Tracks:
1. Intro
2. Apocalypse Please
3. Time Is Running Out
4. Sing For Absolution
5. Stockholm Syndrome
6. Falling Away With You
7. Interlude
8. Hysteria
9. Blackout
10. Butterflies & Hurricanes
11. The Small Print
12. Endlessly
13. Thougts Of A Dying Atheist
14. Ruled By Secrecy
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety.
While I ultimately hate what this album represents (Queen meets OK Computer... really?), Matt Bellamy and the rest of the crew pull off this album so extraordinarily well that it deserves to be on my top 100. "Apocalypse Please" is at least one of the greatest openers of the past decade. It starts to lose steam in the second half, but there's absolutely nothing like the awesomely epic first slab.
On a random note, my brother actually likes this album BECAUSE of the obscene pretentiousness. Same with The Mars Volta and Bon Iver. He hates any indie music that's humble.
While I ultimately hate what this album represents (Queen meets OK Computer... really?), Matt Bellamy and the rest of the crew pull off this album so extraordinarily well that it deserves to be on my top 100.
Yes, they definitely deserve credit for their technical proficiency. I had the opportunity to see them live last summer and it was an incredible show just because it's amazing to watch them perform. Nevertheless, I will never consider them one of the greater bands of our time for the simple reason that their music IS incredibly pretentious and overblown (I suppose that probably sounds hypocritical coming from someone whose favorite album is A Night at the Opera, but I feel as though ANATO is significantly more artfully crafted).
Apocalypse Please is definitely one of the best openers I've ever heard. Stockholm Syndrome is also an amazing song. An album with a very distinct sound. Bellamy definitely emulates Thom Yorke, but besides his voice they aren't a Radiohead clone at all like a lot of people say. Well worth its spot on the list I believe.
This album was once in my chart, but didn't get better with time, this is generally the problem with Muse. still, a very good album. i don't mind seeing it in the top 100 even if i prefer by far Origin Of Symmetry 85/100
how is it pretentious _________________ "I would expect something wrong with the poll if the chart favorite was not the poll winner" - naples 12-8-11
"I was hoping he was gone for good, guess it was just too much to ask" - polythene pam 05-10-12
"Nickelback > Radiohead" - bork 05-14-12
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