Muzzle (song)

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"Muzzle"
Song by The Smashing Pumpkins
From the album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Album released 24 October 1995
Recorded March - August 1995
Genre Alternative Rock
Song Length 3:44
Record label Virgin Records
Producer Alan Moulder, Billy Corgan, Flood
Chart positions


"Muzzle" is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins, from their third album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, written by Billy Corgan. It was rumoured to be the Smashing Pumpkins fifth and final single from this album, as is evidenced by the fact that a promotional single for the song was issued to radio stations worldwide. However instead the song "Thirty-Three" was released as the fifth and final single. It is possible that the change was made because "Thirty-Three" is one of the few songs on the album that doesn't feature Jimmy Chamberlin's drums. Jimmy Chamberlin had just been fired from the band due to a drug overdose. Some have gone on to say that a music video was actually filmed for "Muzzle" with Chamberlin, but was never released. Billy Corgan denied this in June 29, 1998 interview for a fan-run mailing list Listessa. The band went on to perform "Muzzle" for their next television appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien with replacement drummer, Matt Walker. Despite not being released as a single, "Muzzle" reached number 10 on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks and number 8 on the US Modern Rock Tracks.

The Smashing Pumpkins
Jimmy Chamberlin | Billy Corgan | James Iha | D'arcy Wretzky
Kenny Aronoff | Melissa Auf der Maur | Dennis Flemion | Mike Garson | Jonathan Melvoin | Matt Walker | Joey Waronker | Matt Cameron
Discography
Studio albums: Gish | Siamese Dream | Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | Adore | MACHINA/The Machines of God | MACHINA II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music
Compilations and extended plays: Lull | Peel Sessions | Pisces Iscariot | Rotten Apples & Judas 0 | Earphoria | Rarities and B-Sides
Singles: "I Am One" | "Tristessa" | "Siva" | "Rhinoceros" | "Cherub Rock" | "Today" | "Disarm" | "Rocket" | "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" | "1979" | "Zero" | "Tonight, Tonight" | "Muzzle" | "Thirty-Three" | "The End Is the Beginning Is the End" | "Ava Adore" | "Perfect" | "The Everlasting Gaze" | "Stand Inside Your Love" | "Try, Try, Try" | "Untitled"
Box sets: The Aeroplane Flies High
Videography
Videos: Vieuphoria | Greatest Hits Video Collection
Related articles
Alan Moulder | Alternative rock | Butch Vig | Caroline Records | Concept album | Flood | Jimmy Chamberlin Complex | Let It Come Down | The Marked | Pumpkinland | Sadlands | Sub Pop | TheFutureEmbrace | Virgin Records | Yelena Yemchuk | Zwan
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