Have to agree to disagree. They didn't particularly "bounce from genre to genre" in the early years, there was a clear progression from Showbiz to OoS to Absolution, which was their peak. Again, no, I was referring to their playing, before they brought in a 4th member, before they went OTT with...
I'm going to half-heartedly stick up for Muse - their first 3 albums were very decent and they were exciting live. They then MASSIVELY ran out of ideas, and have slowly disappeared up their own arses. Shame, as they had a LOT of potential in the early days.