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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0093624798422
Format: Enhanced
Label: Maverick
Manufacturer: Maverick
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Maverick
Release Date: September 20, 2005
Studio: Maverick
Sales Rank: 1029
MPN: 47984
Disc 1:- New Born
- Bliss
- Space Dementia
- Hyper Music
- Plug in Baby
- Citizen Erased
- Micro Cuts
- Screenager
- Dark Shines
- Feeling Good
- Megalomania
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Album Description: After 2004's U.S. breakthrough success for U.K. favorite Muse, the band's second album, 2001's Origin of Symmetry, finally earns its stateside release. Last yeasr's Absolution and major performances across the country won legions of American fans for the band that was the prestigious closing act at London's V2004 Festival. Now these new fans can experience an earlier Muse with Origin of Symmetry.
Amazon.com: Pomposity, bombast, pretension and prog-rock: they're four crimes that blight the landscape of modern music and Origin Of Symmetry--the second record by Teignmouth, U.K. angst-rockers Muse--is guilty of every single one. But the truly astonishing thing about this record is the way it twists every one of these cardinal musical sins into spectacularly silly and starkly individual strengths. Where their debut album Showbiz was rightly dismissed as little more than Radiohead-lite, here Muse sound defiantly like their own band: on "New Born", they're torn somewhere between the purity of front man Matt Bellamy's angelic vocal tones and the corruption of a huge, dirty, distorted bass riff that electrifies the sound into crackling life; on the fraught, operatic "Bliss", they sound like an unholy--but very welcome--cross between synth-heavy Krautrock legends Tangerine Dream and youthful choirboy angst-peddlers JJ72; and even a wonderfully dippy take on the Nina Simone-popularised jazz standard "Feeling Good" is carried off with the requisite deadpan countenance. Bellamy's impassioned voice, in particular, is on spectacular form, soaring skywards until it cracks into a beautiful falsetto reminiscent of Jeff Buckley's greatest vocal moments. So gloriously overblown, it deserves to be huge--Origin Of Symmetry is a fascinating, flamboyant and satisfyingly individual album. --Louis Pattison
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in my opinion muse is one of the best band today, anything i said would fail miserably in describe them, you have to listen their muisc and this album in particular its great, an instant classic, their best in my opinion
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Warning: every single one of the songs on this CD are so epically genius you won't be able to tolerate any of that crap on the radio for even a minute after one listen.
Never before have I been stunned by one album. It's not just that the music is good; it's so insightful and connected it's almost scary. It kicks off with Newborn, which starts out great with fast-paced piano and only gets better when the guitar comes in.
Undoubtedly two of my favorite Muse songs ever (which is saying something) follow: Bliss and Space Dementia. Both consist of background arpeggios but hold very other qualities. Bliss's strong suit is its lyrics. In a way, it's a strange love song, describing a brilliant conundrum; being jealous of ... Read More:
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This is the Best MUSE's album to me. I started to like MUSE when I first listened to "Space Dementia". I recomend this album to everybody who likes good music.
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Totalmente orginal. Entre melancólico y rabioso. Te saca de la orbita por un momento y luego te deja pensando en las posturas de los músicos almomento de tocar la canción...
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This is just one GREAT cd! Has space/hard/alternative rock and a lot more! And of course, we couldn't expect less from Muse. Cheers!
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