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H.A.A.R.P

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H.A.A.R.P

CD: 1. "Intro" • 2. "Knights of Cydonia" • 3. "Hysteria" • 4. "Supermassive Black Hole" • 5. "Map of the Problematique" • 6. "Butterflies & Hurricanes" • 7. "Invincible" • 8. "Starlight" • 9. "Time Is Running Out" • 10. "New Born" • 11. "Unintended" • 12. "Micro Cuts" • 13. "Stockholm Syndrome" • 14. "Take a Bow"

iTunes: 15. "City of Delusion"

DVD: 1. "Intro" • 2. "Knights of Cydonia" • 3. "Hysteria" • 4. "Supermassive Black Hole" • 5. "Map of the Problematique" • 6. "Butterflies & Hurricanes" • 7. "Hoodoo" • 8. "Apocalypse Please" • 9. "Feeling Good" • 10. "Invincible" • 11. "Starlight" • 12. "Improv." • 13. "Time Is Running Out" • 14. "New Born" • 15. "Soldier's Poem" • 16. "Unintended" • 17. "Blackout" • 18. "Plug In Baby" • 19. "Stockholm Syndrome" • 20. "Take a Bow"


H.A.A.R.P

Release date(s)
: March 17th, 2008
: March 18th, 2008
: April 1st, 2008
: April 4th, 2008
Recording details
June 17th and 18th, 2007 at Wembley Stadium, London
No. of tracks
CD: 14
iTunes: 15
DVD: 20
Length
CD: 71:58
iTunes: 77:09
DVD:
Publisher(s)
Producer(s)
WikiMuse
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H.A.A.R.P is Muse's first live album, released in Britain on March 17th, 2008, which documents the two gigs the band played at Wembley Stadium in June, 2007. The CD contains 14 tracks and a bonus track, "City of Delusion", on the iTunes edition, and the DVD contains 20 tracks.

Contents

[edit] Tracklistings

All songs were written by Matthew Bellamy, Christopher Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard, except where noted.

[edit] CD

  1. "Intro" (Sergei Prokofiev) – 1:45
  2. "Knights of Cydonia" – 6:38
  3. "Hysteria" – 4:20
  4. "Supermassive Black Hole" – 4:02
  5. "Map of the Problematique" – 5:23
  6. "Butterflies & Hurricanes" – 5:57
  7. "Invincible" – 6:16
  8. "Starlight" – 4:14
  9. "Time Is Running Out" – 4:24
  10. "New Born" – 8:17
    • Includes elements of "Microphone Fiend" (Eric Barrier, William Griffin)
      • Contains elements of "School Boy Crush" (Hamish Stuart, Steve Ferrone, Alan Gorrie, Roger Ball, Malcolm Duncan, Onnie McIntyre)
  11. "Unintended" – 4:37
  12. "Micro Cuts" – 3:48
  13. "Stockholm Syndrome" – 7:48
  14. "Take a Bow" – 4:43
  15. "City of Delusion" – 5:11 (iTunes bonus track)

[edit] DVD

  1. "Intro" (Prokofiev) – 1:52
  2. "Knights of Cydonia" – 6:29
    • Includes "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (Williams)
  3. "Hysteria" – 4:09
  4. "Supermassive Black Hole" – 4:11
  5. "Map of the Problematique" – 5:09
    • Includes elements of "Maggie's Farm" (Dylan)
  6. "Butterflies & Hurricanes" – 6:15
  7. "Hoodoo" – 3:32
  8. "Apocalypse Please" – 4:47
  9. "Feeling Good" (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley) – 3:46
  10. "Invincible" – 5:49
  11. "Starlight" – 4:15
  12. "Improv" – 0:55
  13. "Time Is Running Out" – 4:08
  14. "New Born" – 8:52
    • Includes elements of "Microphone Fiend" (Barrier, Griffin)
      • Contains elements of "School Boy Crush" (Stuart, Ferrone, Gorrie, Ball, Duncan, McIntyre)
  15. "Soldier's Poem" – 2:56
  16. "Unintended" – 4:46
  17. "Blackout" – 4:42
  18. "Plug In Baby" – 4:55
  19. "Stockholm Syndrome" – 8:07
  20. "Take a Bow" – 5:19

[edit] Personnel

[edit] CD

  • Matthew Bellamy
    • lead vocals on all tracks except "Intro"
    • guitars on all tracks except "Intro"
    • piano on "Butterflies & Hurricanes" and "New Born"
  • Christopher Wolstenholme
    • bass guitar on all tracks except "Intro"
    • backing vocals on "Knights of Cydonia", "Supermassive Black Hole", "Map of the Problematique", "Butterflies & Hurricanes", "New Born" and "Take a Bow"
  • Dominic Howard
    • drums on all tracks except "Intro"
    • backing vocals on "Supermassive Black Hole"
  • Morgan Nicholls
    • synthesizers on "Knights of Cydonia", "Map of the Problematique", "Butterflies & Hurricanes", "Invincible", "Starlight", "Stockholm Syndrome" and "Take a Bow"
    • backing vocals on "Knights of Cydonia" and "Map of the Problematique"
    • keyboards on "Map of the Problematique", "Butterflies & Hurricanes", "Starlight" and "Stockholm Syndrome"
  • Daniel Newell
    • trumpet on "Knights of Cydonia" and "City of Delusion"

[edit] DVD

  • Matthew Bellamy
    • lead vocals on all tracks
    • guitars on all tracks except "Hoodoo" and "Apocalypse Please"
    • piano on "Butterflies & Hurricanes", "Hoodoo", "Apocalypse Please", "Feeling Good" and "New Born"
  • Christopher Wolstenholme
    • bass guitar on all tracks except "Hoodoo"
    • backing vocals on "Knights of Cydonia", "Supermassive Black Hole", "Map of the Problematique", "Butterflies & Hurricanes", "Apocalypse Please", "New Born", "Soldier's Poem", "Blackout", "Plug In Baby", "Take a Bow"
    • guitar on "Hoodoo"
  • Dominic Howard
    • drums on all tracks
    • backing vocals on "Supermassive Black Hole"
  • Morgan Nicholls
    • synthesizers on "Knights of Cydonia", "Map of the Problematique", "Butterflies & Hurricanes", "Invincible", "Starlight", "Blackout", "Stockholm Syndrome" and "Take a Bow"
    • backing vocals on "Knights of Cydonia", "Map of the Problematique" and "Blackout"
    • keyboards on "Map of the Problematique", "Butterflies & Hurricanes", "Starlight" and "Stockholm Syndrome"
    • bass guitar on "Hoodoo"
    • xylophone on "Soldier's Poem"

[edit] Official credits

Adapted from the official H.A.A.R.P booklet

Performed by Matthew Bellamy, Dominic Howard and Chris Wolstenholme

Additional musicians: Morgan Nicholls and Dan Newell

Recorded live at Wembley Stadium, London, June 16 & 17, 2007.

Audio mixed by Rich Costey and Muse at Officine Meccaniche Recording Studios, Milan & Avatar Studios, New York.

Mix assistants: Tommaso Colliva and Justin Gerrish

Mastered by Vlado Meller at Univeral Mastering Studios, NY.

Assistant mastering engineer: Mark Santangelo

Artwork by Ben Zurzon at Splendid

Photographs taken by Hans-Peter Van Velthoven

Produced by Muse

www.muse.mu

[edit] CD

All songs written by Matthew Bellamy except:

  • Track 1 'Dance of the Knights' from Romeo and Juliet, Opus 64, performed by the St. Petersburg Kirov Orchestra & Valery Gergiev. Licensed courtesy of Decca Music Group. Published by Boosy & Hawks.
  • Track 2 consists of
    • 2.1 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' (00.00-00.26) written by John Williams and published by EMI Gold Horizon Music Corp/EMI Music Publishing Limited
    • and 2.2 'Knights of Cydonia' (00.26-6.40) written by Matthew Bellamy and published by Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Limited.
  • Track 5 incorporates elements of 'Maggie's Farm' written by Bob Dylan and published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing. Used with permission. All rights reserved.
  • Track 10 consists of
    • 10.1 'New Born' (00.00-6.33) published by Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Ltd)
    • and 10.2 'Microphone Fiend' (6.33-8.19). Microphone Fiend' is published by EMI Blackwood Music Inc/EMI Music Publishing Limited and contains elements of 'School Boy Crush' written by H. Stuart, S Ferrone, A. Gorrie, R. Ball, M. Duncan, O. McIntyre. Published by Joe Songs Inc (ASCAP) in the US and Canada, administered by Universal/MCA Music Ltd. (PRS) for world ex. US and Canada.

Tracks 2.2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 14 published by Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Ltd.

Tracks 3, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 published by Taste Music Ltd.

[edit] DVD

All songs written by Matthew Bellamy except:

  • Track 1 'Dance of the Knights' from Romeo and Juliet, Opus 64 performed by the St. Petersburg Kirov Orchestra & Valery Gergiev. Licensed courtesy of Decca Music Group. Published by Boosy & Hawks.
  • Track 2 consists of
    • 2.1 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' (00.00-00.32) written by John Williams published by EMI Gold Horizon Music Corp/EMI Music Publishing Limited
    • and 2.2 'Knights of Cydonia' (00.32-6.40) written by Matthew Bellamy and published by Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Limited.
  • Track 5 incorporates elements of 'Maggie's Farm' written by Bob Dylan and published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing. Used with permission. All rights reserved.
  • Track 9 written by Bricusse & Newley and published by Concorde Music Ltd.
  • Track 14 consists of
    • 14.1 'New Born' (00.00-6.33) written by Matthew Bellamy and published by Taste Music Ltd
    • and 14.2 'Microphone Fiend' (6.33-8.19) published by EMI Blackwood Music Inc/EMI Music Publishing Limited. 'Microphone Fiend' contains elements of 'School Boy Crush' written by H. Stuart, S Ferrone, A. Gorrie, R. Ball, M. Duncan, O. McIntyre. Published by Joe Songs Inc (ASCAP) in the US and Canada, administered by Universal/MCA Music Ltd. (PRS) for world ex. US and Canada.

Tracks 2.2, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 15, 20 published by Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Ltd.

Tracks 3, 6, 8, 13, 14.1, 16, 17, 18, 19 published by Taste Music Ltd.

[edit] Chart performance

H.A.A.R.P charted in 13 countries, four less than its predecessor, Black Holes & Revelations. It entered the top 5 of the charts in five countries and peaked in the top 5 in one more. The album has currently been in the UK Albums Chart Top 75 for 2 weeks and the World Albums Chart Top 40 for 1 week.

Country
Entry
Peak
Chart
weeks
Austria 21 21 1
Belgium 11 3 2
Finland 9 9 1
France 3 3 1
Germany 27 27 1
Ireland 5 5 2
Italy 12 6 2
Netherlands 4 4 2
New Zealand 5 5 1
Norway 8 8 1
Sweden 36 36 1
Switzerland 6 6 1
United Kingdom 2 2 2
World 7 7 1
TOTAL 2 2 19

[edit] Prices

[edit] CD & DVD

[edit] Special edition CD & DVD

H.A.A.R.P

CD: 1. "Intro" • 2. "Knights of Cydonia" • 3. "Hysteria" • 4. "Supermassive Black Hole" • 5. "Map of the Problematique" • 6. "Butterflies & Hurricanes" • 7. "Invincible" • 8. "Starlight" • 9. "Time Is Running Out" • 10. "New Born" • 11. "Unintended" • 12. "Micro Cuts" • 13. "Stockholm Syndrome" • 14. "Take a Bow"

iTunes: 15. "City of Delusion"

DVD: 1. "Intro" • 2. "Knights of Cydonia" • 3. "Hysteria" • 4. "Supermassive Black Hole" • 5. "Map of the Problematique" • 6. "Butterflies & Hurricanes" • 7. "Hoodoo" • 8. "Apocalypse Please" • 9. "Feeling Good" • 10. "Invincible" • 11. "Starlight" • 12. "Improv." • 13. "Time Is Running Out" • 14. "New Born" • 15. "Soldier's Poem" • 16. "Unintended" • 17. "Blackout" • 18. "Plug In Baby" • 19. "Stockholm Syndrome" • 20. "Take a Bow"