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Contents
Information
Title
The name of the album was inspired by the book Hyperspace by theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. It discusses how a future book about the discovery of supersymmetry should be entitled "The Origin Of Symmetry", due to its implications in physics, in reference to the explanatory impact Charles Darwin's "On The Origin Of Species" had on biology.[1]. Matt said: "The name of the album, 'Origin Of Symmetry', is from a book about geometry of the universe and how it's all in beautiful balance, a perfect thing in ten dimensions. It explains all the mysterious forces we invented religions around.[2]. According to Bellamy, "everyone’s been writing about the origin of life so now they’ll start looking at the origin of symmetry; there’s a certain amount of stability in the universe and to find out where it originates from would be to find out if God exists.”[3]
Recording
"New Born", "Plug In Baby", "Bliss" and "Darkshines" were recorded with David Bottrill in the middle of touring in late 2000, in Ridge Farm Studios, Surrey.[1] The songs were recorded as if in a live situation, within a few days.[1] The band later had to re-master the songs with John Cornfield after the tour was over, in order to make them suitable for release, as they were not satisfied with the mixing of these tracks.[1] Matt attributes this to the effects of the hallucinogenics, which were "great for exploring new territory", but "certainly not good for finishing things off".[1] The stripping down of these songs helped set the tone for the recording of the rest of the album. "New Born", "Plug In Baby" and "Bliss" were seen as the "backbone of the album" and provided a basis from which the band could be more experimental with the other songs.[1]
John Leckie pushed the band to explore some of the more experimental ideas. Some of this took the form of using new percussion for particular songs, such as using a balafon, as well as animal bones and llama toenails on "Screenager".[1] Matt felt this was necessary in order to for him to write the lyrics for the album.[1] Classical music also began to have a great impact on the writing of songs for Origin Of Symmetry, particularly on the way Matt perceived music itself.[1] The song "Space Dementia" was inspired by Sergei Rachmaninov, whose music Matt began to listen to whilst writing the album.[1]
"Feeling Good" was included on the album because it was a piano based song, and was a favourite of a girlfriend Matt had at the time.[1] The standard release of the album was also originally intended to include many songs that would later become B-sides, including "Shrinking Universe", "Tesseract" ("Futurism") and "Natural Disaster" ("Nature_1"), as well as unidentified songs entitled "Origin of Symmetry" and "Love Bleach".[4][5]
Pre-release
The promo CD sits in a flat plastic box with a Muse logo on it, which is held together by screws in two corners of the case. The aforementioned CD originally came with a perspex screw driver. Two versions of the promo CD were distributed in the UK. These two versions only differ in the plastic the box is made from; one tinged yellow and the other grey. A similar promotional CD was used in France, some copies of which were distributed in plastic boxes as with the UK version.
The track list on the UK promo CD has incorrect track lengths for all tracks, but the audio is identical to the released album. Unmastered promo CD-Rs were distributed in the UK and Germany. The Bleeb Unmastered and German CD-R promos are unmastered and have beeping sounds every few minutes to indicate the CD is a press preview copy. The unmastered promos feature uncut versions of the songs, for example, "Bliss" has a 30 second appregiated outro that is not featured in the released album version, and "Citizen Erased" does not merge into "Micro Cuts". Additionally the Exclusive Advanced Promo CD was distributed in Germany, and contains six faded song samples from the album.
Release
Origin of Symmetry was to be released in the US on the 28th August 2001[6] but the release was cancelled after Muse left Maverick. It was finally released in the US in 2005 after Absolution became successful there. It was the only Muse album not to be released on Ukrainian Records in Ukraine, and was instead released directly under Motor. Thus, it did not have a promotional cassette like other Ukrainian Muse releases.
The album was originally released as a CD-ROM with the MuseTV feature linked to online bonus material. This later ceased to function once the MuseTV media had been removed from the Internet. The CD was available in either a digipak or jewel case.
The album has gone Gold in the UK, with sales over 100,000.
Origin of Symmetry was reissued in double 12" vinyl on the 18th of August, 2009 to commemorate the 10 year anniversary of the debut album, Showbiz.
Artwork
In a 2001 interview, Matthew Bellamy stated that the artwork is "a collection of the work of 14 artists who’ve all been given that same title, so even though each piece is in a radically different style, you get a sense of there being some form of continuity through different people’s perceptions of the same theme."[7]
The album art displays a slightly irregular version of the Muse logo. While the regular one utilizes the Frutiger Black typeface, this altenate version is set in Helvetica Bold.
Track list
CD, promo CDs
- New Born
- Bliss
- Space Dementia
- Hyper Music
- Plug In Baby
- Citizen Erased
- Micro Cuts
- Screenager
- Darkshines
- Feeling Good
- Megalomania
Vinyl
- A
- B
- C
- D
JP CD
- New Born
- Bliss
- Space Dementia
- Hyper Music
- Plug In Baby
- Citizen Erased
- Micro Cuts
- Screenager
- Darkshines
- Feeling Good
- Futurism
- Megalomania
JP promo CD
Unmastered press preview, unmastered UK CD-R, German promos
All tracks are unmastered and unblended versions
- New Born
- Bliss
- Space Dementia
- Hyper Music
- Plug In Baby
- Citizen Erased
- Micro Cuts
- Feeling Good
- Screenager
- Darkshines
- Megalomania
Exclusive advanced promo CD
All tracks are faded samples
MuseTV enhanced element master
Personnel
Muse
Guest musicians
Additional personnel
Second album recording gallery
- Oosrecording1.jpg
How heavy the new site is
- Oosrecording2.jpg
Recording the song with no name
- Oosrecording3.jpg
Matt scoring the string quartet
- Oosrecording4.jpg
The joy after sceaming
- Oosrecording5.jpg
I can see the blue light
- Oosrecording6.jpg
Chris looking pleased with the bass sound
- Oosrecording7.jpg
Chris on some leather
- Oosrecording8.jpg
Space Dementia
- Oosrecording9.jpg
Drum sounds for Space Dementia
- Oosrecording10.jpg
Arriving at Abbey Road
- Oosrecording11.jpg
This is a big live room!
- Pd chrisabbeyroad.jpg
Chris getting some nice new gear
- Oosrecording13.jpg
Recording vocals
- Pd soldanoadjust.jpg
Starting work on guitars...
- Oosrecording15.jpg
John Leckie and Chris (assistant)
- Oosrecording16.jpg
The first evening in Astoria
- Oosrecording17.jpg
The Astoria Studios
- Oosrecording18.jpg
Arriving at Astoria Studio
- Oosrecording19.jpg
"Knees up mother Brown.."
- Oosrecording20.jpg
Matt's new Manson guitar
- Oosrecording21.jpg
"Just the two of us...."
- Oosrecording22.jpg
Matt and a harpsichord
- Oosrecording23.jpg
Photodiary 14.02.2001
- Oosrecording24.jpg
New guitar, blue shirt
- Oosrecording25.jpg
The 'Big Brother' craze gets out of proportion
- Oosrecording26.jpg
badda-da-badda-da-badda-da
(via microcuts.net)
Album artwork
- Oospic4 II.JPG
by Darrell Gibbs, 2001
- Oospic5 II.JPG
by Austin, 2001
- Oospic8j.JPG
by Leo Marcantonio, 2001
- Oospic6 II.JPG
by Toni Oladipo, 2001
- Oos1pic II.JPG
by Butch Gordan, 2001
- Oospic2 II.JPG
by Tim Berry, 2001
- Oospic9.JPG
by Tim Berry, 2001
- Oospic10.JPG
by Adam Cruickshank, 2001
- Oospic7.jpg
by Marilyn Patridean, 2001
- Oospic11.JPG
by Simon Earith, 2001
- Oospic12.JPG
by David Foldvari, 2001
Origin Of Symmetry Gallery
- Origin of Symmetry cover art.jpg
Digipak cover art
- Origin of Symmetry (digipak) Interior and Disc.JPG
Digipak interior and disc
- Origin of Symmetry (digipak) Back Cover.JPG
Digipak back cover
- Origin of Symmetry digipak Germany Cover.JPG
DE digipak cover art
- Origin of Symmetry (digipak) Germany Interior and Disc.JPG
DE digipak interior and disc
- Origin of Symmetry (digipak) Germany Back Cover.JPG
DE digipak back cover
- OOS UA cover.jpg
UA cover art
- OOS UA interior.jpg
UA interior and disc
- OOS UA back cover.jpg
UA back cover
- OoS cover Israel.jpg
IL cover art
- OoS interior and disc Israel.jpg
IL interior and disc
- OoS back cover Israel.jpg
IL back cover
- Origin of Symmetry JP.jpg
JP cover art
- LPOrigin Of Symmetry Cover.JPG
Vinyl cover
- LPOrigin Of Symmetry Back Cover.JPG
Vinyl back cover
- LPOrigin Of Symmetry Germany Cover.JPG
DE vinyl cover
- LPOrigin Of Symmetry Germany Back Cover.JPG
DE vinyl back cover
- LPOrigin Of Symmetry Germany Interior.JPG
DE vinyl interior
- LPOrigin Of Symmetry Germany Interior Sleeves.JPG
DE vinyl interior sleeves
- LPOrigin Of Symmetry Germany Discs.JPG
DE vinyl discs
- Origin of Symmetry Promo.JPG
Promo case
- OOS Promo II.JPG
Promo CD
- OoS promo France.jpg
FR promo CD
- OOS Bleeb Promo II.jpg
DE Bleeb unmastered promo cover art
- OOS Bleeb Promo I.jpg
DE Bleeb unmastered promo back cover and CD
- OOS Sampler.jpg
Exclusive advanced promo cover art
- OOS Sampler II.jpg
Exclusive advanced promo back cover and CD
- Origin of Symmetry Gold-Stamped Promo USA Cover.jpg
US gold stamped promo cover
- Origin of Symmetry Gold-Stamped Promo USA Back Cover.jpg
US gold stamped promo back cover
- OOS unmastered.jpg
Unmastered press preview promo CD-R
- OOS Unmastered 2.jpg
Unmastered promo CD-R
- OOS Acetate I.jpg
DE unmastered promo CD-R (bleebed)
- OOS US CD-R.jpg
US promo CD-R
- OOS cassette.jpg
Cassette cover art
- OOS cassette back.jpg
Cassette back cover art
- Origin of Symmetry A Side.jpg
Cassette A side
- Origin of Symmetry B Side.jpg
Cassette B side
- OoS cassette cover Turkey.jpg
TR cassette cover
- OoS cassette back cover Turkey.jpg
TR cassette back cover
- Origin of Symmetry Korea CoverMC.jpg
KR cassette cover art
- Origin of Symmetry Korea Back CoverMC.jpg
KR cassette back cover
- MDOrigin of Symmetry Cover.jpg
Mini-disc cover art
- MDOrigin of Symmetry Interior and Disc.jpg
Mini-disc interior
- MDOrigin of Symmetry Disc Back.jpg
Mini-disc back
- MDOrigin of Symmetry Back Cover.jpg
Mini-disc cover back
Spread Gallery
- JP OOS.jpg
JP CD digipak
- OOS CD (Mushroom Release).jpg
UK CD (Mushroom)
- OOS CD (EastWest Release).jpg
UK CD (EastWest)
- OOS CD Digipak.jpg
UK CD digipak
- US OOS CD.JPG
US CD
- US OOS 12'' Vinyl.JPG
US 12" vinyl
Interview Promo
A promo CD featuring an interview with the band.
Track list
- Introduction...
- Have you always been deadly serious about music...
- Answer
- You were very young when you first got together...
- Answer
- Growing up in a rural area...
- Answer
- First gig together...
- Answer
- Do you remember any of the songs you played...
- Answer
- When were Muse born...
- Answer
- Who came up with the name Muse...
- Answer
- Doggy names...
- Answer
- Is this the perfect line up...
- Answer
- America happened first...
- Answer
- States for the first time...
- Answer
- Madonna...
- Answer
- Different record deals in different places...
- Answer
- Does it not get complicated...
- Answer
- Hell for release schedules...
- Answer
- Two independent EPs...
- Answer
- Glorified demos...
- Answer
- John Leckie...
- Answer
- Dave Bottrill...
- Answer
- The second album...
- Answer
- Different locations for recording...
- Answer
- Touring with Foo Fighters & Chili Peppers...
- Answer
- Felt like rock stars...
- Answer
- Did you get on well with bands...
- Answer
- How did you go down...
- Answer
- Do you feel part of some sort of scene...
- Answer
- A particularly English sound...
- Answer
- T in the Park...
- Answer
- Festival crowds...
- Answer
- Hectic schedule...
- Answer
- End of tour...
- Answer
- All over the world again...
- Answer
- Separate reality from fantasy...
- Answer
- You've known each other for so long...
- Answer
- How Spinal Tap has it got...
- Answer
References
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