9 Bands You Used To Love (But Can No Longer Listen To)
8. Muse
Muse are split into two eras: pre and post Black Holes And Revelations. It seems that after 2006's Black Holes And Revelations some small but not insignificant change occurred in the band's music, rendering many fans totally alienated and confused.
Back in the early 2000s the group was pumping out incredibly sophisticated (and at times wonderfully abstract) rock and roll, music that challenged traditional song structure and wowed listeners with its complexity. Albums like Origin Of Symmetry and Absolution are now considered rock staples, but everything following Black Holes has been divisive to say the least.
The main reason why many can longer listen to Muse comes down to the band's overtly political nature. Each subsequent release seems to be more and more enamoured with making a sweeping and profound political statement, but this urgent desire to say something has come at the cost of any form of subtlety. For every tune like The Handler there's a track like Follow Me; the situation is completely summed up by the album cover of 2015's Drones, one of the most cringe-worthy album covers in recent memory.