Am I the only one who think the latest Muse CD is the nearest thing to Queen in a long, long, time?

[sarcasmo]

While listening to the tune Unnatural Selection for a minute I thought it was Freddie Mercury and the boys.

[IcyPeas]

1. United States of Eurasia...

definitely is Queen-like. I don't really hear much else in their music that reminds me of Queen though. Matt Bellamy has stated that Queen was an influence. I have every Muse CD and Resistance is not my favorite - I do love the symphony at the end and I am still not sick of the song Resistance. Although I like Matt's vocal style I think Freddie Mercury had a much stronger voice.

Not sure by your post if you like Muse or not. I saw them at the Staples Center in L.A. they certainly put on a fantastic show. I just hope Matt Bellamy doesn't decide to dress like Freddie Mercury. LOL

[sarcasmo]

3. Muse fan yes and Queen fan yes. The recent depth and song arrangement of

Unnatural Selection had me drawing the comparison. It doesn't surprise me that someone in the band was influenced by Queen. The Twelve Monkeys with Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt is where I first found Muse, their posters are all over a wall during one of the scenes.

[Redstone]

2. I'll have to check that out. I did not like most of what Queen did, but the songs

I did like, I liked an awful lot. And, as a musician, I respected their policy of never using synthesizers.

Furthermore, I had a bunch of respect for Freddie Mercury, polymorphous pansexual that he was (too bad it killed him)...there went a real musician, deserving of much more respect than he ever got.

The sheer artistry of "Bohemian Rhapsody" will be appreciated as the tour-de-force it actually was, some day. It took me, what, 150 times of hearing it to actually be able to understand what was going on there.

But I finally got it.

Redstone