Best MUSE album?

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As fans anticipate their new album The Resistance, coming out this September, lets take a look back shall we? Interested to see what ILM will pick.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Origin of Symmetry (2001)	9
Black Holes and Revelations (2006)	5
Showbiz (1999)	4
Absolution (2003)	4

― Bee OK, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 00:53 (sixteen years ago)

showbiz. i was pretty into these guys round then, before the histrionics took over. the singles from origin are still good but i'd well and truly lost interest by the third album

― the ring toun (electricsound), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 01:04 (sixteen years ago)

Origin of Symmetry gets my vote, in fact that album should make my Top 100 list for this decade. the only album i don't really like is Showbiz.

― Bee OK, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 01:05 (sixteen years ago)

i discovered them w/ absolution and the other albums really didn't do it for me like that one did. now i don't even listen to them!

― borntohula, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 01:42 (sixteen years ago)

happy birthday Matthew James Bellamy (born 9 June 1978), lead singer.

i went to look at some Muse video's on You Tube and there it was...

― Bee OK, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 06:46 (sixteen years ago)

"Black Holes And Revelations". So far (that is, they have improved on the previous one everytime)

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 10:37 (sixteen years ago)

Having been at school with these guys, their success is most amusing and incongruous to me. I quite like Origin, not arsed with the rest.

― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 10:40 (sixteen years ago)

OOS and Absolution are about 700000 miles ahead of the other two imo...can't pick one just yet, probably OOS

― the unfished business of display names only (country matters), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 11:01 (sixteen years ago)

Origin of Symetry fer me.

― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 13:52 (sixteen years ago)

Absolution had the best single (forgot the title though) Symmetry one best one in general.

― Ludo, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 13:59 (sixteen years ago)

back to the video thing, i guess what i really liked about this band is how they were able to generate so much power with just three members:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CRc30ynfd4&feature=related

― Bee OK, Thursday, 11 June 2009 02:40 (sixteen years ago)

Who really cares anymore?

― Bee OK, Thursday, 11 June 2009 02:42 (sixteen years ago)

new muse is good news

― billstevejim, Thursday, 11 June 2009 02:43 (sixteen years ago)

that should have been in quotes as that is from that song...

― Bee OK, Thursday, 11 June 2009 02:45 (sixteen years ago)

shows how much i pay attention

― billstevejim, Thursday, 11 June 2009 03:00 (sixteen years ago)

that had nothing to do with your post, just clarifying. but yes new muse is good news.

― Bee OK, Thursday, 11 June 2009 03:08 (sixteen years ago)

Origin is the campiest, catchiest and spikiest, so it wins. Absolution is too pompous and Black Holes doesn't bring the choons. ("Supermassive" is great, though.)

― Simon H., Thursday, 11 June 2009 03:12 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 13 June 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Sunday, 14 June 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

duh

probably shd have voted for absolution tho given the results

how BH&R and showbiz have gotten nearly half the votes is staggering

― gosh I actually dig this shit (country matters), Sunday, 14 June 2009 23:02 (sixteen years ago)

showbiz is a good album

― comedy cafe at the toxteth hotel (electricsound), Sunday, 14 June 2009 23:26 (sixteen years ago)

you can have the first two tracks, the title track, and the closer, not really sure about the rest

― gosh I actually dig this shit (country matters), Sunday, 14 June 2009 23:27 (sixteen years ago)

btw this is an important permalink

Muse - Absolution

― gosh I actually dig this shit (country matters), Monday, 15 June 2009 00:11 (sixteen years ago)

nine years pass...

At this point (best-to-worst):

1. Absolution
2. Black Holes and Revelations
3. Drones
4. The Resistance
5. Origin of Symmetry
6. Showbiz
7. Simulation Theory
8. The 2nd Law

― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 27 April 2019 20:14 (six years ago)

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