10 Awesome Openings In Terrible Songs
6. Unnatural Selection - Muse)
Muse is the type of band that can seemingly get away with anything and make it work, most of the time anyway. Unnatural Selection is one of just a small few that doesn't really connect, especially when you consider the intense introduction as an appetizer.
The song opens with a very muse-like church organ along with the robotic sounds of Matt Bellamy who always sounds as if he is singing too close to the microphone. In a good way of course. The song then bursts into a weighty guitar riff and an even bigger drum beat that feels as if we are about to take off and never come back down.
Sadly, we do come back down, and it's pretty quick too. The rest of the song then turns into a chaotic clustercrap of over the top gibberish making light of a band that seems so desperate to become Queens of the Stone Age. It's a shame because Muse is usually better than this. Take the galloping horses, Knights of Cydonia, for instance, the epic piano piece in Resistance, and of course, the Queen/Chopin pastiche medley mix intro and outro to arguably Muse's finest work, United States of Eurasia.