I prefer their bombastic prog stuff over their straightfoward rockers.

Yeah.... Surprised?

Got a hold of a (terrible quality) leak and, wow, mixed bag.

Most of the album: Below par. The odd good riff but i'm not thinking any of this is going to be too memorable. Disappointing.

Symphonies: Bloody magnificent, makes the album worth it just for them. I think even non Muse fans would like them, and it makes me wonder why Matt Bellamy decided to go down the rock route.

^^That sounds like the fake one

Ahhh you're kidding me..

Not heard it but there's a fake one been out for a while that everyone is saying is bad quality etc

United States of Eurasia isn't complete on it so maybe. Nethertheless whoever did the classical pieces did a bloody good job!

Not saying it's definite, but as far as I can tell there isn't a leak yet. But surely thats good news if the one you have wasn't too impressive. Always hope, lol.

I kinda hope you got a hold of the real thing because I'm really looking forward to the symphony sections. As for Matt going 'down the rock route', Muse like to play it safe most of the time. But when they step out of their comfort zone of distorted guitars and drumfills once in awhile they do a great job.

Anyway I was watching the HAARP DVD, earlier today and wow what an epic show. Seeing it on an HD big screen tv only adds to the experience, the little added parts the band did before or after a song were really nice and had a very Rage Against the Machine quality. Matt did these nice little corny poses and moves but I think it was necessary, when playing in a big place you need to make big movements. You can't be like Liam Gallagher and stand in the same place for 2 hours waggling your inaudible tambourine. One of the highlights was Blackout when 2 giant balloons floated around the stadium with ballerinas dangling below them. Also, I thought it was pretty funny to see assorted circles of people hardcore dancing in the stadium, because when I hear Map of the Problematiqué I instantly wanna dance hardcore style.

The more I think about the more I realise it must be bloody hard to engage a stadium audience, with all those faces staring at you in sea of people, it's gotta be hard to make that vital connection, but it sounds like Muse have a trick or two based on your descripttion of their DVD footage...

HAARP is awesome. It makes me wanna see them live so bad.