How do you go from this

Absolution = OoS > BHaR > Showbiz

forget the rest, and end the discussion there. Muse died a long time ago

haven't listened to it in a while but absolution seems a little overrated to me, it's alright but way more generic than all of their other good albums, I'd say it's something like OoS > Showbiz = BHaR > Absolution

This.

Oos > Showbiz >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Absolution > The Resistance > BHaR > the rest, fuck knows, I barely remember them.

Bands going pop is the worst fucking thing that can happen.

OoS > Absolution > BHaR > Showbiz >> Resistance > 2nd Law > Drones > Simulation Theory

That’s such a generic 80s cover and cliche they didn’t rip off farcry you retard

Handling ageing and parenthood badly as an artist
A good contrast is Suede; when they came back from their hiatus Brett Anderson knew he was too old to do the gothic androgynous twink schtick singing about sleazy drug-fuelled parties and bisexual love triangles, but, probably because they'd learnt their lesson from trying to attempt a cheerier sound on A New Morning and getting blasted for it, he used being a parent to right a couple of albums' worth of material about the terror and existential angst of becoming a parent and the constant fear of accidentally fucking up your kid, or worse hurting them/losing them in a freak accident, and have subsequently had the best comeback of any of the main britpop bands

Another one is the UK indie band Field Music, who started off as a relatively austere, buttoned-up prog-pop group, had kids, and used their newfound emotional maturity to explore funkier and less self-serious aspects of the genre, closer to XTC and Steely Dan

Bands can go one of two ways when the members start to have kids, Coldplay and Muse went the wrong way

>indie band with a keyboardist and a guitarist
>guitarist leaves
>frontman suggests they might go full synthpop now they don't have a guitarist
>instead keyboardist learns guitar AND they hire another secondary lead guitarist and they go more rock-oriented than ever before to spite their old band member, who they didn't get on with

youtube.com/watch?v=p0mLVfpq46U

feels good given current music trends

Looks like you're retarded kid

embarrassing post

after all it was okay
too bad you brainlets don't accept change

there's a difference between accepting change and accepting a dramatic drop in quality