Muscle Museum

"Muscle Museum" is the third single by English alternative rock band Muse, and the second track from their debut album, Showbiz. It was released on 7" vinyl—backed with "Minimum"—and double CD—backed with "Do We Need This?", a live acoustic version of the song, "Pink Ego Box" and "Con-Science"—on 22 November 1999 and reached #43 in the UK Singles Chart—an improvement of 9 positions on "Cave". The words Muscle and Museum come immediately before and after the word "Muse" in most dictionaries. The song is available to play on Rocksmith 2014 as part of a Muse 5-song pack.

Music video

The music video is directed by Joseph Kahn and features different people in a suburban neighbourhood, crying in different situations. Joseph Kahn wanted to express the "sadness" of life in the suburbs where every house looks more or less the same. Individual expression is not possible because of the surroundings and the rules in those suburbs and happiness (or pretending to be happy) is mandatory.

Though Joseph Kahn himself thinks of the video as one of the best he made, he believes that most people, including Muse, don't like the video.

Muscle Museum (EP)

Muscle Museum is the second extended play (EP) by English alternative rock band Muse. Limited to 999 hand-numbered copies, was released on 11 January 1999 by Dangerous Records. Four of the EP's five original songs – "Muscle Museum", "Sober", "Uno" and "Unintended" – were re-recorded for the band's full-length debut, Showbiz. The song Instant Messenger was rereleased as a B Side to Muscle Museum under the title Pink Ego Box. This version omits the AOL sample but is otherwise the same recording. Upon Muscle Museum's release, the title track entered the NME Indie Single Charts at #3, losing out on the top spot only to Mercury Rev and Fatboy Slim.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Matthew Bellamy. 

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