Muse. HAARP (2008)

HAARP is a CD/DVD live package by the English rock band Muse released on March 14, 2008. The package comprises video and audio footage from the band's two concerts performed at Wembley Stadium in June 2007. The DVD contains a 20-track setlist from the second night, June 17, and the CD a 14-track setlist recorded on the previous night, the 16th.

In the build-up to the release of the recordings, the band released a number of web-format clips from the DVD. The full performance of Unintended was added to the band's official website on Christmas Eve, 24 December 2007, dubbed as a "little taste of things to come". On 11 January 2008, a microsite at he-3.mu was announced, featuring a grid of six boxes representing thumbnails of short clips from the DVD. As of March 17, all six clips had been filled, featuring short clips from "Knights of Cydonia", "Supermassive Black Hole", "Feeling Good", "New Born", "Blackout" and the outro riffs of "Stockholm Syndrome". "Feeling Good" was also released in full to radio and television stations shortly afterwards, although it was not advertised on Muse's official website. Vue cinemas held special screenings of the concert on March 11, 2008 at selected cinemas. The concert was shown in high-definition and surround sound.

A special edition of HAARP was also released, featuring additional backstage footage and bonus postcards showing pictures of the three band members.

The CD/DVD is named after the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, which vocalist Matthew Bellamy (known for his interest in global conspiracies and the New World Order Conspiracy which influences the band's music) has suspicions of. Indeed, the booklet for Black Holes & Revelations contains pictures of the installation.

The H.A.A.R.P microsite is now available for visitors to download iPod and iPod Touch/iPhone formatted videos and mp3s of Knights of Cydonia, Supermassive Black Hole, Unintended and Plug in Baby featured on the DVD, for free. Included is a bonus video of Micro Cuts, an mp3 of Solider's Poem from the Saturday performance and wallpapers.

Track Listing

1. "Intro" – 1:45
2. "Knights of Cydonia" – 6:38
3. "Hysteria" – 4:20
4. "Supermassive Black Hole" – 4:02
5. "Map of the Problematique" – 5:23
6. "Butterflies and Hurricanes" – 5:57
7. "Invincible" – 6:16
8. "Starlight" – 4:14
9. "Time Is Running Out" – 4:24
10. "New Born" – 8:17
11. "Unintended" – 4:37
12. "Micro Cuts" – 3:48
13. "Stockholm Syndrome" – 7:48
14. "Take a Bow" – 4:43
15. "City of Delusion" (*)

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Muse. Absolution (2003)

Absolution is the third studio album by English alternative rock band Muse. It was released on September 21, 2003 in the UK and almost six months later on March 23, 2004 in the U.S. by Taste Music Limited. The album yielded the band's first big American hits - "Time Is Running Out" and "Hysteria", the former becoming their first UK Top 10 single. Unlike previous albums, the recording and releasing of Absolution was not subject to constraining schedules, allowing the band to take as much time as they felt necessary to refine and alter their songs.

As with their previous albums, Absolution is mostly targeted at the "alternative rock and hard rock" audiences, and has a strong apocalyptic tone that is typical of the genre.

Muse's frontman Matthew Bellamy cites influences on the album from Pink Floyd's The Wall, King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King,and U2's Achtung Baby.

Track Listing

All lyrics written by Matthew Bellamy, All music written by Matthew Bellamy, Dominic Howard, and Chris Wolstenholme, except where noted.

1. "Intro" – 0:22
2. "Apocalypse Please" – 4:12
3. "Time Is Running Out" – 3:56
4. "Sing for Absolution" – 4:54
5. "Stockholm Syndrome" – 4:58
6. "Falling Away with You" – 4:40
7. "Interlude" – 0:37
8. "Hysteria" (Bellamy/Wolstenholme) – 3:47
9. "Blackout" – 4:22
10. "Butterflies and Hurricanes" – 5:01
11. "The Small Print" – 3:28
12. "Endlessly" – 3:49
    • "Fury" (bonus track) – 5:02
13. "Thoughts of a Dying Atheist" – 3:11
14. "Ruled by Secrecy" – 4:54

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Muse. Black Holes And Revelations (2006)

Black Holes and Revelations is the fourth studio album by English rock band Muse, released on July 3, 2006. The album sold 115,144 copies in its first week in the UK, which is more than the first week sales of Muse's previous album, Absolution. Black Holes and Revelations is a BPI double platinum album. The album has political and sci-fi undertones. Matthew Bellamy, the band's frontman, cites influences including Queen, Millionaire, Sly and the Family Stone, Depeche Mode, U2 and classical music from southern Italy.

Black Holes and Revelations has a strong political theme that follows the earlier albums and marks a new direction for the band. It often describes the more controversial elements of this topic, including "unjustifiable war, abusive power, conspiratorial manipulation and populist revolt", and is strongly influenced by the conspiracy theories that are popular amongst the band. Matt Bellamy stated that he finds "the unknown in general a stimulating area for the imagination", and this interest is reflected throughout the album, which features alien invasion (in "Exo-Politics") and rebellious paranoia (particularly during "Assassin"). The album also includes more emotional themes, including regret, ambition and love, again reflecting the romantic style of earlier albums.

The title "Black Holes and Revelations", taken from lyrics in "Starlight", is explained by Matthew Bellamy in his September 2006 interview for Q Magazine: "Black holes and revelations -- they're the two areas of songwriting for me that make up the majority of this album. A revelation about yourself, something personal, something genuine of an everyday nature that maybe people can relate to. Then the black holes are these songs that are from the more... unknown regions of the imagination."

Track listing

All songs written by Matthew Bellamy, Dominic Howard and Chris Wolstenholme unless otherwise noted.

1. "Take a Bow" – 4:35
2. "Starlight" – 3:59
3. "Supermassive Black Hole" – 3:29
4. "Map of the Problematique" – 4:18
5. "Soldier’s Poem" – 2:03
6. "Invincible" – 5:00
7. "Assassin" – 3:31
8. "Exo-Politics" – 3:53
9. "City of Delusion" – 4:48
10. "Hoodoo" (Bellamy/Wolstenholme) – 3:43
11. "Knights of Cydonia" – 6:06
12. "Glorious" (bonus track) – 4:38

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Muse. Showbiz (1999)

Showbiz is the debut album by Muse, the rock band from Devon, first released 9 September 1999 by Mushroom Records. The album was produced by John Leckie at Sawmill Studios, Cornwall. The tracks "Uno", "Cave" (though never had a music video in support), "Muscle Museum", "Sunburn", and "Unintended" were released as singles. The album has gone platinum in the United Kingdom since its release and has sold 700,000 copies worldwide. It failed to chart in the US and sold 100,000 copies there.

Track Listing

All music and lyrics by Matthew Bellamy, except where noted.

1. "Sunburn" – 3:54
2. "Muscle Museum" – 4:23
3. "Fillip" – 4:01
4. "Falling Down" – 4:34
5. "Cave" (Bellamy/Wolstenholme) – 4:46
6. "Showbiz" – 5:16
7. "Unintended" – 3:57
8. "Uno" – 3:38
9. "Sober" – 4:04
   • "Spiral Static" (bonus track) – 4:44
10. "Escape" – 3:31
11. "Overdue" – 2:26
12. "Hate This & I'll Love You" – 5:09

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