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| | Name = Glorious
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| | Album =
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| |[[Black Holes and Revelations (album) | Black Holes and Revelations]] <small>(JP) (12)</small>
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| |[[Invincible (single) | Invincible]] <small>vinyl (2)</small>
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| |[[Invincible (single)#Glorious promo CD-R | Glorious<small> promo CD-R</small>]]<small> (1)</small>
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| | Length = 4:38
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| |Church of The SubGenius
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| |''DES''
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| |''Cuts and the Bruises''
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| |''Faith''
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| |''New One I''
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| |''Dead End Street''
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| }}
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| | First = [[Salt Lake City In the Venue 2004 (gig) | 22{{supo|nd}} October 2004]]
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| | Latest = [[London Shepherds Bush Empire 2017 (gig)|19{{supo|th}} August 2017]]
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| | Recorded = 2005-2006
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| | Writer = [[Matthew Bellamy]]
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| | Producer = [[Rich Costey]]
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| | Chart position = -
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| <flashmp3>http://www.musewiki.org/images/Glorious.mp3|rightbg=0xDDEEFF|leftbg=0xDDEEFF|bg=0xFFFFFF</flashmp3>
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| | Previous = [[Knights of Cydonia (song) | Knights of Cydonia]]
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| | Current = Glorious (bonus track)
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| | Previous = [[Absolution (album) | Absolution ''(2003)'']]
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| | Current = [[Black Holes and Revelations (album) | Black Holes and Revelations ''(2006)'']]
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| | Next = [[The Resistance (album) | The Resistance ''(2009)'']]
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| == Description ==
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| Begins with a guitar riff which uses a pedal note throughout supported by a moving bass line which is continued in the verse. Drum part is rhythmically imitative of the guitar riff. The chorus is heavily chromatic. Both the guitar and vocal parts ascend chromatically, and when it moves out of this chromatic motif the guitar continues to imitate the vocal line melodically. The piece is brought to a close initially with the original guitar riff and then by a variation of the riff but with the same bass line. The song is bookended by 33 randomly overdubbed guitars, which eventually resolve to a B major chord to end the track.
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| == Additional information ==
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| When played live, this song was referred to as DES due to a name printed on a set list. DES is the name of the keyboard technician - During the performance of Fillip for Bizarre 1999, there is a problem with the sound (a video of this can be seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v20NWLyO63Q&feature=player_detailpage#t=98 here] or downloaded [http://www.muselive.com/plug.php?e=media&m=sysdownload&f=129 here]) and at the time, Matt made a beckoning gesture aimed backstage and he is heard saying "Des! Des!". It could also be a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard DES], an American government cypher which would fit with the apparent cryptographic theme of the album. DES became a backronym for "Dead End Street" when some fans thought it was the title for the new song. The first two lyrics in the chorus are also the first two lyrics in the [[Radiohead]] song "My Iron Lung".
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| Matt first referred to this song in his October message on the Official messaged board stating that "the 33 randomised guitar overdubs on the church of sub genius ... have high chance of making it [on to Black Holes and Revelations]", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius Church of the SubGenius] being the song's pre-release title.
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| It was included on the Japanese version of [[Black Holes and Revelations (album)|Black Holes and Revelations]] as an extra incentive to buy as Japanese albums are more expensive. It is also featured on the [[Invincible (single)|Invincible]] 7". Glorious also happens to be the only known Muse B-side to have its own promo singles printed.
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| It was also included as a Bonus Track to [[Black Holes and Revelations (album)|Black Holes and Revelations]] on U.S. iTunes.
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| == Live ==
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| Glorious was the first song from the Black Holes and Revelations era to be played live as well as the first to be dropped from setlists. It was only played a handful of times in 2004 and just once in 2005. This song is probably the only instance of a Muse song where the majority of the song's performances were in Canada.
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| Dom revealed that he would like to see the song performed live again but he has not been able to convince Matt: "I want to play Glorious and Matt is always like ‘fuck off’..."<ref>
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| title=Muse Messageboard - Muse answers your questions | desc=Interview | date=2016-14-04 | fetch=2016-27-04 | pub=Muse Messageboard | url=http://board.muse.mu/showthread.php?p=11439807#post11439807 | dom=board.muse.mu | med=Webpage | type=ext
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| It was performed for the first time since 2005 at Shepherd's Bush Empire on 19th August 2017. Introducing the song, Dom said he'd been trying to convince Matt to play it for seven years.
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| [[Glorious (live) | More here]]
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| == Lyrics ==
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| {{lyrics
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| |Rose-tinted view
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| And satellites that
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| Compromise the truth
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| But I wanted more
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| With the cuts and the bruises
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| Touch my face
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| A hopeless embrace
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| Faith
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| It drives me away
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| But it turns me on
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| Like a stranger's love
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| It rockets through the universe
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| It fuels the lies and feeds the curse
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| Believes we could be glorious
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| I need to believe
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| But I still want more
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| With the cuts and the bruises
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| Don't close the door
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| On what you adore
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| And faith
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| It drives me away
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| But it turns me on
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| Like a stranger's love
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| It rockets through the universe
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| It fuels the lies and feeds the curse
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| Believes we could be glorious
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| }}
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| ==References==
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| <references/>
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| {{Backto | Black Holes and Revelations (album) | Black Holes and Revelations}}
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| [[Category:B Sides]]
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