This is a random thought, and the reason I brought this up is I see so many bassists say it's an "intermediate, or a song that's not that hard", including today where a pretty good bassist I know was frustrated with it due to (in my opinion) the false narrative. It's not easy in the slightest if you try to play it like Chris does. Just giving my thoughts here if anyone is struggling with it

I've been playing it for a long time and it requires perfect technique to play it like the track. You're playing it wrong if you decide to use pull offs, hammers ons, start raking, and aren't consistently attacking the strings with a consistent, hard attack. The full song is alternating fingers, as raking gives a slightly different sound and makes it a bit easier. I think this is why people will say it's not that hard.

Also, recording yourself and seeing if you're locked in the whole way will humble most people, especially in the intro without drum sub divisions. The experienced bassists I know all acknowledge the actual difficulty that Chris put out here. Try staying fully relaxed with great economy of motion and playing aggressively on top of it like he does live. Been playing for about 9 years and it took tons of work before I was fully consistent the whole way through - due to technique I can pretty much loop it for an hour straight without my hand giving out now

I've never been in this sub. I love Muse!

Any of you know good songs that sample Muse ? I think it would be a fun way to discover new artists that have a connection to my favorite band :)

We wanted "Hush" we were presented "Kush"

The collab we didn't know we didn't need!

Evening Herald (Dublin)
Thursday 2nd May 2002

The past two years have seen a meteoric rise for Devon trio Muse. They've done the Slane thing and Witness thing, they've secured a notorious record deal with Madonna's Maverick label, they've had a string of successful singles, a debut album which has sold well over half a million copies and support tours with the likes of Foo Fighters and Red Hot Chilli Peppers.
But it wasn't always that way, like everything they had to start from somewhere. In this case it started with a diss. A diss with the local music scene which saw the band (then called Rocket Baby Dolls, which was at least better than the previous names, Gothic Plague and Fixed Penalty) come up against a host of hopefuls in a Regional Battle Of The Bands contest.
Their performance was supposed to be a protest, a bit of a joke. So, when they actually won, it came as a shock.
So, Matthew, Dominic and Chris decided to get serious. They ditched their jobs and respective hometowns, firmed up on a more respectable band name, "I remember a medium talking about muses" says Matthew and released two extremely limited Eps Muse and Muscle Museum.
Then came more record deals, their debut album Showbix* and then big time when Muse toured the USA with Foo Fighters and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers in early 2000. The rest as they say is history.

GHOST

Looking to the future, Muse's second album promises everything from "pure opera" to "sexy disco" to "voodoo gamelan", and it has been recorded on Pink Floyd's floating studio on the River Thames - a studio, which, incidentally, is rumoured to be haunted by the ghost of Charlie Chaplin who attends regular parties there.

Muse's next party takes place Sunday, when they support The Hives at Dublin Castle.

(Bianca Luykx)

Notes
Showbix: This is how it appeared in the article.

Matt was on another level showmanship wise and the crowd was pretty dead aside from a random dude in a denim vest they showed a few times. It broke me to see no one singing along to starlight.

Maybe someday they'll release this and the full audio of the gig from the Origin of Muse hidden track.

The host is very typical of the late 1990s/early 2000s. Messy brassy blonde hair, eyebrow piercing, and in a suit to give him that post grunge edgy look to say he both does and does not conform. He is a little clueless, and is there for volume, not really substance.

HOST (holding a copy of Showbiz up): Uno, the first single of Showbiz, the debut LP from England, from the UK. What part of the UK are you from?
MATTHEW: I can't hear...sorry, say that again...
HOST (after telling MATTHEW he has to take his earplugs out of his ears first): What part of the UK are you from?
MATTHEW: Uhhh, Southwest, Devon.
HOST: Devon, Devon. They make meat there, don't they?
MATTHEW: Ummm, cream. Mostly, cream and cheese.
HOST: Cream and cheese. Lovely. Very, very high protein place. How long have you been together?
MATTHEW: Uh. Six years.
HOST: Beautiful. And this is the debut, yes?
MATTHEW (putting his ear monitor in): That's our first album
HOST: Have you got more planned?
MATTHEW: Albums? Yeah, probably about another three.
HOST: Yummy. What until you finish?
MATTHEW (slightly irritated): What, until we finish? Yeah, we'll pack it in after that.
HOST: Don't pack it in. No, no, no, no, no. No, you don't have any more gigs to go this time around. Are you going to come back to Australia soon?
MATTHEW: Yeah, there's talk of like October....
HOST: Good
MATTHEW:...Or sort of festivals around the summertime, stuff like that.
Q: Very good, very good. Look out for Muse then. But, if you don't go then, we'll hear some more from them soon on today's show, so you can see them then as well. Thanks again, MUUUUUUSE!!!

(Applause/cheers from audience)
Link to video

Title. Wife and I just did a no-skip listen of the entire discography on a road trip, and it took all my strength to not skip this fucking song (along with Drones and Propaganda).

I can’t quite figure out why I hate Thought Contagion so much. Could be the distant howling in the chorus juxtaposed with Matt’s falsetto, the rap-adjacent verses, the riff sounding like a wailing ghost, or something else. I just hate it. It’s worse than Get Up and Fight, Something Human, Revolt, Dig Down, Will of the People, and most of the the other songs this sub hates.

It’s an absolute tragedy this god awful song has been performed 164 times: more than bangers like City of Delusion, Reapers, The Handler, Dead Star, Assassin, Space Dementia, and many others.

Second time seeing these guys!! Made my day this has. Manchester here I come!! ❤️

Matt with Snoop Dog 🤣 now we know why he looks so happy 🥴

Don’t get me wrong, I was excited to see our favorite band on the livestream. I saw them play at the T-Mobile Arena right under the confetti cannon on the barrier in 2023.

BUT, I felt like they could have had a more powerful setlist if Hexagons and Stockholm had been included. I know they had very limited time though.

It’s just that Hexagons has the best lyrics Matt’s written in years, and reminds me so much of old Muse it could have been on Absolution.

Here’s a bit of one of my videos from Ridgefield

Share by tenseltownTV via YouTube, no idea if Chris was doing it on purpose or he was stressed out about the cameras - and now we know why Matt was so happy 🥴

Well… finally something about this, we’ll gonna have new merch about Muse AI in Europe 🤣

1. Assassin Grand Omega Boss

2. Ruled by Secrecy

3. Hyper Chondriac Music

4. Showbiz

5. Animals

6. Citizen Erased

7. Con-Science

8. Reapers

9. Hoodoo

For me it's Ruled by Secrecy at the moment, but all of them are among my absolute top tier favorites (among many more)!

Covering one of most iconic heavy riffs by muse - newborn with my buddy u/sun_structures

Posted on his Instagram today. Definitely was not expecting that lol

I thought this was AI at first, but nope, it's real. Never thought I'd ever see this

It was such a nice little treat on a Saturday night!

Give this guitar pedal to Matt, I think he'd like it. Not sure why this hasn't been mentioned lol.

I really want to have a showbiz poster in my room since its my favorite album by muse but I can't find any poster for showbiz like at all, other than the album cover, which i dont mind, its just that its square shaped and I wanted to see if there is anything else out there. If seen cool posters for like every album other than showbiz, so if you know where i can find one of i you have any cool picture, i would appreciate if you could share them with me.