Muse - Black Holes and Revelations

The tracks on Muse's Black Holes and Revelations read more like computer game titles. 'Starlight' is clearly some sort of futuristic flight simulator - a shoot 'em up kind of affair. 'Supermassive Black Hole' is probably an element of that game.

'Knights of Cydonia' could only be an RPG. Within this game you gain the 'Map of the Problematique' and find your way to the 'City of Delusion'.

'Hoodoo' is some sort of big, first-person shooter release. Everyone owns this except you, because you don't keep up with games any more because you're too busy going to work and watching Newsnight.

If there isn't a game called 'Assassin', I'll walk the length of the country in just a pair of moonboots and a body-warmer. Similarly, 'Invincible', although this was probably a game on the Commodore 64 that had really appealing advertising that it couldn't live up to because it was played on a computer with all the processing power of a modern toaster.

Muse are a faintly comedy, overblown, upper-class rock band, who seem to have carved a niche for themselves by embracing all these seeming weaknesses whole-heartedly. It's quite admirable, in an inexplicable way.