The 2nd Law

I headed your advice and tried listening through an entire album. The album I choose was The 2nd Law by Muse. It was weird. Really weird. But It was also weird in the sense that what you said was true, that albums are very well thought out piece of art. It was obvious that a lot of time and effort was put into the order of the songs. It started out very heavy metal, then it went a lot softer. Like weirdly soft. It got to a point where it didn't even sound like muse. The beginning was very heavy too, a lot of LZ and Aerosmith inspiration. Overall I liked the album a lot, although the bottom part of the album was crappy.