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I knew I wasn't the only one who thought it sounded like Call Me. I also get an I Kissed A Girl vibe from it. Plagarism aside, good comeback. GUTTED I didn't get tickets for the tour.

Dont forget to add Kasabian to the list of plagarisms (yes Vicki mentioned it in the review).

I got tickets :D

it does sound good and powerful.. but yea it has taken from a lot of songs..

am i going crazy or has no one else seen the borrowing of Depeche mode's (covered by marilyn manson)'Personal Jesus' bass line?? its really blatant.. and stuff..

Good spot, flatknees.
It sounds like a hell of a lot of songs, NME did a blog post which showed about 8 different ones.

Liam, I'm so jealous it's incomprehenisble. I heard Hysteria live today on the radio, it defined immense. Better than Pendulum anyday.

I too heard it live and had a little grin to myself. Its going to be amazing.

you are literally so with him? why has it become so popular lately to use the word 'literally' out of context? how it irks me....

the obvious problem viki is when i am being savaged by an actual mountain bear and i call my mates and say 'i am literally being savaged by a mountain bear', they will be like 'well no one uses the word literally as it should be anymore, so he has probably met (yet another) aggressive female of some sort'

do you see my relevant problem??

no they are not, thats the point, i am probably the one being pedantic and i am often found manipulating and changing the english language for my own benefit.. its just the word literally being used in its totally opposite context..

and obviously i am in the dense woodland of north canada when i meet the bear, its like Alien, no one can hear you scream.. luckily they can if you have roaming.. but as i said before, my friends will be dumbfounded when i use the word literally in its correct context.. yep..

On the topic of pendantic, capitilise your Is. It literally so annoying :p

no no no! i do not correct my 'i's after a pedantic comment when they spell the flipping word wrong! oh the irony of it all...

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I'm amazed that there's been all this talk of an imaginary scenario involving someone being savaged by bears, and yet not one mention of Reggie Yates...

Ursa-ch a joker, Fraser.

As in "you're such". Like a pun.

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That was brutal. I think this could get grizzly.

This is true. And it can be especially challenging when you're polar opposites.

I really enjoy coming to this website. Would love to be able to help contribute.

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I love Muse. I love this song. All review normal standards fall by the wayside because of I love the whole thing so much. There are problems with this track. There are inefficiencies and overdoings. But I love it anyway.

I'm not at all offended -my nickname is misleading- but I'm in fact female ;)
I'm also getting Doctor Who theme tune when I hear this...
I still like it though.
With song titles that mention Eurasia and the album being called the Resistance, is this basically about 1984?

As I predicted 3 months ago , THE RESISTANCE is NUMBER 1 !!!!

Before anyone says that even the man on the moon could have guessed that , Muse have fought off PIXIE LOTT , DAVID GRAY , JAY - Z and the resurgent PETER ANDRE !!!!!

Oh , and VERA LYNN !!!

Easiest prediction of the year.

Yeah .

For people who really like this sort of thing.

Black holes and revelations debuted at number 1 on sales of 115,000 copies in 2006.

The resistance debuted at 1 on sales of 148,000 copies last week .

It's a sure sign that Muse are generating huge interest at retail !

So come on Muse fans , what is your verdict on the new album ?

I think the new Muse album is fantastic. Although, style wise, it doesn't sound that different from their Black Holes and Revelations album?

Its amazing. Uprising is a throwback to their older material but the rest of the album is a real step.. sideways? I dont want to say forward because Im not sure its a "better" album. Its just a change of pace .. not direction as Im sure their next album will be more Black Holes like. It is a concept album at the end of the day.

Track 6 is my fav. I cant remember its name, not etched the whole thing on my brain yet.

I'm not an immense Muse fan, but like some of their songs and, with all the hoo-ha over the new album, I decided I would check it out, along with Black Holes and Revelations. I listened to all 30 sec samples of Black Holes on iTunes; and then listened to The Resistance in full (it's been streamed on We7, available on the NME website).

In the end, I plumped for Black Holes, and gave The Resistance a miss, and I think I was right (for me). They both have the same grandeur and huge scale, but I think Black Holes is on the right side of overblown, and The Resistance might not be. The songs on Black Holes seem overall better to me, whereas The Resistance seemed to stray a little too much into Queen territory for my liking. Plus, the "funky first single" was done better the first time (Supermassive Black Hole) than this time (Uprising).

All the same, I'm keen to have another listen to the three-part symphony from The Resistance. I might just buy those tracks.

Tbh Curtain you're better off just buying both albums. Why not have your cake and eat it?

Meh. I don't think I'm interested enough to shell out the £8 for the whole album. A couple of quid for those three is fine though.

Right , a few statistics about Muse , as requested by Liam .

Muse have now sold over 3 million albums in the UK.

Of this total , Black Holes and Revelations made the biggest contribution with over 800,000 copies sold .

The Resistance has sold over 200,000 copies in two weeks.

It certainly looks like a successful time for the Teignmouth trio !

Wasnt aware I'd requested some statistics, but thanks none the less Spirit :)

Its not as good an album as Black Holes.. but its sure a brilliant one. Hard to quantify them against each other, as this one isnt really intended to be as comercial as Black Holes was.

STATISTICS CORNER :

When it was released , the album THE RESISTANCE by MUSE , WENT TO NUMBER 1 in 18 different countries !

Not bad !
Maybe someone will come on in a grumpy voice and a say :
"Yeah , but there are still more people in the world that didn't buy the Muse album , than people that did . "

That's all very well , but in my opinion I think it is important, in this world, to be positive and celebrate success that has been well earnt , and give credit for a lot of talent and really hard work !

Well done Muse .

And they are in Sheffield just before my birthday, a trip out seems highly in order!

The album is about 1984 indeed, and the New World Order which we have yet to prevent occuring, and all the other issues which are destroying our spiritual world at this present time. Like others here, I cannot criticise Muse rationally as I love the whole vibe they have so much.

Muse's new single will be Resistance and the video is planned to debut tommorow, don't know where.

They have really flunked in terms of singles from this album. 'MK Bowl', 'Guiding light', 'United states' and 'Unnautral selection' are CLEARLY better singles and tracks.

When I saw them live people were actually getting bored during 'Undisclosed desires'. I'd almost go as far as to say that its a poor single.

Within the concept of the album, they all work. Its almost a story. I even like 'Undisclosed desires' in the context of the album. But the tracks I mentioned above are all beter individual tracks in my mind.

Phenominal album and easily the best thing I have ever seen live. I was just completely awe struck. I nearly cried during 'United states..', I was that emotional. I haven;t cried in years.

Unnatural Selection and MK Ultra would be better singles but Resistance is more poppy so it will probably chart higher.

To stress Liam's point , Undisclosed Desires , failed to chart !

I really like Undisclosed Desires actually, even if Unnatural Selection would have been a much better single.

'The Resistance' probably won't chart either. Maybe top 30.

'Undisclosed Desires' was everywhere. All over the radio and yet didn't chart. Says something!

Anyway Muse aren't about the singles, everyone knows that I guess. Not even sure why they bother with 'em. I guess it's, as I said for Paolo Nutini, so they can keep their radio play, thus exposure and thus album sales up.

In a nutshell !

A big successful single , is the best promotion , an album can have !

Oh and maybe an X Factor performance too !

X Factor performance seemed to = number 1 for a lot of artists!

18 MILLION viewers , can be such a good marketing tool....