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Muse will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their debut LP Showbiz with a mammoth box set that collects the band’s first two albums along with their early EPs, demos, live recordings and B-sides from the era.
The 9CD/4LP Origin of Muse, due out December 6th and available to preorder now, features remastered editions of 1999’s Showbiz and 2001’s Origin of Symmetry, their Muse and Muscle Museum EPs, plus discs full of demos (Newton Abbot Demos, instrumental demos of Origin of Symmetry), many of which are unreleased.
The box set also compiles all of the B-sides from the era as well as two discs showcasing the two albums’ live sound, including Muse’s 10th anniversary full-album performance of Origin of Symmetry at the 2011 Reading Festival. The 4LPs are dedicated to Showbiz and Origin of Symmetry pressed onto 180-gram colored vinyl.
Origin of Muse is housed in a 48-pagecaseboundbook which contains an interview withMuse’s Matt Bellamy, Dominic Howard and Chris Wolstenholmediscussing the early years of the band. The book also boasts original posters, setlists, photographs and contact sheets from the era, while the reissued albums themselves faithfully reproduce the original release’s artwork.
Origin of MuseTrack List
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
MuscleMuseum
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 (Alternateversion,RakStudios, 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
HyperChondriacMusic
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
