The Road to Wembley, step 6: The Persistence

Released in Germany on September 11th, 2009 (exactly one year before Wembley – destiny, hellooooo…!), it wasn’t necessarily love at first tune with ‘The Resistance’. Well, except for ‘Undisclosed Desires’ of course. I noted the following into my diary: the new Muse record really is a symphony. I mean, I don’t listen to classical music usually, but since this IS classical music I might as well buy me some Mozart and stuff. I especially dig one song [didn’t we all?], ‘Undisclosed Desires’. And over the months we grew fonder of the rest of it as well.

While we thought that this might finally be the record with which Muse had risked too much and had gone over the top, so that no one would be able to relate to it anymore it was in fact the opposite. Who would’ve thought that a record with a feckin’ symphony on it would finally mark the breakthrough for the band in the States (with a little help from something called Twilight)?
For us the three year gap between 2006 and 2009 was filled with a good amount of…well, life, I guess. I went to study in Ireland, Marion graduated from university and moved to Hamburg, Muse toured their asses off. The band didn’t have that big of an impact on our lives during this period - up until last year. Somehow, resistance seems to have been an album title symptomatically describing what was about to happen with us and this band. For what other than a resistance of everything deemed to be adult behaviour is it to go nuts over a music group at the puppy-ish age of 26 going on 27?
Slowly something emerged from the depths of the music: Muse came to stay with us. This one was to last. Love is our resistance. What more is there left to say? Except for: Muse is our persistence.

Three years in music:

2007
Era Vulgaris – Queens of the Stone Age - In Rainbows – Radiohead - Mothership – Led Zeppelin - Year Zero – Nine Inch Nails
(I’ll be honest: apart from the constant inspiration Trent Reznor always has been and still is, and the nausea caused by the fact that I couldn’t attend the Led Zeppelin reunion gig: there wasn’t much to last from 2007’s music releases)