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Muse
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Teignmouth, England, United Kingdom (1990 – present)
Muse is a band from Teignmouth, England, United Kingdom. The band consists of Matthew Bellamy on lead vocals, piano, keyboard and guitar, Chris Wolstenholme on backing vocals and bass guitar, and Dominic Howard on drums and percussion.
They have been friends since their formation in early 1990 and changed band names a number of times (such as Gothic Plague, Fixed Penalty, and Rocket Baby Dolls) before adopting the name Muse. Since the release of their fourth album, Morgan Nicholls has also appeared with the band at live performances to provide keyboards, samples/synth, and backing vocals.
Their sound is a blend of alternative rock, classical music, electronica, metal, spanish guitars, and progressive rock. Usually they use the bass line as the driving force, often with the guitar providing only an extra layer to the song rather than carrying the melody, the bass has distortion and other effects applied to it to achieve a greater weight, allowing the guitar to digress from the main tune and play higher notes. Another peculiarity is Muse´s piano style in many of their songs; their music has been inspired by the works of Romantic pianist-composers such as Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky and Liszt, and has thus resulted in a fusion of Romantic style with modern rock.
The band is known for their energetic live performances and front man Matthew Bellamy’s eccentric and avid interests in global conspiracy, extraterrestrial life, theology and the apocalypse (as much as in Space and theoretical physics). Their lyrical themes involve madcap conspiracy theory, revolutionary rabble-rousing, weird stuff about aliens (or Zetas, if you please), religions and other such classic Muse concerns.
They have been friends since their formation in early 1990 and changed band names a number of times (such as Gothic Plague, Fixed Penalty, and Rocket Baby Dolls) before adopting the name Muse. Since the release of their fourth album, Morgan Nicholls has also appeared with the band at live performances to provide keyboards, samples/synth, and backing vocals.
Their sound is a blend of alternative rock, classical music, electronica, metal, spanish guitars, and progressive rock. Usually they use the bass line as the driving force, often with the guitar providing only an extra layer to the song rather than carrying the melody, the bass has distortion and other effects applied to it to achieve a greater weight, allowing the guitar to digress from the main tune and play higher notes. Another peculiarity is Muse´s piano style in many of their songs; their music has been inspired by the works of Romantic pianist-composers such as Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky and Liszt, and has thus resulted in a fusion of Romantic style with modern rock.
The band is known for their energetic live performances and front man Matthew Bellamy’s eccentric and avid interests in global conspiracy, extraterrestrial life, theology and the apocalypse (as much as in Space and theoretical physics). Their lyrical themes involve madcap conspiracy theory, revolutionary rabble-rousing, weird stuff about aliens (or Zetas, if you please), religions and other such classic Muse concerns.
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Shoutbox
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Juddu wrote:
you're quite a beast
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nevverenough wrote:
I'm both sick and healthy and i'm also clean and dirty.
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Juddu wrote:
I'm sick but my music is clean
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Odessius wrote:
Join Sick Kids, Sick Taste!!!
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Juddu wrote:
No, it is going on and on and on and on etc.
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MadameBellamy wrote:
Muse vs. Radiohead- I thought that debate ended in 2001.
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mutantindiekid wrote:
I don't get why people say that Muse copy Radiohead. OK, maybe Matt sounds like Thom occasionally (read: a lot) but musically they are very different animals. Radiohead went stranger earlier in their careers, and maybe it hasn't always worked (quo videt the ghastly sonic mess that was most of Hail To The Thief), but it was still good to get it out of their systems. They are indebted only to the brains of Messrs Yorke, Greenwood and Greenwood. Muse, however, are very much married to prog, except for the whole "Let's write a two-disc concept album in a made up language!" thing, which most other prog bands have been through at some point. Muse brought new life to a genre that frankly was going nowhere except its own rectal cavity and that's no mean feat considering what they had to work with. With two guitars and a drumkit they create (most of the time) the pathos and sonic landscape most other bands would only get by using eight hundred session musicians and a name producer. Rant's over.
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nevverenough wrote:
I'm really into Butterflies and Hurricanes atm.
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TROGDOR57 wrote:
Bye.
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smartboy4 wrote:
hello
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Juddu wrote:
good for you
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nevverenough wrote:
i'm everywhere, sorry.
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Juddu wrote:
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
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Cavenow wrote:
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
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Cavenow wrote:
fuck radiohead
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Juddu wrote:
in Radiohead shoutbox nothing for 20 mins would be extreme
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higginst wrote:
nothing for 6 hours....whoa
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lDeleteMyself wrote:
*crickets*
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neonanthem wrote:
man i hate houses
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SirMothy wrote:
its true, radiohead shoutboxers have to squash mice heads and cook them up in a pot.
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