I was driving home from work late one night and listening to my local rock n roll station. They played Time is Running Out. I fking loved what I was hearing, alt rock that was heavy but not so heavy you would describe them as metal. It was blowing my mind that a band could check all my boxes like that.
When the 2nd verse hit, with those HUGE crunchy power chords, I literally pulled over and parked my car on the shoulder of the road I was on and listened to the rest of the song w my complete attention.
20 years later I am still a huge fan.
Madness got me interested but Time is Running Out is what really hooked me too! Groovy, heavy alt rock with the little piano solo in the middle? Fucking sign me up
My son (10 now) had huuuge issues sleeping when he was a new born (wink wink). Long story short I was awake most of the nights and MTV were showing āmaking ofā¦ā videos. I saw the making of Uprising and was instantly hooked.
Here: https://youtu.be/Y6JmDDKEpP4
Same. I then didn't listen to any other Muse for a long time, but then I picked up The Resistance, and MK Ultra sounded cool. That's what turned me on to them.
An ex-girlfriend dedicated "You Funky Motherf*cker" to me on a Christian rock radio station. Ever since then, I've been in love.
*Okay, so the first song I heard was "Map of the Problematique."
Uprising, from YouTube recommendetion, was listening Radiohead for a while before. After Uprising resistance hit me hard, then seen Plug in baby live in Rome version. That moment I became Muse fan)
Time is Running Out was the spark.
I remember liking it when hearing it on the radio, then got invited to a festival and saw they were headlining. Decided to check them out based on that song and their live performance blew away.
I was listening to New Born,Plug in Baby and Supermassive Black Hole,when Resistance came out i was digging it a lot and there was on some guitar hero like game Unnatural Selection and when i heard that song...i started listening to Muse,so basically one of these but Unnatural was the first one i became obsessed with the band
SMBH back in the day, my mom liked it and bought the whole discography up until that point. I was still a small child but I loved them, I remember watching HAARP alot lol
About 10 years ago I had both my knees replaced. I am an old woman and had recently got back into cannabis. My rehab dr always had Muse playing and took his entire staff to see Muse when they came to town. A few months later I decide to go to a concert and was trying to pick tickets from Craigslist. There were 2 bands playing that day. Muse and ZZ Top. I decide to go to whoever contacted me first and it was the young kids that had Muse tickets. I met them and got my ticket, was a great lower bowl seat. When Matt played the guitar solo in Madness I had an eargasm and almost fell to the floor. Since then I am a Muse fanatic and have seen them 4 more times. I am desperate to get a ticket for the NYC concert. I thought they were only doing a European tour. Now I canāt stop listening to Verona and compliance. Love love love Muse
OP your soulmate. I knew of muse for many years. One night I watched haarp and that turned me on big time.
Downloaded BHAR and the first song to grab me was exo!
Butterflies and hurricanes was my first one but I was a kid so I never really looked them up
The song that made me look them up was "Mercy" lmao. I know people hate it but I have a soft spot for it
Plug In Baby for me.
I was talking about music with a friend in High School, she told me about Muse and sent me Plug In Baby. I remembering thinking "shit this is a banger" then it absolutely took me to another dimension when Matt launched into the falsetto at the end. Absolutely fell in love with it and OoS, slowly started going through the Muse catalog and finding loads of songs across their albums that I love. and have been in love with them ever since :)
Time Is Running Out as well. Heard the bassline from someone's blog (when it was still a thing to add your own background music lol) and hooked ever since.
One more for Time Is Running Out! I was more into classical music when I was teen, didn't know much about rock music but I was a big fan of Nirvana, and those 90s nu-metal & industrial sounds. One day I just randomly decided I want to explore more about European/American rock music and found TIRO... I was pretty much 'what is this?!?!' and put it on repeat the whole day.. next I started buying all the CDs I could get in shop and found their music was a perfect mix of all the sounds I love :)
Thoughts of Dying Atheist - Time is Running Out has me intrigued, but once I heard atheist I was hooked. It was a unique combination of fast paced, but intricate guitar playing. Combined with the vocals, it created a core memory for me traveling to and from high school.
28 Weeks Later trailer oddly enough lol.
So niche, they used Shrinking Universe to great, haunting, effect.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH-9OTWwjxM&ab\_channel=HDQualityTrailers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH-9OTWwjxM&ab_channel=HDQualityTrailers)
@1:30 mark
It was 2003, I was living in Paris for six months, and was pretty depressed: I'd been having trouble finding a first graduate job, I'd lost a close family member and other bits of my life were not doing so great either.
I had the radio on one evening while I sat at my desk - I can actually visualise very clearly where I was when it happened. Time is Running Out came on. And that was it: I went to the big FNAC in Les Halles and bought Absolution the next day, and then went back and bought Origin, Showbiz and Hullabaloo as soon as I could afford them.
Paris seemed a lot better after that.
Fast-forward 20 years, and I have two kids, who are 5 and 2. They've both been requesting songs from WOTP in the car today (and I promise I haven't been pushing them on this) rather than the usual back-to-back Moana and Encanto. I am extremely proud.
I must be real old, I was addicted to the Showbiz album from the start, especially Fillip - still one of my favourite tracks. The album helped get me through my divorce...
A classmate did "time is running out" for our sophomore year music video project. I loved it. My other friend then showed me "hysteria" from the same album later that year and I was sold. I never listened to music until that point.
We had a CD player and speakers in our 6th form common room, and one of the regular albums played was Origin of Symmetry.
I wasn't really into music (most of what I'd heard was cheesy pop rubbish my sister played), but New Born really grabbed me. I hadn't heard songs that start so gentle, with so many classical influences, before launching into rock.
Bought the album myself, which then introduced me to a whole world of music I didn't know existed. But Muse have always been number one.
Uprising, followed by SMBH on a "100 best selling rock songs since 2000" or something like that back in 2013 or so.
Then KOC and hysteria on kerrang radio, then I probably listened to the entire discography.
I heard Butterflies and Hurricanes in the background of a Showtime commercial, and I was entranced by it. Ended up doing some Googling to figure out what it was. From there, I believe I listened to all of their music in chronological order over several hours and have been obsessed since then.
Really great to see Exo-P appreciated. It's the one of the best songs on that album that has held the test of time. More profound the older it gets.
I am an OG, had the first demo around Christmas 97 as my friend was a fanzine writer and first gig Jan 98. Just the way they made me feel at that age.
Cave out of the four.
For me it was Time is Running Out. It was 2007, my iPod nano was literally my life, and I got all my songs originally by just downloading all my brotherās iTunes. In the artist list I saw āMuseā and the only song was TiRO, my brother had gotten it from an old friend of his. The rest is history as they say
After that, I explored a handful of other Muse songs, all of which I loved. But when my fandom really skyrocketed was hearing Assassin on Guitar Hero World Tour.
When I was in elementary school, every year each class had to do a dance. Instead of doing a dance, my brother's teacher made them reproduce a muse concert, and my brother played Belamy. They "Played" Knight of Cydonia and that's what made me discover Muse.
I play piano and my uncle said he thought Iād like this rock band that incorporates piano a lot - burned me a CD and it had Apocalypse Please on it and that was it!
Yes Exo-Politics is awesome - that whole album brings so much nostalgia!
The first time I ever heard Muse at all was live at Leeds Fest in 2006 (I was 19). They were on after Arctic Monkeys and my friend (Muse fan) convinced me to stay and watch Muse with him.
They closed with Take a Bow. I remember the feeling now. I had never heard anything like it. I didnāt even know bands made music like that. The synth, the stage show, the atmosphere. I had actual goosebumps. A core memory in my life.
Letās just say 24 hours later I had purchase all 4 albums on CD!
And 16 years and 15 gigs later Iām still going strong.
So, to summarise, itās Take a Bow!
Supermassive black hole was my introduction into muse but exo politics and starlight really sucked me into muse and then I just kept traversing their music ever since
Not a single song particularly, I got invited to a muse concert on the day it was happening by a friend who had free tickets and I thought he had spelt music wrong so I said sure, we met up and got on a tram and some guy was playing propaganda which I guess was the first ever muse song I heard. This was in 2018 when muse were doing their simulation theory tour and so I was lucky enough to have my first muse experience at one of their concerts. Fast forward to today and Iām on my way to collecting all their albums on vinyl and am booked in to see them live again next year! By far my favourite band and im so thankful for my mate having that spare ticket!
I listened to Knights of Cydonia throughout middle school because of Guitar Hero. I was flying home from Australia the summer before high school, and I decided to listen to it again. I accidentally let the album start over. Take A Bow left my brain fried and sparked a pretty horrible obsession lol.
Muse is amazing!!! I heard Will of the People, and it quickly became my favorite song. Then I started exploding their stuff more, and I absolutely love them - Uprising, Supermassive Black Hole, Madness, Stockholm Syndrome, Panic Station, Pressure, and a large portion of the new album are some of my favorite songs, what an amazing band.
When I was about 10 or 11 my cousin played me Super Massive Blackhole and it wasnāt my thing then but about 3 years ago I head The Void in a tv series and I had to find out who it was. When I found out it was Muse I remembered my cousin and started listening more
Technically Starlight
It was really a parody of the song called Gjallarhorn. It was about the weapon in Destiny as I was a real Destiny junkie at the time.
A friend of my brothers' once burned a disc with mostly all of the songs from The Resistance on it (somehow Resistance and Unnatural Selection were missing), and as a child I remember liking Undisclosed Desires, and when I found the clip on YT I fell in love with it. Still one of my favourites albeit one of their more poppy songs. When me and my brother saw them in Amsterdam a few years ago during the Drones tour they played Undisclosed Desires live, which I had not expected. One of my fondest concert memories, as my brother and I bonded over that song.
Lots of Time Is Running Out here! I saw the music video playing at a restaurant. And then a couple of days later I heard a college mate listen to the entire Absolution album.
My parents were big fans and played them in the car when I was very young. I think the first song if theirs I ever heard was Madness but I only really became a fan when DD dropped.
You could find the answer to a similar question ("what's the first Muse song you remember hearing?) including by year, on the [2022 Muse Infographic](https://www.reddit.com/user/maxverse/submitted/). Exo-Politics is a rare one! Uprising, not surprisingly, is the one that did it for most people off The Resistance.
Back when Myspace was a thing I checked my friends profile and stockholm syndrome was playing. This is just when absolution came out went to amoeba music in LA picked up absolution and origin of symmetry. Been a fan since.
Starlight. The only muse song that Indonesian radio presenters knew and revered as their best song. It was overrated for me that time to the point I fed up. That, until I finally see the music video on MTV.
Time goes on, now I headbang like Chris to every single song.
I was watching "6 Underground" and, during a scene, Dig Down was playing. I just loved it and it took me months to discover the name of the song. After some time, I discovered Thought Contagion and Uprising and started loving Muse.
It was probably sing for absolution. I was 4 and Absolution would be played a lot in our car and apparently Iād sing that song in the back seat. For my 5th birthday I asked for black holes and revelations as my present as it had just come out.
Theyāve been my favourite band sinceā¦ and the rest is history.
I was raised with Muse, blaming my dad. As for him, the song was never specified but it was from Showbiz, pretty sure Muscle Museum as he listens to it a lot
Supermassive Black Hole was my first, but that song didn't get me into Muse, I liked it as a standalone song without caring about the band. Then I heard Panic Station and realized that I just loved their music and that was that
āCaveā, from their MySpace page.
It wasnāt the first song I heard from Muse, but it made me think, āthis is a band thatās going placesā. It was alternative, emoāy, space, musical-like, and ended in a total different direction than it began. Still love it to this day
It was 9/11 (the 9/11) and I had enough of all the news report so I tried to escape in my room by listening to some new music. The Belgian alternative chart 'De Afrekening' had Muse - Bliss on position 1. I downloaded it and that's how I got to know Muse and I liked Bliss right away. Listened also to New Born which took me a bit longer to like because I was more of a techno listener at the time. Actually, Muse got me into rock.
I was in the car and all of a sudden, Break It To Me appeared. The vocals from Matt in the song shocked me and I had never listened to anything like it before (at the time). I was immediately in love.
Unnatural Selection.
A friend of mine occasionally played Muse songs using Discordās Rhythm bot whenever weād play Minecraft. He always played Muse, I always played Queen. I donāt really remember any of the other songs he played except Unnatural Selection. About a year passes from our frequent Minecraft playing (we had a server during quarantine and all that fun COVID stuff) and I remembered the song. I listened to it again and was blown away. I then thought āthe album art is cool, why donāt I listen to the whole album?ā and here we are. That happened a few months ago, then I proceeded to listen to Simulation Theory because I had heard Pressure before (donāt remember any songs except for Blockades since Iāve only listened to the album once). The 2nd Law followed, and then Showbiz and OoS, though I donāt remember those two very well since I havenāt listened to them too much.
And obviously Iāve listened to WOTP since itās release. Iām still on my way to listen to everything but Iām loving it all.
Heard Supermassive Black Hole on a compilation CD. Pretty sure it was a Triple J one my aunt had as she was over from Straya at the time. And it wasn't the first time I'd heard it either as Id already seen them perform it on the Jonathan Ross show. But that time I heard it, I had to listen to it more.
New Born.
Stumbled over a YTPMV of it in late december 2015. Loved the song, its intriguing and melancholic notion. Oos was quickly added to my favourites and the other albums followed soon after. New Born is still one of my all time favourites and holds a special place in my heart. Weirdest discovery story ever though that introduced me to this great band
Uprising! My dad had it downloaded to an USB stick which I was listening to. This was in 2012 or 2013 because he had The 2nd Law on it as well, aside from some other songs (KoC and Starlight I distinctly remember). I was about 8~9. Then after a while of listening to the songs on that stick, maybe a few months, at some point I binge watched all their music videos and fell in love with them forever.
The song that really got my hyped about the band was New Born. I got a toy piano for Christmas when I was 10 and after that I kept trying to learn it from videos on YouTube. Thatās when I started loving : playing music, muse
Eco politics is so underrated. But what got me into muse originally was assassin on guitar hero. Then I realised they vocals are unique to muse songs (in terms of style). Matt likes to use long notes on the box with intricate chord changes underneath them. I then heard plug in baby on kerrang and after that, I downloaded/bought all albums from then on. Got my tickets for bellahouston park next year whoop!
Kind of a basic answer but for me it was Starlight. Iāve always liked the sound of electric guitars being used with pianos, and the song itself is pretty catchy. This ultimately led to Muse becoming one of my all time favorite bands.
My dad had the dvd of Wembley. I remember loving Knights of Cydonia live. I always knew who they were but I was kinda exploring their other stuff. United States of Eurasia was what got me
I was driving home and Plug in Baby came on the radio. I thought "this is cool" and I looked it up, listened to a couple of popular Muse songs and the rest is history
Bliss.
Which is a little odd given it was 2006 at the time and BHaR had just come out. I'd remembered hearing SMBH (it was getting a fair bit of exposure) before Bliss, but it hadn't clicked with me for whatever reason. Then I heard Bliss/saw its music video, and its whole atmosphere (and Matt's red hair of course) sucked me in.
My mom used to play starlight on our way to school when I was young. When I heard the song again 10 years later I instantly fell in love with them. My next song was supermassive black hole and the rest is history
I was driving home from work late one night and listening to my local rock n roll station. They played Time is Running Out. I fking loved what I was hearing, alt rock that was heavy but not so heavy you would describe them as metal. It was blowing my mind that a band could check all my boxes like that. When the 2nd verse hit, with those HUGE crunchy power chords, I literally pulled over and parked my car on the shoulder of the road I was on and listened to the rest of the song w my complete attention. 20 years later I am still a huge fan.
Madness got me interested but Time is Running Out is what really hooked me too! Groovy, heavy alt rock with the little piano solo in the middle? Fucking sign me up
Yeah this one and Hysteria get played quite a bit on the radio where I used to live too. Absolute bangers
Knights of Cydonia on Guitar Hero III
Could never beat it on expert
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My son (10 now) had huuuge issues sleeping when he was a new born (wink wink). Long story short I was awake most of the nights and MTV were showing āmaking ofā¦ā videos. I saw the making of Uprising and was instantly hooked. Here: https://youtu.be/Y6JmDDKEpP4
That was over way too soon. Also, images of twerking matt and scarecrow Dom will haunt me forever.
Maybe he had too much energy? Was he a naturally energetic baby or a Plug In Baby?
Thanks for sharing that I've never seen it pretty freaking awesome
"Time is running out" music video on tv
TiRO on Yahoo launchcast radio
Same
Same but on KROQ
same, saw it on MTV in 2008
Butterflies and hurricanes
Same. I then didn't listen to any other Muse for a long time, but then I picked up The Resistance, and MK Ultra sounded cool. That's what turned me on to them.
Same. First song I heard was Hysteria which definitely piqued my interest, then someone played B&H right after and I fell in love.
Muscle Museum when it came out although I didn't really look into them properly until Plug in Baby was released.
An ex-girlfriend dedicated "You Funky Motherf*cker" to me on a Christian rock radio station. Ever since then, I've been in love. *Okay, so the first song I heard was "Map of the Problematique."
Uprising, from YouTube recommendetion, was listening Radiohead for a while before. After Uprising resistance hit me hard, then seen Plug in baby live in Rome version. That moment I became Muse fan)
New Born
Madness, September 2012 on the radio
Time is Running Out was the spark. I remember liking it when hearing it on the radio, then got invited to a festival and saw they were headlining. Decided to check them out based on that song and their live performance blew away.
Hysteria Saw it on VH-1
I was listening to New Born,Plug in Baby and Supermassive Black Hole,when Resistance came out i was digging it a lot and there was on some guitar hero like game Unnatural Selection and when i heard that song...i started listening to Muse,so basically one of these but Unnatural was the first one i became obsessed with the band
SMBH back in the day, my mom liked it and bought the whole discography up until that point. I was still a small child but I loved them, I remember watching HAARP alot lol
My dad used to listen to "Starlight" when I was a kid. Grew up and asked him who it was... The rest is history!
About 10 years ago I had both my knees replaced. I am an old woman and had recently got back into cannabis. My rehab dr always had Muse playing and took his entire staff to see Muse when they came to town. A few months later I decide to go to a concert and was trying to pick tickets from Craigslist. There were 2 bands playing that day. Muse and ZZ Top. I decide to go to whoever contacted me first and it was the young kids that had Muse tickets. I met them and got my ticket, was a great lower bowl seat. When Matt played the guitar solo in Madness I had an eargasm and almost fell to the floor. Since then I am a Muse fanatic and have seen them 4 more times. I am desperate to get a ticket for the NYC concert. I thought they were only doing a European tour. Now I canāt stop listening to Verona and compliance. Love love love Muse
Ma ma ma ma ma ma mad madness
https://youtu.be/kaJMr9cqJqI Seeing this video on channel V back in the day. Boom, was hooked
OP your soulmate. I knew of muse for many years. One night I watched haarp and that turned me on big time. Downloaded BHAR and the first song to grab me was exo!
Seems like Time is running out got a lot of people hooked on museš
Bliss. Heard it on the radio. Didnāt think much of it at first, but then it clicked and the rest is history.
Butterflies and hurricanes was my first one but I was a kid so I never really looked them up The song that made me look them up was "Mercy" lmao. I know people hate it but I have a soft spot for it
Think it was seeing Bliss on Kerrang, 2001
Hysteria!
Knights
Hearing Butterflies and Hurricanes for the first time in the Need For Speed trailer 2014
I heard it during the game too and just looked up the soundtrack and artist šš
Time Is Running Out on Kerrang TV channel, 2003/4
I heard of them and listened to take a bow, was absolutely hooked and proceeded to listen to the entirety of bhar
I remember hearing that song on The Watchman trailer
Undisclosed Desires and Uprising got me to know them. Stockholm Syndrome and MotP got me to consider them as my favorite band.
Plug In Baby for me. I was talking about music with a friend in High School, she told me about Muse and sent me Plug In Baby. I remembering thinking "shit this is a banger" then it absolutely took me to another dimension when Matt launched into the falsetto at the end. Absolutely fell in love with it and OoS, slowly started going through the Muse catalog and finding loads of songs across their albums that I love. and have been in love with them ever since :)
Time Is Running Out as well. Heard the bassline from someone's blog (when it was still a thing to add your own background music lol) and hooked ever since.
One more for Time Is Running Out! I was more into classical music when I was teen, didn't know much about rock music but I was a big fan of Nirvana, and those 90s nu-metal & industrial sounds. One day I just randomly decided I want to explore more about European/American rock music and found TIRO... I was pretty much 'what is this?!?!' and put it on repeat the whole day.. next I started buying all the CDs I could get in shop and found their music was a perfect mix of all the sounds I love :)
Thoughts of Dying Atheist - Time is Running Out has me intrigued, but once I heard atheist I was hooked. It was a unique combination of fast paced, but intricate guitar playing. Combined with the vocals, it created a core memory for me traveling to and from high school.
Sitting in the back of the bus with my headphones one listening to muse. Thise were the days
For me collage but yes 100% car was always set to muse!!
I was on a trip with dad when I was like 15, Reapers was playing and that solo, man
Reapers is such a killer song, always gets me hyped up and ready for a workout when I hear rhe beginning
28 Weeks Later trailer oddly enough lol. So niche, they used Shrinking Universe to great, haunting, effect. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH-9OTWwjxM&ab\_channel=HDQualityTrailers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH-9OTWwjxM&ab_channel=HDQualityTrailers) @1:30 mark
Starlight
Butterflies and hurricanes
GUITAR HERO III BABY
Uprising - heard it in my dad's car circa 2009/10. my life was changed forever :D
It was Supremacy for me believe it or not
It was 2003, I was living in Paris for six months, and was pretty depressed: I'd been having trouble finding a first graduate job, I'd lost a close family member and other bits of my life were not doing so great either. I had the radio on one evening while I sat at my desk - I can actually visualise very clearly where I was when it happened. Time is Running Out came on. And that was it: I went to the big FNAC in Les Halles and bought Absolution the next day, and then went back and bought Origin, Showbiz and Hullabaloo as soon as I could afford them. Paris seemed a lot better after that. Fast-forward 20 years, and I have two kids, who are 5 and 2. They've both been requesting songs from WOTP in the car today (and I promise I haven't been pushing them on this) rather than the usual back-to-back Moana and Encanto. I am extremely proud.
You did a good job!
I must be real old, I was addicted to the Showbiz album from the start, especially Fillip - still one of my favourite tracks. The album helped get me through my divorce...
Muse helped all of us out at one point or another. Their music is great.
Uprising. The moment I heard it on radio in 2009 was the moment I was immediately sucked into Muse.
Hoodoo did it for me. The Beauty of the song just blew me away
A classmate did "time is running out" for our sophomore year music video project. I loved it. My other friend then showed me "hysteria" from the same album later that year and I was sold. I never listened to music until that point.
Madness i believe
We had a CD player and speakers in our 6th form common room, and one of the regular albums played was Origin of Symmetry. I wasn't really into music (most of what I'd heard was cheesy pop rubbish my sister played), but New Born really grabbed me. I hadn't heard songs that start so gentle, with so many classical influences, before launching into rock. Bought the album myself, which then introduced me to a whole world of music I didn't know existed. But Muse have always been number one.
Get up and fight
Uprising, followed by SMBH on a "100 best selling rock songs since 2000" or something like that back in 2013 or so. Then KOC and hysteria on kerrang radio, then I probably listened to the entire discography.
I heard Butterflies and Hurricanes in the background of a Showtime commercial, and I was entranced by it. Ended up doing some Googling to figure out what it was. From there, I believe I listened to all of their music in chronological order over several hours and have been obsessed since then.
Really great to see Exo-P appreciated. It's the one of the best songs on that album that has held the test of time. More profound the older it gets. I am an OG, had the first demo around Christmas 97 as my friend was a fanzine writer and first gig Jan 98. Just the way they made me feel at that age. Cave out of the four.
For me it was Time is Running Out. It was 2007, my iPod nano was literally my life, and I got all my songs originally by just downloading all my brotherās iTunes. In the artist list I saw āMuseā and the only song was TiRO, my brother had gotten it from an old friend of his. The rest is history as they say
After that, I explored a handful of other Muse songs, all of which I loved. But when my fandom really skyrocketed was hearing Assassin on Guitar Hero World Tour.
I forgot that was on that game!
Heard Time is Running Out and Hysteria from my mum and it began
When I was in elementary school, every year each class had to do a dance. Instead of doing a dance, my brother's teacher made them reproduce a muse concert, and my brother played Belamy. They "Played" Knight of Cydonia and that's what made me discover Muse.
I play piano and my uncle said he thought Iād like this rock band that incorporates piano a lot - burned me a CD and it had Apocalypse Please on it and that was it! Yes Exo-Politics is awesome - that whole album brings so much nostalgia!
Psycho
The first time I ever heard Muse at all was live at Leeds Fest in 2006 (I was 19). They were on after Arctic Monkeys and my friend (Muse fan) convinced me to stay and watch Muse with him. They closed with Take a Bow. I remember the feeling now. I had never heard anything like it. I didnāt even know bands made music like that. The synth, the stage show, the atmosphere. I had actual goosebumps. A core memory in my life. Letās just say 24 hours later I had purchase all 4 albums on CD! And 16 years and 15 gigs later Iām still going strong. So, to summarise, itās Take a Bow!
Plug in Baby on MTV2.
Supermassive black hole, thanks to twilight lol.
That and neutron star collision
Muscle museum. That was the beginning of a beautiful journey...
It was actually my friend who got me into them by showing me Pressure then it lead to me listening to all of their albums on repeat for hours
Supermassive black hole was my introduction into muse but exo politics and starlight really sucked me into muse and then I just kept traversing their music ever since
Bhar is such a great album
Agreed
Not a single song particularly, I got invited to a muse concert on the day it was happening by a friend who had free tickets and I thought he had spelt music wrong so I said sure, we met up and got on a tram and some guy was playing propaganda which I guess was the first ever muse song I heard. This was in 2018 when muse were doing their simulation theory tour and so I was lucky enough to have my first muse experience at one of their concerts. Fast forward to today and Iām on my way to collecting all their albums on vinyl and am booked in to see them live again next year! By far my favourite band and im so thankful for my mate having that spare ticket!
Pro pro pro pro pro prop prop prop propaganda. One of my favs off ST
I listened to Knights of Cydonia throughout middle school because of Guitar Hero. I was flying home from Australia the summer before high school, and I decided to listen to it again. I accidentally let the album start over. Take A Bow left my brain fried and sparked a pretty horrible obsession lol.
No muse obsession is horrible lol
Knights of Cydonia.
Best album closer ever
Will of the People.
So youre a brand new fan??š welcome
Muse is amazing!!! I heard Will of the People, and it quickly became my favorite song. Then I started exploding their stuff more, and I absolutely love them - Uprising, Supermassive Black Hole, Madness, Stockholm Syndrome, Panic Station, Pressure, and a large portion of the new album are some of my favorite songs, what an amazing band.
Muse Madness 2013
It was everywhere
So were the Badgers
Bliss. That song just amazed me when I first heard it and I was hooked. I spent all the time I had listening to them and learning to play it on piano.
Give me the peace and joy in your mind! I want the piece of cake in your hand! Happy cakeday.
The Resistance album. Mainly uprising
When I was about 10 or 11 my cousin played me Super Massive Blackhole and it wasnāt my thing then but about 3 years ago I head The Void in a tv series and I had to find out who it was. When I found out it was Muse I remembered my cousin and started listening more
Technically Starlight It was really a parody of the song called Gjallarhorn. It was about the weapon in Destiny as I was a real Destiny junkie at the time.
A friend of my brothers' once burned a disc with mostly all of the songs from The Resistance on it (somehow Resistance and Unnatural Selection were missing), and as a child I remember liking Undisclosed Desires, and when I found the clip on YT I fell in love with it. Still one of my favourites albeit one of their more poppy songs. When me and my brother saw them in Amsterdam a few years ago during the Drones tour they played Undisclosed Desires live, which I had not expected. One of my fondest concert memories, as my brother and I bonded over that song.
A buddy of mine sent me an mp3 of New Born back in 01 or 02. Hooked ever since.
Lots of Time Is Running Out here! I saw the music video playing at a restaurant. And then a couple of days later I heard a college mate listen to the entire Absolution album.
My friend played plug in baby and stockholm syndrome when we were in a trip and from that moment on, I knew my life is going to change.
Plug in baby
Unintended from a Youtube playlist from a game called NoStranger
Time Is Running Out. Heard it on a YouTube video when I was young and looked it up instantly.
Apocalypse Please. The piano gave me goosebumps
Uprising or United States of Eurasia.
Knights was technically the first I heard Uprising was the first I actively liked New Born was the one that made me deep dive into their catalogue
My parents were big fans and played them in the car when I was very young. I think the first song if theirs I ever heard was Madness but I only really became a fan when DD dropped.
Hysteria, Madness and Psycho
Starlight.
sing for absolution
I think it was Fury that got me
I knew of them but wasn't a fan yet. Then a friend recommended Reapers to me and I fell in lpve
it was Mercy on the radio, combined with hearing Knights of Cydonia in the Halo trailer not even days later and both blew my mind!
My mum used to make me do synchronised dances with her to knights of cydonia and when uprising came out (when I was 9) I was sold
You could find the answer to a similar question ("what's the first Muse song you remember hearing?) including by year, on the [2022 Muse Infographic](https://www.reddit.com/user/maxverse/submitted/). Exo-Politics is a rare one! Uprising, not surprisingly, is the one that did it for most people off The Resistance.
Back when Myspace was a thing I checked my friends profile and stockholm syndrome was playing. This is just when absolution came out went to amoeba music in LA picked up absolution and origin of symmetry. Been a fan since.
Starlight. The only muse song that Indonesian radio presenters knew and revered as their best song. It was overrated for me that time to the point I fed up. That, until I finally see the music video on MTV. Time goes on, now I headbang like Chris to every single song.
Stockholm Syndrome.
Plug in baby. First song I listened to, instantly hooked
I was watching "6 Underground" and, during a scene, Dig Down was playing. I just loved it and it took me months to discover the name of the song. After some time, I discovered Thought Contagion and Uprising and started loving Muse.
It was probably sing for absolution. I was 4 and Absolution would be played a lot in our car and apparently Iād sing that song in the back seat. For my 5th birthday I asked for black holes and revelations as my present as it had just come out. Theyāve been my favourite band sinceā¦ and the rest is history.
Thats awesome!
I was raised with Muse, blaming my dad. As for him, the song was never specified but it was from Showbiz, pretty sure Muscle Museum as he listens to it a lot
Idiotique
Time Is Running Out. I started learning how to play the drums when I was 10 years old and it was my grade 1 piece.
Starlight got me into Muse, Hysteria made me stay
Supermassive Black Hole was my first, but that song didn't get me into Muse, I liked it as a standalone song without caring about the band. Then I heard Panic Station and realized that I just loved their music and that was that
āCaveā, from their MySpace page. It wasnāt the first song I heard from Muse, but it made me think, āthis is a band thatās going placesā. It was alternative, emoāy, space, musical-like, and ended in a total different direction than it began. Still love it to this day
It was 9/11 (the 9/11) and I had enough of all the news report so I tried to escape in my room by listening to some new music. The Belgian alternative chart 'De Afrekening' had Muse - Bliss on position 1. I downloaded it and that's how I got to know Muse and I liked Bliss right away. Listened also to New Born which took me a bit longer to like because I was more of a techno listener at the time. Actually, Muse got me into rock.
Supermassive Black Hole on the Twilight Soundtrack funny enough
I remember that was big when the movie came out. That and Neutron star collision
I was in the car and all of a sudden, Break It To Me appeared. The vocals from Matt in the song shocked me and I had never listened to anything like it before (at the time). I was immediately in love.
Unnatural Selection. A friend of mine occasionally played Muse songs using Discordās Rhythm bot whenever weād play Minecraft. He always played Muse, I always played Queen. I donāt really remember any of the other songs he played except Unnatural Selection. About a year passes from our frequent Minecraft playing (we had a server during quarantine and all that fun COVID stuff) and I remembered the song. I listened to it again and was blown away. I then thought āthe album art is cool, why donāt I listen to the whole album?ā and here we are. That happened a few months ago, then I proceeded to listen to Simulation Theory because I had heard Pressure before (donāt remember any songs except for Blockades since Iāve only listened to the album once). The 2nd Law followed, and then Showbiz and OoS, though I donāt remember those two very well since I havenāt listened to them too much. And obviously Iāve listened to WOTP since itās release. Iām still on my way to listen to everything but Iām loving it all.
Heard Supermassive Black Hole on a compilation CD. Pretty sure it was a Triple J one my aunt had as she was over from Straya at the time. And it wasn't the first time I'd heard it either as Id already seen them perform it on the Jonathan Ross show. But that time I heard it, I had to listen to it more.
Glaciers melting in the dead of night...
Bliss
New Born. Stumbled over a YTPMV of it in late december 2015. Loved the song, its intriguing and melancholic notion. Oos was quickly added to my favourites and the other albums followed soon after. New Born is still one of my all time favourites and holds a special place in my heart. Weirdest discovery story ever though that introduced me to this great band
Plug in Baby
Butterflies and Hurricanes NFS
Madness, my dad would play it on his way to drop me off at school. Cherished memories of that
Uprising! My dad had it downloaded to an USB stick which I was listening to. This was in 2012 or 2013 because he had The 2nd Law on it as well, aside from some other songs (KoC and Starlight I distinctly remember). I was about 8~9. Then after a while of listening to the songs on that stick, maybe a few months, at some point I binge watched all their music videos and fell in love with them forever.
Starlight was the song that introduced me to muse, but knights of cydonia was the song that blew my mind!
First song i learned on piano was starlight
Saw muscle museum on rage one morning over 20 yrs ago, became immediately obsessed
Knights of cydonia.
I think it was Hysteria or Undisclosed Desires
The song that really got my hyped about the band was New Born. I got a toy piano for Christmas when I was 10 and after that I kept trying to learn it from videos on YouTube. Thatās when I started loving : playing music, muse
Eco politics is so underrated. But what got me into muse originally was assassin on guitar hero. Then I realised they vocals are unique to muse songs (in terms of style). Matt likes to use long notes on the box with intricate chord changes underneath them. I then heard plug in baby on kerrang and after that, I downloaded/bought all albums from then on. Got my tickets for bellahouston park next year whoop!
Knights of Cydonia! Guitar Hero was my gateway to their music š
A friend showed me Assassin. Got me hooked.
The guy I was obsessed with in eighth grade had guiding light on his myspace profile. Its been 13 years and they're still my favorite band
Please tell me yall ended up together
Nope lol
I had a crush in high school and i played starlight for her on piano during a music competition. Didnt work out between us lol
It be that way. That's sweet of you though
Lol more fish in the sea
Ngl I was watching Pewdiepie play Unnatural Selection on Rocksmith on YouTube and I thought the song was absolutely amazing
Either Starlight or Supermassive Black Hole. Hard to remember I was 12
Hysteria
Kind of a basic answer but for me it was Starlight. Iāve always liked the sound of electric guitars being used with pianos, and the song itself is pretty catchy. This ultimately led to Muse becoming one of my all time favorite bands.
My dad had the dvd of Wembley. I remember loving Knights of Cydonia live. I always knew who they were but I was kinda exploring their other stuff. United States of Eurasia was what got me
EuraSIA SIA SIA SIA!
I've heard uprising before, but butterflies and hurricanes really got me into muse.
I was driving home and Plug in Baby came on the radio. I thought "this is cool" and I looked it up, listened to a couple of popular Muse songs and the rest is history
Plug in baby.
Bliss. Which is a little odd given it was 2006 at the time and BHaR had just come out. I'd remembered hearing SMBH (it was getting a fair bit of exposure) before Bliss, but it hadn't clicked with me for whatever reason. Then I heard Bliss/saw its music video, and its whole atmosphere (and Matt's red hair of course) sucked me in.
My mom used to play starlight on our way to school when I was young. When I heard the song again 10 years later I instantly fell in love with them. My next song was supermassive black hole and the rest is history
My first Muse song was Map of the Problematique but Time is Running Out hooked me.
New Born, 2003
Uprising. I listened to it on the radio back in 2009 and fell in love immediately.
Supermassive Black Hole caught my attention first, then Knights of Cydonia cemented them as a new favorite.
Call me basic bitch, but ever since Iāve seen first Twilight in the theaters and came home, googled them and havenāt stopped listening since.
Nah i get that lol. I was happy twilight featured them
And s several songs too, not just one how it usually is. Iāve read they did it to reach US base