You Will Love This
Muse are now completing the final touches to their masterpiece of a formula. I'm sure Matthew Bellamy (Vocals/Guitar) sat down one day, and said to himself "Yeah, sure, I'm musically brilliant. I can make lengthy and crazy pseudo-prog songs. I can make beautiful piano pieces, filling people with wonder. I can even randomly scream into a microphone, with some dirty guitar work in the background, and someone, somewhere, will love it." Matthew Bellamy takes pride in his ability to make such sweet music, as do his fans... but today he punctuated his thoughts with: "But lets just shove a big heavy riff in this one, and that'll get the punters going." And so, Hysteria was born.
Its a commonly known fact to regular listeners of Muse, that they can make music as heavy as they want without any need for guitar. This means Bellamy doesn't need to chug away at powerchords throughout the song for the song to get the power that it requires. This happens in this song, leaving him with the ability to simply add tiny guitar parts where he feels they're needed. The main riff of Hysteria makes up the majority of the song. The whole focus of the song only really changes for the chorus, where the catchy lines of "Cos I want you now/I want you now" (and other slight variants) come into play, enhanced with some nice vocal effects.
After the second chorus, the bass goes into a slight variation of the main riff, and then returns to the riff, whilst the guitar bursts into the solo. Arpeggiated chords on the guitar add a nice melody to the second phrase of the solo. The song then returns to the chorus for a final time, and then runs (with its head down) at full speed into the final "breakdown" (that riff variation again), where it then stops abruptly, leaving the listener, stunned into silence, to press the repeat button. You can almost see the clouds of dust that twirl in the air, which then slowly settle, symbolising the end of this (as is the usual phrase these days) "hard-rocking" song.