The Resistance is my favorite Muse album.
No need to use that little icon-it's a damn fine album
. I like it, too.
Ag: I'm in love with the title track, it's so eerie and epic. And Uprising's great too, really good live to shout along with!
"Resistance" sounds awfully U2-ish to me, that's one reason I love that song (that and it's just so preeeeeeetty musically). And "Uprising" is fun as hell.
Muse actually can have some uplifting moments in their music. Yes, they tend to sing about darker subjects a lot, but there is a slight optimism and hope that does creep in. The "Redemption" part of the "Exogenesis" portion from
The Resistance comes to mind as an example (and I LOVE the piano in that song, it's freakin' gorgeous). "Invincible" is also pretty optimistic. And Edge_Orchestra pretty much covered everything else perfectly, so, yeah, well said, buddy
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I love
Absolution, that's my personal favorite Muse album. It depends on your taste, if you like weird (and I mean
really weird) music, I would go with
Origin Of Symmetry, but since you seem to have started your knowledge with some of their more "mainstream" stuff, I'd likely stick with
Absolution and
Black Holes and Revelations first (
The Resistance has some mainstream stuff on it, too, but I don't know how well you'll take to a symphony and a song where Matt sings in French halfway through
-they kinda revert back to some of their quirkiness on that album with those songs. Which doesn't bother me any, I love those songs, but some people don't, so...). Songs like "Stockholm Syndrome" (which is a KILLER song live), "Knights Of Cydonia" (ridiculous and over-the-top and an absolute blast), "Supermassive Black Hole"...good stuff to kinda dip your toe into the waters with to start. At least that's how I'd go about it, but it's up to you as to what direction you want to take.
Also, on
Absolution, I highly recommend "Sing For Absolution" and "Blackout". Those songs are amazingly beautiful, and a couple of my personal favorites.
Angela