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Push It (Garbage song)
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"Push It" is a 1998 song written, produced and performed by alternative rock
group Garbage
. "Push It" was the lead single released from their second album Version 2.0
, in part to bridge the style evolution between the second album and their debut
, and to start the campaign with a credible, alternative cross-genre release that would appeal to the band's previous fans before the release of the album's later, more commercial songs. Manson elaborated on the song's dreamy verse structure versus the confrontational chorus: "[It's about] the schizophrenia
that exists when you try to reconcile your desires and demons with the need to fit in. It's a song of reassurance".
The cutting edge music video
for "Push It" became critically acclaimed, and received thirteen nominations between the MTV Video Music Awards
, MTV Europe Music Awards, and the MVPA Music Video Awards
. "Push It" was also nominated as Best Alternative Records at the Miami Winter Music Conference
.
In 2007, "Push It" was remastered
for inclusion on Garbage's greatest hits
album Absolute Garbage
. Some elements of the remaster were made more noticeable, while some elements were reduced or edited out. A rock version was also serviced to UK radio station
s to promote the compilation.
and made rough outlines for new songs over a three week period. When they that felt they had made a good start, they relocated back to their Madison, Wisconsin
base at Smart Studios
and began fleshing out the ideas and rough sketches that were made over the rest of the year. The group recorded all of the material for the second album through a 48-track
digital system direct to hard drives utilizing a 24bit
Pro Tools
rig. Vocalist Shirley Manson
wrote the majority of her lyrics while ensconced in a hotel
near the studio. Garbage completed recording, producing and mixing of their second album in mid-February 1998, and the album was given the title Version 2.0.
During a vocal tracking session in which Manson was singing over music already written for "Push It", the band felt that one of the lines in "Push It" would benefit from having a vocal chorus answering the words back to her. Inspired by Manson's spontaneous ad-lib of the phrase "don't worry baby" over the music, guitarist Steve Marker
sampled the Beach Boys song
and used it as a backing vocal. The sample didn't work with what the band had already recorded so Manson re-sung the lines to fit the key
and tempo
of the song. Aware of the potential for incurring copyright
legalities, the band debated whether or not to keep the line. Garbage and Brian Wilson
coincidentally shared the same publishing company (Irving Music), and figuring that they had nothing to lose, contacted him through their company representative, sent him a copy of "Push It" and asked him for permission to use the interpolation
. Wilson gave his blessing, and reportedly kept the tape. Both Wilson and Roger Christian, the deceased co-writer of "Don't Worry Baby", received a writing credit
. A sinpler interpolation credit was given to Herbie Azor
as the band's lawyers felt that there was an possible similarity
of the line "Push it!" to his own "Push It
", which has been a hit single for New York
hip hop
trio
Salt-N-Pepa
.
At the end of the middle 8, Garbage had originally recorded a drum fill to lead back into the final chorus
, but decided to develop a suspenseful bridge
back into the final part. The band used a number of pitch-shifting
and time-stretching
plugins and matched them with an orchestral swell
in an ascending chromatic scale
sampled from a classical music
album. The new part had been influenced by The Beatles
"A Day in the Life
", and the group decided to keep it when Manson encouraged them to.
at Radio One
, Virgin
, XFM
, GLR and playlisted at a further sixty-two regional radio stations; with such support "Push It" subsequently reached #20 on the airplay chart. Mushroom Records
issued "Push It" commercially on April 27 on CD
and cassette single
; both contained a brand new Garbage track, "Lick the Pavement", on the b-side, while the CD format also included a remix
by Japanese
band Boom Boom Satellites
. A collectable 3"CD
Blisterpack was also issued, backed with a cover version
of Big Star
's "Thirteen
". At the end of its first week on sale "Push It" debuted at #9 on the UK Singles Chart
becoming the band's third Top Ten hit single. Two weeks later, Version 2.0 launched with sales of 32,000 units and debuted at #1 on the UK Albums Chart
. "Push It" remained on the UK top seventy-five for five weeks.
Mushroom's European distributor, BMG
, released "Push It" across the continent on April 20, 1998 in two CD formats; a four-track maxi single
collecting together both b-sides and the Boom Boom Satellites remix, and a two-track card sleeved single backed with "Lick the Pavement". In France
, "Push It" charted for a single week at #99. In the Netherlands
it debuted at #98 and peaked the following week at #77, while in Germany
, the single peaked at #88. Some of the higher European chart positions came from Iceland
, where "Push It" reached #2 after five weeks, Ireland
where it reached #26, Finland
where it peaked at #14, and in Spain
, where the single was released by RCA
, "Push It" debuted at #5. The single spent a second week at that peak, before dropping out of the Spanish top ten at the start of June. The song also peaked at #20 on the Spanish airplay chart. "Push It" was a success at radio across Europe, reaching #15 on the airplay charts. This set up Version 2.0 for a strong first week of continental sales; the album debuted at the top in France, Belgium
and also at #1 on the European Top 100 Albums
chart.
In Australia
and New Zealand
, "Push It" was released by White Records
on April 20, 1998 on two CDs, in the same combination as Europe had received. At the end of the month, "Push It" debuted on the ARIA Charts
at #31 where it stayed for a second week before dropping out of the chart on its seventh week. At the same time, "Push It" debuted on the RIANZ Charts at #16, and climbed seven days later to peak at #15. It ultimately spent six weeks on the charts. The top forty success of the single set up the May release of Version 2.0; the album debuted at #5 in Australia and at #1 in New Zealand. White also licensed out commercial singles of "Push It" internationally for release in South Africa
and Venezuela
.
In North America, Almo Sounds
serviced "Push It" to alternative radio
on March 30, 1998. Several radio stations jumped the add date for "Push It", even though Almo served cease and desist orders
. Almo's campaign for "Push It" centered around breaking the single at alternative radio, as the format had strongly supported the band before. The label weren't too concerned whether or not "Push It" would crossover
into Top 40 radio
as they had confidence in the album's follow-up singles. In its first week, "Push It" became the #1 Most Added record on the alternative format and debuted in mid-April as the highest new entry on Modern Rock
at #25. The same week "Push It" debuted at #72 on the Hot 100 Airplay
chart. The following chart saw "Push It" rocket into the Modern Rock top ten at #8 with an "Airpower" status (meaning the song had registered over 900 detections for the first time). Almo released a limited edition pressing of "Push It" on CD to record stores in both the States and Canada
on April 21. At the end of that week, the physical release debuted at #63 on the Hot 100 Singles Sales
chart and at #52 on the Hot 100. The song also reached an airplay peak of #56 as it rose to #5 on the Modern Rock chart. At alternative, "Push It" remained at that position for the rest of May; parent album Version 2.0 impacted retail on May 12 and debuted at #13, shifting 88,000 copies in its first seven-day period.
"Push It" eventually proved to have long legs at radio, staying in the Modern Rock top ten and hovering around the mid-50s on the Hot 100 until the second week of July. By this time, second single "I Think I'm Paranoid
" had debuted on the Modern Rock chart. Almo serviced remix
es of "Push It" by New York
producer
Victor Calderone
to DJs; the song debuted on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in mid-July at #44. "Push It" rose to #5 by the end of August. Capitalizing on the song's gain in popularity in nightclub
s, the label commercially issued a double A-side 12" vinyl of Calderone remixes of "Push It" backed with mixes of "I Think I'm Paranoid" by The Crystal Method
, on October 20. In total, "Push It" clocked up eighteen weeks on the Hot 100 (exiting at the start of September), twenty-one weeks on the Modern Rock charts (leaving a week earlier) and thirteen weeks on the Dance charts (at the start of October).
aluminium
, rubber
, hologram die
-cut rain-effect card, perspex, cloth and with a lenticular
image
mounted on ripple-effect card respectively. The band and their UK label were keen to continue using special packaging for the singles from Version 2.0; however new rules issued the previous year from UK chart compiler CIN
had forbidden the chart inclusion of sales of any singles packaged elaborately. Mushroom kept in mind that they had lost money on the pressing of every single 7" they released; Garbage were also aware of the potential trap of repeating themselves on their second album.
In 1996, while the band had been on tour
in Japan
, they had seen 3" CD singles on sale in record stores. "They were packaged in these beautiful little boxes," Manson recalled later, "It was all very minimalist and absolutely beautiful, and we wanted to do something that was very beautiful and minimalist". When Mushroom made inquiries during the design stage, they discovered that record stores refused to rack them because they were not used to stocking singles in Snap-Pack boxes. The art designer for the project, Ade Britteon, suggested packaging the discs in pre-formed
plastic
sealed onto a 5" card
blister
, similar to how electrical batteries
are displayed, so that the disc could be popped through the back of the packaging.
Garbage eventually released five singles in this manner; starting with "Push It" and ending a year later with "You Look So Fine
". Despite the collectable nature of the format, the fact that at the time very few European artists pressed 3" CDs and that the vacuum-packaging cost more to produce than a standard CD single meant that Mushroom did not repeat the format for their other artists.
for "Push It" was directed by Italian photographer Andrea Giacobbe for Satellite Films/Propaganda Films
. The $400,000 video was shot over four days in Los Angeles
at the start of March 1998. Garbage were impressed enough by Giacobbe's show reel, in particular his previous video for Death In Vegas
("Dirt
") to assign the fledgling director the project. The band thought his storyboard
treatment was bizarre. "He chops up film and he talks about this kind of timelessness, which is kind of the same thing that we're doing musically. He doesn't want to set the video
in any place or time. You will not know what era and what time this video is set in," Manson later explained. Giacobbe used many different film stock
s to create the different styles present in the video; at various points in the narrative, the video changes from sepia tone, black and white or false-color
and back.
Garbage were not particularly enamoured with the first rough cut
of the video, assembled before any post-production
had taken place. "The first version came out very flat and with not particularly flattering lighting, because almost every frame he tweaks out in the computer, so there's a lot of post-production
stuff to give it that old Twilight Zone
look, or Technicolor
, 1970s
Starsky and Hutch
look. [Giacobbe] kept saying "Don't worry, this is just the canvas I'm going to paint on.", Vig recalled, "You can see there's also details in the frames as they go by, which makes it easier to watch on repeated viewings." The band later described the video as "Fellini-esque". The first day of shooting included filming on location
at a supermarket
, the second day in a hospital
and the third in a cemetery
. One of the props
on the first day, a stuffed
deer
mounted on wheels, broke loose and caused a minor car accident
. At the hospital, Giacobbe injured himself in a fall while filming.
The "Push It" storyline begins (although the video may be an example of nonlinear narrative) with Shirley Manson shopping alongside a partner, a rotoscoped "fuzzy" man, in a supermarket
. As Garbage look on, the "fuzzy" man is stalked and attacked by three antagonists disguised as nuns. After the chorus, three triplet schoolboys are seen carrying a MacGuffin
briefcase
and tracking Manson on a hand-held video monitor
. The triplets arrive at Manson's house and give her the briefcase before attacking her new partner, a René Magritte
-esque man with a lightbulb in place of his head. During the middle eighth, Manson is shown with child-like versions of "Fuzzy" and "Lightbulb man". She then leaves them behind to walk through a graveyard
towards a hooded man bringing her an over-sized balloon
. Throughout the duration of the video, footage of various non-related characters is shown: a masked female and a stuffed deer, two humanoid aliens
conjoined by a glowing head-growth, two toddlers riding adults piggyback, two Asia
n businessmen fighting, a Navy Officer who alludes to a foot fetish
, a naked woman emerging from glowing hospital
bath
and a little girl surrounded by four paratroopers raising a toast
. The hooded character is later revealed to be Manson herself, unmasking in view of a mirror
before licking her own reflection. She is last seen leaving with the briefcase and her now-adult children in a Beetle
.
The "Push It" video was nominated
for eight MTV Video Music Awards
in two general awards categories: Best Group Video
and Best Alternative Video
; and in six professional categories: Breakthrough Video
and Best Direction
(both nominations for Andrea Giacobbe), Best Editing
(for Sylvain Connat), Best Art Direction
(Virginia Lee), Best Cinematography
(Max Malkin) and Best Special Effects
(Sébastien Caudron) and one MTV Europe Music Award for Best Video. A year later, Garbage were the leading nominee for the MVPA Music Video Awards
industry event, with six nominations shared between the videos for "Push It" and "Special". Gina Monaci and Jeff Judd won the award for Best Make-Up in a Music Video for their work on "Push It". "Push It" was also nominated for Best Styling (nomination to Jennifer Elster
), Best Hair (Gina Monaci and Kevin Ryan) and Best Alternative Video (to Satellite Films).
On April 6, 1998, the "Push It" video premiered in the United States, where it was a MTV
exclusive for the duration of the month. The video subsequently aired worldwide from May. The "Push It" video was first made commercially available on Garbage's 2007 greatest hits
DVD compilation Absolute Garbage.
wrote, ""Push It" is vintage Garbage: sultry, unharried vocals from Shirley, a galloping mix of buzzsawing guitars, a mash of samples, rumbling rhythms, an elegant discordancy...itt is the album-closing song the Prodigy
's cover of L7
's "Fuel My Fire" should have been: barely-controlled pop-mayhem".
PlayStation
ice hockey video game NHL 2000
. In 2007, Chris Sheldon
remixed a rock version of "Push It" which was playlist
ed by XFM
prior to the release of Absolute Garbage
.
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
group Garbage
Garbage (band)
Garbage are an alternative rock band formed in Madison, Wisconsin in 1994. The group consists of Scottish singer Shirley Manson and American musicians Duke Erikson , Steve Marker and Butch Vig . All four members are involved in songwriting and production...
. "Push It" was the lead single released from their second album Version 2.0
Version 2.0
Version 2.0 is the second album by alternative rock group Garbage. It was released worldwide in May 1998 by Mushroom Records UK and in North America by Almo Sounds. Version 2.0 was the follow-up to the band's multi-platinum debut album Garbage. Despite a slow start, Version 2.0 went on to equal its...
, in part to bridge the style evolution between the second album and their debut
Garbage (album)
Garbage is the debut album by Scottish/American alternative rock group Garbage. It was released in the late summer and autumn of 1995 worldwide, following critical acclaim and promising chart positions for their debut single "Vow", which entered the Billboard Hot 100.Garbage eventually spent over a...
, and to start the campaign with a credible, alternative cross-genre release that would appeal to the band's previous fans before the release of the album's later, more commercial songs. Manson elaborated on the song's dreamy verse structure versus the confrontational chorus: "[It's about] the schizophrenia
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by a disintegration of thought processes and of emotional responsiveness. It most commonly manifests itself as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking, and it is accompanied by significant social...
that exists when you try to reconcile your desires and demons with the need to fit in. It's a song of reassurance".
The cutting edge music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
for "Push It" became critically acclaimed, and received thirteen nominations between the MTV Video Music Awards
MTV Video Music Awards
An MTV Video Music Award , is an award presented by the cable channel MTV to honor the best in music videos...
, MTV Europe Music Awards, and the MVPA Music Video Awards
Music Video Production Association
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. "Push It" was also nominated as Best Alternative Records at the Miami Winter Music Conference
Winter Music Conference
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.
In 2007, "Push It" was remastered
Audio mastering
Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...
for inclusion on Garbage's greatest hits
Greatest hits
A greatest hits album is a music compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular artist or band...
album Absolute Garbage
Absolute Garbage
Absolute Garbage is the 2007 greatest hits album released by alternative rock group Garbage. The album was compiled and released by Geffen imprint Almo Sounds through Universal Music Enterprises backcatalogue division in North America and Warner Music's record label A&E Records throughout the rest...
. Some elements of the remaster were made more noticeable, while some elements were reduced or edited out. A rock version was also serviced to UK radio station
Radio station
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s to promote the compilation.
Writing and Production
Garbage began writing for their second album at the start of March 1997 at a vacation house in Friday Harbor, Washington. There, the group demoedDemo (music)
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and made rough outlines for new songs over a three week period. When they that felt they had made a good start, they relocated back to their Madison, Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin
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base at Smart Studios
Smart Studios
Smart Studios was a recording studio located at 1254 E Washington Ave in Madison, Wisconsin. It was set up in 1983 by Butch Vig and Steve Marker to produce local bands....
and began fleshing out the ideas and rough sketches that were made over the rest of the year. The group recorded all of the material for the second album through a 48-track
Multitrack recording
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digital system direct to hard drives utilizing a 24bit
Digital recording
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Pro Tools
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rig. Vocalist Shirley Manson
Shirley Manson
Shirley Anne Manson is a Scottish recording artist and actress, best known internationally as the lead singer of the alternative rock band Garbage. For much of her international career Manson commuted between her home city of Edinburgh to the United States to record with Garbage but now lives and...
wrote the majority of her lyrics while ensconced in a hotel
Hotel
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near the studio. Garbage completed recording, producing and mixing of their second album in mid-February 1998, and the album was given the title Version 2.0.
During a vocal tracking session in which Manson was singing over music already written for "Push It", the band felt that one of the lines in "Push It" would benefit from having a vocal chorus answering the words back to her. Inspired by Manson's spontaneous ad-lib of the phrase "don't worry baby" over the music, guitarist Steve Marker
Steve Marker
Steve Marker is an American musician and record producer, best known internationally as the guitarist of the Madison, Wisconsin-based alternative rock band Garbage.-Early life:...
sampled the Beach Boys song
Don't Worry Baby
"Don’t Worry Baby" is a song written by Brian Wilson and Roger Christian, produced by Wilson and first recorded by the Beach Boys. The band's version, a tender ballad with falsetto lead vocal by Brian, was first released on their 1964 album Shut Down Volume 2. It was also released as the B-side of...
and used it as a backing vocal. The sample didn't work with what the band had already recorded so Manson re-sung the lines to fit the key
Key (music)
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and tempo
Tempo
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of the song. Aware of the potential for incurring copyright
Copyright
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legalities, the band debated whether or not to keep the line. Garbage and Brian Wilson
Brian Wilson
Brian Douglas Wilson is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the group The Beach Boys. Within the band, Wilson played bass and keyboards, also providing part-time lead vocals and, more often, backing vocals, harmonizing in falsetto with the group...
coincidentally shared the same publishing company (Irving Music), and figuring that they had nothing to lose, contacted him through their company representative, sent him a copy of "Push It" and asked him for permission to use the interpolation
Interpolation (music)
Interpolation in music refers to an abrupt change in musical elements from the main theme.-In classical music:In music and musical composition, especially 20th century and later, interpolation is an abrupt change of elements, with continuation of the first idea...
. Wilson gave his blessing, and reportedly kept the tape. Both Wilson and Roger Christian, the deceased co-writer of "Don't Worry Baby", received a writing credit
Credit (creative arts)
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. A sinpler interpolation credit was given to Herbie Azor
Hurby Azor
Hurby "Luv Bug" Azor, or "Fingerprints" as he was also known, is a hip hop music producer, best known for discovering the successful female hip-hop trio Salt-n-Pepa and the also successful hip-hop duo Kid 'n Play....
as the band's lawyers felt that there was an possible similarity
Plagiarism
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of the line "Push it!" to his own "Push It
Push It (Salt-N-Pepa song)
"Push It" is a song by the group Salt-N-Pepa, released as a single in 1986. It peaked at number 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1987 and has been certified Platinum by the RIAA...
", which has been a hit single for New York
New York City
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hip hop
Hip hop music
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trio
Trio (music)
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Salt-N-Pepa
Salt-N-Pepa
Salt-N-Pepa is an American hip hop trio from Queens and Brooklyn, New York, that was formed in 1985. The group, consisting of Cheryl "Salt" Renee James, Sandra "Pepa" Denton, and Deidra "DJ Spinderella" Roper, was one of the first all-female rap crews....
.
At the end of the middle 8, Garbage had originally recorded a drum fill to lead back into the final chorus
Refrain
A refrain is the line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse; the "chorus" of a song...
, but decided to develop a suspenseful bridge
Bridge (music)
In music, especially western popular music, a bridge is a contrasting section which also prepares for the return of the original material section...
back into the final part. The band used a number of pitch-shifting
Pitch shift
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and time-stretching
Audio timescale-pitch modification
Time stretching is the process of changing the speed or duration of an audio signal without affecting its pitch.Pitch scaling or pitch shifting is the opposite: the process of changing the pitch without affecting the speed...
plugins and matched them with an orchestral swell
Dynamics (music)
In music, dynamics normally refers to the volume of a sound or note, but can also refer to every aspect of the execution of a given piece, either stylistic or functional . The term is also applied to the written or printed musical notation used to indicate dynamics...
in an ascending chromatic scale
Chromatic scale
The chromatic scale is a musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone apart. On a modern piano or other equal-tempered instrument, all the half steps are the same size...
sampled from a classical music
Classical music
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album. The new part had been influenced by The Beatles
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"A Day in the Life
A Day in the Life
"A Day in the Life" is a song by The Beatles, the final track on the group's 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Credited to Lennon–McCartney, the song comprises distinct segments written independently by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, with orchestral additions...
", and the group decided to keep it when Manson encouraged them to.
Single release
The Version 2.0 album campaign officially began on March 16, 1998 when "Push It" debuted on European radio. In the United Kingdom, the song was A-listedPlaylist
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at Radio One
BBC Radio 1
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, Virgin
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, XFM
Xfm London
Xfm London is a commercial radio station in the United Kingdom owned by Global Radio and broadcasts on 104.9 FM in London, on digital radio via 30 DAB multiplexes across the country, Sky, TalkTalk TV and Virgin Media....
, GLR and playlisted at a further sixty-two regional radio stations; with such support "Push It" subsequently reached #20 on the airplay chart. Mushroom Records
A&E Records
A&E Records is an United Kingdom-based record label imprint, owned by Warner Music Group, and operates under the WEA International group of labels at WMG....
issued "Push It" commercially on April 27 on CD
CD single
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and cassette single
Cassette single
A cassette single is a music single in the form of a Compact Cassette.- History :...
; both contained a brand new Garbage track, "Lick the Pavement", on the b-side, while the CD format also included a remix
Remix
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by Japanese
Japanese people
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band Boom Boom Satellites
Boom Boom Satellites
is a Japanese electronic music duo consisting of guitarist and vocalist Michiyuki Kawashima and bassist and programmer Masayuki Nakano. While their music can be mostly classified as big beat or nu skool breaks with heavy jazz influences, they are famous for the heavy usage of electric guitars in...
. A collectable 3"CD
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Blisterpack was also issued, backed with a cover version
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
of Big Star
Big Star
Big Star was an American rock band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1971 by Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, Jody Stephens and Andy Hummel. The group broke up in 1974, but reorganized with a new line-up nearly 20 years later...
's "Thirteen
Thirteen (song)
"Thirteen" is a song by the American rock band Big Star. Rolling Stone describes it "one of rock's most beautiful celebrations of adolescence", and rated it #396 in a list of the 500 greatest songs of all time...
". At the end of its first week on sale "Push It" debuted at #9 on the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
becoming the band's third Top Ten hit single. Two weeks later, Version 2.0 launched with sales of 32,000 units and debuted at #1 on the UK Albums Chart
UK Albums Chart
The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...
. "Push It" remained on the UK top seventy-five for five weeks.
Mushroom's European distributor, BMG
BMG
Bertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008. It was established in 1987 to combine the music label activities of Bertelsmann...
, released "Push It" across the continent on April 20, 1998 in two CD formats; a four-track maxi single
Maxi single
A maxi single or maxi-single is a music single release with more than the usual two tracks of an a-side song and a b-side song.-The first maxi singles:...
collecting together both b-sides and the Boom Boom Satellites remix, and a two-track card sleeved single backed with "Lick the Pavement". In France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, "Push It" charted for a single week at #99. In the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
it debuted at #98 and peaked the following week at #77, while in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, the single peaked at #88. Some of the higher European chart positions came from Iceland
Iceland
Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...
, where "Push It" reached #2 after five weeks, Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
where it reached #26, Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
where it peaked at #14, and in Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
, where the single was released by RCA
RCA
RCA Corporation, founded as the Radio Corporation of America, was an American electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986. The RCA trademark is currently owned by the French conglomerate Technicolor SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned by Technicolor...
, "Push It" debuted at #5. The single spent a second week at that peak, before dropping out of the Spanish top ten at the start of June. The song also peaked at #20 on the Spanish airplay chart. "Push It" was a success at radio across Europe, reaching #15 on the airplay charts. This set up Version 2.0 for a strong first week of continental sales; the album debuted at the top in France, Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
and also at #1 on the European Top 100 Albums
European Top 100 Albums
The European Top 100 Albums chart is the European adaptation of the Billboard 200 albums chart. It was created in March 1984.The European Top 100 Albums, commonly referred to as Eurochart Top 100 Albums shows the sales of an act in 19 European countries based on IFPI data.The European Top 100...
chart.
In Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
and New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
, "Push It" was released by White Records
Mushroom Records
Mushroom Records is an Australian recoJrd company formed by Michael Gudinski and Ray Evans in Melbourne in 1972. After its sale in 1998, it merged into Festival Mushroom Records. From 2005 to 2009, it is one of the record labels operated by Warner Bros...
on April 20, 1998 on two CDs, in the same combination as Europe had received. At the end of the month, "Push It" debuted on the ARIA Charts
ARIA Charts
The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...
at #31 where it stayed for a second week before dropping out of the chart on its seventh week. At the same time, "Push It" debuted on the RIANZ Charts at #16, and climbed seven days later to peak at #15. It ultimately spent six weeks on the charts. The top forty success of the single set up the May release of Version 2.0; the album debuted at #5 in Australia and at #1 in New Zealand. White also licensed out commercial singles of "Push It" internationally for release in South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
and Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
.
In North America, Almo Sounds
Almo Sounds
Almo Sounds is a record label which was started in 1994 by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss after they sold A&M Records to PolyGram. The intent of the label was to recreate the initial concept of A&M Records as a small, "boutique" label....
serviced "Push It" to alternative radio
Alternative Radio
Alternative Radio is an internationally syndicated, one-hour, weekly radio program, featuring serious interviews with humanitarian and progressive thinkers. Begun in 1986, it evolved from a program that journalist David Barsamian hosted on community radio station KGNU-FM, in Boulder, Colorado. AR...
on March 30, 1998. Several radio stations jumped the add date for "Push It", even though Almo served cease and desist orders
Cease and desist
A cease and desist is an order or request to halt an activity and not to take it up again later or else face legal action. The recipient of the cease-and-desist may be an individual or an organization....
. Almo's campaign for "Push It" centered around breaking the single at alternative radio, as the format had strongly supported the band before. The label weren't too concerned whether or not "Push It" would crossover
Crossover (music)
Crossover is a term applied to musical works or performers appearing on two or more of the record charts which track differing musical tastes, or genres...
into Top 40 radio
Contemporary hit radio
Contemporary hit radio is a radio format that is common in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the Top 40 music charts...
as they had confidence in the album's follow-up singles. In its first week, "Push It" became the #1 Most Added record on the alternative format and debuted in mid-April as the highest new entry on Modern Rock
Modern Rock Tracks
Alternative Songs is a music chart in the United States that has appeared in Billboard magazine since September 10, 1988. It lists the 40 most-played songs on modern rock radio stations, most of which are alternative rock songs...
at #25. The same week "Push It" debuted at #72 on the Hot 100 Airplay
Hot 100 Airplay
The Hot 100 Airplay chart is a chart released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It measures radio airplay, and is one of the three component charts, along with the Hot Singles Sales and the Hot Digital Songs charts, that determine the chart positions of singles on the Billboard...
chart. The following chart saw "Push It" rocket into the Modern Rock top ten at #8 with an "Airpower" status (meaning the song had registered over 900 detections for the first time). Almo released a limited edition pressing of "Push It" on CD to record stores in both the States and Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
on April 21. At the end of that week, the physical release debuted at #63 on the Hot 100 Singles Sales
Hot 100 Singles Sales
The Hot Singles Sales chart is a chart released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It measures sales of commercial singles and is one of three component charts, along with the Hot 100 Airplay and the Hot Digital Songs, that determine the chart positions of singles on the...
chart and at #52 on the Hot 100. The song also reached an airplay peak of #56 as it rose to #5 on the Modern Rock chart. At alternative, "Push It" remained at that position for the rest of May; parent album Version 2.0 impacted retail on May 12 and debuted at #13, shifting 88,000 copies in its first seven-day period.
"Push It" eventually proved to have long legs at radio, staying in the Modern Rock top ten and hovering around the mid-50s on the Hot 100 until the second week of July. By this time, second single "I Think I'm Paranoid
I Think I'm Paranoid
"I Think I'm Paranoid" is an alternative rock song written, performed and produced by Garbage and was the second single released from their second album Version 2.0....
" had debuted on the Modern Rock chart. Almo serviced remix
Remix
A remix is an alternative version of a recorded song, made from an original version. This term is also used for any alterations of media other than song ....
es of "Push It" by New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
Victor Calderone
Victor Calderone
Victor Calderone is a house music producer, DJ and remixer.-History:Raised in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, Calderone was introduced into New York City's nightlife by his older brother, Cesar, who was very active in the club music business. Calderone began to dabble with turntables and...
to DJs; the song debuted on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in mid-July at #44. "Push It" rose to #5 by the end of August. Capitalizing on the song's gain in popularity in nightclub
Nightclub
A nightclub is an entertainment venue which usually operates late into the night...
s, the label commercially issued a double A-side 12" vinyl of Calderone remixes of "Push It" backed with mixes of "I Think I'm Paranoid" by The Crystal Method
The Crystal Method
The Crystal Method is an American electronic music duo that was created in Los Angeles, California by Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland in the early 1990s. The Crystal Method's music has appeared in numerous TV shows, films, video games, and advertisements. The most prominent is the US television...
, on October 20. In total, "Push It" clocked up eighteen weeks on the Hot 100 (exiting at the start of September), twenty-one weeks on the Modern Rock charts (leaving a week earlier) and thirteen weeks on the Dance charts (at the start of October).
Commercial tracklistings
- UK CD single Mushroom MUSH28CDS
- "Push it" - 4:01
- "Lick the Pavement" - 2:43
- "Push it - Boom Boom Satellites mix" - 6:43
- UK 3" CD single Mushroom MUSH28CDSX
- "Push it" - 4:01
- "Thirteen" - 3:31
- UK cassette single Mushroom MUSH28MCS
- "Push it" - 4:01
- "Lick the Pavement" - 2:43
- Australia CD maxi White MUSH01747.2
- Europe CD maxi BMG 74321 55409 2
- South Africa CD maxi BMG CDMUSH(WS)903
- "Push it" - 4:01
- "Push it - Boom Boom Satellites mix" - 6:43
- "Lick the Pavement" - 2:43
- "Thirteen" - 3:31
- Australia CD single White MUSH01747.5
- Europe CD single BMG 74321 55411 2
- "Push it" - 4:01
- "Lick the Pavement" - 2:43
- Canada CD maxi Almo Sounds AMDS-9872
- US CD maxi Almo Sounds AMSDS-89014
- "Push it" - 4:01
- "Thirteen" - 3:31
- "Push it - Boom Boom Satellites mix" - 6:43
- US 12" single Almo Sounds AMS12-88005
- "Push it - Club mix" - 7:19
- "Push it - Dub mix" - 3:40
- "I Think I'm Crystalized Extended" - 7:25
- "I Think I'm Crystalized Dub" - 5:18
3" CD Blisterpack
Garbage had been established on their first album as an act who regularly released special editions of their singles; their first six singles had each seen a specially packed 7" vinyl format released in embossedEmbossing
Embossing is the process of creating a three-dimensional image or design in paper and other materials.-Techniques:Embossing is typically accomplished by applying heat and pressure with male and female dies, usually made of copper or brass, that fit together and squeeze the fibers of the substrate...
aluminium
Aluminium
Aluminium or aluminum is a silvery white member of the boron group of chemical elements. It has the symbol Al, and its atomic number is 13. It is not soluble in water under normal circumstances....
, rubber
Rubber
Natural rubber, also called India rubber or caoutchouc, is an elastomer that was originally derived from latex, a milky colloid produced by some plants. The plants would be ‘tapped’, that is, an incision made into the bark of the tree and the sticky, milk colored latex sap collected and refined...
, hologram die
Die (manufacturing)
A die is a specialized tool used in manufacturing industries to cut or shape material using a press. Like molds, dies are generally customized to the item they are used to create...
-cut rain-effect card, perspex, cloth and with a lenticular
Lenticular printing
Lenticular printing is a technology in which a lenticular lens is used to produce images with an illusion of depth, or the ability to change or move as the image is viewed from different angles...
image
Image
An image is an artifact, for example a two-dimensional picture, that has a similar appearance to some subject—usually a physical object or a person.-Characteristics:...
mounted on ripple-effect card respectively. The band and their UK label were keen to continue using special packaging for the singles from Version 2.0; however new rules issued the previous year from UK chart compiler CIN
The Official UK Charts Company
The Official Charts Company , previously called the Chart Information Network and then The Official UK Charts Company, compiles various "official" UK record charts, including the UK Singles Chart, the UK Albums Chart, and the UK Official Download Chart, as well as genre-specific and music video...
had forbidden the chart inclusion of sales of any singles packaged elaborately. Mushroom kept in mind that they had lost money on the pressing of every single 7" they released; Garbage were also aware of the potential trap of repeating themselves on their second album.
In 1996, while the band had been on tour
Garbage tour
The Garbage tour was the first world concert tour cycle completed by American/Scottish alternative rock group Garbage, which took the band throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand in support of its self-titled debut album Garbage...
in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, they had seen 3" CD singles on sale in record stores. "They were packaged in these beautiful little boxes," Manson recalled later, "It was all very minimalist and absolutely beautiful, and we wanted to do something that was very beautiful and minimalist". When Mushroom made inquiries during the design stage, they discovered that record stores refused to rack them because they were not used to stocking singles in Snap-Pack boxes. The art designer for the project, Ade Britteon, suggested packaging the discs in pre-formed
Vacuum forming
Vacuum forming, commonly known as vacuuforming, is a simplified version of thermoforming, whereby a sheet of plastic is heated to a forming temperature, stretched onto or into a single-surface mold , and held against the mold by applying vacuum between the mold surface and the sheet.The vacuum...
plastic
Polyvinyl chloride
Polyvinyl chloride, commonly abbreviated PVC, is a thermoplastic polymer. It is a vinyl polymer constructed of repeating vinyl groups having one hydrogen replaced by chloride. Polyvinyl chloride is the third most widely produced plastic, after polyethylene and polypropylene. PVC is widely used in...
sealed onto a 5" card
Paperboard
Paperboard is a thick paper based material. While there is no rigid differentiation between paper and paperboard, paperboard is generally thicker than paper. According to ISO standards, paperboard is a paper with a basis weight above 224 g/m2, but there are exceptions. Paperboard can be single...
blister
Blister pack
Blister pack is a term for several types of pre-formed plastic packaging used for small consumer goods, foods, and for pharmaceuticals.The primary component of a blister pack is a cavity or pocket made from a "formable" web, usually a thermoformed plastic. This usually has a backing of paperboard...
, similar to how electrical batteries
Alkaline battery
Alkaline batteries are a type of primary batteries dependent upon the reaction between zinc and manganese dioxide . A rechargeable alkaline battery allows reuse of specially designed cells....
are displayed, so that the disc could be popped through the back of the packaging.
Garbage eventually released five singles in this manner; starting with "Push It" and ending a year later with "You Look So Fine
You Look So Fine
"You Look So Fine" is a single released in 1999, and was the final single taken from Garbage's second album Version 2.0, where it was also the closing track...
". Despite the collectable nature of the format, the fact that at the time very few European artists pressed 3" CDs and that the vacuum-packaging cost more to produce than a standard CD single meant that Mushroom did not repeat the format for their other artists.
Music video
The video clipMusic video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
for "Push It" was directed by Italian photographer Andrea Giacobbe for Satellite Films/Propaganda Films
Propaganda Films
Propaganda Films was a prolific and successful music video and film production company founded in 1983 by producers Steve Golin and Sigurjón Sighvatsson and directors David Fincher, Nigel Dick, Greg Gold and Dominic Sena...
. The $400,000 video was shot over four days in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
at the start of March 1998. Garbage were impressed enough by Giacobbe's show reel, in particular his previous video for Death In Vegas
Death in Vegas
Death in Vegas are a psychedelic rock and electronic rock band from the United Kingdom, comprising two permanent members: Richard Fearless and Tim Holmes...
("Dirt
Dead Elvis
Dead Elvis was the first album by British band Death in Vegas. It was released on March 10, 1997 in the United Kingdom and on September 16, 1997 in the United States. This was the only Death in Vegas album to feature original member Steve Hellier. The British release features colored Elvis graffiti...
") to assign the fledgling director the project. The band thought his storyboard
Storyboard
Storyboards are graphic organizers in the form of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence....
treatment was bizarre. "He chops up film and he talks about this kind of timelessness, which is kind of the same thing that we're doing musically. He doesn't want to set the video
Setting (fiction)
In fiction, setting includes the time, location, and everything in which a story takes place, and initiates the main backdrop and mood for a story. Setting has been referred to as story world or milieu to include a context beyond the immediate surroundings of the story. Elements of setting may...
in any place or time. You will not know what era and what time this video is set in," Manson later explained. Giacobbe used many different film stock
Film stock
Film stock is photographic film on which filmmaking of motion pictures are shot and reproduced. The equivalent in television production is video tape.-1889–1899:...
s to create the different styles present in the video; at various points in the narrative, the video changes from sepia tone, black and white or false-color
False-color
A false-color image is an image that depicts a subject in colors that differ from those a full-color photograph would show.-True- and false-color:...
and back.
Garbage were not particularly enamoured with the first rough cut
Rough cut
In filmmaking, the rough cut is the second of three stages of offline editing. The rough cut is the first stage in which the film begins to resemble its final product...
of the video, assembled before any post-production
Offline editing
Offline editing is part of the post-production process of filmmaking and television production in which raw footage is copied and edited, without affecting the camera original film stock or video tape...
had taken place. "The first version came out very flat and with not particularly flattering lighting, because almost every frame he tweaks out in the computer, so there's a lot of post-production
Post-production
Post-production is part of filmmaking and the video production process. It occurs in the making of motion pictures, television programs, radio programs, advertising, audio recordings, photography, and digital art...
stuff to give it that old Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)
The Twilight Zone is an American anthology television series created by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964. The series consisted of unrelated episodes depicting paranormal, futuristic, dystopian, or simply disturbing events; each show typically featured a surprising...
look, or Technicolor
Technicolor
Technicolor is a color motion picture process invented in 1916 and improved over several decades.It was the second major process, after Britain's Kinemacolor, and the most widely used color process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952...
, 1970s
1970s
File:1970s decade montage.png|From left, clockwise: US President Richard Nixon doing the V for Victory sign after his resignation from office after the Watergate scandal in 1974; Refugees aboard a US naval boat after the Fall of Saigon, leading to the end of the Vietnam War in 1975; The 1973 oil...
Starsky and Hutch
Starsky and Hutch
Starsky and Hutch is a 1970s American cop thriller television series that consisted of a 90-minute pilot movie and 92 episodes of 60 minutes each; created by William Blinn, produced by Spelling-Goldberg Productions, and broadcast between April 30, 1975 and May 15, 1979 on the ABC...
look. [Giacobbe] kept saying "Don't worry, this is just the canvas I'm going to paint on.", Vig recalled, "You can see there's also details in the frames as they go by, which makes it easier to watch on repeated viewings." The band later described the video as "Fellini-esque". The first day of shooting included filming on location
Location shooting
Location shooting is the practice of filming in an actual setting rather than on a sound stage or back lot. In filmmaking a location is any place where a film crew will be filming actors and recording their dialog. A location where dialog is not recorded may be considered as a second unit...
at a supermarket
Supermarket
A supermarket, a form of grocery store, is a self-service store offering a wide variety of food and household merchandise, organized into departments...
, the second day in a hospital
Hospital
A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Hospitals often, but not always, provide for inpatient care or longer-term patient stays....
and the third in a cemetery
Cemetery
A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. The term "cemetery" implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground. Cemeteries in the Western world are where the final ceremonies of death are observed...
. One of the props
Theatrical property
A theatrical property, commonly referred to as a prop, is an object used on stage by actors to further the plot or story line of a theatrical production. Smaller props are referred to as "hand props". Larger props may also be set decoration, such as a chair or table. The difference between a set...
on the first day, a stuffed
Taxidermy
Taxidermy is the act of mounting or reproducing dead animals for display or for other sources of study. Taxidermy can be done on all vertebrate species of animals, including mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians...
deer
Deer
Deer are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. Species in the Cervidae family include white-tailed deer, elk, moose, red deer, reindeer, fallow deer, roe deer and chital. Male deer of all species and female reindeer grow and shed new antlers each year...
mounted on wheels, broke loose and caused a minor car accident
Car accident
A traffic collision, also known as a traffic accident, motor vehicle collision, motor vehicle accident, car accident, automobile accident, Road Traffic Collision or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other stationary obstruction,...
. At the hospital, Giacobbe injured himself in a fall while filming.
The "Push It" storyline begins (although the video may be an example of nonlinear narrative) with Shirley Manson shopping alongside a partner, a rotoscoped "fuzzy" man, in a supermarket
Supermarket
A supermarket, a form of grocery store, is a self-service store offering a wide variety of food and household merchandise, organized into departments...
. As Garbage look on, the "fuzzy" man is stalked and attacked by three antagonists disguised as nuns. After the chorus, three triplet schoolboys are seen carrying a MacGuffin
MacGuffin
A MacGuffin is "a plot element that catches the viewers' attention or drives the plot of a work of fiction". The defining aspect of a MacGuffin is that the major players in the story are willing to do and sacrifice almost anything to obtain it, regardless of what the MacGuffin actually is...
briefcase
Briefcase
A briefcase is a narrow box-shaped bag or case used mainly for carrying papers and other documents and equipped with a handle. Lawyers commonly use briefcases to carry briefs to present to a court, hence the name...
and tracking Manson on a hand-held video monitor
Video monitor
A video monitor also called a broadcast monitor, broadcast reference monitor or just reference monitor, is a display device similar to a television set, used to monitor the output of a video-generating device, such as playout from a video server, IRD, video camera, VCR, or DVD player. It may or...
. The triplets arrive at Manson's house and give her the briefcase before attacking her new partner, a René Magritte
René Magritte
René François Ghislain Magritte[p] was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images...
-esque man with a lightbulb in place of his head. During the middle eighth, Manson is shown with child-like versions of "Fuzzy" and "Lightbulb man". She then leaves them behind to walk through a graveyard
Graveyard
A graveyard is any place set aside for long-term burial of the dead, with or without monuments such as headstones...
towards a hooded man bringing her an over-sized balloon
Balloon
A balloon is an inflatable flexible bag filled with a gas, such as helium, hydrogen, nitrous oxide, oxygen, or air. Modern balloons can be made from materials such as rubber, latex, polychloroprene, or a nylon fabric, while some early balloons were made of dried animal bladders, such as the pig...
. Throughout the duration of the video, footage of various non-related characters is shown: a masked female and a stuffed deer, two humanoid aliens
Extraterrestrial life
Extraterrestrial life is defined as life that does not originate from Earth...
conjoined by a glowing head-growth, two toddlers riding adults piggyback, two Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
n businessmen fighting, a Navy Officer who alludes to a foot fetish
Foot Fetish
Foot Fetish is the first solo studio album by the Jackyl's lead singer, Jesse James Dupree.- Track listing :All songs written by Jesse James Dupree except where noted.# "Mainline" – 3:25 # "First Taste of Freedom" – 3:53...
, a naked woman emerging from glowing hospital
Hospital
A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Hospitals often, but not always, provide for inpatient care or longer-term patient stays....
bath
Bathing
Bathing is the washing or cleansing of the body in a fluid, usually water or an aqueous solution. It may be practised for personal hygiene, religious ritual or therapeutic purposes or as a recreational activity....
and a little girl surrounded by four paratroopers raising a toast
Toast
Toast is bread that has been browned by exposure to radiant heat. This browning reaction is known as the Maillard reaction. Toasting warms the bread and makes it firmer, so it holds toppings more securely...
. The hooded character is later revealed to be Manson herself, unmasking in view of a mirror
Mirror
A mirror is an object that reflects light or sound in a way that preserves much of its original quality prior to its contact with the mirror. Some mirrors also filter out some wavelengths, while preserving other wavelengths in the reflection...
before licking her own reflection. She is last seen leaving with the briefcase and her now-adult children in a Beetle
Volkswagen Beetle
The Volkswagen Type 1, widely known as the Volkswagen Beetle or Volkswagen Bug, is an economy car produced by the German auto maker Volkswagen from 1938 until 2003...
.
The "Push It" video was nominated
Nomination
Nomination is part of the process of selecting a candidate for either election to an office, or the bestowing of an honor or award.In the context of elections for public office, a candidate who has been selected by a political party is normally said to be the nominee of that party...
for eight MTV Video Music Awards
MTV Video Music Awards
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in two general awards categories: Best Group Video
MTV Video Music Award for Best Group Video
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and Best Alternative Video
MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video
The MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video was first given out in 1992. Prior to its inception, though, this award was known as Best Post-Modern Video in 1989 and 1990...
; and in six professional categories: Breakthrough Video
MTV Video Music Award - Breakthrough Video
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and Best Direction
MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction
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(both nominations for Andrea Giacobbe), Best Editing
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(for Sylvain Connat), Best Art Direction
MTV Video Music Award for Best Art Direction
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(Virginia Lee), Best Cinematography
MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography
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(Max Malkin) and Best Special Effects
MTV Video Music Award for Best Special Effects
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(Sébastien Caudron) and one MTV Europe Music Award for Best Video. A year later, Garbage were the leading nominee for the MVPA Music Video Awards
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industry event, with six nominations shared between the videos for "Push It" and "Special". Gina Monaci and Jeff Judd won the award for Best Make-Up in a Music Video for their work on "Push It". "Push It" was also nominated for Best Styling (nomination to Jennifer Elster
Jennifer Elster
Jennifer Elster is a film director, producer, writer, actress and an executive of The Development Productions, an independent film and television production company....
), Best Hair (Gina Monaci and Kevin Ryan) and Best Alternative Video (to Satellite Films).
On April 6, 1998, the "Push It" video premiered in the United States, where it was a MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
exclusive for the duration of the month. The video subsequently aired worldwide from May. The "Push It" video was first made commercially available on Garbage's 2007 greatest hits
Greatest hits
A greatest hits album is a music compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular artist or band...
DVD compilation Absolute Garbage.
Remixes
| Track title | Length | Remixer/Producer |
|---|---|---|
| "Push It (Boom Boom Satellites mix)" | 6:43 | Boom Boom Satellites Boom Boom Satellites is a Japanese electronic music duo consisting of guitarist and vocalist Michiyuki Kawashima and bassist and programmer Masayuki Nakano. While their music can be mostly classified as big beat or nu skool breaks with heavy jazz influences, they are famous for the heavy usage of electric guitars in... |
| "Push It (Victor Calderone club mix)" | 7:18 | Victor Calderone Victor Calderone Victor Calderone is a house music producer, DJ and remixer.-History:Raised in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, Calderone was introduced into New York City's nightlife by his older brother, Cesar, who was very active in the club music business. Calderone began to dabble with turntables and... |
| "Push It (Victor Calderone club mix (radio edit))" | 4:33 | |
| "Push It (Victor Calderone dub mix)" | 3:40 | |
| "Push It (Chris Sheldon mix)" | 4:02 | Chris Sheldon Chris Sheldon Chris Sheldon is a record producer, particularly of rock music, based in London, UK. He has produced or mixed records for the Foo Fighters, Garbage, Feeder, Biffy Clyro, Oceansize and Pixies amongst others... |
Critical reception
Upon its release, "Push It" received an overly-positive response from music critics and journalists. Craig Maclean of The FaceThe Face (magazine)
The Face was a British music, fashion and culture monthly magazine started in May 1980 by Nick Logan.-1980s:Logan had previously created the teen pop magazine Smash Hits, and had been an editor at the New Musical Express in the 1970s before launching The Face in 1980.The magazine was influential in...
wrote, ""Push It" is vintage Garbage: sultry, unharried vocals from Shirley, a galloping mix of buzzsawing guitars, a mash of samples, rumbling rhythms, an elegant discordancy...itt is the album-closing song the Prodigy
The Prodigy
The Prodigy are an English electronic dance music group formed by Liam Howlett in 1990 in Braintree, Essex. Along with Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, and other acts, The Prodigy have been credited as pioneers of the big beat genre, which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s and 2000s...
's cover of L7
L7 (band)
L7 was an American rock band from Los Angeles, that was active from 1985 to 2000. Due to their sound and image, they are often associated with the grunge movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s.-History:...
's "Fuel My Fire" should have been: barely-controlled pop-mayhem".
Release history
| Release Date | Territory | Record Label | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 16, 1998 | United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... |
Mushroom Records UK | Airplay Airplay * Airplay is the amount of time a song is played on the radio.It may also refer to:* AirPlay, an audio & video streaming technology from Apple Inc.* Airplay , Foster & Graydon music project from 1980* Citroën C1, Citroën C1 Airplay... |
| March 30/31, 1998 | United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
Almo Sounds Almo Sounds Almo Sounds is a record label which was started in 1994 by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss after they sold A&M Records to PolyGram. The intent of the label was to recreate the initial concept of A&M Records as a small, "boutique" label.... |
Airplay: Modern Rock Modern rock Modern rock is a rock format commonly found on commercial radio; the format consists primarily of the alternative rock genre... |
| April 20, 1998 | Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... |
White Records Mushroom Records Mushroom Records is an Australian recoJrd company formed by Michael Gudinski and Ray Evans in Melbourne in 1972. After its sale in 1998, it merged into Festival Mushroom Records. From 2005 to 2009, it is one of the record labels operated by Warner Bros... |
CD maxi, CD single |
| New Zealand New Zealand New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga... |
Cassette single Cassette single A cassette single is a music single in the form of a Compact Cassette.- History :... , CD maxi |
||
| Europe Europe Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting... |
BMG BMG Bertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008. It was established in 1987 to combine the music label activities of Bertelsmann... |
CD maxi, CD single | |
| South Africa South Africa The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans... |
BMG South Africa BMG Bertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008. It was established in 1987 to combine the music label activities of Bertelsmann... |
CD maxi | |
| April 21, 1998 | Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean... |
Almo Sounds | CD maxi |
| United States | |||
| April 27, 1998 | United Kingdom | Mushroom Records UK | Cassette single, CD single, 3" CD |
| Sept 28, 1998 | 12" white label White label White label records are vinyl records with adhesive plain white labels affixed. Test pressings, usually with Test Pressing written on the label, with catalogue number, artist and recording time or date, are produced in small quantities to evaluate the quality of the disc production... ("Push It - Victor Calderone mixes") |
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| Oct 20, 1998 | United States | Almo Sounds | 12" vinyl (as "Push It"/"I Think I'm Paranoid") |
Post-release
In late 1999, "Push It" appeared on the Electronic ArtsElectronic Arts
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PlayStation
PlayStation
The is a 32-bit fifth-generation video game console first released by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan on December 3, .The PlayStation was the first of the PlayStation series of consoles and handheld game devices. The PlayStation 2 was the console's successor in 2000...
ice hockey video game NHL 2000
NHL series
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. In 2007, Chris Sheldon
Chris Sheldon
Chris Sheldon is a record producer, particularly of rock music, based in London, UK. He has produced or mixed records for the Foo Fighters, Garbage, Feeder, Biffy Clyro, Oceansize and Pixies amongst others...
remixed a rock version of "Push It" which was playlist
Playlist
In its most general form, a playlist is simply a list of songs. They can be played in sequential or shuffled order. The term has several specialized meanings in the realms of radio broadcasting and personal computers.-In radio:...
ed by XFM
Xfm
Xfm is a brand of two commercial radio stations focused on alternative music, primarily indie pop, and owned by Global Radio.-History:Xfm was created in London in 1992 by Sammy Jacob, who later co-founded NME Radio in 2008. Xfm subsequently expanded to a network of four stations; there are...
prior to the release of Absolute Garbage
Absolute Garbage
Absolute Garbage is the 2007 greatest hits album released by alternative rock group Garbage. The album was compiled and released by Geffen imprint Almo Sounds through Universal Music Enterprises backcatalogue division in North America and Warner Music's record label A&E Records throughout the rest...
.
Comprehensive charts
| Chart (1998) | PeakPosition |
|---|---|
| Australia Singles ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June... (ARIA Australian Recording Industry Association The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956... ) |
31 |
| Canada Alternative 30 (RPM RPM (magazine) RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,... ) |
3 |
| Europe Top 50 Airplay (Music & Media) | 15 |
| Finland Singles (IFPI) | 14 |
| France Singles (SNEP Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique The Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry... ) |
99 |
| Germany Singles (Media Control Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie... ) |
88 |
| Iceland Singles (IFPI IFPI The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. It is a not-for-profit members' organisation registered in Switzerland... ) |
2 |
| Ireland Singles Irish Singles Chart The Irish Singles Chart is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured... (IRMA Irish Recorded Music Association Irish Recorded Music Association is the Irish record industry association. IRMA is a non-profit association set up to manage and control the music industry in the Republic of Ireland.-Goals and activities:... ) |
26 |
| Netherlands Single Top 100 (GfK GfK The GfK Group, established in 1934 as Gesellschaft für Konsumforschung is Germany's largest market research institute, and the fourth largest market research organisation in the world, after Nielsen Company, Kantar Group, and IMS Health... ) |
77 |
| New Zealand Singles (RIANZ Recording Industry Association of New Zealand The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand... ) |
15 |
| Spain Singles Chart (AFYVE) | 5 |
| UK Singles UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... (CIN) |
9 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
52 |
| U.S. Hot Modern Rock Tracks (Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... ) |
5 |
| U.S. Hot Dance Music/Club Play (Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... ) |
5 |