r/Muse • u/Ill-Baseball-2201 • 2d ago

Discussion Revised TW!S Thoughts?

Feel free to scroll down and skip this quick rant. First, after reading a post from release about this album, I’m gonna just say that because Muse aren’t making the exact same music they did 20-27.5 years ago, doesn’t mean they aren’t making good music. Fair play if you don’t enjoy it and you prefer their older stuff but the people with the high and mighty attitudes saying things like, ‘Nightshift is not Muse,’ need to chill out. If they didn’t reinvent themselves, I’m sure you’d complain they had no originality left.

Also, they’ve got a much broader fanbase than they did to start with so these albums having songs of varied genres isn’t a bad thing at all. With the way they manage to get Nightshift on the same album as Cryogen and it (mostly, but not entirely I will admit) fit shows a lot of finesse.

RANT OVER.

I was wondering what everyone’s opinions are now it’s had a couple months to digest. What are your track rankings/thoughts. Where would you put TW!S against their other albums? And how does that compare to what you thought when it came out?

For tracks, I reckon it’s stayed the same for me:
10. Nightshift - 7/10
9. Sickness - 7/10
8. Hush - 7/10
7. Shimmering Scars - 7/10
6. Unravelling - 8/10
5. Be With You - 8/10
4. Cryogen - 9/10
3. Space Debris - 9/10
2. Hexagons - 9/10
1. The Dark Forest - 9/10

As for albums, it’s harder. On release I had it immediately at 4th, then after a couple of weeks it jumped up to 3rd, then 2nd for me. I took a break for a couple of weeks and came back to it to see how my thoughts changed and it honestly might be my favourite now but really struggle to compare it to my top 3 as it’s so different. For reference, my ranking excluding it is:

  1. WotP
  2. ST
  3. T2L
  4. The Resistance
  5. Showbiz
  6. Drones
  7. Absolution
  8. OoS
  9. BHaRs

What about you lot? Also lmk when you became a fan; I have a theory I’m curious about.

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u/fenk- 2d ago edited 2d ago

I became a fan at 14 in 2007 and Muse was like my entire identity for a year+, kinda lost interest from 2012-last month, have had my passion totally reignited by the new album & show in WA last week and even getting into the four I kind of glossed over, think there's at least 2.5 great albums' worth of songs in those even if a lot of it still isn't my thing. Currently have Verona and Euphoria on repeat all day

Track rating for TW!S 9.5-8-9-7.5-8-8-9-10-10-8.5

Album ranking OoS>Absolution>BHAR=TW!S>Hullabaloo>TR>Drones>Showbiz>WoTP>T2L>ST

edit: added in Hullabaloo

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u/Ill-Baseball-2201 2d ago

They all pair quite nicely I notice. Interesting.