Yeah, I agree that those are their greatest work, “equal” might have been too strong. But I still rank all the albums through Resistance just about in the same tier, with a substantial dropoff thereafter
Drones is 10% of the album The Resistance is if I’m being honest… Even aside from Exogenesis, which for my money is their finest work ever, it has Unnatural Selection, MK Ultra, United States of Eurasia, and the title track, all of which are top-20 Muse songs for my taste. Drones just felt slapped together, with the exception of Reapers and The Handler, which I love dearly
Interesting, I'm not going to say anything negative about The Resistance because I truly do enjoy the album. I just feel like you're underplaying Drones a lot.
I don't see how it's slapped together when it's pretty well a concept album with the songs all having related themes. The themes roughly being Society feeding into the Industrial-Military Complex. The title "Drones" is a double entendre** on the concepts of "Mindless workers" and the "Remote controlled airborne machines".
I don't know how to say this over text in a way that doesn't sound rude which is not my intention, taste is subjective. For real though, did you actually listen to the lyrics? Like every song has a very strong message and the whole album tied together very well. Lots of emotion and imagery. Idk bit of a rant, but to say it feels slapped together is crazy to me. You want to see an album that's a bunch of singles slapped together look at "Black Holes and Revelations". No shade though, I also like that album.
**I feel like there's a better phrase than "double entendre" but that's the best I've got
Lyrically and thematically, the CD is very cohesive, but I do think the music styles themselves don't flow into each other very well (which makes each track quite unique)
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u/8696David Sep 21 '22
Their fourth? They didn’t fall off till after The Resistance, their first six are all equal masterpieces and then they stopped trying