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Revision as of 21:03, 31 July 2012
Muse album | |
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Name | Showbiz |
Tracks |
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Total length |
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Recorded | 1999 |
Writer/composer | Matthew Bellamy |
Producer | John Leckie, Paul Reeve |
Art work | Tanya Andrew, Matthew Bellamy |
Publisher |
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Format(s) | CD, double 12" vinyl, 12" vinyl, cassette, minidisc, CD-R (promo only) |
Catalogue № |
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Release date | |
Chart position | 29 (GB) |
album chronology | |
Showbiz → Origin of Symmetry
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Singles | |
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Information
Showbiz was Muse's debut album, having been recorded between 1998 and 1999. The songs themselves included some of the older songs in Muse's repertoir, dating as far back as 1996. All songs on the album had been witten by 1997. These were among the "fifty or so" that Muse had written before entering the studio.[3] The band picked those which they deemed least progressive to make up Showbiz.
John Leckie, who produced the album, started attending Muse's concerts in the latter half of 1998. Leckie was based at Sawmills recording studio, where owner Dennis Smith had given the band free recording time the previous year, from which the Muse EP resulted. He built up a relationship with the band during this time, coming to say that he'd want to work with the band if ever they could afford him. Leckie had not worked with any bands quite some time prior to doing so with Muse. The recording had finished by the 15th of May 1999.[1]
Release
The booklet which comes with the album does not have lyrics on it, but instead, a line from each song is cited in bold letters. A limited "Festival Edition" was released in the Benelux region featuring a bonus disc with the same content as the Japanese Random 1-8 EP, although without the three hidden "Sunburn" remixes after "Do We Need This (live)".
The UK and US promo CDs are held between two pieces of perspex, one engraved with the Muse logo, bolted down the middle. The aforementioned CD originally came with a special perspex spanner. Two other promo CDs, one with alternative artwork, another with a gold promo stamp, were made in the US. A variety of promotional CD-Rs were used to promote the album in the UK, US and Japan. The exclusive advanced promo CD was an European promo used for promoting Showbiz, and contains six faded song samples from the album.
The album has gone to sell over 300,000 in the UK making it Platinum, and has sold over 700,000 copies worldwide. Whilst the first release was on the Mushroom and Taste Media labels in the UK, the album was reissued on CD in 2006 in the UK on East West Records. Showbiz was reissued on double 12" vinyl under Warner in Europe and North America on the 18th of August, 2009 to commemorate the 10 year anniversary of the debut album.
Pre-release
A large number of different promo CDs were distributed across the world to promote Showbiz. The UK promo came screwed between two embossed perspex plates. Some copies came with a perspex spanner to undo the bolt on the screw. Muse had a box of spare spanners on their tour bus so that anyone with a promo but no spanner could retrieve one for from the band after gigs.
10th Anniversary Contest
On the 4th of October, 2009 the muse.mu website announced that 3 lucky fans could win signed copies of Showbiz if they could guess what "rocker" tried to sign Muse sometime after Maverick did.
The winners were later revealed to be Luke McCarthy-Reed, Helen Fordyce and Dom Green. The answer was Serj Tankian.
Track list
CD, promos, cassettes
- Sunburn
- Muscle Museum
- Fillip
- Falling Down
- Cave
- Showbiz
- Unintended
- Uno
- Sober
- Escape
- Overdue
- Hate This & I'll Love You
BX Limited Festival Edition bonus CD
Vinyl
A
B
C
D
JP CD
- Sunburn
- Muscle Museum
- Fillip
- Falling Down
- Cave
- Showbiz
- Unintended
- Uno
- Sober
- Spiral Static
- Escape
- Overdue
- Hate This & I'll Love You
JP Promotion Sample
- Muscle Museum (Radio Edit)
- Sunburn
- Muscle Museum
- Fillip
- Falling Down
- Cave
- Showbiz
- Unintended
- Uno
- Sober
- Escape
- Overdue
- Hate This & I'll Love You
Promo EP
US Sampler CD
Exclusive Advanced Promo
All tracks are faded samples
UK sampler CD-R
US 4 track promo CD-R
Other US 4 track promo CD-R
Showbiz gallery
Display gallery »
See also
References
- ↑ a b c d e Recording completed (1999-05-15). MicroCuts. Retrieved 2006-11-21 from microcuts.net.
- ↑ a b Showbiz released in France (1999-09-07). MicroCuts. Retrieved 2006-11-22 from microcuts.net.
- ↑ Muse: The Making of Origin of Symmetry (2007-10-07). Xfm. Retrieved from www.muselive.com. [verify]