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PERFECT TEN

Regular readers will know that we love a good poll here at TG Towers! Why, just two issues ago, 150,000 of you voted for the greatest guitar albums of all time, helping us to create probably our biggest cover feature to date! No surprises then, we thought we’d doanother poll this month – so here we present the top 10 Muse Songs, as voted for by you.

The turnout may have been (expectedly) a little more meagre than with our albums monster vote, but a full 10,000 of you reached for your phones, tablets and computers to register your favourite songs by the band. In good, old-fashioned Top Of The Pops style, we start with number 10...

10 BLISS

ORIGIN OF SYMMETRY

(2001)

How exactly do you go about following the crowd-conquering and era-defining perfection ofand ? For the third single from, it was a case of adding even more experimentation to the mix, with futuristic synth lines warring against jangly minor chords from the very start and continuing through the hard-strummed, open position shapes of the chorusb

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