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And me. Thanks!

and amazed. Hehe.

at least i think it is.

where the anger comes in there? Unless the kids have changed their slang again and sick is back to being negative.

but yeah, good stuff all the same.

but having not heard the album it's impossible to judge. The example that springs to mind having read the bazillion radiohead threads that periodically appear on the music board is Pablo Honey - it appears to be held in much less esteem than the rest of their stuff but they followed it with The Bends and OK Computer - so it's not impossible that Muse could do something similar.

Having said that, i've always found Muse a bit of a singles band. The last album seemed to have a lot of formulaic fodder, and formula's not bad in small doses when executed well for pop purposes (eg Time Is Running Out) but across an album it's tedious.

I also think it's necessary to be a bit more specific on the 'of our generation' front. Much as i rate Radiohead, i don't see them as a band of the current generation - Kid A marked for me a point where they parted from the general public to do great but less commercial things, just as Oasis and Blur exited as the generation's band - to be crap or a little more obscure respectively - before them. So really i don't see Muse going up against anyone specifically, there are a few obvious front runners based on current form but no one stands to be knocked off a perch at the moment, it's an open competition.

but that wouldn't narrow anything down for me.

from this i read they're in line to be repeatedly buggared with pineapples, yes?