Composer Reacts to Muse - Exogenesis Symphony (REACTION & ANALYSIS)
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- čas přidán 27. 05. 2021
- Bryan reacts to and talks about his thoughts on Muse - Exogenesis Symphony Full
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I love this trilogy. Not only does it have brilliant music but also a solid concept about humans messing up Earth and making it uninhabitable and sending a group of astronauts on a one way trip in search of a inhabitable planet so that humanity can survive. It ends with the hope that we can redeem ourselves and not mess the new planet like we did with Earth. The first time I saw Interstellar, it reminded me of these songs that had released a few years before it.
That was my first thought too! Bellamy had the idea before Nolan? But then, also, many years ago when I first discovered the song someone floated the idea of "exospermia" - the idea given from this symphony being that perhaps the origin of humanity laid in the implantation of our race on this planet as a reincarnation of a previous civilisation that destroyed itself. Alas, I don't think we did much better.
@@OkenWS That's a fascinating thought!
Muse's generally accepted golden age (Origin of Symmetry to The Resistance) is full of absolute bangers, with a general progression toward the more elaborate and ostentatious over time. Personal interesting picks would be Space Dementia, Hysteria, basically anything off of Black Holes and Revelations (City of Delusion, or Supermassive Black Hole, specifically, but that's an album of 10/10s for real), and Undisclosed Desires to send you off in a different direction completely. Anything live from the HAARP show would also be fantastic. They still do good work post-Resistance, but the albums are a bit more sparse in their concentration of really stellar stuff, or lopsided, and there're more contentious songs that start showing up, even a stinker or two. It's not horrid or anything, but the standards they set themselves up for coming out of the 2000s was astronomical. It's hard to overstate just how untouchable they were at their critical height. I've been disappointed by every album they've put out in a decade, even though they're still perfectly good, just by sheer virtue of how high the standard was made on BHaR.
Really, that's the real recommendation. Just listen to Black Holes and Revelations front to back, and check out some live concert footage. You'll get a sense for the Muse craze pretty quickly.
Matt Bellamy is a beast
Amen to that
Props for your Offspring Logo👌🏼
I swear muse is a modern day Queen
Muse was my jam back in 2010-2012 and was my gateway band into prog music. I knew this suite was good, but I forgot exactly how great it actually was - thanks for reacting to it! I'm glad you have noticed what a gem this band is.
My very opinionated rundown on Muse's discography is that their golden age are from Origin of Symmetry (2001) to The Resistance (2009). Their debut album Showbiz (1999) is also really good, but a little rougher around the edges, while the albums The 2nd Law (2012) through Simulation Theory (2018) feel a bit less inspired/more generic than their previous albums - although they are still decent.
As for recommendations, my best advice would be to begin with the album Origin of Symmetry. I believe it is Muse at their very best - so many great songs it's almost impossible to pick a favourite. If you want recommendations specifically for reaction videos I'd go for one of these: 'Bliss', 'Plug in Baby', 'Stockholm Syndrome', 'Butterflies and Hurricanes', 'Map of the Problematique', 'Knights of Cydonia', 'MK Ultra'.
Black holes and revelations was also an incredible album... City of Delusion mate. That song has always been one of my go-to songs when i want something interesting and listenable from muse. It has a fantastic drive and the repeated themes vary inventively.
It's a jam.
Oh yeah, for sure! Maybe I was a bit unclear in my original comment, but I consider Black Holes one of the golden age albums. I absolutely love it, and City of Delusion is up there with the best. I tried being restrictive with my suggestions for songs to react to - the truth is that there are way too many good songs to choose from.
@@Jake123557 agreed :)
All of those early albums are just incredible. I suppose it's quite difficult to suggest a single song out of the pile of great songs this band produced during this period.
I just don't think we need to see reactions to the 'hit' songs like Plug In Baby and Hysteria... the exception being Knights of Cydonia. They are great but I think we all know why ;) It's the others that deserve some more attention. Glorious for example has barely any views despite basically being a hit song for any other band.
Ah well, doesn't matter really. I see Muse, I click.
@@JoshStobart You raise a good point, actually. I tried to stay clear of the obvious stuff like Supermassive Black Hole, Starlight, Uprising, etc., but with this channel however there is actually an argument to be made for going even deeper with the song suggestions.
React to City of Delusion next! It never ever gets reacted to and contains what is probably my favorite chorus ever!
Hell yeah, it's an amazing song
Yes that chorus so good.
Muse rocks, and I'm fond of all their eras honestly. This is one of their masterpieces for sure. And since you mentioned Radiohead, at the beginning of their career they were even more influenced by them. I'd say if you were to oversimplify the sound of Muse, Radiohead meets Queen is quite an accurate summary. But they are more than their influences, that's for sure. Great commentary as always, Bryan!
Great summary of their sound and yes, they are more 😊
Muse actually aren't influenced by Radiohead at all. Both Matt and Thom are vocally influenced by Jeff Buckley and the producer that worked on Muse's first album, worked with Radiohead before, so that is why their early stuff sounds somewhat similar. "Unintended" is probably is the best example of the most similar sound Muse have ever gotten to Radiohead.
@@aaronmoen7402 I guess I can agree with a shared influences explanation. I feel there has been some feedback between both bands as they evolved though, but that's more of a subjective thing.
@@aaronmoen7402 I'm more of "sounds like a mash of Radiohead, Queen and their own unique ideas". Hadn't got the faintest who actually inspired them.
For critical listening, I recommend Space Dementia, City of Delusion, New Born, Ruled by Secrecy, and (a weird deep cut which is the song the composer is most proud of): Con-science.
You mention not hearing much from the band themselves. Yeah, I think the drums and bass are on there some, but not a lot. However, Matt Bellamy (the singer, guitar player, and songwriter) is an excellent pianist. I believe he’s the one playing on this just as he is on all other Muse tracks with piano (and organ, keyboard, etc.) parts.
Yes he plays all the piano parts himself 🖤
I think this quite unique stuff these days. Not everyone is able to combine some classic music and alternative rock. . Also I can add that I was in their concert in my country, they are incredible, I gained so much positive energy from them
Thanks for this video. I remember being in high school listening through this album for the first time when Muse was my favourite band and you helped me remember the magic of that first listen.
You could totally do Butterflies and Hurricanes! (Not the music video)
Also United States of Eurasia, Isolated System, City of Delusion, Blackout. I can't think of anymore off the top of my head lol.
Definitely check more Muse
Others may not see it quite this way but Muse did the 3 movement thing again, though as one 10 minute track, called The Globalist. You should check out the Glastonbury Festival 2016 performance of it some time. That track has the advantage for live performances of really being just the band instruments (with some minimal backing string arrangements on the recorded version). I don't think they ever played all of Exogenesis live but you can find live performance of parts 1 & 3. Part 3 also has a very beautiful video for it by a creator who also has done another beautiful one for a track called Aftermath.
my favorite song of all time
Favorite Band
You just won yourself a Muse fan as a subscriber great video man!
One of my favorite pieces of music by Muse.
For me my favourite composition using orchestra it's the suite of Extreme: "Everything Under The Sun: Rise 'N Shine / Am I Ever Gonna Change / Who Cares?" from their album III sides to every story of 1992 (i know, it's old) and even i can put the name in the poll of patreon they will never be voted enough to be reviewed. 21, 38 minutes of pure gold
Stranger things have happened. This is the Patreon community where even Nightwish ends up pretty low in polls... (not even suggested for this theme...)
hey man, wonderful job, extremely knowledgeable, I really enjoyed this 👏👏
Cool video i love this album.
Thankyou.
I love your in depth reaction to my favourite band...Muse really have so many different styles, but Classical is included on alot of their albums
love this
Great video
I have listened to all of the MUSE records and love them all but...this is 3 parter is technically Brilliant and (To Me) it sums up MUSE perfectly.
Many thanks for showcasing this for us.
I listened a lot to Muse in early 2000..... not sure why I moved away from them but this brings me back, remembering how great they are/where.
Nice... Muse has some quality material to check out.. You said you did other two reactions. I cant find the second
They were in recent livestreams. I'll have the April and May livestreams available by the end of the weekend so you'll be able to check them out.
@@CriticalReactions thanks. Wait for that
Muse and DCI - subbed
Would be great to see you circle back to Dillinger Escape Plan and do "Mouth of Ghosts".
I think it’s a take on a Chopin Prelude not moonlight sonata, but similar vibe
You should listen to United States of Eurasia Chopin shines through near the end
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thank you, that is moonlight sonata, and you didn't have to pause the music to explain, you're awesome
You should react to fair to midland
I checked out Musical Chairs from them during the May Livestream. My goal is to have this livestream available by the end of the weekend.
muse did not get enough apriciation for the symphonies and their songs as they should ,lot s of songs are very today s vieuw in a political way and people do not realise that .
My only "problem" with this is the rather "traditional classical" use of piano and orchestra. "Problem" within quotaions because there's nothing wrong with it of course. I do like this but am more excited (within the theme) when the orchestra gets used in a way it never gets used within "classic classical music". That enthralles me a lot!
My biggest problem with "classic classical music" in rock is that it usually just sounds like a poor pastiche and comes off as kitschy. Like, I wish more rock bands listened to more classical music post-1950, or at least post-1900. I get most of it isn't easy listening, but there's lots of interesting musical ideas.
@@jonathanhenderson9422 Yeah, like Stravinskij or Bartok at least.
You should try my suggestion for the week 😁 (Full concert in link but actual suggested song starts at 36:42) czcams.com/video/w9tCl4kuhoU/video.html
@@progperljungman8218 Thanks, I'll give a listen later. My newest special selection for Bryan is a piece by Schnittke, so at least we'll finally get some real modern classical on the channel. I imagine most casual listeners will give up within the first few minutes, though. :D
@@jonathanhenderson9422
Exciting!
My new selection is J G Thirlwell/Simon Steensland with an orchestral piece much in the same vein as Mats & Morgan. Really exciting stuff!
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@@jonathanhenderson9422 That Schnittke piece sounds really exciting! Didn't go though it all but I'm stoked from what I heard just browsing it!
C'est la vie by Protest the Hero pls
You liked Bloodmeat, you can't go wrong with C'est la vie
That moment you realize one man is the brains
Frontman's voice reminds me of Bono of U2
I got into Muse in the early 00s when they were a pretty new band. I remember really enjoying their first 3 (I think) albums. For whatever reason I lost track of them after that. I've definitely heard some of their later stuff in bits-and-pieces on CZcams and elsewhere, just never got around to hearing the full albums. Anyway, from this it definitely seems as if they've pushed the prog element of their sound much further on later releases, which might account for some of the controversy. Their earlier stuff was much more compact and alternative rock, "song-oriented" by comparison. There are bits of ambition, but nothing that I can recall on this level. As for this track, I like it in general, but I also can't shake the feeling that it sounds like a rock band imitating some of their favorite things from film soundtracks and older classical (the intro to part 3 sounds familiar to me too, though I'm hearing something different than Moonlight Sonata) and whatnot. Maybe it's a "reach exceeding their grasp" problem. I don't think it's bad by any means, but compared to a band like Dream Theater it doesn't feel as original or technically nuanced (and I don't just mean the instrumental virtuosity, but compositional technique).
I enjoyed Part 1 and Part 3. But for some reason Part 2 just really wasn't clicking with me.
I think the whole thing is glorious from start to finish personally
I love part 2
@@jessica5497 and @Parramatta curious, so I can approach Part 2 in a new light: what are y'all's favorite aspects of Part 2? / what are your fav moments of that Part 2?
@@articircle the part where Chaz and Dave turn up for the cockney knees-up section
@@articircle "Tell us, tell us your final wish, for we know you can never return. Tell us, tell us your final wish, we will go tell it to the world." The second part is the spaceship finally leaving the ruined earth and that line is those screaming from the ground to ask them their parting words. I hope the context brings more feeling on re-listen and the beauty of that climatic part of the song.
React to Twelve Foot Ninja new song "Long Way Home" funny sick tune to review.
I've been on a reaction videos kick lately, and this is the first one I've found too annoying to finish.
Brief interjections here and there are fine. They're welcome, even. But do you really have to go on extended monologues in the middle of the track? Just before 7:00, for example, the song crosses over into the next section, but you're so busy blabbing on that you completely miss it and talk over it!
Listen, real talk: I really appreciate reactions from composers and producers, because you guys usually have a lot of indepth insight into what we're hearing and you can go into great detail about what makes a piece of music great. I love that stuff. That's why I'm here. But please, please try to keep it brief during the first listen, and save the long explanations for after? That way, you get the full experience of listening to and enjoying the track (as do we), and we get to absorb your reaction to it (that's why this type of video is so popular, after all) and then we can go over specific parts in much greater depth once it's over.
I hope you take this as a bit of constructive criticism, and not just plain criticism for the sake of it. Thanks
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