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About This Page: This is a discussion on Media, Movies and Music within the LetsGoKings.com forums, at Los Angeles Kings Hockey Fan Forum. GIGWISE, Muse May Never Release Another Album
Thoughts? I think all this means is that for the time being they don't have any concept albums ideas.
Thoughts? I think all this means is that for the time being they don't have any concept albums ideas.
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Originally Posted by gescom
actually i think it's both good and bad... where Crawford really sacrificed Kopitar to the benefit of Brown and O'Sullivan, Murray is sacrificing Frolov and O'Sullivan for the benefit of the two players this organization has hung their hat on.
the key would be how far Murray can go before Frolov loses patience and O'Sullivan goes into an emotional cocoon.
I think any band that does this is lazy. This would be like if a movie director decided that instead of making a movie, he was going to shoot random scenes and release a few every month, and if you wanted to combine them all to make a coherent plot, you could on your own. Obviously this is a more extreme example, but it still shows that if you loose the idea of the album, then there can't be much of a bigger picture than just the songs themselves.
The album concept really takes its form in the mid to late 60's. Before that it was about releasing the single on the 45 and the ever present "flip side" song. It was the recording producers that instilled the album concept because they felt that they could get more sells by giving the consumer mo0re songs to the single that the artists performed.
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An album is a finished work of art that has a flow, a rhythm, and in some cases a story or point.
What Muse is suggesting is, "Heres some crap we wrote. Want it?"
When I buy an album I expect the songs to be the best of the lot that were written by the band at that time. I expect the band to sift through the crap and pick the songs they know are better than the others. The tracks that didnt make the album are put away single B-sides, or CDs released as 'Hard to find B-side' material - in Muse's case, "The Hullabaloo Soundtrack".
What if Pink Floyd released The Wall in bits and pieces? Or The Beatles released Abbey Road somewhere buried within a bunch of other tracks they happened to write too?
I love Muse. LOVE THEM! Whatever they do, Ill buy it, but hopefully Warner Bros. will squash this idea and theyll come to their senses and stick the the traditional album format.
all the same though, i think it'd be an interesting idea to just release songs little by little. oftentimes, if a song doesn't fit the concept of an album or if there are too many good songs to make the 10-15 track cut, then a perfectly good song goes unheard by the majority of people. i encounter this all the time in the b-sides, leaks, and EPs of my favorite bands. some of that stuff is really hard to find/obtain so if what muse is going to do eliminates that issue, i think it's cool.
at the same time, i do LOVE concept albums and that's why i prefaced this post with "never say never..." happy mediums are good.
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The Muse is far too talented a group to do this. This distribution technique should only be employed by the one hit wonders and any an all rappers, hip/hop and R&B "artists."
And I think anyone who has seen Muse live would agree you can't call them lazy.
Can't wait until tomorrow!!!
EDIT: Crap, I thought it's coming out tomorrow here too... F***. I guess I have to wait 2 more weeks.
EDIT 2: Taking a look at the set list, the one at VWA last September was way better.
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Originally Posted by gescom
actually i think it's both good and bad... where Crawford really sacrificed Kopitar to the benefit of Brown and O'Sullivan, Murray is sacrificing Frolov and O'Sullivan for the benefit of the two players this organization has hung their hat on.
the key would be how far Murray can go before Frolov loses patience and O'Sullivan goes into an emotional cocoon.
Last edited by Goallum; March 17th, 2008 at 09:44 AM.
What if Pink Floyd released The Wall in bits and pieces? Or The Beatles released Abbey Road somewhere buried within a bunch of other tracks they happened to write too?
The Wall was a concept album released 30 years ago. Comparing it to a normal album, not recorded without an overlaying theme in a day & age when fans have the option of cherry picking whatever tracks they want off ITunes is ludicrous. It may or it may not work for Muse. But sticking to the status quo because at one time you had to buy an album to get the music is outdated in the minds of the fans. MP3s killed the album
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Muse kicking around the idea of ditching the album format 
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