love this album.. and now, off to write a proper review!!! :nice:

I am now the official owner of BHAR!!!!! woohoo!!

 

 

I love this album.. and now, off to write a proper review!!! :nice:

 

ooo nice I can't wait to hear. (show me the Exo-Politics love :D)

im in love with supermassive black hole!!!!!

the radio stations love to pump it out and everytime it comes on i cant resist turning the volume up!!!

I'm starting to love Exo-Politics... at first this song didn't impress me at all... but now I can't stop listening to it...

 

Why did Muse ruin Debase Mason's Grog???? That was wonderful!!! They cut out the internal section with that amazing bridge...

Heeeeey people!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I havent been here in ages! Im going to see Muse at the Leeds Festival in 4 weeks and in Birmingham on the 14/11 i canny wait

 

Hey Ren how have you been?

Kirst!!!! wow, i havent seen you in sooooolong! and you're gonna see muse again? amazing! have fun! :D

 

Oh well, i havent been that good but life goes on and things seem to be better by the day and hey the new muse album totally made my year haha, what about ya? hope everything's fine in your world *hugs*

Alien ancestors, giant meteorites, cod-classical pomp rock. Matt Bellamy, main man of Muse, bemuses Stephen Dalton

 

In keeping with his reputation as Britrock’s reigning maestro of overblown melodrama, Matt Bellamy lives in a grand old villa overlooking Lake Como in northern Italy. The Sicilian opera composer Vincenzo Bellini was a former resident. The Muse frontman denies that he dons a cape in the dead of night and haunts the building’s shadowy depths. However, he is building his studio in a cave beneath the villa. Perfect.

 

“It’s quite common there, because all the properties are built on the side of mountains,” Bellamy explains. “Lots of people have outbuildings built into caves.”

 

With his wiry frame, sharp features and spiky thatch of raven hair, Bellamy resembles a cross between Edward Scissorhands and a consumptive Tom Cruise. He is engaging and chatty company, if a little on the nutty side. We meet near his London flat, in the looming shadow of the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square. The Muse singer now divides his time between Britain and Lake Como to be with his Italian girlfriend, a psychology student.

 

“It does change your perspective on the UK music scene,” he says. “You realise how self-inflated it is. You see bands that are so unbelievably hyped in the UK, but they come to Italy and play in front of 500 people. Out there, it’s really not about how many drinks they’ve been having or who their girlfriends are.”

 

European exile makes sense for Bellamy. Muse have been defiant outsiders to Britpop’s metropolitan inner circle ever since he, the drummer Dominic Howard and bassist Chris Wolstenholme first burst out of the sleepy Devon backwater of Teignmouth seven years ago.

 

Nowadays they play stadium-sized shows like Edinburgh’s T on the Fringe and the Carling Weekend, both set for late August. But critical acceptance has been slow in coming.

 

Muse’s first inclusion on this year’s Mercury Music Prize shortlist marks something of a turning point. Their latest album, Black Holes and Revelations, has been universally well reviewed. And yet it is their most extravagant creation yet, a roaring great cyclotron of cod-classical bombast and raging paranoia. The sleeve was even designed by Storm Thorgerson, best known for his trippy covers for Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. Bellamy argues that Wagnerian Sturm und Drang has become so unfashionable that it is perversely credible. “Bands come along every now and again to neutralise the flamboyance of rock,” he says. “The Ramones, Sex Pistols, Nirvana, even the White Stripes. They take it back to basics again, but to me that’s become almost the conservative way. What we are doing is kind of punk. To be flamboyant and excessive and over the top is more against the system than what most bands are doing.”

 

Even America has begun to embrace Muse, after their 2002 album, Origin of Symmetry, was rejected as too European by their US label. “For English bands to be super-big in America, you have to do the U2 class,” Bellamy says sniffily. “A little bit of gospel, a little bit of country, a whisper of blues. I think Coldplay watched Rattle and Hum a few times and found the key to American success.”

 

Muse’s steady ascent has included majestic highs and tragic lows, sometimes simultaneously. When the trio headlined at Glastonbury in 2004, it cemented their growing commercial and critical clout. But half an hour after watching the show, Howard’s father collapsed and died of a heart attack on the festival site.

 

“That was pretty tough for Dom,” frowns Bellamy. “It was the fact that he hadn’t seen him for so long that made it so difficult. We cancelled a few gigs, and we all went down to Devon for a week or so, hanging around with Dom and his family. We considered stopping touring, full-stop. But it was Dom who wanted to go back on the road.”

 

Although he rarely discusses it, Bellamy has family ties to the first Britpop boom. One of the sly musical allusions on Black Holes and Revelations is the galloping synthesizer melody in Knights of Cydonia, a homage to the 1962 chart-topper Telstar by the Tornados. Bellamy’s father George played in the Tornados, and partly inspired him to form Muse.

 

“It was just in the fact that my dad was a big record collector,” Bellamy says, “and there were always guitars and pianos around the house. He lives in Spain now. I think he plays in some pub band down there.”

 

Bellamy has long been a keen consumer of internet conspiracy theories, but Black Holes and Revelations charts whole new galaxies of apocalyptic hysteria. With its howled warnings about “our leaders” colluding with alien invasion and lost civilisations on Mars, the album contains more sci-fi paranoia than an entire series of The X-Files. In the course of our afternoon together, Bellamy shares some spectacularly ripe theories: mankind is descended from alien interbreeding; geometric patterns link the Pyramids of Giza, Washington DC, and the surface of Mars with the Orion’s Belt constellation; the Beatles were a front for a clandestine think-tank brainwashing American youth. Oh, and The Da Vinci Code is grounded in fact.

 

“It’s serious to me, all this,” Bellamy says with a pained smile. “But at the same time I’m able to laugh at it. I know when people like David Icke start coming out with this stuff, the initial reaction of most people is to laugh. I’m able to do that as well. The only difference is I do believe this stuff, and I do want to try and communicate some of it subtly, through some of the songs.”

 

During a recent promotional trip to New York, Bellamy insisted on conducting interviews in a helicopter. Online rumours had convinced him that a giant meteorite impact was about to unleash a tsunami, wiping out Manhattan. More seriously, he insists that the global banking system is a centuries-old cartel intent on trapping the human race into economic slavery. To anyone with a mortgage, this is hardly news.

 

But surely Muse’s main songwriter must have a bank account for his royalties? “I keep mostly cash, to be honest,” he says. “It’s best to convert it into real objects, or give it away.”

 

Perhaps, I suggest, Bellamy’s paranoia results from smoking too many illicit substances? “No, not for a long time,” he says. “I had a strong relationship with mushrooms at the time of Origin of Symmetry. But at one point I said: ‘I’ve seen enough,’ and I haven’t been near them since.”

 

The circular logic of Bellamy’s theories could keep us arguing all day, so in the end we agree to differ. But what is beyond question is that British rock needs grandiose, passionate, crackpot visionaries like Muse.

 

They have released one of the year’s finest albums, and are certain to unleash a mighty musical firework display in Edinburgh next month. In a pop scene dominated by overpraised indie weaklings, the phantom of the rock opera always delivers.

 

Muse headline T on the Fringe, Edinburgh (0870 1690100), on August 24

 

Source: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

 

Just ordered my copy of this cd :smug: Can't wait to get it! :nice:

I can't wait to see MUSE! TONIGHTTTTTTT! I'm going insaaaaaane! :D:D SO excited, for the past 3 weeks I've constantly it. :P I was so scared that it might be cancelled because of the liqour issue at the venue. :O

^Oooh wow!!! :D Have a great time!!! :dance:

^^ steph...may i ask you what your sig piccy is about?

Oh it's The Kilers new album which comes on October 3rd, :dance: called 'Sam's Town', and the two lyrics either side are from the 1st single called 'When You Were Young' :)

Awww i see now! thanks lol.

Lol s'ok :)

I saw them last night.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:lol: :blush:

sorry Steph!!

^Oooh wow!!! :D Have a great time!!! :dance:

 

I'm sure I will:D

Even though apaprently the venue isn't the greatest..oh well..

Request: MUSE b-sides & rarities

 

Hi!

 

I'm trying to complete my MUSE collection, though I'm missing a couple of b-sides.

 

- Balloonatic (from 'Helping You Back To Work - Volume 1')

- Jimmy Cane (from 'Uno' CD single)

- Uno (Alternative version) (from 'Uno 7 inch vinyl')

- Uno (Radio Edit) (from 'Uno German promo')

- Cave (Instrumental version) (from 'Cave 7 inch vinyl')

- Cave (Radio Edit) (from 'Cave US CD promo')

- Unintended (Live acoustic at KCRW) (from 'Cave US CD promo')

- Muscle Museum (Radio Edit) (from 'Muscle Museum UK CD promo')

- Minimum (from 'Muscle Museum 7 inch vinyl')

- Sunburn (Live at the Libro Hall, Vienna) (from 'Sunburn German promo')

- Nishe (from 'Unintended CD2')

- Hate This & I'll Love You (Live acoustic at Oui FM) (from 'Unintended CD2')

- Muscle Museum (US mix) (from 'Muscle Museum re-release CD1/CD2')

- Agitated (Live) (from 'Muscle Museum re-release CD1')

- Sunburn (Timo Maas Sunstroke Remix) (from 'Muscle Museum re-release CD1')

- Sober (Saint US mix) (from 'Muscle Museum re-release CD2')

- Muscle Museum (Soulwax mix) (from 'Muscle Museum re-release CD2')

- New Born (Paul Oakenfold Perfecto Remix) (from 'New Born 12 inch vinyl')

- Feeling Good (Radio Edit) (from 'Feeling Good UK CD promo')

- Hyper Music (Radio Edit) (from 'Feeling Good UK CD promo')

- Hyper Music (Live at the Bologna Independent Days Festival in Italy) (from 'Feeling Good/Hyper Music' CD single)

- Feeling Good (Live at the Bologna Independent Days Festival in Italy) (from 'Feeling Good/Hyper Music' CD single)

- In Your World (Live version) (from 'Dead Star/In Your World' Japanese release)[/i

- Dead Star (Live version) (from 'Dead Star/In Your World' Japanese release)

- Fury (from 'Sing For Absolution' CD single)

- Sing For Absolution Full Length US Remix (from 'Sing For Absolution 7 inch vinyl')

- Butterflies & Hurricanes (Radio Edit) (from 'Butterflies & Hurricanes promo')

- Butterflies & Hurricanes (Live at Glastonbury 2004) (from 'Butterflies & Hurricanes 7 inch vinyl')

 

+

Full 'Muse' ltd. ed. 4-track EP (1998)

Full 'Muscle Museum' ltd. ed. 6-track EP (1999)

 

 

If anyone has any of these songs in high quality MP3 format, please share.

Thanks in advance.

 

P.s. I'm happy to share any other song by Muse.

Many and crazyduckette, you lucky girls!! :o

 

Man, i want to see them live so bad :disappointed:

Yeah that's one of the 3 I have (Crying Shame' date=' Con-Science, Host, also House of the Rising Sun, but that doesn't count :P ). It's such an amazing and sad song. I could relate to the lyrics a while back. :cry:[/quote']

 

Here's something for you then :D

 

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=E47BCAB359450EE2

 

Enjoy :cool:

lol this song is amazing! Where's it from? :D

MUSE are on the red button feature on Digital TV in the UK at the moment...

On Da BBC

Here's something for you then :D

 

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=E47BCAB359450EE2

 

Enjoy :cool:

 

Wow this song rocks!!:) Thanks so much for uploading it for us!:nice:

Yeah that's one of the 3 I have (Crying Shame' date=' Con-Science, Host, also House of the Rising Sun, but that doesn't count :P ). [/quote']

 

House Of The Rising Sun?

Erm... could you please share that one? :)

Kirk!! how the heck are ya missy!!!?? Good I hope.....

 

 

I'll be seeing Muse next week!! *squeals* I'll tell Dom you say hello... :)

 

 

Hey im good thank you!

 

Aww tell him i miss him hehe

Kirst!!!! wow, i havent seen you in sooooolong! and you're gonna see muse again? amazing! have fun! :D

 

Oh well, i havent been that good but life goes on and things seem to be better by the day and hey the new muse album totally made my year haha, what about ya? hope everything's fine in your world *hugs*

 

Aww Ren *huggles*I love the new album and its made my year a whole lot better too!

Yeah everything is good at the moment thanks!