Muse - Black Holes & Revelations
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Album Review
Release date: 11 July 2006
Muse: Black Holes & Revelations
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Muse - Black Holes & Revelations: Wikipedia Album Entry
Black Holes & Revelations is the fourth studio album by English rock band Muse, released on 3 July 2006. Recording was split between France and New York, and it was the first time Muse had taken a more active role in the album's production.
The album was a change in style from Muse's previous albums, and the band cited influences that included Queen, Millionaire, Sly and the Family Stone, Depeche Mode, Franz Ferdinand and music from southern Italy. The album has political and sci-fi undertones, with the lyrics covering topics as varied as political corruption, alien invasion, New World Order conspiracies as well as more conventional love songs.
The album sold 115,144 copies in its first week in the UK, which was more than the first week sales of Muse's previous album, Absolution. The album is also a BPI double platinum album, and was nominated for a Mercury Prize. Five singles were released in the UK, of which three were released in the US. A world tour followed the release of the album that included dates in the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia and most of Europe and Asia.
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Muse - Black Holes & Revelations Lyrics
Muse - Supermassive Black Hole Lyrics
Ooh, baby don't you know I suffer?
Oh, baby can you hear me moan?
You caught me under false pretenses
How long before you let me go?
Muse - Hoodoo Lyrics
Come on into my life
Regress into a dream
We will hide
Build a new reality
Muse - City Of Delusion Lyrics
Stay away from me
Build a fortress and shield your beliefs
Touch the divine
As we fall in line
Muse - Exo-Politics Lyrics
Open the skies over me
I am waiting patiently
I'll wait for a sign
Muse - Assassin Lyrics
War is overdue
The time has come for you
To shoot your leaders down
Join forces underground
Muse - Invincible Lyrics
Follow through
Make your dreams come true
Don't give up the fight
You will be alright
Muse - Soldier's Poem Lyrics
Throw it all away, let's lose ourselves
'Cause there's no one left for us to blame
It's a shame we're all dying
And do you think you deserve your freedom?
Muse - Map Of The Problematique Lyrics
Fear and panic in the air
I want to be free from desolation and despair
And I feel like everything I sow
Is being swept away, well I refuse to let you go
Muse - Starlight Lyrics
Far away
This ship is taking me far away
Far away from my memories
Of the people who care if I live or die
Muse - Take A Bow Lyrics
Corrupt, you corrupt
And bring corruption to all that you touch
Hold, you'll behold
And behold and for all that you've done
Muse - Knights Of Cydonia Lyrics
Ahh, ahh, ahh
Ahh, ahh, ahh
Ahh, ahh, ahh
Ahh, ahh, ahh
