This is a few weeks old, but Muse came out with a new live DVD last month entitled HAARP. This CD-DVD set includes both a video and audio recording of their sold-out show at Wembley Stadium last year. As has been noted on this blog previously, the whole crew from Nerd Geyser (ugh... just typing that phrase makes me shudder) went to the Madison Square Garden show later that same summer, and needless to say it was punch-a-nun-in-the-face Awesome (with the noted capital "A"). If you have the chance, do yourself a favor and go out and grab this. Its like candy... for the ears.
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Monday, March 10, 2008
New Muse Tour DVD Imminent!
Muse, probably the best rock band in the world right now, will be releasing their newest concert tour DVD a week from today, on March 17th. For those of you new to the site, Muse is THE best live act in music currently. Its not often I watch a tour DVD more than once, but I must admit that I've replayed the Absolution Tour DVD that came with Black Holes and Revelations at least a few hundred times. The new disc, titled HAARP, will include both of their landmark shows from Wembley Stadium last June. Needless to say, I'm looking forward to this enough that I just might have to contract a serious illness next Monday and miss work in order to spend a relaxing day with my greatest man-crush: Matthew Bellamy. I'll pour us both a nice cup of coffee and lay out a spread of fine pastries for our romantic day together, feeding his share to him by smashing cookies into the television screen while I giggle playfully. "C'mon, Matt... you're just skin and bones!"The tracklisting for the aforementioned audiogasm follows:
1) Knights of Cydonia... 2) Hysteria... 3) Supermassive Black Hole... 4) Map of the Problematique... 5) Butterflies and Hurricanes... 6) Hoodoo... 7) Apocalypse Please... 8) Feeling Good... 9) Invincible... 10) Starlight... 11) Time is Running Out... 12) New Born... 13) Soldier's Poem... 14) Unintended... 15) Blackout... 16) Plug-In Baby... 17) Stockholm Syndrome... 18) Take A Bow
Yes, there is also an accompanying c.d., much like their previous release Hullaballo, but I am currently choosing to ignore that.. solely because it proves that they did indeed play "Micro Cuts" on the last tour... yet never at a show I was present for! God, I need to move to England.... OR, maybe I'll move England to me. Mwahahaha *begins hatching mad scientist-esque plan for Country relocation... perhaps involving a comically large amount of helicopters and steel cables* Oh, what am I doing? I know that I'll just lose interest about halfway through the project and discard it behind the nearly-completed weather-manipulation machine.
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Take A Bow
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:
....
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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