nope, still dont see it.
seriously, whats so special about that?
It's epic, that's what. :p Perhaps not the best song in their set that day, but that 2004 Glasto' show is pretty legendary. A lot of people regard them as being the best head liners ever, which is quite an accolade given the diverse range of music fans who frequent Glasto.
was referring to the music than the stage performance really. Smiley
X Japan have the melodrama in a theatrical sense at their concerts, and lets not forget that a lot of this is contributed to common cultural influences in Far East Asia. Yoshiki is masterful at lyricism and composition though. His songs are heartfelt and he's one of the best ballad lyricists going today. They don't bask half as much into pretension, and they don't have an idiot fan base labelling them as "Space Rock / Space Opera" and other nonsense. It's the result of a post-Jeff Buckley movement I guess where music had to be 'more' than simply bringing enjoyment and occasionally beauty to the listener.
I dunno, I'd say that there is definitely a sense of theatrics with Muse which is very much a kin to X Japan. Everything Yoshiki does is bathed in melodrama and theatrics, while Muse perhaps don't bring all of that to the stage they certainly have it in their music. X Japan's ballads are especially pseudo-pretentious and overly bombastic, I don't see how they are any more "heartfelt" than some of Muse's songs such as "Unintended", "Soldiers Poem" or "Sing for Absolution". Also, the last I heard, Yoshiki is actually quite the Muse fan himself. He cited Radiohead and Muse as bands he listens to frequently.
And as for the last thing you said in that paragraph, I'm not even going to address it because it's just silly. You're basically professing X Japan's superiority based on how you dislike Muse's fan-base. I thought we were talking about music here? :p
Matt seems to go out of his way to make the songs as awkward to understand as possible. It's not like you could ever work out what he was singing for the majority of their early releases anyway. His phonetics left a lot to be desired Tongue There is no denying Matt Bellamy's musicianship; he has more talent than the average generic pop/rock band does in today's industry for sure. There is an occasional air of superiority from their fan base simply because he incorporates Rachmaninov-esque interludes into his music.
He's from Devon and his voice his highly affected via his accent, not to mention the fact his early vocals are very much in the same veign as Thom Yorke's vocal performances for Radiohead. It's just a style. And yeah, while his piano playing is obviously very inspired by the likes of Rachmaninov I can't really hold it against him - especially as your beef seems to be more with the fan base than the band itself. Look at Yoshiki's piano playing, his "solo's" are actually very limited, he uses the same flourishes again and again and again. He's a very monotone pianist, I'd say even more so than Bellamy.