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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.

According to the Plug in Baby Songfacts, on the show Muse: The Making of Origin of Symmetry, which aired on the UK radio station Xfm, lead singer Matthew Bellamy described this song as: “A feeling of not being connected to each other, but we are, and it’s a feeling of the mind evolving from the body, but when that happens you just get this yearn to do something physical and feel something sensational.”

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.

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. The beginning of the riff shows similarities to Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue”. 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, which was released 3 years earlier.

“Plug In Baby” is a featured song in the rhythm video game Guitar Hero 5.

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omnomnomlove wrote:
6 hours ago

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silvasonicsurfa wrote:
yesterday morning

...extraordinary vocals yet again......

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allycious wrote:
Monday evening

im not going to dun dun dun [70] ugh i just did -_-

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Rose_and_me wrote:
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maxlharris wrote:
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AcidVenom22 wrote:
last month

pretty decent album, but absolution and super massive black hole is a lot better!

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stupidlove_ wrote:
last month

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last month

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December 2011

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Seeeeeeeed wrote:
December 2011

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AnnikaHoppe wrote:
December 2011

epic guitar riff is epic. [2]

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dewbie226 wrote:
December 2011

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magnificohan wrote:
November 2011

Awesome photo: http://www.last.fm/music/Muse/+images/71215290 vote up if you like it.

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all_the_way wrote:
November 2011

epic guitar riff is epic.

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catukat wrote:
November 2011

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promisedeyes wrote:
November 2011

Such a brilliant tune, hard to put into words ^.^

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Stefaniskii wrote:
November 2011

the guitarsolo is fantastic (: love this song / their music

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Bliss8117 wrote:
October 2011

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