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I was looking through some organ music and playing around a bit when I found this:

This is Gordon Young's (1919 - 1998) 'Aria' from the Cathedral Suite.

https://open.spotify.com/track/2Cwsd0YjTpKqS59ApaC0S8?si=6CZk8GioTz2mMd-EajV42Q&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1

I was playing it and thinking "damn I recognise this but I'm not sure where from" and then I realised I'd heard it in here:

People saying "we want origin of symmetry back, make more music like the stuff in this album" have a point, to be fair... But maybe not for the screaming guitars and heavy drums. This is an amazing example of Muse effortlessly working in Romantic and 20th Century music into their own songs... OOS is incredible, especially in that respect. In Space Dementia there is a direct quote in the vocal line from a string passage in Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto and that's not even taking into account the brilliant use of piano very much inspired by this style used throughout the album and into their third album Absolution.

I tried doing a bit of digging to see if the similarities between Gordon Young's Aria and Muse's Megalomania were intentional but didn't find anything... For all I know it could just be a coincidence but I noticed it and thought it worth sharing :)

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A watercolour painting of 12 Orange is the New Black characters:

Donate to the Poussey Washington Fund here: https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/pwf

This is a non-profit organisation with the aim of funding "criminal justice reform, protecting immigrants' rights, ending mass incarceration and supporting women who have been affected by it."

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A work in progress... Two down and six to go

One Matt for each studio album

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Thank you so much for the tag! :)

Just - Radiohead

Crash Boom Bang (Killing Eve) - Unloved

Lipgloss -Pulp

Break It To Me - Muse

American Candy - The Maine

Piano Concerto No.2 in C Minor - Rachmaninoff

505 - Arctic Monkeys

Dead Star (Live from Zenith) - Muse

Love Of My Life - Queen

24 Preludes Op 28: No.4 in E Minor - Chopin

I tag @bksurcombe @musermatt @citiznerased @shield-your-beliefs

rules: you can usually tell a lot about a person by the music they listen to! put your music on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, then tag 10 people. no skipping!

Tagged by: @mindlless (Thank you so much for tagging me!!!) ☺️

Storm - Craig Armstrong, A.R. Rahman - Elizabeth: The Golden Age

The Dark Side (ARV) Instrumental - Muse

Hyper Chondriac Music - Muse

Inside (feat. Chris Botti) - Craig Armstrong, Chris Botti

The Gallery - Muse

George’s Walz (I) - Shigeru Umebayashi (A Single Man OST)

Unintended (Acoustic Version) - Matt Bellamy

The International - Tom Tykwer, Matt Bellamy, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil

Shrinking Universe - Muse

Collapse/Collide - Archive

I Tag: @boomdafunk  @static-screenager ,  @qxinyl,  @can-you-free-me,  @uno-whatimean,  @camsimulated, @takeunobow, @tofucasserole, @nowaythomas, 

no one has to do it if they don’t want to and everyone can if they want to 💕

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Rest in Peace, Eddie Van Halen

1955-2020

The riff master and songwriter of Van Halen has left an undeniable mark on rock music and the way a guitar could be played. The industry will forever owe him a debt of gratitude.

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Some of my favorite photos from the recent protests around amerikkka.

Photo2: protesters using umbrellas to protect each other while cops rain tear gas onto them

Photo3: one protester throwing a tear gas canister back at the cops and another using a large metal sheild to protect against rubber bullets and tear gas

Photo5: protesters shot fireworks at police who were about to go in to beat protesters and arrest them

Credit: ig: wolfgang_schwan

The fight is not over and there are ways to go to protests prepared,

We are slowly figuring it out. So DO NOT GIVE UP and spread the word and remember. The fight isn’t over until we see justice and equality.

Black Lives Matter. Forever.

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Actually made me cry... I stg I never cry... I think this just tipped me over the edge 😂

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Cheers, @glorious-blackout !!

Here's my recently played albums...

Tagging: @bellamybeyondbelief @hyper-blank

thanks for the tag @sensaxtional 🌟

this was really fun! here are some albums I’ve been listening to a lot lately :)

https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.top7albums.com%25252F&t=MjQ4YTY0MzU5Y2UwMTBkMWJmMmIwNTc4NTZmNThiMzI0YTdhZTdhNSw5ODFkMTY1NGJjMjQ2YjZlNGNiNmRhMGQ3YWE0Y2VjYmUyNjI3MDYx&ts=1599748309

I’ll tag: @theycallmethedani @verydazedveryconfused @fruitsnacksxx @whilemysitar-gentlyweeps @yelolemon & whoever else wants to do it! <3

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I just feel an extremely strong need to talk about my interpretation of Thoughts of a Dying Atheist.

As with most Muse songs, I cannot listen to this in the background: I have to give 100% of my attention. This song especially. I often have to SKIP IT (I know, awful, right?) when it comes on my shuffle play because I don't feel like I can handle how much this song resonates with me.

Let's start from the beginning.

A haunting guitar intro of arpeggios. Short and sweet. This song cuts to the chase pretty quickly, throwing you straight in at the deep end.

"Eerie whispers trapped beneath my pillow won't let me sleep"

- Instantly you get this vivid image of someone laying on their death bed, voices tumbling through their head because they're scared, anxious; they're suffering from uncertainty and all they can do if fixate on it.

"And I know you're in this room, I'm sure I heard you sigh"

- AH OKAY. Let me just gather myself... THIS LINE;!!!! He is literally talking to God. God is in his room, watching him DIE and he's disappointed. The protagonist heARD GOD SIGHING. He is on the threshold of life and death and will soon start to realise that everything he's believed/hasn't believed is wrong.

"Floating in-between where our worlds collide"

- SO GOD IS THERE JUST CASUALLY FLOATING AROUND LIKE "YO WHATS UP, HEATHEN". The "worlds" referred to are life and the afterlife. God is just chillin' there INBETWEEN the two deciding where you gonna go; heaven or hell.

"It scares the Hell out of me"

- So there's the obvious fact that when you die as an atheist it's FUCKING TERRIFYING. You'd of course start questioning yourself: what if you were wrong; what if you're going to be punished eternally by what you didn't believe in? BUT ALSO.. the fact that this atheist is about to die and is beginning to sense that maybe he, in fact, was wrong about his religious stance is literally scaring the actual Hell out of him. This experience is literally converting him through fear into believing.

"The end is all I can see" + "And I know the moments near, and there's nothing we can do"

- He's got no choice. There's no going back to change his beliefs now. The only thing he can do is wait for death and whatever follows.

"Look through a faithless eye, are you afraid to die?

- Maybe this is being posed to people of faith. He's asking you to think about how when you have no faith you believe that when you die, you just die, lights out. But there's always that slight tug in the back of your mind that says "hey but what if you're wrong..." WHAT IF IM WRONG!? THEN IM WELL AND TRULY FUCKED I GUESS!?

Then there's an awesome guitar solo.

Then he just repeats "it scares the hell out of me and the end is all I can see" which the proceeds tO EAT AT YOUR BRAIN FOR THE NEXT WEEK JFC. anyways.. you can add to this... Or write about your own interpretation of another mind bending song :)

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A drawing I did of Otto the dog. He can be a real bitch sometimes but he's cute so I can forgive him :)

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I made the Simulation Theory arcade console from cardboard (with some different images coz I couldn't get the original ones). I think it's quite cute :)

Also; the fourth pic features Otto.

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To heal the soul.

hey, I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed rn by some bad dreams, can I have some matt/muse gifs/pics in advance? thanking you very kindly!!

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SONG RECOMMENDATION: Dawn Chorus by Thom Yorke.

https://open.spotify.com/track/0F4EoaMJmWNz8vS8tKgsqY?si=rp4-tU4cQGuZkA6Afkz1oQ

I listen to this when I stargaze on my (technically my neighbour's) roof and it fits perfectly. Give it a listen.

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https://photos.app.goo.gl/ezM6BEaL64csd2WC7

And now I need to know - is this real love

Or is it just madness keeping us afloat?

And when I look back at all the crazy fights we've had

Like some kind of madness was taking control, yeah

Sorry it's a link... Tumblr doesn't let me post videos like normal for some reason. Maybe I'm just being thick lolz

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Just watched the Simulation Theory film...

I'm just- ahegdhfjfkkska

I'm gonna do a big mural style thing with some of the dialogue and images etc...

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Finally got round to recording this!! Took a while to learn but I think I've finally got it. 'The Dark Side' guitar solo by Muse with my MBM-1 😍

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FWB4by39SdEkmw_DVaZyIwSnAzw9rZNk/view?usp=drivesdk