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Showbiz |  | Artist: Muse
Label: Maverick
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Rating:  173 reviews
Sales Rank: 1314
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.8 x 0.4
MPN: 47382
UPC: 936247382206
EAN: 0093624738220
ASIN: B00001SIES
Release Date: September 28, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | Sunburn | | • | Muscle Museum | | • | Fillip | | • | Falling Down | | • | Cave | | • | Showbiz | | • | Unintended | | • | Uno | | • | Sober | | • | Escape | | • | Overdue | | • | Hate This and I'll Love You |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Often compared to Radiohead, the youngsters in Muse make no bones about their love of Thom Yorke and company. Like Radiohead and their other favorite band, Nirvana, the tracks on Muse's debut go straight for the quiet verses and windstorm choruses associated with those acts. Unfortunately, Muse don't have that crackling aura their idols possess, and that's something that no amount of production can fix. Still, it's hard to write them off completely after hearing the single "Muscle Museum," which hints at brighter days on the horizon. Radiohead's Pablo Honey wasn't that great an album either, and look at them post-OK Computer. If they're going to crash American radio, they'll have to wait until the next release. --Jason Josephes
Album Details
Japanese Version featuring a Bonus Track.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 173
 Muse-ism November 17, 2009
Jorge Hidalgo
Am I a Muse-ian? Heck yes, and this older album of Muse is no acception to their fame. Muse is known for such good music, and this album doesn't fail to bring that power into such a cd. Best Album in my opinion.~Jorge
 A lukewarm first album October 19, 2009
HL (CA)
This Muse's debut album, and it's rather average. It actually has quite a similar "sound" to their later albums, with a mix of hard and soft-sounding rock songs, except that the songs aren't as easy to listen to, and the songs themselves are less interesting. I did fall in love with "Sunburn" and give it 5 stars. "Cave", "Muscle Museum" and the balladic "Unintended" aren't too bad either. The rest or the songs are mediocre, which is why I average the album 3 stars. If you're trying out Muse for the first time, purchase "Absolution" instead.
I HEART MUSE September 17, 2009
Mallory A. Morettin (columbus, oh)
I love Muse so much! I'm glad I found this older album that I didnt even know existed! Great stuff!! Can't wait for them to tour the states again in the spring!
This is how Muse used to sound?????? September 11, 2009
Denzel Lockheart (Edmonton, Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Needless to say I like Muse a lot, they're my 3rd favorite band, and I had only 2 albums, Black Holes and Absolution, before buying this. Anyways, I picked this up the other day, because I was curious to hear Muse's debut. It's not a bad album... it's not much of an album really, it's more of a taste of things to come than anything. I like "Muscle Museum", "Unintended", "Hate This and I'll Love You" and "Sober". The rest is all... ehhh to me. That said I can excuse that. This was their first album and they were still searching for that sound. Needless to say, Origin of Symmetry is a better album and has their best track, "New Born", which was used at the end of "Haute Tension".
My sincere thanks go out to Stephenie Meyer for indirectly introducing me to this great band. August 29, 2009
Bryan J. Peterson (Twin Falls, Idaho United States)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Like a lot of people I was first introduced to Muse through reading the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. Since she drew so much inspiration from their music I was curious to check them out. My first stop was Wikipedia, where I learned as much as I could about the band themselves, then I hopped on over to Amazon, where I listened to sound samples from most of their albums. It's fair to say I liked what I heard.
Showbiz is surprisingly solid for a debut release. From the opening notes of Sunburn to the closing, this is definitely a worthwhile album. There are no songs onthe CD that I actually dislike, although I like some less than others. Particular favorites of mine are Sunburn, Muscle Museum (which has one of the coolest basslines ever as well as some of the coolest lyrics), Cave, Showbiz, Unintended, Uno, Sober and Overdue. I'll grant that the band's sound and Matt Bellamy's vocals bear some similarity to Radiohead, but unlike Radiohead I was instantly hooked on Muse. About the only song of Radiohead's I really like is Creep, and even that got seriously overplayed on the radio. But I liked Muse enough to buy all their albums, well except for HAARP and the as yet unreleased new album, which I do intend to own at some point. All in all a great start for a great band.
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