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almost all of us have seen tastes evolve in the decade since its release, or whenever we had a 'Muse phase' (cos let's face it, the majority of people on DiS probably did at one point or another), and most would say that they no longer really listen to Muse. I know I don't on a regular basis at all.

But they serve as a great stepping stone/launch pad to other music, and for that I'll always look upon them kindly and forgive their bloat and excess. Plus, you can't deny some of the stonking tunes they put out, even now the likes of New Born, Plug In Baby etc kick fucking ass.

an Un^This button on here.

Anyway I listened to a couple of their b-sides the other day. Pretty sure Forced In is the best song they've ever made.

Wish they'd done more stuff like that.

Love this album - hate everything they did after this, apart from Stockholm Syndrome.

Still the best thing live though, seeing them on sunday. Fuck you all.

like a lot of people I don't really seem to play them much at the moment, think there was a bit of overkill on the back of Absolution & Black Holes (both in the media and on my part, I probably overplayed them and saw them a few too many times in a short period) and had lost a bit of interest by the time Resistance came out.

Have had quite a long break from them now, hopefully will be quite enthusiastic by the time a new record rolls around.

and I didn't like the last 2 Muse albums but it's one of the first albums I really loved. I had the tab book and would spend most of my time learning how to play the album on guitar.

If I was to give the noughties a defining guitar hero it would Matt Bellamy no question. He's Jonny Greenwood meets Tom Morello plus a load of cheesy rock posing! He's fucking awesome to watch and to be honest even though I'm in a band that sounds nothing like Muse I have a lot of effects pedals he has and perhaps if I wasn't into them I wouldn't own a digitech whammy or a line 6 delay (he's probably upgraded now but at the time of OoS he was using these!)

And yeah I agree with Scrotum's comments above, they're a great gateway band and I think if I had got into bands like Linkin Park or the Foo Fighters around the same time then perhaps my music tastes (or at least the path I took discovering music) would be drastically different.

I'd actually stopped liking them by this point. I quite liked Showbiz, but was beginning to grow tired of the overtheatrics on Plug in Baby, and then when I heard New Born, that was my "I'm ooot" moment.

That said, I listened to this slice of nonsense for the first time the other day. 'Yes Please': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT6BvEvhgsw

Plug In Baby is obviously pretty huge though. Quite like Time Is Running Out (is that what it's called?).

My mum loves them though, taken her to see them about four times. Pretty fun to watch live.

I used to really love Muse. Started to go off them after Absolution and havent activly listened to them in years, but like virtually everyone that goes to festivals, it's kind of hard to miss them live and every single time they have blown me away. I was in no way interested in them at Glasto last year but got dragged along by some mates and once again BLOWN AWAY.
Say what you like about Muse, they still kick arse live.

i loved them upto and kind of including absolution, and they were such a great live band back then, so i assume they'll be OSSSUMSZ again.

is a great live album. I'd probably choose to listen to that rather than this album.

And it ends with Agitated.

OoS is the reason I own a guitar.

I don't really like either very much anymore.