This is a bit belated, but it took the usual two day recuperation period before I gained control of my consious mind again. I needed to drain the awesomeness out first. (Fun Fact: "Awesomeness" is a viscous, amber-colored fluid that smells like chocolate chip cookies. Matt Bellamy's blood is composed equally of this, and "Sexulite")....
So, yeah. Me and the boys, STeev and SlapChicken included, went to see Muse at Madison Square Garden on Monday night. After some hilarious, and borderline fist fight-inducing, drunken antics at Penn Station, we were then privy to 2 hours of ball-milking musical insanity. And here follows my overly adoring review:
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Opening with "Knights of Cydonia", and concluding with "Take A Bow", this show was kind-of like the bizarro version of the first Muse show I saw at Hammerstein Ballroom, one year and three days earlier. They pretty 
much hit every song they'd hit last time, but in a strange near-reverse order. Oh, and this time, in a fucking arena setting. The crowd was actually a little bit more tolerable this time around as well, and I think everyone in attendance would agree that this may have been the fastest feeling concert they'd ever been to, despite the fact that the band played a 19-song set. Up-down-and-sideways, Muse continues to embarass most other supposed rock groups of today with its note-perfect blinding energy, not only perfectly matching the intensity of these songs' studio-recorded counterparts but surpassing them with clever variations and all manner of intuitively-styled personal signatures applied to their own classics, as if each song just came out of Matt, Chris and Dominic's collective head right then and there, and not as long as ten years ago in a studio halfway around the world.
much hit every song they'd hit last time, but in a strange near-reverse order. Oh, and this time, in a fucking arena setting. The crowd was actually a little bit more tolerable this time around as well, and I think everyone in attendance would agree that this may have been the fastest feeling concert they'd ever been to, despite the fact that the band played a 19-song set. Up-down-and-sideways, Muse continues to embarass most other supposed rock groups of today with its note-perfect blinding energy, not only perfectly matching the intensity of these songs' studio-recorded counterparts but surpassing them with clever variations and all manner of intuitively-styled personal signatures applied to their own classics, as if each song just came out of Matt, Chris and Dominic's collective head right then and there, and not as long as ten years ago in a studio halfway around the world. ...
I'll cut the rest of this piece short, if only so any other blog contributor here can add their own two cents if they please. If not, they are weak of mind, and should be pitied my dear children, not hated. But I'll leave you with the setlist for the show, and advise you, with all the sincerity I could ever muster: should Muse come within 100 miles of your hometown and you choose not to go to the show, you might as well just smash your nuts (fingers, I guess for the ladies) on a rock repeatedly.
I'll cut the rest of this piece short, if only so any other blog contributor here can add their own two cents if they please. If not, they are weak of mind, and should be pitied my dear children, not hated. But I'll leave you with the setlist for the show, and advise you, with all the sincerity I could ever muster: should Muse come within 100 miles of your hometown and you choose not to go to the show, you might as well just smash your nuts (fingers, I guess for the ladies) on a rock repeatedly.....
Setlist - Madison Square Garden, August 6, 2007.
1. Knights of Cydonia
1. Knights of Cydonia
2. Map of the Problematique
3. Hysteria
4. Supermassive Black Hole
5. City of Delusion
6. Butterflies and Hurricanes
7. Hoodoo
7. Hoodoo
8. Feeling Good
9. Apocalypse Please
10. Sunburn
11. Invincible
12. Starlight
13. Time is Running Out
14. New Born
15. Plug in Baby (+ Balloons!)
Encore
16. Soldier's Poem
17. Unintended
18. Stockholm Syndrome
19. Take a Bow
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