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Muse to Celebrate 20th Anniversary of Debut with 'Origin of Muse' Box Set

Muse are marking the 20th anniversary of their debut album Showbiz with a massive box set release entitled Origin of Muse.

Out Dec. 6, the box set includes 9 CDs and 4 colored vinyl that collect the band’s first two albums, early EPs, demos, live recordings, and B-sides. In total, 113 tracks will be included with more than 40 unreleased.

Some highlights of the set include remastered editions of 1999’s Showbiz and 2001’s Origin of Symmetry, the Newton Abbot Demos, as well as Muse’s 10th anniversary full-album performance of Origin of Symmetry at the 2011 Reading Festival.

The set comes in a 48-page casebound book, which contains an interview with Muse’s Matt Bellamy, Dominic Howard, and Chris Wolstenholme. Also included are original posters, setlists, photographs, and contact sheets.

Origin of Muse is available to preorder now.


Check out the Origin of Muse track list below.

CD 1 – NEWTON ABBOT DEMOS

Cave
Rain
Agitated
Crazy Days
Coma
Connect The Kettle Lead
Balloonatic
Boredom
Sober
Jimmy Kane
Ashamed
Plug In Baby
Earthquake
Good News
Overdue

CD 2 – THE MUSE EPs + SHOWBIZ DEMOS

Overdue
Cave
Coma
Escape
Muscle Museum
Sober
Uno
Unintended
Pink Ego Box
(Muscle Museum) #2
Showbiz (Live, Sawmills Studios, 1998)
Do We Need This (Live, Fortress Studios, 1999)
Sunburn (Live, Fortress Studios, 1999)
Overdue (Live, Fortress Studios, 1999)
Uno (Alternate version, Rak Studios, 1999)

CD 3 – SHOWBIZ

Sunburn
Muscle Museum
Fillip
Falling Down
Cave
Showbiz
Unintended
Uno
Sober
Spiral Static (Bonus track)
Escape
Overdue
Hate This & I’ll Love You

CD 4 – SHOWBIZ B-SIDES

Recess (Unreleased alternate version, Trident Studios, 1999)
Jimmy Kane
Forced In
Agitated
Twin
Host
Do We Need This?
Con-Science
Minimum
Ashamed
Yes Please
Recess
Nishe

CD 5 – SHOWBIZ LIVE

Uno (Live, The Pyramid Centre, Portsmouth, 1999)
Cave (Live, The Pyramid Centre, Portsmouth, 1999)
Muscle Museum (Live, The Pyramid Centre, Portsmouth, 1999)
Falling Down (Live, The Pyramid Centre, Portsmouth, 1999)
Fillip (Live, The Pyramid Centre, Portsmouth, 1999)
Do We Need This (Live, The Pyramid Centre, Portsmouth, 1999)
Agitated (Live, The Astoria, London, 2000)
Sunburn (Live, The Astoria, London, 2000)
Plug In Baby (Live, The Astoria, London, 2000)
Showbiz (Live, The Astoria, London, 2000)
Cave (Acoustic live demo, Airfield Studios, 1999)
Muscle Museum (Acoustic live demo, Airfield Studios, 1999)

CD 6 – ORIGIN OF SYMMETRY INSTRUMENTAL DEMOS

Micro Cuts
Feeling Good
Space Dementia
Hyper Music
Citizen Erased
Megalomania
Screenager
Shrinking Universe
Shine

CD 7 – ORIGIN OF SYMMETRY

New Born
Bliss
Space Dementia
Hyper Music
Plug In Baby
Citizen Erased
Micro Cuts
Screenager
Darkshines
Feeling Good
Futurism (Bonus track)
Megalomania

CD 8 – ORIGIN OF SYMMETRY B-SIDES

Nature 1
Execution Commentary
Bedroom Acoustics
Shrinking Universe
Piano Thing
Map Of Your Head
The Gallery
Hyper Chondriac Music
Shine
Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
Dead Star
In Your World
Can’t Take My Eyes Off You

CD 9 – ORIGIN OF SYMMETRY, LIVE AT READING FESTIVAL

New Born
Bliss
Space Dementia
Hyper Music
Plug In Baby
Citizen Erased
Micro Cuts
Screenager
Darkshines
Feeling Good
Megalomania


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Article image: Muse press photo from 2017. (Warner Music Sweden [CC BY 3.0] via Wikimedia Commons.)

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