Y Thursday, November 19, 2009
10:42 pm
I gave the new Muse album a spin yesterday, and after about 4 playthrus, yeah there're a few songs that are quite pleasing to the ears, but for the most part I can't seem to tell the songs apart.Don't get me wrong - Muse is a great band, and truly deserve the 'Alt. Rock' label, because quite frankly, there isn't a genre to classify them. There is no Muse 'style' because every album is so different. The only constant thing is Bellamy's vocals, which are quite frankly, genius.
That's the problem though. His voice is so distinguishable it makes all the songs seem so similar to each other. You know this is Muse, because that's Bellamy, but then you don't really know anything else because they pretty much sound the same.
Having said that, my personal favourites are Uprising, Resistance and the Exogenesis symphony. Other note worthy ones include United States of Eurasia, I get a really strong Queen vibe from that song.
Seriously, who doesn't love Exogenesis? When they meant epic space symphony, they weren't joking. Easily the highlight of the album as most seem to think. I wouldn't rate it so highly though - like I said, the songs bleed nicely into each other and become really, really uniform. Can't differentiate them from each other.
Uprising's political and digging at the gold diggers as usual. You can't say no to that. Resistance just sounds cool.
Case study tomorrow, I really don't know what I can do to prepare for it. Theory's pretty much there, just need to mop up a little macro econs and I'm golden. Oh yeah and those blasted graphs. I will admit my lack of visual IQ. I can't tell them apart sometimes.
Then we're done! Screw Chem MCQ rofl