I'll tell you what though, I was watching Reading at the weekend and what became clear was that the "pea-soup" hit hat thing has become a total staple for Brit-Indie-Bands, the only variation is doing the "pea-soup" thing with on the 16ths with two hands for the chorus... awful stuff...
yeah this my feeling as well...theyre the closest thing we have to balls out rock opera at the minute. mind you theyre pussies all the same. but youre dead right. knights of cydonia is good fun.
what really bugs me about muse is their constant need to change style. and their constant need to rip off well known classical stuff.