Muse is a British rock band whose sound is often compared to pre-Kid A Radiohead, most notably because Muse singer Matt Bellamy sounds very similar to Radiohead’s Thom Yorke. Absolution is Muse’s third studio album but the first to make it “big” stateside. It has charted a couple of popular modern-rock songs, including “Time Is Running Out” and “Hysteria.”
One version involves a guy in a hotel room trying to remember what happened the night before. He takes his camcorder and watches some tapes. You can see a girl…presumably a prostitute. Probably he has fallen in love with her and can’t stand the idea he’s not the only one. The song is about wanting something really hard, but you can’t have it at all. The guy is in the same situation. He phoned her all the time, but she didn’t pick up; he goes crazy and destroys his hotelroom.
Meanwhile, the version on iTunes is just the band playing with some visual effects…kinda boring compared to the above story. Maybe the first was deemed too risqué, even though you don’t ever see anything naughty. I don’t know.