The album title 'Origin of Symmetry' was a concept that Matt Bellamy (Muse frontman) took from a book called Hyperspace by physicist Michio Kaku. The book was filled lots of weird physics concepts to do with parallel universes and 4th dimensional geometries and this whole album is littered with references to the ideas in this book. The title of this song almost certainly came from this book and the working title for one of the other tracks (Tesseract, which later became Futurism) also came from this book. When they were putting together the album art for this record they approached a dozen or so artists and just gave them the title (Origin of Symmetry) and nothing more. The cover art is one of those pieces and the booklet within the album contains the others. All different pieces of art from different artists, all inspired by the same title. While Origin of Symmetry is not a concept album by any means, there are strong themes and feelings running through the album that make it (in my opinion) their most cohesive and singular album by far.
This is from the Muse era I've heard, back when they were more of an alt. rock band very much influenced by Radiohead. I enjoyed that era, but I've also been intrigued by what I've heard from their later, proggier material. Generally a really solid band that always walked that line between on-the-edge creativity and accessibility, and it was refreshing to see a band like that achieve such success. This is definitely them at their noisiest, though I'm not sure I'd call this terribly melodic from a bass perspective. Groovy and energetic af though.
I hadn't heard the ooooohhsss in the background....cheers! I always thought of this song as basically ratm but with a singer singer... maybe because my brain picks up on riffs and rhythms more than melodies and voice is another instrument rather than a lyrical device...I dunno. Moreover, muse's best thing ever, in my not-so-humble opinion is citizen erased followed by microcuts. I am right about that btw.... check it out
You mention the song presents itsself as an angry break up song without conviction. There is b-side of that era called Hyper Chondriac Music, that's much slower, accoustic, and lamenting. I always thought that this version was the "truth" of the matter, with Hyper Music being the bravado. Give it a listen!
I regard Muse very highly.
Darkshines mightve been better for a melodic bass line but this is also a great pick. Nice reaction!
Oh back in high school when I was obsessed with Muse and this album
The album title 'Origin of Symmetry' was a concept that Matt Bellamy (Muse frontman) took from a book called Hyperspace by physicist Michio Kaku. The book was filled lots of weird physics concepts to do with parallel universes and 4th dimensional geometries and this whole album is littered with references to the ideas in this book. The title of this song almost certainly came from this book and the working title for one of the other tracks (Tesseract, which later became Futurism) also came from this book.
When they were putting together the album art for this record they approached a dozen or so artists and just gave them the title (Origin of Symmetry) and nothing more. The cover art is one of those pieces and the booklet within the album contains the others. All different pieces of art from different artists, all inspired by the same title.
While Origin of Symmetry is not a concept album by any means, there are strong themes and feelings running through the album that make it (in my opinion) their most cohesive and singular album by far.
Citizen Erased was my favourite track from this album. Good album, surpassed by Absolution IMO. Butterflies and Hurricanes FTW!
Early Muse had amazing bass
Great song. Great leading bass line. Agree that the bass line is only ok in it's melodicity (if that's a word, but you get the gist... 😅)
A fine album.
This is from the Muse era I've heard, back when they were more of an alt. rock band very much influenced by Radiohead. I enjoyed that era, but I've also been intrigued by what I've heard from their later, proggier material. Generally a really solid band that always walked that line between on-the-edge creativity and accessibility, and it was refreshing to see a band like that achieve such success. This is definitely them at their noisiest, though I'm not sure I'd call this terribly melodic from a bass perspective. Groovy and energetic af though.
I hadn't heard the ooooohhsss in the background....cheers!
I always thought of this song as basically ratm but with a singer singer... maybe because my brain picks up on riffs and rhythms more than melodies and voice is another instrument rather than a lyrical device...I dunno.
Moreover, muse's best thing ever, in my not-so-humble opinion is citizen erased followed by microcuts.
I am right about that btw.... check it out
You mention the song presents itsself as an angry break up song without conviction. There is b-side of that era called Hyper Chondriac Music, that's much slower, accoustic, and lamenting. I always thought that this version was the "truth" of the matter, with Hyper Music being the bravado. Give it a listen!
A superb album from three fine gents