SPACE ODYSSEY: The best of Muse on one CD

Q Magazine 
February 2005

Note: I can't find any evidence that this is an actual CD compilation, certainly there is no retail price or "available at" information included. I think it's probably a recommended playlist from Q. 

Muscle Museum 
From: Showbiz (Taste, 1999) 
Radiohead-esque epic with sedate verses bumping into cataclysmic choruses, Bellamy falling to his knees like a high priest of rock. 

Unintended 
From: Showbiz (Taste, 1999) 
Proof that Muse worship at the altar of Jeff Buckley: an uncharacteristically sensitive ballad, chock-full of keening agony. 

Uno
From: Showbiz (Taste, 1999) 
All out aggro, with serrated guitar, and a repetitive Bellamy cry of, "This means nothing to me", when you sense the opposite is true. 

New Born
From: Origin Of Symmetry (Taste, 2001) 
Scaramouch, scaramouch, can you do the fandago? Bonkers sci-fi operatics for six hurting minutes. 

Plug In Baby
From: Origin Of Symmetry (Taste, 2001) 
The song in which Muse's Jimi Hendrix obsession comes to the fore. Bellamy's axe solo very probably delivered on his back. 

Feeling Good
From: Origin Of Symmetry (Taste, 2001) 
A surprisingly stately version of the Nina Simone classic, which went on to sell a coffee table on a TV advert, until Muse lawyers intervened. 

Time Is Running Out 
From: Absolution (east west, 2003)
Their catchiest single to date, complete with doo-wop finger clicks. "I think I'm drowning" he sings. "Of course you are, Matt. Of course you are. 

Hysteria
From: Absolution (east west, 2003) 
If hell hath no fury like a Matt Bellamy scorned, then Hysteria is the apocalyptic soundtrack. Sounds nothing like the Def Leppard song of the same name. 

Sing For Absolution 
From: Absolution (east west, 2003) 
Big ballad that reeks of the calm before the storms. "There's nowhere left to hide," sings the man who has yet to look behind the curtains. 

Blackout
From: Absolution (east west, 2003) 
A tragic, beautiful, neo-classical rush of goosebumps, sung by a small boy in a large forest. When violins kick in, angels descend. 

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