4. Hearing A Muse Song Used On TV And Having To Tell Everyone
Whilst the band's music does lend itself to the theatrical and the dramatic, there's been a few baffling uses of it on TV over the years. Sporting montages love to play on the contrasting rock and orchestral sounds of Butterflies and Hurricanes, action shows have occasionally thrown Hysteria in for a particularly dramatic sequence, and even some of the Origin of Symmetry tracks have made their way into indie films over the years. But seriously BBC Sport, using an instrumental of the Sunburn intro every time you wanted to show how far away the tee was from the pin in some golf tournament a few years ago? What on earth was that about?
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