White Horses, They Will Take Me AwayAlright, let's get this over with. I promise this won't hurt a bit. It's like getting a suppository shot up into your ass, nothing at all.So. Life kinda sucks at the moment. School's being stupid, because there's so much shit I have to do for every class...ever, which I haven't gotten started on yet. Wait to be a grade-A student, Brian. There was an opportunity to go to a show for the first time in a year, but the band that's playing (The Decemberists) are not all that good as I've come to find out, so I won't be going. The only cool thing that happened since I last posted was a fireworks display in rural Levant yesterday, which is MUCH better than the fireworks at Bangor. But that brief period of awesome was ruined today when a pen exploded in the front pocket of my favourite pair of jeans. I wanna crawl into a dark hole and starve myself to death. Tomorrow may be a happier day, because I'm picking up two albums at the record store tomorrow! Since they're both fully streamable on the YouTube, I've reviewed them early. Here's yer New Muse-ic Scores!  #1: "The Resistance" by Muse. For those who wanted more of the same out of their favourite progressive rock bands this year, it's not been the prettiest of years. Mastodon's Crack The Skye and The Mars Volta's Octahedron have both alienated die-hards with their softer, less bombastic sound which may or may not last further. Muse is changing as well, however...they're not following this mold. Their previous release, Black Holes And Revelations, only gave us a taste as to what madman Bellamy was going to throw at us next. And what he's thrown is a full blown orgy of all things pretentious that reigned through the 70s and 80s (think Queen and Duran Duran collaborating together after a 3 day cocaine binge). Normally, I would laugh my ass off if I ever heard such a thing, but Muse knows how to walk this very unstable tightrope. The fact that the obviously conscientious effort to dig into their own back catalogue for inspiration for their less symphonic tracks allows the die-hard fans of Origin Of Symmetry and Absolution to forgive them for whatever they find absolutely ridiculous within the rest of the album. But when you have a 13 minute masterpiece like the long-awaited Exogenesis Symphony in the record, what is there to forgive? Download: Undisclosed Desires, United States Of Eurasia, The Exogenesis Symphony.  #2: "A Night At The Opera" by Queen. (Come on, you knew this was coming.) If there is one thing that the English progressive rock movement did not know how to do, it was to package its ridiculousness in such a way that the masses would think twice before scoffing at it. Glam rock (the gay step-brother of prog rock) knew how to do this, and nobody within the genre did it better than Queen. The recording sessions of their breakthrough and magnum opus was tedious and expensive, but as most of us already know, these sessions proved to bear the greatest fruit in rock history, that being "Bohemian Rhapsody". That classic song does not a classic rock album make, however. And with that, may I say that there are moments within A Night At The Opera that doesn't do the band any justice whatsoever, most notably "I'm In Love With My Car"; containing facepalm-worthy lyrics about...well, a guy in love with his car...sung by Roger Taylor. Screw that. The real genius of this album lies within the Brian May-fronted Paul McCartney homages, Freddie Mercury's "so tender it's alien" love ballads, and of course...the epic head-bangers that rival that of Zeppelin. Grandiosity is usually a hit or miss kind of science within music, and there's evidence of that in this album. But for those few who know how to treat it, the hits pay off extravagantly. Download: Seaside Rendezvous, Love Of My Life, Bohemian Rhapsody. And that's it. I'm too tired and non-bothered to write of anything else of the slightest importance, so keep the faith, don't believe the hype, give peace a chance and I'M SORRY TO INTERRUPT BUT BEYONCE HAD ONE OF THE BEST VIDEOS OF ALL TIME, SHE SHOULD'VE WON THAT SHIT SO HARD BAAAAAAAWWWWWWW ...later. - Brian  Ooh, ooh! Like in the "Beat It" video! - Donut, S4 DVD Deleted Scenes. |
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