Muse is celebrating the 20th anniversary of their debut album Showbiz in a special way. The band has announced the release of an album boxset called “Origin of Muse,” set to be released Dec. 6. The boxset will contain a 48-page booklet with each member giving in-depth interviews, posters, setlists, photographs and contact sheets that are inserts that may be pulled out from the book. In addition, nine CDs and four vinyl platters will come in the boxset, with the CDs including Showbiz and their sophomore effort Origin of Symmetry, along with demos and live audio performances from both albums.
According to Loudwire, Showbiz will be fully remastered, b-sides disc and a live disc of BBC Radio One broadcasts of the band during 1999 and 2000 will also be included. With Origin of Symmetry, the box set will include instrumental demos, the original album remastered, a b-sides release and Muse’s full performance of the album at the 2011 Reading Festival, totaling up to 40 previously unreleased tracks. Fans can pre-order the boxset here.
Since the band’s debut in 1999, they have released seven studio albums and have sold more than 20 million album’s worldwide, with their most recent being Simulation Theory released last year.
Origin of Muse Boxset:
CD 1 – NEWTON ABBOT DEMOS
1. Cave
2. Rain
3. Agitated
4. Crazy Days
5. Coma
6. Connect The Kettle Lead
7. Balloonatic
8. Boredom
9. Sober
10. Jimmy Kane
11. Ashamed
12. Plug In Baby
13. Earthquake
14. Good News
15. Overdue
CD 2 – THE MUSE EPs + SHOWBIZ DEMOS
1. Overdue
2. Cave
3. Coma
4. Escape
5. Muscle Museum
6. Sober
7. Uno
8. Unintended
9. Pink Ego Box
10. (Muscle Museum) #2
11. Showbiz (Live, Sawmills Studios, 1998)
12. Do We Need This (Live, Fortress Studios, 1999)
13. Sunburn (Live, Fortress Studios, 1999)
14. Overdue (Live, Fortress Studios, 1999)
15. Uno (Alternate version, Rak Studios, 1999)
CD 3 – SHOWBIZ
1. Sunburn
2. Muscle Museum
3. Fillip
4. Falling Down
5. Cave
6. Showbiz
7. Unintended
8. Uno
9. Sober
10. Spiral Static (Bonus track)
11. Escape
12. Overdue
13. Hate This & I’ll Love You
CD 4 – SHOWBIZ B-SIDES
1. Recess (Unreleased alternate version, Trident Studios, 1999)
2. Jimmy Kane
3. Forced In
4. Agitated
5. Twin
6. Host
7. Do We Need This?
8. Con-Science
9. Minimum
10. Ashamed
11. Yes Please
12. Recess
13. Nishe
CD 5 – SHOWBIZ LIVE
1. Uno (Live, The Pyramid Centre, Portsmouth, 1999)
2. Cave (Live, The Pyramid Centre, Portsmouth, 1999)
3. Muscle Museum (Live, The Pyramid Centre, Portsmouth, 1999)
4. Falling Down (Live, The Pyramid Centre, Portsmouth, 1999)
5. Fillip (Live, The Pyramid Centre, Portsmouth, 1999)
6. Do We Need This (Live, The Pyramid Centre, Portsmouth, 1999)
7. Agitated (Live, The Astoria, London, 2000)
8. Sunburn (Live, The Astoria, London, 2000)
9. Plug In Baby (Live, The Astoria, London, 2000)
10. Showbiz (Live, The Astoria, London, 2000)
11. Cave (Acoustic live demo, Airfield Studios, 1999)
12. Muscle Museum (Acoustic live demo, Airfield Studios, 1999)
CD 6 – ORIGIN OF SYMMETRY INSTRUMENTAL DEMOS
1. Micro Cuts
2. Feeling Good
3. Space Dementia
4. Hyper Music
5. Citizen Erased
6. Megalomania
7. Screenager
8. Shrinking Universe
9. Shine
CD 7 – ORIGIN OF SYMMETRY
1. New Born
2. Bliss
3. Space Dementia
4. Hyper Music
5. Plug In Baby
6. Citizen Erased
7. Micro Cuts
8. Screenager
9. Darkshines
10. Feeling Good
11. Futurism (Bonus track)
12. Megalomania
CD 8 – ORIGIN OF SYMMETRY B-SIDES
1. Nature 1
2. Execution Commentary
3. Bedroom Acoustics
4. Shrinking Universe
5. Piano Thing
6. Map Of Your Head
7. The Gallery
8. Hyper Chondriac Music
9. Shine
10. Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
11. Dead Star
12. In Your World
13. Can’t Take My Eyes Off You
CD 9 – ORIGIN OF SYMMETRY, LIVE AT READING FESTIVAL
1. New Born
2. Bliss
3. Space Dementia
4. Hyper Music
5. Plug In Baby
6. Citizen Erased
7. Micro Cuts
8. Screenager
9. Darkshines
10. Feeling Good
11. Megalomania
Photo Credit: Boston Lynn Schulz
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