Brit Alt Rock

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Album: Favourite Worst Nightmare: Mentally this album has been pegged as just the one in between the breakout debut and their most mainstream album (the other two albums in between those are pegged as does not exist to me), but diving deep it's a great "same lane but bigger" album

Brianstorm: 8 I Love You Brian Storm

Teddy Picker: 9 Alex Turner oozes attitude, no wonder indie rock Tumblr was/is obsessed with that dude

D is for Dangerous: 9

Balaclava: 7 Sorry babe but the balaclava stays ON during sex

Fluorescent Adolescent: 10 This is just 1985 but for hipsters

Only Ones Who Know: 7

Do Me a Favour: 10 Absolutely enormous build and hoo boy does it pay off

This House Is a Circus: 8 It's the dueling guitars & backup vocals that'll actually put this one over the top

If You Were There, Beware: 8

The Bad Thing: 8 This is peak Usher levels of ability to make cheating seem cool

Old Yellow Bricks: 7

505: 10 Yeah okay now I hear why this one has the same number of streams as the big AM tracks do

Album: Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends: Bit of a slow start and an  end but an excellent body

Life in Technicolor: 8 Superb instrumental on the intro

Cemeteries of London: 6

Lost!: 5 Kinda bleh

42: 9 I don't know if the final third really flowed all that well with the rest but can't care that much when all three parts are awesome

Lovers in Japan: 11 Never any doubt this was gonna be the 11. Stunning track, gorgeous plinking piano, idk I just wanna spin around and bask and weep a lil

Reign of Love (begins at 3﹕58 on Lovers in Japan): 8 Giving this extra points just out of relief that it's separated from Lovers in Japan

Yes: 8 Very bright, lovely sound

Chinese Sleep Chant (begins at 4﹕05 on Yes): 10 Giving Chris Martin permission to keep randomly naming songs after Asian countries if he keeps making em bangers

Viva La Vida: 10 Hearing it with fresh ears and noticing all the little dope flourishes, and yeah, it's deserving of all the fanfare

Violet Hill: 9 Bangs in the horse & carriage

Strawberry Swing: 9 I mean, it doesn't beat Frank's version because they just can't compete voice-wise, but still a great song at its core

Death and All His Friends: 6

The Escapist (begins at 3﹕31 on Death and All His Friends): 7 This is three steps away from a Porter Robinson track

Album: Demon Days: Not everything hit, but definitely the most interesting listen of the four

Last Living Souls: 6 This is the wonkiest apocalypse I've been apart of

Kids With Guns: 8

O Green World: 7 The intro went from farts to robot horror movie in a hurry

Dirty Harry: 9 I'm super familiar with this intro because I often mix it up with Clint Eastwood

Feel Good Inc.: 10 No matter where this places, my reaction is gonna be Feel Good Inc. Laugh

El Mañana: 7

Every Planet We Reach Is Dead: 10 They can be so strong at these plodding grooves that seem plucked from some barren broken future

November Has Come: 9 A real Flimsy Steve type track

All Alone: 5 The start of this song dug a hole that it still should've come back from if the chorus didn't annoy the hell out of me

White Light: 7

Dare: 10 It's Dare!

Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head: 7

Don't Get Lost In Heaven: 6

Demon Days: 7

Album: Black Holes and Revelations: Think the other groups had a special something here that I've never found in Muse, but still better than I expected coming in

Take a Bow: 6 Was about to joke about ratcom before I remembered that I'm part of a ratcom

Starlight: 10 Shoutout the Killers for covering this the night after Muse got rained out

Supermassive Black Hole: 10 Never been a big Muse guy but I can't deny that riff, that's an all-timer

Map of the Problematique: 9 Blasting this as my ship is gunning down the interstellar highway

Soldier's Poem: 6

Invincible: 6 A tale of two halves

Assassin: 7 "Demonocracy" I'm gonna shove Matt Bellamy into a locker

Exo-Politics: 8

City of Delusion: 7

Hoodoo: 6

Knights of Cydonia: 8 Not entirely for me, but I can see the obvious 11 magnet potential

Glorious: 8

BONUS TRACKS

Banquet: 10 Please do the Meet Me in the NME Bathroom rate at indieheads in late October

Take Me Out: 10 Please do the Meet Me in the NME Bathroom rate at indieheads in late October

Chelsea Dagger: 9 Blackhawks please change your logo please I'm begging you

Somewhere Only We Know: 10 2000s VH1 music video blocks were a strong part of my taste growing up. Some alt acts I found there dove into beyond that time period (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Modest Mouse, The Killers, etc). Keane is one of those I was only ever interested for the album that had Somewhere Only We Know, but boy does it still touch the same high level of nostalgia nerve as those aforementioned long enjoyed bands

Little Lion Man: 10 Fun fact: when they headlined Lollapalooza 2013, they had the largest crowd in the festival history at the time. Who'd they play against to get such a crowd? Why, Olympic snowboard Shaun White (whose band had to fill in for Death Grips & Azealia Banks since they both cancelled last minute) and future EE ER act the Postal Service playing to a tiny ass crowd (including me!) for their second to last show for the next ten years

Jigsaw Falling Into Place: 10 What sick things do I have to do to get this album rated since we can't do it on indieheads again

Chasing Cars: 7 This song's good, but I'm a much bigger supporter of the Snow Patrol album before this one

Vertigo: 8 I always thought the lyric was "May I please go Vertigo? 🥺👉👈"

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