This is one of the most creative music videos I've ever seen. The cheesy spaghetti western theme, with a few retro fantasy tropes thrown in, is pure genius. Did the band watch the video first then write the song around it? They absolutely nailed it. Whoever is responsible, needs a raise.
"Matt Bellamy wrote this song in part as a tribute to his father, who was a member of The Tornadoes and their 1962 mega-hit “Telstar,” which commemorated the first successful active communications satellite. You can hear the instrumentals at the beginning and hear their resemblance to the satellite-in-space sound that was a staple of “Telstar.” So much of this was a nod to the elder Bellamy’s hit." Courtesy of JBM425's comment.
Ending this song during Malaysia concert tour just a few days ago was the most epic thing to ever happen in my life. Everybody headbanging and singing. EPIC!!! Please, come back again to Malaysia, Muse!
@@18PregnantAndProud Very good. I can say the concert with the best sound, mixing & stadium anthems in Malaysia for year 2023, considering both local & international acts. And I dare say one of the best (if not the best) in the whole of Southeast Asia this year. Even better than Coldplay (sorry, had to compare, no offense to Coldplay fans).
Matt, 2006-2007 he said something along the lines of, "We wanted to make a bomb-tastic, silly over the top , track, We never thought it would become this huge. Now people are singing the instrument parts when we play live."
Because silly over-the-top bombastic is their forte and it's what we Musers all secretly crave and why we're here. It's an iconic symbol of everything Muse does best.
This Muse song always reminds me of my late son, as he introduced me to it. He's been gone 12 years now, but he's here again whenever I listen to it. He had good taste in music.
I (wrongly) dismissed Muse as a teenager...now that I'm older I can appreciate the band a lot more. This song in particular is simply amazing. Love that chord progression, man.
I finally found this video after 14 years of searching. Saw it long ago when I was in the hospital, and always kind of thought it was nothing more than a fever dream, brought on by the post surgery pain killers. Good to know I wasn't dreaming the whole thing up.
Had the exact same experience with the Chris Marker film Sans Soliel. Stoned on my birthday in a hotel room in Monterey CA at like 1am, stumbled across the English dub and had my mind blown. I was too engrossed to think to figure out what it was and spent a decade trying to figure out if it even really happened.
Wow.. it was same for me as well.. it took me almost 10-12 years to find this song.. i only remembered there was a girl on a unicorn and the song sounded good.
"How can we win when fools can be kings?" In a time of idiocracy, influencers and idiots pretending to be important this question becones truer than ever.
in all honesty this is true, but this is also relevant for all periods of human history, what ends up happening is, usually, a legendary soldier/strategist will take advantage of the weakened state to make a military dictatorship that falls once he dies, or you get a roman empire situation, where you get the great REVSTITUTOR ORBIS, or restorer of the world, Marcus Aurelian who will keep your basically dead civilization surviving for another 200 years, 800 if you count the Byzantines. If your talking specifically for America though, usually armed revolution that forces people to make changes or else lose what they have, in this case our technocratic corporatocracy of a democracy, and if you want that gone you'll have to pull an armed revolution, though this has been the same throughout American history, though in this case instead of 'Robber barons take control of us for a hundred years' it 'companies through having far to much money to be reasonable, allowed themselves to change a law to the point where now they can bribe the governent to do things they want, and call it lobbying instead of bribery'
This was the Guitar Hero song that made me say to myself "Why am I wasting my time and effort to learn a sequence of button presses to fake play a song when I'm better off picking up my guitar or bass and learning the actual damned song." So much fun to play the bassline to this and so many other Muse songs. Whatever instrument you play, or always wanted to play, pick one up and learn how to play it. If you think listening to your favorite songs is cathartic, practicing your ass off and then finally nailing one of your favorite songs is absolutely intense.
I can also confirm this, muse and green day got me obsessed with learning how to play guitar, and when I played one of my fav green day songs on guitar after trying to learn it for so long. It felt so damn amazing.
Watching the Wembley show and seeing 80,000 people recognize the intro to this song and all start uncontrollably bouncing I like mad at the awesomeness about to explode into their eardrums is still infectiously thrilling.
Matt Bellamy wrote this song in part as a tribute to his father, who was a member of The Tornadoes and their 1962 mega-hit “Telstar,” which commemorated the first successful active communications satellite. You can hear the instrumentals at the beginning and hear their resemblance to the satellite-in-space sound that was a staple of “Telstar.” So much of this was a nod to the elder Bellamy’s hit.
@JBM425 Do I detect carful phrasing in order to ignore Soviet beating America in getting satelie to orbit (Sputnik). I don't care, just thought it was funny :)
My friend Adam introduced me to Muse and this song. The first time I listened to Knights of Cydonia after he died I was openly crying. He was only 39 years old. I play this song now to honour his memory! RIP ADAM.
Epic song - possibly one of the best rock songs written in the 21st century. Awesome riffs, great vocals, and solid bass and drums - nothing can get better than this!
Muse is one of those bands you should listen to when depressive situations fulfill your early morning and tears become unstoppable. It's incredible how their music can save your own life.
I'm sure we're all a decent age here now if guitar hero was your source of this song. I know its kind of stigmatized a bit but ive found so many great bands and artists from that game and this is one of them. Thank you to the developers for putting such great music into an instrument based games that I spent waaay too much time on lol. With all that being said, if you too have came here for nostalgic vibes or whatever it may be and you're reading this. I wish you the best on your journey wherever it may take you. Much love to you all.
One of best songs Muse ever produced. I remember when I listen to this song sixteen years ago on radio while travelling I was really mesmerised and pondered how music of this song was superb, it pushed me to ponder about all Good that had happened in my lifetime so far and it still does when I hear the song. It is kind of incantation of good vibration. Song definitely reflects also injustice in the world about the ‘God who fell asleep on his job’. Superb!!!
Come ride with me Through the veins of history I'll show you a God Falls asleep on the job And how can we win, When fools can be kings Don't waste your time Or time will waste you No one's going to take me alive Time has come to make things right You and I must fight for our rights You and I must fight to survive No one's going to take me alive Time has come to make things right You and I must fight for our rights You and I must fight to survive No one's going to take me alive Time has come to make things right You and I must fight for our rights You and I must fight to survive
This entire album, Black Holes and Revelations, is an absolute classic. I never get tired of it, honestly. If you've never heard it or only heard parts of it, please listen to the whole thing. You won't be disappointed.
This was the first song on this album tour. And the mosh pit was so hard core my friend cried. Luckily. The stopped letting people in, and eventually there was a 5 metre space for us to mosh in infront of the stage. BEST BIG DAY OUT EVER :D Hollah NZ 2006
I absolutely adore the music video's style. The 'fake' martial arts are so refreshing and it's so nice to be free of the gritty realism and how seriously combat in media takes itself. It is so nice to just enjoy the comical combat and scenes like this video portrays. You rarely see pieces of film where combat is done in a comical and enjoyable way. 10/10.
This video is unsurpassable. The song is often part of the encore, and brings the crowd to ecstasy. There is nothing comparable anywhere else in the music world. Hats off..
This videoclip encompasses what Muse truly do best and makes them unique: purely experimental, with a generous and pleasant dose of silliness; futuristic; highly creative and very well-written and executed songs. Muse are for music what Tarantino is for movies: lots of edge, silliness and greatness. That's why I loved so much the Simulation Theory era.
What Muse does best is rip off other artists. They shamelessly stole everything about Will of the Prople and now I'm questioning if anything they made was ever actually original
This... I... I don't _really_ understand what just happened, but it involved space, cowboys, robots, shitty special effects, and scantily clad women, and that's good enough for me, I guess. That was an experience.
Snickerdoodle What I see is a tribute to the genre of B grade science fiction. I can almost recognise some of the characters that I saw there, but the one that's most familiar is the robot. That's a cleverly, though thinly-veiled, reference to the Cybermen. It could be a Power Ranger suit sprayed in chrome with a Cylon helmet, too. The scantily clad women are a Star Trek TOS reference. If I had the attention span, I would look through it in detail for Easter Eggs.
Everyone knows this song is amazing, but this video must be in the top ten best music videos of all time. What a masterpiece... all those references to classic spaghetti westerns and TV sci-fi. Hopefully Muse have a film or HD version stored somewhere cos it deserves better than 360p!
+Diogo Veiga Hah, yeah, that's genius! For anyone who is interested, the HD version of the video can be found on the director's Vimeo channel (Joseph Kahn) and it looks absolutely amazing!
Come ride with me Through the veins of history I'll show you a god who Falls asleep on the job And how can we win When fools can be kings Don't waste your time Or time will waste you No one's gonna take me alive The time has come to make things right You and I must fight for our rights You and I must fight to survive No one's gonna take me alive The time has come to make things right You and I must fight for our rights You and I must fight to survive No one's gonna take me alive The time has come to make things right You and I must fight for our rights You and I must fight to survive
3:18-4:13 and 4:41-5:09 kind of reminds of the operatic section of Bohemian Rhapsody. Mostly due to the harmonizations in the vocals. Favorite parts of this song! Plus the instrumental building up to 4:14 also makes me thinking of the heavier head banging part of Bohemian Rhapsody. 🤘🤘
Its amazing how much music Ingot intonfrom Guitar Hero. Inwould have never found this band otherwise. And playing as Matt Belamy at Wembly in GHIII is fucking awesome.
Happy 14th birthday to Knights Of Cydonia and Black Holes And Revelations, hell of an album, today is a day to celebrate, so come ride with me through the veins of history and listen to this track on loop.
Fun fact. This was meant to be a joke. They were laughing their asses off in the studio and they thought people would hate it. It ended up becoming one of their most iconic songs.
17 years, this year. A hacky attempt at finding Guitar Hero 3 led me back to this masterpiece. Nostalgia won today. And so did the enduring character of musical gaming.
I really love the energy of this song, I’ve never heard anything quite like it. I first heard this song a couple of days ago when it came up on the radio at my work. It was a bit strange listening to it at first but the bit at 3:17 is really cool how it goes from an instrument to singing and not much music in half a second
This song was popular when my husband and I first started dating. We saw Muse later on in our relationship. Amazing band to see live! They will always have a special place in my heart.
The Bohemian Rhapsody anthem of this gen, when I heard it in 2006, I had the same feeling as when I heard BR the first times on the air. yes I be that old/young.
Funny how this song was originally written as a joke - Matt said himself he didn’t expect it to become so popular Edit: I did not expect so many likes! Thank you!
It's a damn serious joke though, I liked it right away, then I hated it and couldn't even listen to it anymore, now I am starting to like it very much again! 😀
You can perceive that a song transcends history and is timeless when you listen to it and watch the videoclip and it feels like it was made yesterday. Muse are one of those bands that was not so loved during their apex time but will be, eventually, writen into the music history books.
Called in sick for work travelled to Belfast Aug 2017 3.5 hr drive, this was my 5th time seeing them live. They played Knights of Cydonia near the end. The goosebumps atmosphere was brill. They have to be one of the best band's live. ❤🤘
If anyone out there knows Knights of Cydonia… please tell them they made a kick ass song in MUSE, and I love it! And the video is extremely enjoyable to watch. THANK YOU!
Hollywood at some point realized that people didn't want to watch old shows... so they started using roman numerals (usually shown rather quickly) to obfuscate the year. That way people would react more positively to reruns. Doesn't really work so well since the 1990's though :)
I love Muse. But one day my college band performed this track live in one of the music festivals. Of all the covers I saw in my life, that was the most special. Everytime I hear this - I really miss my college.
In 2024, in the UK that is more 1984, this great piece has more resonance than ever. Someone needs to stand and and make it right for the UK to defeat tyranny and rejoin the free peoples of the world.
I’m a traveling electrician. I live in hotels and move about the country. Haven’t really had the time to settle down. In some ways it’s strange to see the people I grew up with have started families and found struggles and successes with each other. Sometimes it’s lonely, lads. Still here, though.
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"Don't waste your time or time will waste you" one of my favorite lyrics ever, so true.
Sayed by the man writing comments on youtube ;)
Sayed by the man writing comments on youtube ;)
@@Michael80B said by the man who can't spell
It's Shakespeare. Richard II: 'I wasted time, now time doth waste me'
And they say Matt Bellamy isn't great lyricist. You can find at least one great lyric in every Muse song
In 6 minutes I'm more emotionally invested in these characters than most movies I see.
This!
So true.
Helllllll yeah
This is how all the friday and saturday midnight movies looked in the 80s.
I'm not even joking.
watch better films
probably the best martial arts - sci-fi- western film ive ever seen. and they're even done with it in 6 mins. Truly Glorious
I love how the martial arts master has full combat gear on. Like "we're not playin, this is go time"...
Funny enough on spotify the next track on this album is a bonus track called Glorious
@@Anno023 Which is legit one of their best songs
It's what Cowboys and Aliens tried to achieve
No sir, I believe that was Firefly's Serenity, great 'martial-arts-scifi-western' indeed. Though the ending kind of petered off to a whimper.
This is one of the most creative music videos I've ever seen. The cheesy spaghetti western theme, with a few retro fantasy tropes thrown in, is pure genius. Did the band watch the video first then write the song around it? They absolutely nailed it. Whoever is responsible, needs a raise.
"Matt Bellamy wrote this song in part as a tribute to his father, who was a member of The Tornadoes and their 1962 mega-hit “Telstar,” which commemorated the first successful active communications satellite. You can hear the instrumentals at the beginning and hear their resemblance to the satellite-in-space sound that was a staple of “Telstar.” So much of this was a nod to the elder Bellamy’s hit."
Courtesy of JBM425's comment.
Also the late 70s early 80s kung fu films from Shaw Brothers.
Go look at the intro to Snake in the Eagle's shaddow.
@@gm2407 Indeed I looked, yes i can see the similarities, absolutely brilliant.
Gotta be references to Stephen Kings the dark tower in here
Ending this song during Malaysia concert tour just a few days ago was the most epic thing to ever happen in my life. Everybody headbanging and singing. EPIC!!! Please, come back again to Malaysia, Muse!
Do you know, first time MUSE live in Malaysia circa 2007, this song play as opening. I was there.
I’m pretty sure they play this at the end of most of their shows, it’s definitely a crowd pleaser. Same thing happened to us in Arizona!
were they good?
@@18PregnantAndProud
Very good. I can say the concert with the best sound, mixing & stadium anthems in Malaysia for year 2023, considering both local & international acts.
And I dare say one of the best (if not the best) in the whole of Southeast Asia this year. Even better than Coldplay (sorry, had to compare, no offense to Coldplay fans).
We will!!🙂
Matt, 2006-2007 he said something along the lines of, "We wanted to make a bomb-tastic, silly over the top , track, We never thought it would become this huge. Now people are singing the instrument parts when we play live."
muse is the best live
Because silly over-the-top bombastic is their forte and it's what we Musers all secretly crave and why we're here. It's an iconic symbol of everything Muse does best.
You know you're good when people sing along the riffs
Dude shut up about the moustache
That's the same story with paranoid by black Sabbath that was a throw away song just to fill the album but it ended up becoming the biggest hit
This Muse song always reminds me of my late son, as he introduced me to it. He's been gone 12 years now, but he's here again whenever I listen to it. He had good taste in music.
God bless his soul
❤
What an epic song to be remembered by. 💜🔥🚀
God rest him…hope your finding peace
I hope this allows some happiness to your sorrow ✌️
That vocal with music at 3:18 till the end gives me chills every time, literally the best i have ever heard
true!
It's a close second to the harmonies in Bohemian Rhapsody.
IKR?
@@vzeller I was looking for this comment. Strange that no one noticed this except you !!
Well i see the crew at 3:14 😂
I (wrongly) dismissed Muse as a teenager...now that I'm older I can appreciate the band a lot more. This song in particular is simply amazing. Love that chord progression, man.
2001 album is realy good.
You either love Coldplay or Muse... Muse were always the better choice.
have a look at the wembley gig 2007 - that was the one that turned me on to them
@@bradleymartin8606 oh never liked Coldplay, so yeah guess so :)
@@bradleymartin8606 I like both doh
I finally found this video after 14 years of searching. Saw it long ago when I was in the hospital, and always kind of thought it was nothing more than a fever dream, brought on by the post surgery pain killers. Good to know I wasn't dreaming the whole thing up.
Had the exact same experience with the Chris Marker film Sans Soliel. Stoned on my birthday in a hotel room in Monterey CA at like 1am, stumbled across the English dub and had my mind blown. I was too engrossed to think to figure out what it was and spent a decade trying to figure out if it even really happened.
Well -it might be a relapse??? One never really knows.
Nice.
Wow.. it was same for me as well.. it took me almost 10-12 years to find this song.. i only remembered there was a girl on a unicorn and the song sounded good.
I remember only the unicorn :(
I get this song by a friend's sister
"How can we win when fools can be kings?"
In a time of idiocracy, influencers and idiots pretending to be important this question becones truer than ever.
Fascism is on the rise….
I think that’s way more dangerous than influencers tbh.
in all honesty this is true, but this is also relevant for all periods of human history, what ends up happening is, usually, a legendary soldier/strategist will take advantage of the weakened state to make a military dictatorship that falls once he dies, or you get a roman empire situation, where you get the great REVSTITUTOR ORBIS, or restorer of the world, Marcus Aurelian who will keep your basically dead civilization surviving for another 200 years, 800 if you count the Byzantines. If your talking specifically for America though, usually armed revolution that forces people to make changes or else lose what they have, in this case our technocratic corporatocracy of a democracy, and if you want that gone you'll have to pull an armed revolution, though this has been the same throughout American history, though in this case instead of 'Robber barons take control of us for a hundred years' it 'companies through having far to much money to be reasonable, allowed themselves to change a law to the point where now they can bribe the governent to do things they want, and call it lobbying instead of bribery'
This alone demonstrates the force multiplier of institutions to supress/opress. Even fools have held onto power for long periods.
do sumn then
Always been relevant.
15 years later, still one of the best songs and music videos.
shit its that old
a
This music video is doo doo, I know it’s trash on purpose but even ironically it’s trash
the most toxic mv ever XD
@Sgt Meatball
Double irony. More layers. Predicted Internet humor before “multiple layers of sarcasm” became part of popular culture.
“Don’t waster your time or time will waste you”
Such a powerful line.
Agree
I still had so much of my jar of peanut butter left to eat at that point.
Katrina Payne oh s*** here we go again...
It's very similar to a passage from Shakespeare's Richard the Second
True, I also like "And how can we win, when fools can be kings?"
oh lord, not even a special muse fan....but this is a masterpiece.
From the only album I've ever bought, damn I must have been about 10 🤣
I have to thnk guitar hero 3 for that song 🤘🤘
You should listen theyre song called surpremacy
Someone played this to me over teamspeak waaaay back when I was a gamer, it actually made me venture outside to buy the album.
same, never really listen to them but i love this song so much. theyre definitely very talented
This always gave me bohemian rhapsody vibes. I remember being a teenager and playing this album to my mates, its still so damn good
This was the Guitar Hero song that made me say to myself "Why am I wasting my time and effort to learn a sequence of button presses to fake play a song when I'm better off picking up my guitar or bass and learning the actual damned song." So much fun to play the bassline to this and so many other Muse songs. Whatever instrument you play, or always wanted to play, pick one up and learn how to play it. If you think listening to your favorite songs is cathartic, practicing your ass off and then finally nailing one of your favorite songs is absolutely intense.
I can also confirm this, muse and green day got me obsessed with learning how to play guitar, and when I played one of my fav green day songs on guitar after trying to learn it for so long. It felt so damn amazing.
can confirm, I feel much more satisfied playing this to 70% on rocksmith than I did playing it to 70% on guitar hero :)
That's it. This is the message I have been waiting to get. I'm picking up that bass guitar I so badly want. Thanks!
@@itsme_roui yay! don't give up no matter how challenging it feels. a little bit of practice every day will add up over time.
plz 4K video
Hearing this song at a concert just takes your breath away honestly
I’ve just seen them in Seattle almost a week ago. And I agree completely!
@@sammartinez7502 I saw them in portland 10 days ago it was epic!!!!!
Oh yes!
Watching the Wembley show and seeing 80,000 people recognize the intro to this song and all start uncontrollably bouncing I like mad at the awesomeness about to explode into their eardrums is still infectiously thrilling.
just saw this live in huddersfield the other day and it was one of the best experiences of my life hands down
16 years ago? are you kidding? IT SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY! WE LOVE THIS!!!
+1
ugh i know I remember when this was a new upload. I'm old
What blows my mind is that Muse formed in 1994.
Omg I was just thinking the same thing! 16 years??? Time has indeed wasted us...
wasnt it today they released the song?
My first time hearing Muse, wife said you're going to love this crazy new video. To this day best thing she ever introduced me to.
hopefully she won't see the comment :)))
Matt Bellamy wrote this song in part as a tribute to his father, who was a member of The Tornadoes and their 1962 mega-hit “Telstar,” which commemorated the first successful active communications satellite. You can hear the instrumentals at the beginning and hear their resemblance to the satellite-in-space sound that was a staple of “Telstar.” So much of this was a nod to the elder Bellamy’s hit.
Not only have you given me an interesting fact, but also another amazing band to listen to. Thank you!
I used to like that song
Sauce? Would like to read more about that.
@@DJmachine1O1probably the Muse Wiki mate
@JBM425 Do I detect carful phrasing in order to ignore Soviet beating America in getting satelie to orbit (Sputnik). I don't care, just thought it was funny :)
Who ever came up with this music video is a genius. Just goes so well with the song itself.
Innit
It legit feels like the song was made strictly for the music video rather than the music video for the song
for me it looks a lot like the Promises video of The Cranberries
@Renderfume totally agree. I wonder how many times that's the case in the industry?
@@MAWA-Vik19 Clearly not for all
Greatest film ever made.
what is title of that film?
@@unclesam9854 Knights of Cydonia, the movie
14 years and still waiting for full movie release date :(
Hahahaha
You can try watching Lone Ranger.
XD
@@jack2108 I think plucking your eyes out with a toothpick would be less painful than that.
@@kilmone woah chill
No one's plucking nothing lol
My friend Adam introduced me to Muse and this song. The first time I listened to Knights of Cydonia after he died I was openly crying. He was only 39 years old. I play this song now to honour his memory! RIP ADAM.
My deepest condolences for your loss🖤
Hang in there Titus and live, Live, LIVE in his honor!
R.I.P ADAM.
Rip Adam... We love you!
I play this song loud for Adam every time because he liked playing it LOUD.
Epic song - possibly one of the best rock songs written in the 21st century. Awesome riffs, great vocals, and solid bass and drums - nothing can get better than this!
+Timliu92 The music video is brilliant as well. A futuristic western parody of a cheesy 70's low budget flick.
Retards don't know about Man of Miracles.
@@absalonboriarty7301 4:13 Really reminds me Blondie - Call me, which I think is really better x)
Nowadays it's great for eating peanut butter out the jar
are you trolling right now?
Still the best screen adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower
A-freaken-men.
This comment
Holy crap, wow...
I'm going to tell my kids that this is The Dark Tower :D
Mother fuck. You're 100% on point with that comment
Muse is one of those bands you should listen to when depressive situations fulfill your early morning and tears become unstoppable. It's incredible how their music can save your own life.
YES TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU.
❤
So true! Already doin' that myself!
There now and yes they are.
I tripped and played their music and always end up in tears. Just so beautiful
Most relevant line in any song…. “How can we win, when fools can be kings”
@Jacob King thats not fucking woke. fuck woke and the horse it rode in on.
@Mr. King I prefer "I'll show you how God
Falls asleep on the job"
Over half the country voted our current fool Joe Biden in, that's the saddest part.
I always thought it was "How can we win? What fools can we kiss?" - now I have to completely reinterpret the song damn
@@erich1394 " 'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy!" --Jimi Hendrix in "Purple Haze"
This might honestly be the most 2006 thing I've ever seen in my life. Top-tier music video.
Muse: one of the most underrated bands of our time. They deserve more credit and definitely more airplay!
NO THEY ARE NOT! 24 Million views. Get a grasp of reality. Stop posting this moronic crap.
Erzahler yap this song deserve hundreds view and their underated song like newborn ,sing for absolution
Undereated? They are so popular! Haha
:v
Overrated as hell. They stole all their songs. This is Man of Miracles.
I'm sure we're all a decent age here now if guitar hero was your source of this song. I know its kind of stigmatized a bit but ive found so many great bands and artists from that game and this is one of them. Thank you to the developers for putting such great music into an instrument based games that I spent waaay too much time on lol. With all that being said, if you too have came here for nostalgic vibes or whatever it may be and you're reading this. I wish you the best on your journey wherever it may take you. Much love to you all.
nah dude everyone who can play this 99/100 on spert is family hahaha
@@alexswenson1653 hell yeah hahaha 🙌
Never played it ,but grew up a long while ago .personification of the 70's cannot get any better than this .Bless you MUSE
I've discovered so many great bands (not Muse though) through Guitar Hero and I'm grateful for that
Guitar hero was in it's infancy when I was listening to this but kudos however you found it. Or, more appropriately, it found you
If technology and wild west doesn't make much sense to you: there's a desert in mars called cydonia.
This changed my life.
I want a movie.... NOW
Ohh ty
Ivan chompiilompii The music video is just right. No need for a movie me thinks.
Also, if technology and wild west doesn't make much sense to you, watch Cowboy Bebop.
04:06 Not even Tesla could harness as much energy as this song does!
One of best songs Muse ever produced. I remember when I listen to this song sixteen years ago on radio while travelling I was really mesmerised and pondered how music of this song was superb, it pushed me to ponder about all Good that had happened in my lifetime so far and it still does when I hear the song. It is kind of incantation of good vibration. Song definitely reflects also injustice in the world about the ‘God who fell asleep on his job’. Superb!!!
God never sleeps.
Come ride with me
Through the veins of history
I'll show you a God
Falls asleep on the job
And how can we win,
When fools can be kings
Don't waste your time
Or time will waste you
No one's going to take me alive
Time has come to make things right
You and I must fight for our rights
You and I must fight to survive
No one's going to take me alive
Time has come to make things right
You and I must fight for our rights
You and I must fight to survive
No one's going to take me alive
Time has come to make things right
You and I must fight for our rights
You and I must fight to survive
Well, you left out all of the
YAAAAA
YAAAAAAH
YEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHs
but that's okay. :D
God who falls asleep on the job, presumably Allah?
@@ThinWhiteAxe punaise cimer j'en avais besoin c trop cool
@@uknowmotdy why not jesus? Because he is not a god?
@@Jimbo_3003 He has been working overtime so definitely not him.
This entire album, Black Holes and Revelations, is an absolute classic. I never get tired of it, honestly. If you've never heard it or only heard parts of it, please listen to the whole thing. You won't be disappointed.
I just love the cheeky British humour of this music video. One of my favorite Muse songs!
"AND HOW CAN WE WIN, WHEN FOOLS CAN BE KINGS ?" The world today.
"don't waste your time or time will... waste you"
#donaldtrump
Lara Scott #fuckTrump
#deposeMerkel
also in the Philippines
I love this song as much as I hate this song. Because everytime they play this live, I know it's gonna be the last song of the set.
Not really. It was the third track in Rome
+Kittichan and the first in wembley
Think +kittichan meant on this tour, lads
This was the first song on this album tour. And the mosh pit was so hard core my friend cried. Luckily. The stopped letting people in, and eventually there was a 5 metre space for us to mosh in infront of the stage. BEST BIG DAY OUT EVER :D Hollah NZ 2006
how the fuck can you mosh on this...
I absolutely adore the music video's style. The 'fake' martial arts are so refreshing and it's so nice to be free of the gritty realism and how seriously combat in media takes itself. It is so nice to just enjoy the comical combat and scenes like this video portrays. You rarely see pieces of film where combat is done in a comical and enjoyable way. 10/10.
agreed
Hi I Recommend a song & video Called 'looking into the mirror' by Robert Nix
Kung Pow was that shit boi
@@adMOnished1 We trained him wrong on purpose
Hi I recommend a song that's Called 'the bond villain' by Robert Nix
I don't know about the rest of you lot but at 4:13 I start headbanging...this is the most metal non-metal goddamn song I ever heard ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
As someone who is not technically a Muse fan, this is the best music video ever created. Period.
This is honestly one of the best music videos i have ever seen
swagitnoscope nipple I watch it while eating peanut butter
This video is unsurpassable. The song is often part of the encore, and brings the crowd to ecstasy. There is nothing comparable anywhere else in the music world. Hats off..
Muse, please remaster this video for today's HD standards.
*THIS CULTURAL GEM DESERVES TO BE IN GLORIOUS 4K*
I can't be the only person who goes freak-out at the 4:13 mark. That riff is too damn glorious.
I'm with you on that one, pure bliss!!!
Ditto. If I'm in the car, I crank the volume up to 40 and start headbanging like a madman lmao
no my fiend, you are not the only one
Sooooo agree man!!!!
@@santiagomachado7378 Me too!!!
This videoclip encompasses what Muse truly do best and makes them unique: purely experimental, with a generous and pleasant dose of silliness; futuristic; highly creative and very well-written and executed songs. Muse are for music what Tarantino is for movies: lots of edge, silliness and greatness. That's why I loved so much the Simulation Theory era.
I now understand this so much better after reading your take on it.... Thank you...
@@tommytomtom5531 shit, another wasted 30sec for reading and commenting this stupid piece of comment
What Muse does best is rip off other artists.
They shamelessly stole everything about Will of the Prople and now I'm questioning if anything they made was ever actually original
Black holes and revelations u mean
The video seems to has been directed by Tarantino 😁
In an era of great music videos ... and even greater music ... a teenage me had just become enlightened by this masterpiece.
I love you Muse.
На русском: Я люблю тебя Муза ❤ Calioppe maybe
This is probably my favourite music video ever
+Jamie Craigen-wood That's probably because it's the greatest music video ever.
+Jamie Craigen-wood Try "true survirvor" from David Hasselhof.
Mangalex28 Thats great and if you havent already check out gorillaz and tools music videos. Especually feel good ink and aenima
@@Geesvhydxyunggg oh god tool… toxic fanbase
Although I’ll admit Damon Albarn especially is a fricking musical genius
The best song of Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock.
False. Through The Fire And The Flames
Sam Chafe False. The Devil Went Down To Georgia.
Gerson Milano and Sam Chafe false x2
This...or Raining Blood, because Slayer = Win
+Phillip Roberts Fak all of ya :D Cliffs of Dover but I like all of above as well
+Alucard The Master Cliffs of Dover
This... I... I don't _really_ understand what just happened, but it involved space, cowboys, robots, shitty special effects, and scantily clad women, and that's good enough for me, I guess. That was an experience.
Snickerdoodle You guess?????
Snickerdoodle 3:15 russia :D
Its supposed to have that old shitty special effect look though
You basically just summarised Blake's 7. A lot of Muse songs remind me of Blake's 7 no end.
Snickerdoodle What I see is a tribute to the genre of B grade science fiction. I can almost recognise some of the characters that I saw there, but the one that's most familiar is the robot. That's a cleverly, though thinly-veiled, reference to the Cybermen. It could be a Power Ranger suit sprayed in chrome with a Cylon helmet, too.
The scantily clad women are a Star Trek TOS reference.
If I had the attention span, I would look through it in detail for Easter Eggs.
This is our anthem for the next four years. We ride at dawn!
We Ride on!!!!
Muse will be the soundtrack to the fight that is coming
@@adeadphish7931 to quote Sponge Bob...Bring it on-eth, knave.
plus I to quote Jake Blues..."I hate IL lliinois Nazis"
I got your back brother.
Everyone knows this song is amazing, but this video must be in the top ten best music videos of all time. What a masterpiece... all those references to classic spaghetti westerns and TV sci-fi. Hopefully Muse have a film or HD version stored somewhere cos it deserves better than 360p!
Yeah, but at 3:15 u can see the camera people at the mirror XD
+Diogo Veiga Hah, yeah, that's genius! For anyone who is interested, the HD version of the video can be found on the director's Vimeo channel (Joseph Kahn) and it looks absolutely amazing!
vimeo.com/26689532
Also more explicit version as they show there doing "doggy style" :D
Diogo Veiga no way 😏
@@ForViewingOnly With the doggie-style scene no less...
How awesome do you want the music video to be?
Yes
Muse be like "Okay, it's a song about rebelling against the government, but can we have cowboys and martial artists in the video just for funsies?"
... and a bit like Star Wars
Let's not forget unicorns 🦄
And it is set on mars
If it had Deadpool in it it would be perfect.
Also very Buck Rogers.
We absolutely need a 4k remaster of this masterpiece
PLEASE
You can make this history on Red Dead Redemption and lisnten the song at the sametime again and again xd
@@Mat1asGC yes but if you play the song backwards on loop while playing Red Dead online you achieve enlightenment, and also beat the game.
@@A2theC Did you try that?
Come ride with me
Through the veins of history
I'll show you a god who
Falls asleep on the job
And how can we win
When fools can be kings
Don't waste your time
Or time will waste you
No one's gonna take me alive
The time has come to make things right
You and I must fight for our rights
You and I must fight to survive
No one's gonna take me alive
The time has come to make things right
You and I must fight for our rights
You and I must fight to survive
No one's gonna take me alive
The time has come to make things right
You and I must fight for our rights
You and I must fight to survive
Well played
THANKS
Thank u sir
The rest is just the music
Thank you so much 😁😁😉😉
To me this is a fine example of modern rock, Bohemian Rhapsody-esque, i love it
3:18-4:13 and 4:41-5:09 kind of reminds of the operatic section of Bohemian Rhapsody. Mostly due to the harmonizations in the vocals. Favorite parts of this song! Plus the instrumental building up to 4:14 also makes me thinking of the heavier head banging part of Bohemian Rhapsody. 🤘🤘
Its amazing how much music Ingot intonfrom Guitar Hero. Inwould have never found this band otherwise. And playing as Matt Belamy at Wembly in GHIII is fucking awesome.
Only Legends of Rock remember playing this song on Guitar Hero 3 😌😂
You get my like if you edit to say "Legends of Rock" instead of just "legends"
@@AKmoneymakerPlayz Just edited it and thanks for the input. I didn’t even think about that :)
Great! Theres my like ;)
This song was pretty hard
Fuck yeah! Guitar hero was the shit :DD
This video needs a 1080p or higher version after all these years. It's so cinematic.
No it doesn't. The whole style is so well retro synth made that it demands a low resolution to be authentic. ;)
@@kalkovonschpritzendorf1914 how about a version of both?
Happy 14th birthday to Knights Of Cydonia and Black Holes And Revelations, hell of an album, today is a day to celebrate, so come ride with me through the veins of history and listen to this track on loop.
Happy birthday to me! I can't believe I'm older than these guys. Superb.
Damn, I'm about as old as this album is wow.
Is this true?? My god Im older than I thought :(
My older brother showed me this year's ago when I was tiny and I just found it again, so glad
Fun fact. This was meant to be a joke. They were laughing their asses off in the studio and they thought people would hate it. It ended up becoming one of their most iconic songs.
I can totally believe it. so out of character. But, they did it so ridiculously well!
filmed in location at Buftea studioas in Romania. Dacia "papuc" pickup is a proof:))
Raw talent can easily ruin such “jokes”. darn.
This is a lie.
@@somelifeguard ruclips.net/video/wrVV-GU_rTI/видео.htmlsi=rP05TFjA-QUe2Ian
Still a better Dark Tower movie than the Dark Tower movie.
That movie was garbage
I had blissfully forgotten that train wreck until now, thanks.
I wish I could forget about that monstrosity
Now I feel bad for reminding everyone that movie exists. Sorry.
Best focking song everr!!!!!
17 years, this year. A hacky attempt at finding Guitar Hero 3 led me back to this masterpiece.
Nostalgia won today. And so did the enduring character of musical gaming.
I really love the energy of this song, I’ve never heard anything quite like it. I first heard this song a couple of days ago when it came up on the radio at my work. It was a bit strange listening to it at first but the bit at 3:17 is really cool how it goes from an instrument to singing and not much music in half a second
The first minute is basically me waking up and going to school every day.
Lol , the best
+Bass Lightyeah hahahhahahaha
+Bass Lightyeah :D
I need to go to classes with you, haha.
+Bass Lightyeah The second minute is me when I get to school.
This song was popular when my husband and I first started dating. We saw Muse later on in our relationship. Amazing band to see live! They will always have a special place in my heart.
for everyone
There are few bands that have left an unmistakable mark on the history of rock and that have created masterpieces. Muse is in my top 10
Absolute masterpiece.
3:18 This right here is what makes this song legendary and one of the greatest of all time.
The Bohemian Rhapsody anthem of this gen, when I heard it in 2006, I had the same feeling as when I heard BR the first times on the air. yes I be that old/young.
It definitely doesn't compare to BR
nah, Muse's own Bohemian Rhapsody is United States of Eurasia.
Same here!
Wait... can you eat a jar of peanut butter while listening to Bohemian Rhapsody?
Bohemian Rhapsody is overhyped and overplayed, i would rather listen to kpop than any more fucking queen
15 years later, I am still waiting for the feature length movie.
Wouldn't that just be so bad ass?
I feel like Quentin Tarantino or Robert Rodriguez should create this. Its totally their style
Directed by David Sandberg, who made Kung Fury.
3:46 "No one's gonna take me alive!"
-A Man Taken Alive.
Funny how this song was originally written as a joke - Matt said himself he didn’t expect it to become so popular
Edit: I did not expect so many likes! Thank you!
It’s sometimes the joke songs that become really popular ie Beck - Loser
@@Stoneman180190 Or Song 2 - Blur
Wow! I didn’t know that! Cool!
@@noor6668 Aqua - Barbie Girl lol
It's a damn serious joke though, I liked it right away, then I hated it and couldn't even listen to it anymore, now I am starting to like it very much again! 😀
This is one of the best muse songs i've ever heard
Even better live!
This, dead star, United States of Eurasia, and maybe even unnatural selection are just a different levek
The last time I saw this video I was incredibly high and I it felt like it lasted three hours. So yeah, amazing.
snicker…
Two years later and I just did the same
My feeling right now ✌
I fucking know that feeling. Crazy
Plot twist: you actually had it on repeat for three days.
This is literally one of the most Epic Songs and Most Epic Music Videos ever Made!!!!
Как-то сидя на работе, я включил рандомную музыку, в которой был этот шедевр, услышать это в первый раз было захватывающе
Кроме того, в мелодии проскакивает мотив "полюшко-поле", что неплохо так контрастирует с клипом
Спасибо брат!! ))
Please translate, for me
This is one of the greatest, most detailed pieces of work in history.
Lol I realise how hyperbolic this comment is
For real!!!
no, but it's a good song.
Hell no, but still good
-1500 (b.c) years ago brought forwardeth this rule, we shall forth indoors beforeeth the light
lmao what
The Magnificent Seven + Bruce Lee + Star Wars = Knights of Cydonia
Fallout New Vegas
@@limozinis7854 what’s that
@@bidibidibambam4658 where to start
More like Jackie Chan + Star Wars + Lone Ranger..
star wars = magnificent seven + space
magnificent seven= samurai + western
0:17 AHI EMPIEZA LO BUENO. GRACIAS MUSE POR TRAERNOS ESTA JOYITA
You can perceive that a song transcends history and is timeless when you listen to it and watch the videoclip and it feels like it was made yesterday. Muse are one of those bands that was not so loved during their apex time but will be, eventually, writen into the music history books.
Called in sick for work travelled to Belfast Aug 2017 3.5 hr drive, this was my 5th time seeing them live. They played Knights of Cydonia near the end. The goosebumps atmosphere was brill. They have to be one of the best band's live. ❤🤘
I was there for this! Awesome night
Saw them live around that time. Was great. Best concert I've ever seen.
If anyone out there knows Knights of Cydonia… please tell them they made a kick ass song in MUSE, and I love it! And the video is extremely enjoyable to watch. THANK YOU!
1:29 - Roman numeral year MCLMXXXI - nonsensical number
5:49 - Roman numeral year MCMLXXXI - 1981
Typos: nice touch.
Nonsensical? It's the year One thousand one hundred and fifty thousand and thirty one. :P
Lolja Boi Dude, I know, it was a joke.
Hollywood at some point realized that people didn't want to watch old shows... so they started using roman numerals (usually shown rather quickly) to obfuscate the year. That way people would react more positively to reruns.
Doesn't really work so well since the 1990's though :)
I love Muse. But one day my college band performed this track live in one of the music festivals. Of all the covers I saw in my life, that was the most special. Everytime I hear this - I really miss my college.
Should we start a petition to make the remastered HD version of this music video?
I mean, this video deserves a 4K quality.
This music video deserves a whole movie to be made on it. In 4K.
No, it's perfect in Laserdisc 480i quality.
please 240p
@@mattaus a movie by michael bay
No, it doens't. This is just perfect. Stop brushing up old stuff with 4K tech.
In 2024, in the UK that is more 1984, this great piece has more resonance than ever. Someone needs to stand and and make it right for the UK to defeat tyranny and rejoin the free peoples of the world.
Me playing Guitar Hero 3: “Hey I’m kinda getting the hang of this song
3:18: “Nope.”
To be honest the only challenge is getting the beginning down...always missing a note or 2 with the strumming
"Let's make them play synth arpeggios as if it's a guitar part" - Satan, probably
@@furonet138 Rocksmith makes you do it on the bass
JAAD that’s abuse
This song on GH3 is really hard strumming wise, if you keep consistent on that, you should be able to Full Combo it.
Matt is a seriously underrated guitarist, he's a beast on the guitar 🎸 🎉
All three are damn good
Amazing Vocal, amazing guitarist and he's awesome on the keys as well, he's just incredible.
This is literally the most Tarantino movie song ever that's the only way I can explain this
This should be just when the movie ends and roll the credits.
Not enough violence
For a Tarantino film you need a much bigger amount of blood and violence level.
Dude, thank you. I didnt know whether or not I was the only one who got those vibes from this video.
Sukiyaki western django.
oh shit how is this song almost 20 years old ... god im getting old
This song needs to be in the RDR 2 how awesome will that be
Man, that is so true!
it doesn't fit so much is more space rock,but it's my opinion
@@angelofdeath2898 I use this song for Red Dead Online while in Death match game modes and its amazing
i konw not only me feel like this
Holy shit finally
I miss these times...
Bro……
🗿
#metoo
Never let rock die
Ikr
This song is absolutely epic I discovered muse 10 years ago and haven’t looked back since.
I’m a traveling electrician. I live in hotels and move about the country. Haven’t really had the time to settle down. In some ways it’s strange to see the people I grew up with have started families and found struggles and successes with each other. Sometimes it’s lonely, lads. Still here, though.
This song was ahead of its time by ten years
there are no songs or stories ahead of it's time. there are always dummies who don't understand it. most of people are dummies.
It it will be heard in 30 years. Sipmly a masterpice!
And the video too.
To be honest back in 1976 Thin Lizzy did 'Emerald' and this tune sure is inspired on that song. Cheers.
@@pintarfacil8064 That song doesn´t sound similar to knights of cydonia... i already heard it. Cheers.
Psychologist: "all dreams have meaning"
My dreams:
too much thc? :P
This dream means you're a legend
@@G4rr0. thx for believing in me :')
Me: Mom can we have dreams? Mom: We have dreams at home Dreams at home ^
its a gift