Misconstrued Thoughts: Musical Misconstruedness

This album has all the dramatic moments of a major conflict. Is this an international conflict? Yes in affect as Muse attempts to conquer the remainder of the worlds fan base. The album repeats a theme of spiraling dramatized moments. The initial song spirals upward toward the hard hitting piano of Apocalypse Please. War in place, grove is provided on some tunes such as Time is Running Out. While Absolution is an imploring of thought, making you wan the anger to end; speckled with signature ballads feeling is not missing. In fact, the album returns over and over with Emotion/Feeling/Energy/Conflict all flowing from one to the other. Live shows have an incredible amount of energy, but this album attempts to hold some of that energy. Particularly Absolution and Butterflies and Hurricanes create this feel. Yet even odd moments are found with Blackout, which gives a filling of early 20’s Europe. Get this album and appreciate what music is about, emotion.

Posted by itzjerm at 07:43 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

You MUST buy this album it will give you chills!!! Great lyrics, great music. OK, your going to listen to this and say "Hey that's Radiohead" Well while the lyrics are kinda similar and even the music style a bit the same all I can say is hey I like Radiohead, more people should copy them! But in reality this is a totally different sounding band. But what makes this album so wonderful is two things. The sincereness with which each album is sung. Its that great kind of music that you have to close your eyes and put all your soul into singing. And that's exactly what is done. For only 3 guys they have put together an unprecedented album. Unintended is the song that almost makes me cry every time I hear it, the song I hope to sing to someone one day. And then the next song Uno smacks you in the face of the true reality of so many relationships with its chorus "You could have been number one, if you'd only took the time, but you threw it all away".

Listen to Showbiz

Posted by itzjerm at 02:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

This album shows really how Moby has matured in comparison to his first album. But it also shows the beauty of electronic music. Still using the catchiness of repetition, Moby decides to pull in deeper thought through extended lyrics. Lines such as "In my dreams I'm dying all the time" and "Some people just go to church to get a date with their neighbors wife " give much to ponder and expound upon in ones mind. True this album has been played to death and showed up in countless movies, but it truly is an inspiration to any electronic music fan.

Listen to Play

Posted by itzjerm at 11:25 AM | Permalink

The man I owe all my appreciation in music too. The year was 1992. I hated music. Yes I would tell people "I don't like music." Then I started studying with one of my classmates. I taught him the Bible, he taught
me to appreciate music. Moby was the secret. His first album was simple, in today's standards, but it was a breakthrough in Hard Core Techno at the time. It is in fact still a Techno mainstay. No deep words or thoughts.just recurring words "Go", "Up, Up", "Everthing's Gonna Be Alright", "Have You Seen My Baby?". The simplicity, driving beat, new sounds, it was all-new to me.and it was just what I needed to begin to like music again. Get it, pop it in, and you'll never stop moving.

Liten to Moby

Posted by itzjerm at 10:53 AM | Permalink

Now before you get all scared THIS IS NOT MARILYN, just Mansun a totally different group originally called Man Of the Sun. So with that common fear aside. This is one amazing album. Well let me tell you I have never seen one album flow as well as this one. True Pink Floyd is the master of this skill. But these boys from England truly got their act together for this first album. The lead singer goes everywhere from Johnny Rotten like vocals to sincere sympathetic yearnings. And hey how many other albums have a hippopotamus screaming in their song (look for it at the end of the first track). And the other great thing is you can pick this album up for a dollar or two in any trade store. (Guess some people don't appreciate good music).

Listen to Attack of the Grey Lantern [US]

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