![]() ![]() This none-more-Muse idea unshackled them. But comments through a little screen on social media, I’ve got a feeling that’s gonna be out of date quite soon.” The next level of that will be more and more sensory connection – people are nicer to each other the more contact they have. Everybody’s generally so much nicer to each other in VR. “What I found is that my interactions with total strangers were so friendly. We were all together working on trying to fly this spaceship and solve missions that were created by some AI. Whereas in VR, I was playing Star Trek: Bridge Crew, and I was on a space station, exactly like that Black Mirror episode, with some avatar of someone from China, someone from Germany and someone from the countryside in Surrey. Doing social media, there’s a certain distance it creates between people which means people lean mean. “I bought a VR headset and got into VR gaming for the first time,” he says – babbles would be more accurate, such is his excitable, boffin-like manner. He decided, if the march of tech is as unstoppable as he thinks, he should embrace it. On Muse’s spectacular tour for Drones, rock’s ever-whirring brainiac felt hemmed in by the rigid, cutting-edge technological miasma of hovering drones and sheet-curtain video screens, weighed down by the record’s songs of fear and paranoia about the rise of remote, AI warfare. That’s the entire journey of Muse.”įive minutes into a conversation that has already taken in the rise of artificial intelligence, accelerating computational power, the Turing test and the likelihood we’re all living in a simulated universe, it’s becoming clear Bellamy is done with reality. ![]() We’re trying to create this symbiosis between the absolute cutting edge of programming and technology, but still trying to find a place for humans. ![]() We live in the age of the programmer … the individual auteur, often not social, outgoing people, these are the people very much dominating the scene. We’re still flying the flag as best we can for humans making music rather than programmers. The vast majority of top 40 music is just laptops and a vocalist, and even the vocalist is largely processed. “This is probably a 50/50 blend of electronic programming and organic instruments,” Bellamy argues, “and even that, by modern standards, is pretty retro. ‘Supermassive Black Hole’, for a while, was the number one most streamed song in the UK in the two or three years, and when we play it live it gets the best reaction, in the top three or four songs we have.” The first time we started playing that live, the crowd reaction was absolutely dead … the crowd would just stand there. “When we put ‘Supermassive Black Hole’ out, I remember there being a huge backlash. “The fanbase we have, there’s this time-lag where five years later they get it,” says frontman Matt Bellamy, sitting in a west London recording studio. Some 20 million album sales later, they’re a stadium-destroying spectacle and a band that’s always at least half a decade ahead of their rabidly devoted fans. Like some kind of musical super-intelligence, the three schoolmates from Teignmouth in Devon left less visionary acts dawdling in the blocks when, at the first strike of the 21st century, they began merging noirish synthpop, classical symphonics and space rock, bound up with sci-fi fantasies, conspiracy paranoia and quantum physics. These popular Muse CDs have been voted on by music fans around the world, so the order isn't just one person's opinion.The world is constantly racing to catch up with Muse. ![]() They range from Showbiz (1999) to Absolution (2003) to Black Holes and Revelations (2006). If you want to know the best Muse album of all time, this list of Muse albums will answer your question. Make sure you don't just vote for critically acclaimed albums if you have a favorite Muse album, vote it up, even if it's not necessarily the most popular. If you think the greatest Muse album isn't ranked highly enough, vote for it so it receives proper credit. To make voting for your favorite records easier, we haven't included Muse singles, EPs, or compilations, so everything you see here should only be studio albums. Musical influences in their sound range from New Wave to Electronica to classical. The British trio formed back in 2004 its members include frontman and guitarist Matt Bellamy, bassist and keyboardist Chris Wolstenholme, and drummer Dominic Howard. The Muse discography is ranked from best to worst, so the top Muse albums can be found at the top of the list. This list of the best Muse albums includes pictures of the album covers when available. Muse are one of the best alt rock and and space rock bands of all time. ![]()
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