Origin Of Symmetry
by Muse

Album
Origin Of Symmetry by Muse
Year: 2001
Release date: 2001-06-18
Overall rank: 205th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 1,474 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 10 albums of 2001 (6th)
Award Top 50 albums of of the 2000s (34th)
Award Top 500 albums of all time (205th)

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Muse bestography

Origin Of Symmetry is ranked 2nd best out of 19 albums by Muse on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Muse is Absolution which is ranked number 187 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 7,802.

Muse album bestography « Higher ranked (187th)
Absolution This album (205th)
Origin Of Symmetry Lower ranked (254th) »
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Origin Of Symmetry track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 84 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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New Born
Average Rating: 89 (432 votes)Comments: View 3
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Bliss
Average Rating: 86 (375 votes)Comments: View 5
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Space Dementia
Average Rating: 84 (326 votes)Comments: View 5
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Hyper Music
Average Rating: 83 (323 votes)Comments: View 4
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Plug In Baby
Average Rating: 89 (463 votes)Comments: View 7
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Citizen Erased
Average Rating: 88 (396 votes)Comments: View 6
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Micro Cuts
Average Rating: 82 (294 votes)Comments: View 7
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Screenager
Average Rating: 78 (285 votes)Comments: View 4
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Darkshines
Average Rating: 79 (286 votes)Comments: View 2
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Feeling Good
Average Rating: 83 (331 votes)Comments: View 5
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Megalomania
Average Rating: 81 (288 votes)Comments: View 3

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Origin Of Symmetry rankings

Origin Of Symmetry rankings summary
Overall rank: 205th | 2000s rank: 34th | 2001 rank: 6th  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.4/100, a mean average of 77.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.1.


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Origin Of Symmetry forum mentions

This album has been referenced 91 times on the forums, Explore the wider forum discussion to see what members have said about it.
From BestEverAlbums 10/11/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5462): By henrygreen0203
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Origin Of Symmetry comments

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From 10/08/2013 16:14 | #87935 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
When will everyone realise the absolute brilliance of Megalomania, Space Dementia and Micro Cuts? And when will Citizen Erased become, rightfully, the highest rated song on the album?
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From 03/18/2014 23:51 | #106714 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
This album introduced me to Muse some years ago and I still consider it to be their best. None of their other albums is so aggressive and at the same time so progressive as this one. The keyboards are the strong point of this album in comparison to the other albums although we can find Bellamy's falsetto voice and guitar solos in a quite few songs too. I can't choose a track, all are worth listening to, and each one has something of its own to contribute to the album.
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From 06/11/2014 10:42 | #114256 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
My favourite and best Muse album to date. Very much a perfect album to me and one of my favourites of all time.
Every song on this album is golden, very much an all killer no filler album.

Especially with this album muse goes hard, loud and noisy but this noise is absolutely beautiful. They also introduce a few quiet mellow songs during the album like Screenager and the last track Megalomania which are very good as well.

To date there is no other album I have listened to as much as this album

Best Songs: New Born, Citizen Erased, Plug In Baby, Bliss and Space Dementia.
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From 10/31/2013 20:56 | #89969 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
My favourite Muse album.
Best tracks: Plug in Baby, New Born, Citizen Erased, Hyper Music, Bliss.
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From 03/09/2014 22:34 | #105838 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
As a Muse fan, I must admit that it's not my fav from them, but it's still a masterpiece, in my opinion so meaningful in the period when it was released. I know it's easier to like songs like Plug in Baby or New Born, and they are still beautiful, but keep listening: there are hidden beauties in songs like Screenager and Citizen Erased. And Megalomania, Micro Cuts and Space Dementia, these are those that make the album unique.
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