It's so beautiful!!!

aww cool.

Hopefully it comes out on vinyl, so it looks good as it sounds

holy fuck, thats probably one of the most epic pictures Iv ever seen

that is going to be amazing.

Never mind the artwork, this new album better be good or else.

I've heard "Ununited Staes of Eurasia" and "Uprising" on the radio and they're pretty good

"pretty" good is not good enough I'm afraid

I mean... uh... yes, really
I've heard "The United States" and I can't honestly say I like it very much... For one thing, Queen's influence is too much, shall I say, pronounced
If they are going to continue to be repetitive and unoriginal... well, my Muse love will come to a very sad end I'm sorry to say

Shame.

yeah I guess

I still like Absolution

Oh, me too
and I still like Showbiz and OoS and Hullabaloo
but when a band goes into decline, well... somehow this casts a dark cloud over their earlier work
and it is rather... painful ()

*cough*MELODIA*cough*

Say no more...

*saaad sigh

So... against my better judgement I've finally bought this Resistance thing

11 quid down the bloody drain

seriously Rusty, your making me lose faith in music nowadays *worries*

Sorry about all that doom and gloom

but it is excruciatingly rather painful for me, the fact that Muse are no longer the band they used to be...
I positively worshipped them in the old days, you see (not as much as Radiohead, but still...)
Ah well, that's the way the cookie crumbles I suppose...
*sigh


Still, there's no need to lose faith in music as such, there's so many fantastic bands around


edit: Is that a poem in the making up there?

Hmm...


It's so painful for me
that Muse are not
what they used to be
Gone are te glory days
but I will love them
forever and always...



(The ending did not come out the way I intended but heck )

well yeah I guess so, but it's all these electro-indie bands that get so hyped up by NME nowadays

True, but one doesn't have to listen to them
There's a multitude of older bands that are still going strong... Radiohead, Idlewild, Incubus, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Coldplay, The Killers...

...I can even say that they are getting better and better as they age, heh

Idlewild is not big here in Australia

And Radiohead started going experimental because they didn't like being called 'Nirvana-lite', and everybody loved them for what they did

I know... They are practically unknown outside Britain, and it makes me want to bang my head against the wall when I think of it
Talk about underrated, GOD!

They deserve so much better than that...

Don't worry, Razorlight isn't big here as well

hey its not that bad

and I'll probably see them at the Big Day Out

Not much of a consolation, but I'll make the best of it

Razorlight, eww...


I'm afraid it is
(I didn't even listen to all of it, I got so mad and disappointed )

I guess alot of people have different views of the album

you must have missed the best bits then

Oh?

But somehow I don't feel like listening to them anymore...

Oh and Keane isn't big here in Australia

So...uhh...is anything big over there?

... apart from, what do you call them, Megascolides Australis?

CLICKY


(apparently, they grow up to 12 feet in length! (and 6 inches in diameter)

I agree with Anna, the new album is horrible.
Or maybe not horrible.. but definitely disappointing and overrated. among other things.

Kings of Leon but only their fourth album

AND BIG BONANAZ!!!!!

Iv looked up razorlight and idlewild.... they sound boring as hell!

jaysus what is that?!

I can't stand them


Whoa...
OK, I will refrain from making a Freudian-like comment at this point


A GIANT EARTHWORM!

...
So... I've forced myself to listen to TR, all of it
Rajiv, you liar! Where are those "best bits" you mentioned, hm?

We have also other types of big things as tourist attractions all around Australia. The closest Big Thing to me is the Big Mosquito.

As seen here:

http://www.bigthings.com.au/

creepy


i just thought you shoulda given them a chance, it was unfair to pronounce such hasty judgment without listening to the album properly

The weird thing is, I haven't seen one of those yet...

Oh...right
Are, er... The Vines still big there?


So, after half an hour of utter shite mediocrity, was I to expect a sudden burst of unsurpassed brilliance?


Shame. It would have been an unforgettable experience, I'm sure


...and on the Australian note...

CLICK

They're sort of at cult standards



We Australians don't drink Budweisers. WE DRINK VB!!!

lol i thought you might like the last bit

Ah, of course... this is perhaps to be expected


Is it any good?


Well, yes... it's quite OK, but it's too little too late I'm afraid...

yeah, but still draw in crowds, sell out shows, citied as influences and all around good guys




Yeah it's alright, but hardly anyone here drinks Fosters

I prefer to drink Coopers

Amazing!


I can't stand beer (or booze of any kind)

...

God, I still can't get over this Muse thing
It seems so... unthinkable, I mean, a shitty Muse album

yeah, well over here so they're doing pretty well since:
a)They left a major record label to an independent label and are the forerunners of the company
b)The frontman has Aspergers
c)It's really hard for Australian bands to make it overseas



yeah I'm not of a huge drinker as well, just now and then, but the HSC is coming so I can't afford to lose precious brain cells



Well Brian May approves of it

You have a point here, yes


Somehow this does not surprise me
Probably he's just flattered and stuff

edit: I never liked them anyway

Oh well, everyone has different music tastes

But there's this one band here in Australia that's more popular than the Vines but more shittier and less talented. Nearly every 15yo female sheep likes them.

I bring you Short Stack

(WARING: MAY CAUSE SERVERE EAR RAPE)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXEh86vt5f0&feature=fvsr

Oh no, not that pic again!

Still, I wonder if he'd "approve" of Idlewild...



Ayeeee!