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The "Plug In Baby" CD1 cover. |
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| Single by Muse | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| from the album Origin of Symmetry | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| B-side | "Nature_1" "Execution Commentary" "Spiral Static" "Bedroom Acoustics" |
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| Released | 5 March 2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Format | 7" vinyl, CD single, Compact cassette | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | 2001 at Ridge Farm Studios, Surrey | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Alternative rock, new prog | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 3:39 (Album/Single Version) 3:18 (Radio Edit) |
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| Label | Mushroom | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Matthew Bellamy | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Producer | David Bottrill, Muse | |||||||||||||||||||||
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"Plug In Baby" is a song by English alternative rock band Muse, featured on their 2001 second studio album Origin of Symmetry. Released as the lead single from the album on 5 March 2001, "Plug In Baby" became the band's highest-charting single when it peaked at number 11 on the UK Singles Chart, until it was surpassed by "Time Is Running Out" in 2003.[1] Today, "Plug In Baby" is considered one of Muse's most notable songs, and has been featured on the live albums Hullabaloo Soundtrack (2002) and HAARP (2008). "Plug In Baby" is often praised for its opening guitar riff; Total Guitar readers voted the riff as the 13th best of all-time in 2004.[2] The beginning of the riff shows similarities to the toccata from Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565". Bellamy has also stated in a 2005 interview that it elaborates on the riff from DJ Shadow's track Organ Donor. The bassline has been noted as being very similar to that of Air's single Sexy Boy,[3][4] which was released 3 years earlier. "Plug In Baby" was first recorded as a demo in 1997, although it featured a different guitar riff. Total Guitar voted Plug in Baby the #1 ultimate guitar riff of the last 10 years.[5] In 2011, Spinner.com named "Plug In Baby" the 46th greatest guitar riff of all time, citing its "play on Bach's 'Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565'."
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The music video depicts the band in a room playing their instruments, with cut-aways to scenes of women, which step by step are relieved to be at least part bionic with tendrils hanging down. These connect to the title 'plug in baby' connecting the women to be electronic 'creations', or a sort of self assembly beings. The video also has some scenes with electronic equipment affecting women who use them, one being a hairdryer and the other a set of ear phones, both leading to visual indications that they are somehow under control or possibly even being possessed. The end shows the lead singer of the band Matt Bellamy paused in a stress pose, in a way that looks like he has 'powered down' at the end of the song, again linking to the idea of bionic beings that the video has played with the whole way through.
All songs were written and composed by Matthew Bellamy.
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