Shut Up Shut Up

"Shut Up Shut Up" (alternatively "Shut Up! Shut Up!" or "Shut Up, Shut Up!") is a song by The Residents, recorded during sessions for their Commercial Album between September 1979 and October 1980, and first released in October 1980 as the uncredited closing track of the first side of the Commercial Single EP.
The song was then included on a bonus 7" single included with the French release of the album, with another outtake, "And I Was Alone". This version of the single was later released in a picture sleeve as "The Commercial Single Two" by Residents fan club W.E.I.R.D.. 
The song has frequently been included in expanded reissues of Commercial Album. An alternate version with a lead vocal from The Singing Resident was included on the 1983 outtakes compilation Residue of The Residents. 
== History==
"Shut Up Shut Up" was recorded by The Residents in 1979 and 1980 for inclusion in their upcoming release Commercial Album, a concept album containing forty one-minute long songs; it was among a handful of songs that were left out of the album's final running order after the group decided they sounded "too trendy".Residue of The Residents liner notes, 1983
"Shut Up Shut Up" features contributions from guitarist (and soon to be Ralph Records stablemate) Fred Frith. Its first release was on the Commercial Single 7" EP distributed in England in October 1980, where it was unlisted (alongside another outtake, "And I Was Alone"). 
It was then featured as the A-side of a 7" single included with the first French pressing of Commercial Album, with some being sold individually. After this, The Residents' fan club W.E.I.R.D. began selling the single in a picture sleeve in a limited edition of 111 copies, titled The Commercial Single Two. 
An alternate version with a slightly longer introduction and a lead vocal by The Singing Resident was debuted on the outtakes compilation Residue of The Residents in 1983. 
Two short additional verses were recorded by The Singing Resident which were not included on either the original 1980 single version or the 1983 Residue version; the verses were first heard in a "RDX" mix derived from the original master tapes, which was featured on the limited edition pREServed compilation Leftovers Again?! in 2021. 
==Music video ==
A "one minute movie" for the song was created in 2004 by artist Luk Willekens (with animation by Ann Desart) for The Residents' 2004 DVD, Commercial DVD.
== Lyrics ==
=== Single version (1980) ===
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=== Residue of The Residents (1983) ===
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=== RDX version (2021) ===
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 Don't say
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 That you love me
 'less you know that
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 Love is true
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 Don't say
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 That you want me
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==Credits==
*Written by: The Residents
==List of releases==
*Commercial Single EP (1980) Grove Street studio recording, September 1979 - October 1980 (backing vocals only, 1:26)
*Commercial Album French edition (1981) 
*Residue of The Residents (1983) Grove Street studio recording, September 1979 - October 1980 (with lead vocal, 1:11)
* Hell! (1986) 
*Commercial Album Classic Series CD reissue (1988) 
*Residue Deux (1998) 
*Commercial DVD (2004) 
*Documentation - Tunes In Danger of Becoming Lost (2009) 
*Heaven? / Hell! (2012) 
*Commercial Album pREServed edition (2019) 
*Leftovers Again?! (2021) Grove Street studio recording, September 1979 - October 1980 ("RDX" mix with alternate lead vocal, 1:12)
===List of versions===
== See also ==
*Commercial Album
*Commercial Single
*"And I Was Alone"
*"Cosmetics For Reality"
==Buy Or Die!==
===Listen online===
*"Shut Up Shut Up" (pREServed remaster) on Spotify
*"Shut Up Shut Up" (pREServed remaster) on Apple Music
*"Shut Up Shut Up" (Residue version) on Spotify
*"Shut Up Shut Up" (Residue version) on Apple Music
*"Shut Up RDX" on Spotify
*"Shut Up RDX" on Apple Music
==External links and references==
*Commercial Single at The Residents Historical
*"Shut Up Shut Up" at Genius
*"Shut Up RDX" at Genius
Category:Documentation - Tunes In Danger Of Becoming Lost
Category:Hell!
Category:Heaven? and Hell!
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