The 2nd Law (studio album) by Muse
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The 2nd Law is ranked 6th best out of 18 albums by Muse on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Muse is Absolution which is ranked number 195 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 8,060.
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The 2nd Law track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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80/100  | 04/13/2025 21:50 |  ExTeaSea | | 83/100 |
85/100 | 04/04/2025 12:59 | mash | | 89/100 |
60/100 | 03/26/2025 23:54 | Persondudes | | 74/100 |
90/100 | 01/29/2025 21:20 | Musicmister9988 | | 96/100 |
80/100 | 01/16/2025 22:06 |  Cargusbralem | | 67/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 64.1/100, a mean average of 64.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 64.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 20.6.
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One of the best bands of all time, who started writing lyrics to question the inequality caused by capitalism, then Western "democracy" removed them from radio and TV and the sheep portrayed in Pink Floyd's Animals album are still all lined up... Méé Méé Méé... Great album
If you don't take the over the top stuff too seriously, if you don't mind dubstep and if you skip some songs, it is quite decent.
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Boltzmann 01/05/2020 22:07
Maybe the poppiest of all their albums. But that's okay, it's fun. Rather this than when they try to be deep.
I love Muse and all, but man I hated this.
TerryTezza 06/20/2019 04:29
This is a great album by Muse with great variety and strong songs. the album starts and finishes brilliantly.
Few good tracks, but very average, again, very formulaic.
This album was Muse's first misstep when going down this dystopian path. Resistance was able to provide some commentary (although a bit simplistic) and was able to cover some of it's deficiencies by being a kind of homage to 1984. 2nd law shows that Muse actually doesn't know what they are talking about and they are really just peddling vague thoughts and negative feelings towards things. I don't even really understand what they stand for besides general fear if those in power and throwing around buzz words hoping people will interpret them as deep thoughts.
That being said, the music is also weaker than the rest of their discography. Madness feels lazy, and most of the rest of the tracks feel very ordinary and don't stand out much. The only song that feels memorable to me is panic station. It isn't their best song, but it actually stands on its own musically.
luigybetis 05/04/2018 13:58
This album is really underrated, but I am not surprised as everything by Muse seems to be hated in this site. I think it deserves at least a 70/100 BEA score, but whatever. 7/10.
Kind of Queen and U2. Love it! Madness is the best song from Muse
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