The Resistance

So, it finally happened. I got my hands on the entire new Muse album, and only 5 days early as well! Bear in mind that this was probably the thing I was looking forward to the most this year (way back in January!) and you can see why I am a bit (!!) excited about it. However I have only listened to it once all the way through so far, sadly I suspect I am growing rather tired of Muse. It's their own fault really, they shouldn't have released it in little bits before the proper release. I've listened to Uprising and United States of Eurasia almost 50 times each now, so maybe you can see why I wouldn't want to listen to them much more at the moment. I don't think its fair to judge an album I've only listened to once all the way through, however I am a little bit disappointed with it. It seems to me like this album was hyped up way too much, so I expected a ridiculously bombastic return to form, akin to Origin of Symmetry (their second, and best album). However what I find in this album is a collection of songs not only inconsistent in quality (some of the songs are brilliant, however a couple of them are quite flat) but they don't even seem to fit together.

Matt seems to have gone off in a million different directions while writing it, and as a result the album is a bit of a pain to listen to in full. I hope it grows on me, I'd hate to have my most looked forward thing of this year taken away from me. Don't get me wrong, some of the songs are fucking brilliant (maybe even some of the best they've ever done) but this album just doesn't feel like a proper album. It's hard to explain, listen to it yourself and see. Anyway, I'm gonna stop going on about that for now, although I'm sure Muse will be cropping up all over this blog in the future.

Onwards and upwards! Having decided I was tired of Muse, I decided to look downstairs for some of my parent's old albums (their taste is surprisingly good). I picked up a couple of Beatles albums (I would later discover that these were the only Beatles albums we own on CD - this made me quite sad). I also got Different Class by Pulp and an Undertones Greatest Hits compilation type thing (I really like Teenage Kicks so I was curious). What a discovery with The Beatles! I know they were one of the biggest bands ever and everything but I've never bothered with listening to them. Until now!

I put Revolver on first (we only have that and Sgt. Pepper). Bloody hell, what an amazing album! Listened to that several times on repeat before putting Sgt. Pepper on. What a great album that is too! I don't want to sound like some kind of advert for The Beatles (I doubt they'd need it anyway) but my mind has literally been blown today by both of those albums. If you haven't listened to them then YOU NEED TO. Will put on the other two albums I raided today tomorrow probably. Oh yeah, if thizzley (my bffamerican Elisa, you pronounce it eeleesuh) reads that last paragraph she probably won't give a shit, she specifically said earlier she doesn't give shits about The Beatles. So thizzley, if you're reading this, FUCK YOU.

Other than my musical epiphany, today was fairly dire. Spent way too much time doing homework and other crap. Babysat a couple of my brother's friends in the evening. Very nice family, albeit slightly weird (but hey, who isn't these days?) and also THEY GAVE ME MONEY. For someone as regularly skint as me this is very exciting indeed! I'm going to stop now as I am very tired and have to go back to college tomorrow, it's the first proper day back. I'm dreading it.