Fludge It!!

Fludge it

Hurrah! Ive decide to start a music blog and there aint a fludging thig you can do to stop me! (unless you know me and apply a moderate amount of ridicule and spelling correction) Ive been listening to the same music for forvever until recently, and Ive been thinking about doing something slightly more productive then listening to music I dont own on youtube repetively for hours and hours, so I thought Id give it a shot. Should be either a powerful procratination tool, or a horrible self inflicted burden; time will tell.

I wana talk about Muse and The Resistance in my first post (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_sHYn_cSn0 ), as like starting this blog, it took me ages to like the idea of it. It takes me forever to get into to new music, I find it irritating, difficult and everything sounds shit at first. This is partly cause when I like something, I like it to death; continual artist replay is my middle name! (Oswald Continualartistreplay Cobblepot in case you were confusing me with anyone else) I wish I had the stats on the amount of times Ive listened to Battle of Los Angeles, Toxicity, Mothers Milk, Origins of Symmetry and Songs for the Deaf. Though theyre the kind of things I expect to find out when I die; along with how far in meters Ive walked and how much food in kilogrammes ive eaten during my life.

The first I heard of the album was the single Uprising on Phantom FM. I wasnt blown away, but liked it and bought the album as soon as I could afford it, mainly out of loyalty. At first I didnt like it; it seemed nothing like their others, it was heavily themed, quieter in many respects and more popy.

I couldnt find any real 'foundation' song in it, there was no Hysteria, New Born, Knights of Cydonia or Sunburn. Every song on the album seemed different, tied together only by its 1984 themed lyrics and I felt it lacked the punch of earlier albums. This was consolidated for me with the second single of the album being Undisclosed Desires; the catchiest most 'popy' song off the album.

I almost hated it at this stage. If I dont love something fairly quickly, I hate it. Or think I do. Find shades of grey in music difficult; which is why I think I hate band like Foo Fighters, Placebo, Blur and Artic Monkeys, but Im only lying.

This album seemed fairly grey to me so on the hate pile it went. Though through continualartistreplay of Muse's other music, I found it impossible to let a whole album just sit there that Id spent money on doing nothing, so I gave it another shot. I did come to like some parts of it; Uprising is fun, especially when youve seen videos of it played live, United States of Eurasia makes me laugh and think of Queen whilst rockin the socks, and I Belong to you, desptie its disgusting Twilight abduction makes a chronic anti-dancer wana shuffle around at pace.

However it was mainly through listening to the 3 part symphony at the end of the CD that got me into it. I placed all the mellower music tracks in a playlist including these and listened to them over and over. It got me used to the big over arching theme of the album, helped in no small amount by the fact that I was listening to the audio book of 1984 at the same time.....maybe thats cheating....

But either way I began to come around to it; the popy songs stayed catchy but in a good, sing along kinda way. The music was still of Muse's quality, they were just new aspects of their style. I came around to the longer tracks which mixed face pace and mellow, mainly Unnatural Selection and I Belong to You.

It is a good album, and I glad Muse made it; it seemse pretty unique to me, and very atmospheric. The main gripe I have with is that while I do listen to it often enough, I dont listen to it when I feel like a bit of Muse. All their other others albums contained a well balanced mix of continuity and change, but The Resistance seemed to loose this balance and become something different. Good but different.

Hope its been in some way enjoyable,

Osawld C. Cobblepot