starting today, im not trying to come up with cutesy names for posts. just straight up artist-song. cuz the cutesy names are never good anyway. also, im now including links for the songs just above the players where you can right click and save the songs. so perhaps that will be more motivation to visit and tell your friends. the next two days, we will be bringing you tracks from two bands who have a similar approach to music. theyre both pretty much hard rockers and borderline heavy metal (especially todays), but extremely melodic at the same time. and they have ridiculously similar names. todays band, muse (can you guess tomorrows group?), seems to almost take melodies from classical music and turn them into huge rock powerhouses. in general im not a huge fan of screaming heavy metal, but these guys take the loud overthetopness of heavy metal and turn it into something thats much more pleasing on the ears. and they have one of the best live shows ive seen. i was lucky enough to see them at the 89x birthday bash a few years back at a pretty small outdoor venue. while it was still a pretty big crowd, it seemed tiny when noted that just 2 days later they would be headlining one night of lollapalooza. besides their intense visual show, complete with everything on stage covered in video screens, they really showcased how musically talented they were as a band, with one of the members at one point playing some intense classical piano, right in the middle of a rock show.

there were about a million songs i wanted to post by these guys as my favorite tracks of theirs change all the time, but in the end i picked the song i did just because some of you may not have heard it before. the song is “glorious” (my second choice was “map of the problematique”) and its a bonus track off the japanese version of their 2006 album “black holes and revelations” and also as a track on the “invincible” single. this album is what really threw them into the mainstream in america, even though they had a pretty strong following here before and of course were huge across the sea. i like the transitions between the keyboards and guitars playing the backup music. and the chromatic choruses. and how its one of the more major-sounding muse songs. seems like a lot of their stuff is in a minor key, but im all about that too. im looking forward to hearing some new music from them (hopefully accompanied by a tour?) coming up pretty soon. aside: whats with all the haters of “united states of eurasia”?

muse – glorious

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