The Muse Iceberg Explained

[@NightwalkReal]

Make sure to like the video if you enjoyed it! I have a LOT more things that I'd add to an iceberg, so if you guys really enjoy this I could do a part 2 with more deep cuts.

[@SoldierOfCydonia]

I'd love to see part 2 - I guess there would be things such as: Dom's sex tape, anagrams, maybe Megalomania's fake lyrics (to get access to church/cathedral organs) and other fun or less-known trivia.

[@coinwol6225]

Yes please

[@lucianaleiva518]

This is Muse and you are watching Rage!

[@lucianaleiva518]

The bananas, Rachmaninoff, Hey you crazy kids!, Floccinaucinihilipilification, 1984. And ALIENS!!

[@marijnrots4943]

Can you put in the info about the solo of muscle museum? At the rehearsal matt begins the solo and Fs it up immediately so he continues to sing it. On the album recording he sings the solo in a microphone trough a Marshall amp so that's how they created the unique sound. I always like that story

[@emmyjemmy4208]

hey I'm the original creator of this iceberg chart - thanks for making this video! I made it quite a while ago so I'm sure there are way more niche things that people will be mentioning in the comments haha

[@alessandrotodaro5689]

'the muse' refers to when muse went to " a quelli che il calcio" on Italian TV and exchanged musical instruments. For an Italian muser like me this video is wonderful. I managed to remember all the levels of the iceberg. I'm glad you included hate this and i ll love you, one of my favorite but unfortunately little known songs.🔥

[@cynzix]

Matt's drumming was one of the funniest things I've seen in my life

[@alessandrotodaro5689]

@@cynzix as a drummer you are absolutely right

[@piereligiodisante]

Da fan italiani siamo NOI ad avere il dovere di saperlo AHAHA

[@gargaduk]

I know :)

[@pablordgz]

the reason they exchanged instruments is because they wanted Matt to lip sync and Dom and Chris to pretend they played while they played the track in the background, just to add a bit of context

[@FlamiusRex31]

11:29 I think it refers to that famous performance at some italian TV show where they were forced to playback and in revenge they swapped instruments. The announcer called them The Muse

[@paulcorso]

Definitely this^^

[@bubmusic1229]

Yeah I love that video

[@sebastianbaquero7227]

Matt with the megaphone: "Fucking fucking fuck fucking fucking fucking fuck"

[@lukeyboi0899]

Yep! One of my fav videos

[@KremBotop]

Music icebergs overall aren't quite common, and I've ofc been waiting for a Muse one so kudos for making this

[@NightwalkReal]

I've been waiting for a video on it too...I forgot I'm the one who would make it haha

[@vherus]

I can't remember what interview it was but Chris did say that Matt called him and just went "Listen to this: PWOPA PWOPA PWOPA PWOPA PWOPA PWOPA GANDA" when pitching a new song idea

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

I 100% believe it and my respect for the muse boys for putting up with Matt's nonsense will never die

[@six3r]

2012 Olympics - their live performance from the opening ceremony was cut from the US audience for commercials. There was like 20 performers and literally Muse was the only one cut for commercials. I am still upset at NBC over this. I sat through that whole thing waiting for them.

[@hahaishereman]

BRO. So. I’m pretty sure “the muse” is from that itallian tv show they went on where they switched roles and lip synced. So dom pretended to be Matt, Matt was on the drums etc. I believe it was because they didn’t wanna do the performance and were forced to. Just put “muse itallian tv show” into KZbin it’s still there I believe And it’s very very funny

[@MikeTaffet]

Bingo

[@NightwalkReal]

Shoot. I've enjoyed that video so many times, just didn't know that's what the title was referring to... Thanks for clearing that up!

[@CarRadioRaff]

@@NightwalkReal Because they were forced to play in playback, and in protest they switched places. I was "lucky" to see him live, the most embarrassing thing and that the presenter Simona Ventura didn't realize that it was a complete joke...

[@cynzix]

And there was that moment when Dom referred to Matt as "our drummer" 😂

[@hailingfromlyra777]

Can’t believe the “Matt is an alien” theory wasn’t on here 🤣🤣🤣 Because there’s lots of good arguments to confirm it lol

[@kaha.2135]

I think "matt trying to kill dom" can also refer to that one infamous and hilarious tumblr post about matt "full on" trying to kill dom with a knife 💀💀 but considering that was loooong ago the tier could just be referring to regular deathly guitar throwing lmao

[@iliketrains3495]

I'd personally put Showbiz down a tier. I feel like some casual fans don't even know that album exists and although it got most of its success in the UK, Feeling Good (which is in tier 2) is more well-known over here than pretty much the whole of Showbiz

[@SoldierOfCydonia]

10:27 - about Dom's fashion. It also had an appearance on The Resistance tour - I think there were several gigs, in which Dom dressed up weird or unusual. The other thing is that in one making of video (I guess Neutron Star Collision) he also has a costume, an unusual costume.

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

I don't know where it's from but I saw a picture of him wearing a Spider Man costume 😂

[@NightwalkReal]

@@ThinWhiteAxe Oh yeah! I forgot about that hahaha

[@jakem.8608]

Also Panic Station video

[@blindowl2656]

@@ThinWhiteAxe Christchurch NZ 2007, and once or twice in Canada I think

[@cynzix]

And the zebra coat and cowboy hat he used on the previous tour

[@LisaYellow]

As a Pwoper Muse fan im in wayyy deeper than tier 7 haha, but this was really cool and if youre a new fan this is kind of a nice introduction actually. I missed takeabow19 in this list though :P and also their refusal to do playback on live tv :D

[@NightwalkReal]

Yeah there’s a lot more that could’ve been done… but hey it’s a start!

[@kevinporter7065]

Won tickets on the radio for the Evanescence and Muse concert. Muse was outright incredible to watch.

[@lane1]

I felt they focused way too much on stage effects instead of actual music but still great

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

Matt's speech impediment is called "rhoticism" (trouble with the R sound, particularly after a consonant). He can nail R's okay some of the time or when he slows down - but he rarely slows down (he just is one of those people who thinks too fast for speech) 🤣 and he has particular trouble with R's immediately after other consonants, such as "pr" and "tr"

[@jedswarley6166]

Great iceberg, thought it'd mention Chris's alcohol problem and how it is showcased in Liquid State and Save Me songs

[@noahbrechbill8391]

13:27 Corey Taylor’s mask makes an appearance in the Music video for You Make Me Feel Like It’s Halloween, I’m guessing as an homage to the clip

[@talunter805]

The fishing trip was part of the Hullabaloo bonus documentary!

[@mutantsupremacies]

surprised there wasn’t anything on the conspiracies and controversies of drones. hardly anything about chris either. would love to see more.

[@cameronwarren1217]

Finally! I was waiting for someone to do one of these about Muse

[@thomaszloi9444]

My sister came up with theory about twilight book series and its connection to muse because apparently Stephanie Myer's fav band is muse and she used to write fanfics before her novel maybe apparently slash yaoi ones and there's like weird love triangle going on between Bellamy(Bella) Howard(Edward) and Wolstenholme(Jacob)

[@Trinidad413]

OMG! Never consider that but I like the idea!

[@Trinidad413]

I just pictured the Cullens as Muse in my mind, in the scene where Bella first meet them at the cafeteria. The blond one, Dom; the shorter one with weird bronze hair, Matt; and the taller one with dark curly hair, Chris.

[@asrafelicia]

Wait what? 🤣 Funny thing was, when I saw Edward for the 1st time, and I heard that the writer really love muse, I immediately remembered Matt in Sunburn music video. So I always imagine Stephanie took Bellamy as inspiration for Edward desihn character 🙈

[@metamorphosis702]

Lol that's really funny

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

This is... unbelievably cursed information and I will never be able to un-think of this, thank you

[@hysteria008]

Surprised the 'Dom Howard Loaf of Bread' didn't make Tier 7

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

me realizing I know every single reference on the iceberg -

[@benedicvelasco]

Clarification. In an interview, Matt said that it was for his ex and was never intended to be used for the Twilight movies. It just sounded appropriate for the movie.

[@jerebado4084]

17:56 my god that nearly killed me, I couldn't stop laughing. It's basically the mood for the whole song. Jesus christ, that's great

[@rpichinine]

18:00 I actually can't sing Micro Cuts quite well and it's definitely my biggest achievement in life

[@elisa_cruz]

Been a fan for nearly 10 years and it felt so good to remember all of these moments, also I believe Matt's socks could also be when he put socks on in the middle of an interview hsdhaksfka

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

Dom also gave Matt banana socks for his birthday a few years ago, because of Matt's love of bananas, lol

[@Shineh234]

no love for Morgan?

[@p3nnyroyalteaaa]

please please please pLEASE do a part 2! like you said, i've never seen any muse icebergs and this was just so refreshing and cool to watch :D

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

please, please, please, let you get what you want

[@SpideyWarsStudios]

Saw them live in Fort Worth. They sounded EXACTLY like the record. Absolutely awesome show

[@martinap5860]

Thanks for the vid! The "Sit the f*ck down" clip is so famous because of Matt's hilarious laugh. There are more clips of his laugh on YT. Would love to see another video including WOTPing and aliens! And their live shows.

[@nelisezpasce]

What a joyful video, I'm grinning so hard from start to finish, although I still want more... I want to believe a bigger iceberg is only a matter of time... Muse lore is hilarious! I can picture "Guiding Light sucks" up on the sky, then "Guiding Light is actually good" deep underwater!

[@geoffkeen5234]

Matt is just plumping out and filling his skin, stretching those gaunt lines to a rosy roundness/smoothness. 😊

[@glOOmyART]

the fishing trip was part of the hullabaloo 2nd DVD which ccontains all sorts of behind the scenes from the tour and covvershoot (i think this was a special edition) the "sit the eff down" thing was also part of that DVD also, the hullabaloo soundtrack is not just edits, they are all the b-sides from the origin singles (plugin baby alone contains 5 additional tracks which are all on the sountrack)

[@jadyassine8484]

Thanks for reminding me of the profane Feeling Good performance 😂😂😂😂

[@NightwalkReal]

You’re welcome haha

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

that's what musers are for

[@thegreenbikerider6189]

Oh man where do I start. I remember being at school when Showbiz came out. Got me into Jeff Buckley. I saw them support Bush with Soulwax. I have all the original EPs and Nishe is my favourite song. Inspired me to play bass guitar.

[@p3nnyroyalteaaa]

oh! pwoper also refers to that same video of the guys on a fishing trip and matt saying something about catching a "pwoper fish"! :D

[@ojjii44tt]

no way you got too shy to even say “belldom stays for Bellamy and Dominic together” lmfao 😭😭😭 also “the muse” is about that italian tv-show where they swapped their instruments, they got announced this way

[@ryeofoatmeal]

i could understand some people don't like shipping stuff. wish we could see some belldom moment here cuz they're hilarious 😂 most of the time it just matt tryna k*ll dom. nothing romantic here lol

[@Treebrothersfarm]

Belldom is the funny bromance between Matt and Dom. Bellamy and Dom= Belldom lol 😂

[@arturwietocha7812]

The also played Adiago for string before Resistance during some of the gigs

[@carlo_mrvnll]

11:29 to say "the Muse" was the Italian presenter Simona Ventura, in a program where they were forced to sing in playback. The video is hilarious kzbin.info/www/bejne/i2ivhWZ8qbWnmMU

[@EveReznor]

There should be on the lowest tier the PMT thead on Muse forum which sadly is inactive for some years now, but back in 2010 was booming with ladies literally posting pictures of our boys and well, they mostly included their crotch regions xD It was interesting part of the forum back in a day, I'm kinda happy I was still be able to be part of it xD. BellDom - ship between MattxDom mostly just describing their bromance. These two are very close friends and often their interactions during interveiws included long stares at each other and weird comments from Matt, so it just happened. But they are totally hilarious and it's just a joke. Also what adds to it "Suspecting Dom to be gay" as Dom was the last one of them to get a girlfriend and his fashion sense is quite original, let's say it, because our guy loves skinny jeans and panter-dot shirts xD.

[@dS0_]

I always sing along to micro cuts, it's too addicting

[@klozz2080]

18:00 I don’t have words to describe the version they played during the Black Holes Tour. It starts quiet and more stripped down, and when you think this version will be calmer and simpler for Matt to sing, the chorus comes and he just completely fucks his throat and his voice sounds like he’s bleeding through his mouth and screaming like he’s going to die when the song ends but you still can’t understand a single word while Chris seems to be punching his bass and Dom just goes crazy on the drums.

[@vantocontainer]

I think "the muse" maybe also came from a show they did in, I think Austin, that was end of the Absolution tour dvd. I'm pretty sure they were introduced as the muse and the song was Fury, it's been about 15 years since I watched it so might be wrong! I also remember Matt talking about how it was "proper fucking rock and roll" haha

[@benedicvelasco]

let's not forget the mushrooms

[@lukeneale8708]

btw the place muse started is pronounced ten-muth (teignmouth),. Just thought I would mention it

[@chrissy9997]

If you ever do a part 2 then here's some ideas. Maggots in jacuzzi on shrooms (and shrooms generally), lots of stuff from the Showbiz era, not just THE MUSE lip sync moment but all the other ones too, no yew idiot, one of their CDs getting thrown in the bin by the mayor of their home town, Murph/Will/Charles, the glitterati (RIP), the Top Gear videogame influence for Bliss, Takeabow19, I could honestly go on and on.

[@gab-b]

as someone who had a similar speech impediment until i was 15, this makes me respect matt more actually

[@nerea4327]

Something I haven't seen anyone mention: they didn't write Neutron Star Collision for the Twilight. Matt wrote it following his breakup with his girlfriend at the time. They thought it didn't fit in The Resistance, so they gave it to Twilight when they were asked.

[@Nozipho]

When I heard survival I feel like it’s worthy of many MANY awards 😭 it’s the gold medal contender of the music world

[@biffbird]

About the guitar smashing record... That was proven to be false; Matt never smashed 140 guitars during that tour. However, the myth was so widespread even Guinness World Records were fooled for a while.

[@emjayrogers1987]

Not sure if this is iceberg-worthy, but I recently discovered that Citizen Erased and Resistance use an almost identical background melody. Just thought it was cool to share

[@ohnobro1424]

Now I will never unhear this

[@spacedementia1213]

Yeah! When I listen to CE the transition before the piano part always makes me think about Resistance. Glad to know someone else noticed this

[@ddslickteam5296]

The speech impediment abusing on Propaganda isn’t alleged, he confirmed it himself on an interview where they went over all the Sun Theory songs Edit: it was the Radio X interview

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

yup its pwoper 😂

[@greensnakegg]

"The Muse", I suppose, is a name of Muse in an Italian TV-show, where Matt was playing drums, Chris - piano + guitar, Dom - bass + vocal. Organizers told him to play under the phonogram and guys decided to make a prank with instruments and name :) Despite this, the audience did not guess

[@LabradorIndependent]

Love the list, but do feel like it's missing a proper Level 1. As far as the general audience goes, people might know Starlight, or Uprising, or have heard the Feeling Good cover, but I would've put Showbiz and even Knights as a deeper cut. Origin of Symmetry again is sadly less well known than it ought to be.

[@thomyorkesplug]

i love them so much bro

[@galadriel2159]

I love this it was so entertaining! Of course I’m sitting in the Atlanta airport for two hours. 😂 great video

[@j-drummer9132]

There’s a much larger iceberg that you should cover

[@antoniblumhoff91]

should have put Glen Rowe deeper in the iceberg than Tom Kirk lol

[@andreimarkov3775]

5:22 I once posted on the Radiohead subreddit asking for album recommendations given that I'm a fan of Origin of Symmetry. Almost every comment said that Origin of Symmetry was a straight copy (some even said rip-off) of OKC so I should just start there. I've listened to OKC many times since then and I still don't know where the comparisons come from.

[@NightwalkReal]

Exit music is the one that does sound musey, but it’s one song…

[@ohnobro1424]

Something tells me they haven’t even heard Origin of Symmetry because I love both albums and those comparisons are nuts.

[@lukeyboi0899]

Ayy I knew them all! 'The Muse' refers to that italian show where they swapped instrumenta

[@arthurmorgan7903]

They didn't write neutron star for twilight. It was just a song that missed their last release.

[@Trinidad413]

Exactly. I even read somewhere that Matt wrote it for her girlfriend at that time.

[@olineo57]

Its also apropriate like twilight thats sh.. 😅

[@andyidsoe]

Several things were new to me. Would love to hear more things in a part 2.

[@JM-wr2fo]

This was fun! I forgot about some of Muse's albums, thanks for the reminder ;)

[@belle7733]

I thrive on Nightwalk Muse content 🖤!!

[@theimortal1974]

that classic sounding intro is on the album.

[@eliasvandenbroeck4577]

My Favorite Album's. The Resistance, Drones, Simulation Theory. Drones has something special to me. Whole the album has a great atmosphere. I am still a big fan of Origin Of Symmetry too. Micro Cuts came in the spot to me these days. This album is very talented. As Absolution is too. Black Holes And Revelation's is very energetic to me. If You think about how great the last Album's where' Simulation Theory and Will Of The People. I am a fan of Matt his Beautiful singed song's. This remind's me to U2. As I find Megalomania is great to listen again too. Thanks for this video. It's amazing

[@eliasvandenbroeck4577]

Thanks

[@certifieddumbass-ee4qg]

singing along to micro cuts might as well have been singing along to execution commentary

[@3lit3halo]

I have a fun obscure one for the iceberg. Did you know that there exists an extended outro version of Bliss? The version on the album, even the rerelease, fades out at the end. It is extremely obscure, but it was distributed to radiostations waaayyy back in the day.

[@femboy-gardevoir]

Bonus entry (not really)! The 2nd verse for "Time is Running Out" had the snare played with a wagon wheel on top of it. I am the furthest from joking.

[@Amber_xo_133]

Muse or Radiohead? Muse: Like Radiohead: Comment

[@blueishsky9989]

I remember the fishing trip being an extra on I think if you bought the dvd of one of the live shows 🤔

[@chiffmonkey]

Not a great iceberg when large parts of it are just standard album releases and tracks from those releases. No mention of World War Z, Matt's solo career overlap, ST video chronology, "Will of the Sheeple", the Exogenesis Pt 4 joke etc. Your analysis missed that the Rocket Baby Dolls battle of the bands (at Teignmouth High) plays out in the video for Pressure and that "sit the f**k down" is referenced in the YMMFLIH video. Most surprisingly, you don't get what "The Muse" is referring to? It's literally what every single song is about - The Anima. You've been missing out on what any of the lyrics really mean without knowing that. Propaganda is on there because it's the entire meaning of the Simulation Theory album - layers of propaganda like being in stacked virtual worlds, hence the can of Propaganda causing the issues in the video for Pressure.

[@spencertherren6806]

Just saw them for the fifth time in Las Vegas. They're still absolutely awesome.🤘🇺🇲

[@viktoriak.1097]

Oh my god... the matt speech impediment video intro ahah

[@jamminj1143]

a french TV show introduced Muse as "The Muse" & the band members swapped places as a prank because it wasn't truly live.

[@olineo57]

Italian show

[@v1perRoom]

ive had a few older people thinkthat knights of cydonia was an older song, i think they confuse it with telstar by the tornadoes

[@smb1522]

The fishing trip is on the second DVD from Hullabaloo _ - it is the documentary content. Also the Chris / Slipknot /Mask Scene. :)

[@jhonsmith9682]

Symulation Theory is a masterpiece 😍

[@ownewheu]

I like how he put 2007 Radiohead song in comparison with 1999 Muse song. Seems like Radiohead stole Muse's style and not vice versa 💀

[@PonKa-wi8zc]

Sit the f down is maybe a reference to the "Jump the f up" in lives version of spit it out

[@NightwalkReal]

I think slipknot only started doing that in the mid 2000s and this was before that

[@PonKa-wi8zc]

@@NightwalkReal well, I just checked, I know the first time they did it corey said something like « we’re gonna try something new » I found a live video of spit it out at the Dynamo live in 2000, and he don’t say that, so jump the fuck out exist since 2000 at least, and they got Corey’s mask in 2001, so it was already a thing

[@NightwalkReal]

Ahh you must be right! I totally remembered wrong. Thanks for clearing that up

[@PonKa-wi8zc]

@@NightwalkReal you’re welcome, btw I love your videos (and love The abyss)

[@NightwalkReal]

@@PonKa-wi8zc Ayy thank you! I have been writing a ton and have a bunch of new music on the way so keep an eye out.

[@marclink0]

Tier 8 : floccinaucinihilipilification

[@AlluttajaYT]

I love the classic muse videos like the fishing one :)

[@EMITRAMBOcrad]

I feel like this iceberg isn’t rlly accurate

[@2izmm]

if you listen to the song “Inside My Head”by radiohead, it’s sounds a lot like muse

[@Echo-Head]

A Muse iceberg that doesn't even mention H8 from Space Dementia is just weak.

[@PabloDrum75]

What about Muse logo from 12 Monkeys , the film?

[@gocanux47]

Oh my, you left out SO much on the deep Muse levels! (Says the woman who owns a 2005 MuseBike, obtained by the Austin Crew after an international coalition helped solve the anagrams and encoded song titles on their mtvU tour.) And there is NO way that Tom Kirk is on the deepest level...

[@Jliske2]

I love that I already knew about like 75% of the bottom tier XD good job

[@russell9995]

10:22 you took that from the muse wiki. the only reason I know this is that I was studying muse for an English assignment lol

[@AxoltotlRockstar]

First, thanks algorithm

[@NightwalkReal]

We love a favorable algorithm

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

Allllgorithms evoooollllve

[@lucasgori7835]

Wow it's been 500 years since the last time I hear "pwoper fish" lol 😂

[@naveisawesome4500]

This iceberg feels kinda...shallow? Like putting Tom Kirk in the bottom tier feels too surface level. From memes, to moments in specific shows, to prolific personalities in the muse community, there's a lot more than just this

[@NightwalkReal]

Definitely could have had more. I had a lot of things I would have personally added, but I’d already spent hours on the video and I didn’t even know if people would watch. If it does well I’ll do a second video going deeper, but it doesn’t seem like there’s a ton of interest atm

[@emmyjemmy4208]

hey! I'm the person who made this iceberg and I agree with you 😭 I made it over a year ago and my knowledge of muse has extended so much since then that I'm kind of cringeing a bit watching this at where I placed things. I was kind of guessing at how niche certain things were

[@naveisawesome4500]

@@emmyjemmy4208 hey that's totally cool, the muse fandom is a bit too much at times lol, its actually interesting seeing the perspective of someone with less knowledge on the band

[@eddiestefon7041]

I knew everything, EVERYTHING. It's a pwoper fish!

[@jakem.8608]

This guy Muses. Proper video!

[@jackckwitch3145]

love exogenesis so much! Muse is easily the best band ever. (My opinion is the right one)

[@maks_nikitin]

11:32. Когда я читал книгу о Muse Марка Бомона и там писалось, что muse это вроде как сокращение(вроде даже не очень то и приличное), но я не помню на какой это было странице и увы поискав я не смог найти :(

[@Cupidssatan]

I’ve been a fan of muse for wayyy over 12 years now, I seen them for the first time in 2018 and it was so bloody amazing! I see them again next month and I’m already buzzing for it! This band could do no wrong in my eyes🩶

[@charliealphasix981]

Plug in Baby, get with the pprogram!