Customer Reviews
This album is amazing!! - By: emlou84, 26 Jul 2010 
WOW is all i can say, this album is mega! You've gotta listen, you'll love it too!
The Resistance Begins Now! - By: SalamanderJoe, 25 Jul 2010 A brilliant album from MUSE. They are definately one of the best rock bands out there today, bothin the studio & live. Their catchy riffs & songs like Uprising will get you into the album, with the Exgenesis trilogy will make sure you keep coming back for more. A worthy sequel to Blackholes & Revelations.
When good is not good enough - By: Kasper Michelsen, 24 Jul 2010 
Let me start out by saying this: The Resistance is a good album. It has some meticulously crafted songs ranging from soft rock (Guiding Light) to hard rock (Unnatural Selection) with a twist of electronica (MK Ultra) & good old-fashioned pop (I Belong To You). Thus, if you started out with MUSE on "Black Holes And Revelations", there should not be too many surprises for you here.
But if you started out with MUSE backin the days of "Origin Of Symmetry" & "Hullabaloo" (think Dead Star & In Your World), it is sometimes hard to believe that this is the same band. Gone is the spark of creativity & surprise, & gone are the elements of chaos & experimenting. In fact, The Resistance seems like a carefully calculated job by a band who knows exactly what their fans want, & then give them exactly that. Which, normally, I wouldn't say is a bad thing, but sometimes it canin fact be refreshing to get something that's not *exactly* what you expected.
Not that this is a new trend. For me, MUSE peaked with the superb "Origin Of Symmetry", which was exactly as bombast, over the scale & all over the place as we have become to expect from this band. Except back then we didn't really expect it - which was why it might have been such a great album. Next came "Absolution", which was also an excellent album, albeit on the bottom line more or less a polished & glossed up reworking of "Origin Of Symmetry" - the songs were great, but everything was a little more planned, a little more finished - & a little less surprising & refreshing. "Black Holes And Revelations" was another step down the road, even if it did bringin the element of electronica that hadn't been as realised previously.
So "The Resistance" is just the natural evolution of a band, that has now reached the point where every song sounds either as an exact reworking of a couple of tracks from their previous albums blended into one (anyone refusing this should compare the structure of Unnatural Selection to that of Assassin (in the original so-called 'Grand Omega Bosses' edit) or the opening riff of MK Ultra to that of Thoughts Of A Dying Atheist) or as a pastiche of other artists' work: The Queen reference on United States Of Eurasia is probably the most obvious (and probably also the best excecuted), the drums & general sound on Guiding Light is lifted right off Ultravox' Vienna (again, with pretty good result), while the Timberland jab at Undisclosed Desires is at best unfortunate. I Belong To You sounds like something you wouldn't be surprised to have turned up on a Rufus Wainwright album.
And then at last there is the "Symphony": Sure, it's grand, it's impressive, & I even think they used real instruments (although I wouldn't be able to tell from the digitized sound the whole thing has). But it sort of leaves me cold, probably because again, the whole thing has such a calculated feel. I get the impression they made this music, not because they really felt like making *exactly this* music, but more so that they could tick the box of "symphony": Been there, done that, moving on.
So bottom line? Like I started out by saying, it's not a bad album. It's just a pretty boring, sleak & unsurprising one. MUSE sounds like a band that have become a bit too nervous of taking a chance at the risk of losing some fans - but I'm afraid that losing fans is exactly what they will do if they do. But of course, if you gain twice as many teenage Twilight-loving adorers, maybe that's the price they're willing to pay ...
Great Muse/ic - By: Mrs. J. L. Robson, 19 Jul 2010 Didn't enjoy as much as Black Holes & Revelations but it was still great Music. Keep 'em coming.
Muse - The Resistance - By: Ms. V. R. Steer, 16 Jul 2010 I think it is brilliant & I have listened to it load's of time. I really like their music.
