Shut Your Mouth (song)

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"Shut Your Mouth"
Single by Garbage
from the album Beautiful Garbage
B-side
  • "Sex Never Goes Out of Fashion"
  • "April Tenth"
  • "I'm Really Into Techno"
ReleasedJune 24, 2002
RecordedApril 2000 – May 2001
StudioSmart Studios
Madison, Wisconsin, US
GenreAlternative rock, electronica, post-grunge, hip hop
Length3:26
LabelMushroom Records UK
Songwriter(s)Garbage
Producer(s)Garbage
Garbage singles chronology
"Breaking Up the Girl"
(2002) 		"Shut Your Mouth"
(2002) 		"Why Do You Love Me"
(2005)
Alternative cover
UK CD singles and collector's wallet.

"Shut Your Mouth" is a 2001

studio album Beautiful Garbage. "Shut Your Mouth" was the album opener; it was also released as its fourth and final single
.

Composition and recording

"Shut Your Mouth" was written and recorded at Garbage's own

quaaludes.[3] Lyrically, Shirley Manson explained, "In a general sense, it's about keeping your own counsel. There are so many opinions out there and misinformation and everybody's got their own agenda".[2]

The band created a

percussive effect.[1] "It was just sort of a straight pattern, and without even listening to it I started dropping beats in other spots. Then I just ran through that section, and it was pretty messed up. But it had a much more interesting... it's more of a breakdown section," Vig recalled, "I actually tried notating the recorded version, and it was like some insane piece of music."[5] Vig used a thirty-year-old Roger Meyer limiter to saturate the drum sounds on "Shut Your Mouth" ("...to make them sound thrashy").[6]

The majority of the recorded work on Beautiful Garbage was to

vocals were generally not treated to the extent that they had on Garbage's first two albums; however her vocal on "Shut Your Mouth" was: the band subjected her takes to a number of Pro Tools plug-ins such as GRM Tools' Band Pass and Wave Mechanics' Soundblender.[1]

On October 10, 2001, "Shut Your Mouth" was debuted live by Garbage in

Osaka, Japan performance in February 2002, Garbage replaced the verse riff with one from AC/DC's "Back in Black
".

In 2007, "Shut Your Mouth" was

greatest hits album Absolute Garbage.[7]

Single release

On April 8, 2002, "Shut Your Mouth" was announced as the fourth single from Beautiful Garbage by Shirley Manson herself, during a Garbage concert broadcast live throughout Europe on

Wild Horses" for Re:Covered, a new BBC Choice music show where contemporary artists performed their new single and an old classic.[8] The show was scheduled to air in June, when Mushroom Records UK had planned to release "Shut Your Mouth" across Europe to coincide with Garbage's booked Glastonbury performance and European tour. After the failure of third album single, "Breaking Up the Girl", and despite promotional discs already having been distributed, Mushroom cancelled the UK's June release date of "Shut Your Mouth".[9]

animated music video for "Shut Your Mouth" had begun airing on MTV networks from June 18.[9] PIAS then issued the single in other European territories from July 8.[10]

Garbage regrouped at the end of August 2002 to actively promote "Shut Your Mouth" in the UK with two club dates at

Kerrang! TV on September 16.[12]

Mushroom Records finally released "Shut Your Mouth" in the UK on September 23; the single was marketed as a three CD single set, each in card sleeves, with a card wallet with the first disc to store the whole set.

Blaze Television and BBC Worldwide, due to the licensing arrangements made by the BBC to feature "Wild Horses" on Re:Covered earlier that year. On September 29, "Shut Your Mouth" charted at #20.[14] This position was the highest reached by any of the four Beautiful Garbage singles on the UK Singles Chart. The following week, "Shut Your Mouth" dropped out of the Top 75; this was the first instance in the fifty-year history of the UK Singles Chart where a Top Twenty track did so.[15]

FMR released "Shut Your Mouth" in Australia on September 2 in its original format configuration;[12] a single CD maxi featuring the same b-sides and live tracks as in the European release;[10] pre-empting an Australian Tour Edition re-release of the Beautiful Garbage on September 16.[12] "Shut Your Mouth" peaked at number 74 on the ARIA Singles Chart, spending three weeks within the top 100.[16] Garbage's world tour returned to Australia the following month; on October 8, the band performed "Shut Your Mouth" on talk show Rove.[13]

In October 2002, Garbage returned to perform a co-headlining tour of

World Rally Championship
.

"Shut Your Mouth" was retained in Garbage's

Randall's Island, NY. "Shut Your Mouth" was performed by both artists mixed with Peaches' single "Shake Yer Dix
".

Music videos

2D/3D animated promo, directed by Henry Moore Selder across May/June 2002. Garbage approached Selder to direct the video after being impressed with his videos for The Hives ("Die, Alright!" and "Hate to Say I Told You So"). The video concept is Manson's plea to the press to stop meddling in her private life, interpreted by her featuring as a guest on a Letterman/Springer-style talk show. The square characters are meant to look 'anti-3D'; achieved by removing the smoothness and perfection in the software, to give a jerky and organic look. Hand-drawn images of the band were then mixed in.[17]

Four people, including Selder, from production company RealA worked on the video for a month. After the video was first broadcast online, the video was re-edited to suit the band. Marker, particularly, did not like his animation. The second edit, where Marker was redesigned with a Terminator-style look, was broadcast across Europe from July 5.[11]

Neither Garbage nor Mushroom Records were pleased with the animated video, and commissioned a second video for the singles UK release. With a small £10,000 budget for the video, it was decided a live video would be released, but the label offered a few up and coming directors the chance to remix some footage or give it a different spin. Existing live footage filmed by MTV in London and by WDR in Cologne filmed at two shows in April 2002 was used to create an initial live cut.

The

digibeta
for the distorted effect. This footage was combined in the final edit of the video, which was completed in August 2002 and screened a few days after.

Both versions of the "Shut Your Mouth" video were made commercially available in

online music services the same year.[18]

Remixes

Mushroom commissioned multiple remixes of "Shut Your Mouth" for the UK single release: an nu-disco rework from Italian producers Francesco de Bellis & Mario Pierro, known as Jolly Music, and a rock-led arrangement by Jagz Kooner, formerly of The Sabres of Paradise were included on the CD single sets. A further remix produced by Ken Reay was included on a white label 12" release distributed for club play. Garbage's tour/session drummer Matt Walker also made his own "Shut Your Mouth" remix, which he uploaded to YouTube in 2013.[19]

The

samples and loops cut from the track masters. The enhanced section could be accessed when the user was online; a simplified version of the software featuring only "Androgyny
" loops was accessible when the user was offline.

Critical reception

"Shut Your Mouth" received a mostly positive reception from music critics upon the release of Beautiful Garbage. In a review for Q, Ian Griffiths wrote "Arch opener "Shut Your Mouth" is a bile-laden winner from the same school as "Stupid Girl"[20] while in her review for Rock Sound, Victoria Durham commented on the tracks "bombastic sass".[21] In Peter Murphy's album preview for Hot Press, he wrote, "In an album of hot colours and dark corners, "Shut Your Mouth" is designer dirty-in-your-ear funk with free-flowing lyrics and what sound like purloined AC/DC riffs."[22]

Track listings

Charts

Chart performance for "Shut Your Mouth"
Chart (2002) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[16] 74
Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)[23] 84
Scotland (OCC)[24] 24
UK Singles (OCC)[25]
 20
UK Indie (OCC)[26] 3

Release history

Release history and formats for "Shut Your Mouth"
Territory Release date Record label Format
Germany June 24, 2002 PIAS
CD maxi
Europe July 8, 2002
Australia September 8, 2002 FMR
United Kingdom September 23, 2002 Mushroom Records UK
3×CD single set
Canada October 2002
Interscope/Universal Music Canada
Airplay only[10]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Inglis, Sam (2002-06-01). Recording Garbage. Sound on Sound.
  2. ^ a b Lawson, Dom (2001-07-07). Garbage: Beautiful Album Revealed. Kerrang!.
  3. ^ Class of 2001. Rolling Stone. 2000-12-31.
  4. ^ Jisi, Chris (2002-03-01). Track By Track; Daniel Shulman on Garbage's Beautiful Garbage. Bass Player.
  5. ^ Budofsky, Adam (2002-06-01). Breaking the Sound Barrier. Modern Drummer.
  6. ^ Reid, Pat (2002-07-01). Beauty and a Beat. Rhythm.
  7. ^ a b "New Best Of Album". Garbage.com. Archived from the original on 2009-06-20. Retrieved 2008-07-16.
  8. ^ "Garbage News: May 2002". Garbagebox.com.sapo.pt. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
  9. ^ a b c d "Garbage News: June 2002 Pt.2". Garbagebox.com.sapo.pt. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
  10. ^ a b c d e f "Shut Your Mouth Discography". Garbage-Discography.co.uk. Retrieved 2011-01-05.
  11. ^ a b "Garbage News: July 2002". Garbagebox.com.sapo.pt. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
  12. ^ a b c d e f "Garbage News: September 2002". Garbagebox.com.sapo.pt. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
  13. ^ a b "Garbage News: October 2002". Garbagebox.com.sapo.pt. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
  14. ^ Hits Of The World: UK - Hot Mover Single: Shut Your Mouth. 2002-10-12. Retrieved 2011-01-05.
  15. Guinness World Records Limited
  16. ^ a b Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 111.
  17. ^ "Campaign Screen: MUSIC VIDEOS 35: Garbage - Shut Your Mouth". Brand Republic. Retrieved 2011-01-13.
  18. ^ "Shut Your Mouth". A&E Records via iTunes. Retrieved 2011-01-05.
  19. ^ "Garbage Shut Your Mouth REmix ( by Matt Walker )". Matt Walker. 2013-01-23. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21.
  20. ^ Griffiths, Ian (2001-10-01). Garbage; Beautiful Garbage. Q.
  21. ^ Durham, Victoria (2001-10-01). Beautiful Garbage review. Rock Sound.
  22. ^ Murphy, Peter (2001-09-12). The Heart of Garbage. Hot Press.
  23. ^ "Eurochart Hot 100 Singles" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 20, no. 42. October 12, 2002. p. 15. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  24. ^ "Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved November 26, 2018.
  25. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved November 26, 2018.
  26. ^ "Official Independent Singles Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved November 26, 2018.

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