Track Listing

1. Intro
2. Apocalypse Please
3. Time Is Running Out
4. Sing For Absolution
5. Stockholm Syndrome
6. Falling Away With You
7. Interlude
8. Hysteria
9. Blackout
10. Butterflies & Hurricanes
11. The Small Print
12. Endlessly
13. Thougts Of A Dying Atheist
14. Ruled By Secrecy

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #677 in Music
• Released on: 2004-03-23
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Aussie limited edition of 2003 album features 14 tracks & includes a bonus DVD (PAL) featuring a 40 minute documentary on the making of the album, band outtakes, & a studio photo gallery. Festival.

Amazon.com
One can't listen to Muse without hearing Bends-era Radiohead, so it's necessary to start there. But for all the familiar grandeur and gloom, Muse's other catharsis-rock influences, like Queen, Slade, and even Black Sabbath, provide the band with a dazzling, heart-on-their-sleeves theatricality. Always threatening to layer on another falsetto from singer Matt Bellamy, or conjure more guitar crunch from the ether, Absolution is downright Baroque in parts, like a Rufus Wainwright-penned rock opera fantasy. Yes, the record is completely unoriginal. But when these guys let it rip, there's no doubt they have the fever. "Stockholm Syndrome," for one, could only be produced by True Believers with a lust for power chord drama, full of angst, envy, and the bitter end of it all. If you wish a certain Thom Yorke-led outfit from Oxford had made another record or two before evolving into minor-key art rockers, Muse carry the torch for another few miles, gloriously and tragically unaware that they're running in circles. --Matthew Cooke

Customer Reviews

Perfect
There's a reason this cd has such a great review rating.
Buy.
Now.
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Put the Rach in Rock
Loosely conceptual foray into 21st century spirituality is another outstanding release from one of the only bands to shed their Radiohead comparisons. Instead, Bellamy's strong falsetto and background romantic-classical pianist education continue to fuel their rock music into more passionately melodic avenues of thought, although it could be a little more evenly balanced with their less daring, straight-forward rockers, still quite on point in their own right.

Music Binge
I stopped listening to music, buying albums and following the scene in the mid 90s being burnt out on what I thought was boring generic music that was being produced and marketed to a former KROQ listener like me. So that means I missed out on Radiohead (Bends, OK Computer, Kid A), Coldplay and of course Muse. Of course I heard of, not listened to, the 1st two bands I mentioned but didn't care. Until, I heard Coldplay's title track a few months ago. So I bought that song. I thought it was a great song but the album was not out yet and I felt like I needed more music. So I bought In Rainbows by Radiohead remembering the hype about their unique marketing last year. I loved it and wanted more.

This was a life changing experience. That eventually brought me to Muse. First, I bought Black Holes and Revelations which is some of the most unique and fun music I have ever heard. Then I got Absolution a couple weeks ago. OMG. Some of these songs put tingles in my spine. Now, I hope they break out in America and become as well known as Radiohead and Colplay. I am now a Muse fan for life.

Yes they sound alike. But that doesn't matter because they all are great bands and have their unique sound. For me, Radiohead is the best band ever with Muse a close second.

PS I have been recently watching Entourage and thought it was cool that I recognized Muse on one the episodes.