Queer (song)

"Queer"
Single by Garbage
from the album Garbage
B-side "Trip My Wire"
"Butterfly Collector"
Released November 20th, 1995
(See release history)
Format 7", 12",
CD maxi, cassette single
Recorded 1994–1995
Smart Studios,
Madison, Wisconsin
Genre Alternative rock/Trip hop
Length 4:36
Label Mushroom Records UK
Almo Sounds (North America)
Writer(s) Garbage
Producer Garbage
Garbage singles chronology
"Only Happy When It Rains"
(1995)		 "Queer"
(1996)		 "Stupid Girl"
(1996)
Alternative cover
CD2 cover

"Queer" is a 1995 song written, recorded and produced by alternative rock band Garbage and was the second international single to be taken from the band's multi-platinum debut studio album Garbage and followed up the band's debut hit "Vow".[1] In the United Kingdom, where it was released as Garbage's fourth single, it was their first Top 20 hit.[2]

With its ambiguous title and subdued trip-hop/rock crossover structure, "Queer" quickly became a modern rock success for the fledgling band.[1] "Queer" brought early attention to the group from its Stéphane Sednaoui-directed music video which featured lead singer Shirley Manson detaining, stripping and shaving the protagonist from a first-person perspective of the television viewer.[3] The "Queer" video was later nominated in the Breakthrough Video category at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards.[4]

In 2007, "Queer" was remastered and included on Garbage's greatest hits album Absolute Garbage.[5]

Contents

Song

"Queer" began as a rough demo around January 1994, recorded during informal studio sessions between Butch Vig, Duke Erikson and Steve Marker in Marker's home basement recording studio in Madison, Wisconsin prior to Shirley Manson joining the group.[6] The band had been jamming using an ADAT eight-track, AKAI samplers and a small drum kit.[7] The band had written around five songs that they felt were pretentious and lyrically simple and literal. They did not want Erikson to sing, even though he was a competent singer, because they wanted to avoid sounding like their previous band Spooner. Vig and Marker were uncomfortable with their vocals so tended to bury them deep in the mix or distort them with effects; on "Queer", Vig recorded a "scratch vocal" consisting of him screaming his way through. Most of the recorded work was a blend of Nine Inch Nails and My Bloody Valentine, before wiping the results.[8] Vig's inspiration for "Queer" came from a novel he had read about a prostitute who was hired to make someone a man.[9] "The kid is missing a few marbles. But then he realises that the woman who came to his room is also fucking his father."[9]

After Marker saw Manson's group Angelfish on 120 Minutes, the band invited her to Vig and Marker's Smart Studios to sing on a couple of songs, but after a "dreadful" first audition, she returned to Angelfish.[10] Manson eventually returned to Smart for a successful second audition, where she began to re-write "Queer" into a trip-hop arrangement and fleshing out the then-skeletal "Vow" and "Stupid Girl".[11] Manson's lyrics for "Queer" were ambiguous, rather than literal, allowing the listener to make up their own mind about what the song was about. She also re-sung the "Queer" vocal in an understated style.[8] It was then that the band knew that Garbage was going to work.[12]

Garbage incorporated a sample of the drumline from New Zealand band Single Gun Theory's track "Man of Straw" on "Queer";[13] this loop was layered with an additional drum part performed by Madison percussionist Clyde Stubblefield, who was known for being the most sampled drummer in history for his uncredited part on James Brown's "Funky Drummer".[14] Vig opted to hire Stubblefield to play on the record rather than sample him ("You don't use a sample when the genius who played the sample lives down the street from you"); Stubblefield performed a drum part for both "Queer" and album cut "Not My Idea".[15] Bass guitar parts were completed by Milwaukee session bassist Mike Kashou. The band wanted to sample a clarinet part from a Frank Sinatra record, but the licensing for the sample would have been prohibitively expensive. Mulling over some options, such as having a session musician interpolate the part themselves still led to having to pay a large royalty. The idea was dropped.[16] The band still liked the idea of using a clarinet, and recorded a part by Les Thimming on the final mix.[17]

Manson later explained, "It's not, as you might think, to do with being gay, but tolerance. My granny has the expression 'Or's queer, except thee and me, and sometimes even thee's queer', that is that you think you are normal and the rest of the world is freaky, but we're all equally to blame".[18] Garbage didn't write the song to particularly appeal to the gay community, however Erikson stated: "As musicians, we're totally open to [the songs gay appeal]. There's been enough exposure to gay issues in the mainstream media that people are finally ready to deal with it. Even if it's something controversial, people are still beginning to open up".[12] Erikson added: "The song isn't about sex at all, it's about the loss of innocence".[12]

Single release

Almo Sounds released "Queer" as the band's second single to alternative radio in the United States at the end of August 1995, upfront of the August 15th North American release date of Garbage. The song debuted at the end of September on the Modern Rock Tracks chart at #30.[19] "Queer" was the highest new entry that week.[19] The following week, Garbage debuted on the Billboard 200 at #193,[20] having spent the previous four weeks as a rising Heatseekers title.[21] At the beginning of October, "Queer" debuted at #62 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart.[22] A week later "Queer" peaked at #57 on the airplay chart,[23] as the song also broke into the Modern Rock top twenty (with an "Airpower" rating, meaning the song had registered over 900 detections on alternative radio).[24] In mid-November, as Garbage had launched their first North American tour[25] remixes of "Queer" were sent to clubs.[26] "Queer" peaked at #12 on the Modern Rock chart in its ninth week,[27] as Garbage climbed to #127 on the album chart.[28] "Queer" spent another six weeks on the Modern Rock chart, before registering for the final time at #39 at the end of December 1995.[29]

In October 1995, "Queer" was issued as the band's second single in Australia and New Zealand. White issued a three-track CD single and cassette single backed with two newly-recorded tracks, "Girl Don't Come" and "Sleep",[30] which had been recorded for the UK release of "Only Happy When It Rains".[31] "Queer" peaked at #55 in Australia, spending twelve weeks on the ARIA charts.[32] In New Zealand, "Queer" debuted on the RIANZ charts at #45 at the start of November, rising to a #37 peak three weeks later.[33] Across Europe, "Queer" was issued by BMG in a similarly configured CD single; a three-track release backed with "Girl Don't Come" and "Sleep".[34] In Belgium's Wallonia-region, "Queer" peaked at #24 at the end of January 1996.[35] "Queer" debuted and peaked at #7 in Iceland the following month.[36] "Queer" was resent to radio stations in Spain backed with "Supervixen",[37] where it peaked at #33 on the airplay chart.[38] In April 1996, performed "Queer" live on French television show Nulle Part Ailleurs and headlined a show at the Élysée Montmartre in Paris;[39] BMG France released a three-track CD single of "Queer" featuring "Trip My Wire" and the Rabbit In the Moon remix.[40]

Initially, Mushroom Records had scheduled "Queer" to be the lead single for the UK release of the debut album Garbage, matching the international single release strategy. At last minute, it was decided to release "Only Happy When It Rains" upfront of the album, with "Queer" rescheduled to later in 1995 to coincide with the band's first UK live show.[2] "Queer" was quickly picked up by radio, and was B-listed by Radio One, whose breakfast slot DJ Chris Evans championed it as his "Single of the Week",[41] and playlisted by Virgin Radio.[42] "Queer" reached #35 on the airplay chart.[42] Mushroom issued the single on a limited edition 7" vinyl and a gold and silver CD single set on November 20, 1995.[41] Each CD single was backed with a newly recorded track; "Trip My Wire" on the first and a cover version of The Jam's "Butterfly Collector" on the second.[41] Four remixes of the title track were spread out across the CDs, with one also appearing on the flipside of the vinyl.[2] Early indications showed that the single had a midweek position of #10,[43] however at the end of its first week on-sale, "Queer" debuted on the UK Singles Chart at #13.[44] That week, Garbage made a live appearance to perform the single on Top of The Pops, and performed both "Queer" and "Only Happy When it Rains" on MTV's Most Wanted.[25]

Commercial track listings

  • Australia cassette single White C1211
  • Australia CD single White D1211
  • Europe CD single BMG 74321 32776 2
  1. "Queer" – 4:05
  2. "Girl Don't Come" – 2:33
  3. "Sleep" – 2:31
  • UK 7" Crystal™ sleeve Mushroom SX1237
  1. "Queer" – 4:04
  2. "Queer (The Very Queer Dub Bin) – 5:12
  • UK CD1 Mushroom D1237
  1. "Queer" – 4:04
  2. "Trip My Wire" – 4:29
  3. "Queer" (The Very Queer Dub Bin) – 5:12
  4. "Queer" (The Most Beautiful Woman in Town mix) – 5:36
  • UK CD2 Mushroom DX1237
  1. "Queer" – 4:04
  2. "Butterfly Collector" – 3:41
  3. "Queer" (F.T.F.O.I. mix) – 7:17
  4. "Queer" (Danny Saber mix) – 5:39
  • France CD single BMG France 74321 38220 2
  1. "Queer" – 4:05
  2. "Queer" (F.T.F.O.I. mix) – 7:17
  3. "Trip My Wire" – 4:29
  • UK 12" (Queer Remixes) Mushroom TRASH12
  1. "Queer" (Rabbit In the Moon Hefty mix) – 9:10
  2. "Queer" (Danny Saber mix) – 5:39

Collector's format

As the band had received significant attention from the special packaging of their first three releases, "Queer" was also released in this manner.[2] Mushroom's product manager had a longer time to design the package than the other singles; this was a result of "Queer" being held back three months so that "Only Happy When It Rains" could launch the album.[45] Garbage's original suggestion for "Queer" was to create a jade velvet box, and burn both "Garbage" and "Queer" into the fabric. Mushroom vetoed the idea over the cost.[45] The label sourced a plastics company to create the case, which was made from injection-molded polystyrene, similar to the process of manufacturing jewel cases. The company charged Mushroom £10,000 to have the mould created. The end product was finished with frosted effect for the "G" logo, which was stickered, and within placed the vinyl record in a card picture sleeve; this cost Mushroom £2.21 per unit (a loss of 95p for each sale).[2] The production run consisted of 5,000 copies which were all numbered before distribution. To protect the plastic case, all copies were sealed and inserted into a bubble-wrap wallet.[46] Initial copies were also sold within a pink logo-branded carrier bag.[2]

Music video

The music video for "Queer" directed by Stéphane Sednaoui for Propaganda Films and was filmed in July 1995 in Los Angeles.[3] Sedanoui's video concept developed from his own personal experience of being "shredded into pieces" by a beautiful woman. Garbage loved his storyboard for "Queer", feeling it matched the ambiguous nature of the song.[47] Manson had chosen Sednaoui as director after she saw the "Big Time Sensuality" music video he directed for Björk. "He doesn't just take an idea an apply it to different artists, he seems to be able to figure out where the artist is coming from and make the photographs and the videos unique to that group" she later recalled.[47]

The black and white storyline of the video saw a young male's first person perspective of exiting an elevator onto a Los Angeles street and meeting Manson. She coyly entices him to follow her to her home where the men from Garbage are waiting. They detain him inside, forcing him up onto the second-level of the house, where Manson throws him to the floor, strips him of his clothing and blinds him with gaffer tape. He recovers to find Manson shaving his head, before she drags him outside by his legs. He is then seen strangely happy, and in full colour, leaving the street.[3]

Sednaoui operated the camera for the whole shoot.[47] To capture the victim's struggle, Sednaoui positioned the camera at ground-level facing upwards towards Garbage, who were standing on a rotating platform. To suggest the victim was almost hallucinating, strobe lighting was combined with the rotation of the platform, however the effect caused the band to suffer from vertigo after a number of takes.[3] Manson later claimed that the video helped establish her group; "He really defined for us who we were visually. Stéphane was able to look at the band and listen to the music and figure out what was the perfect visual partner for the band. People think we're a very stylish band, and it's all to do with him".[47] She added, "I'm really proud of "Queer", I think it's one of our best videos."[47]

The "Queer" video premiered on North American networks on August 14, 1995;[48] where it was given heavy support by MTV, who certified it a Buzz Clip.[49] MTV requested an edit to obscure the shot of Manson blinding the video's protagonist before playlisting it.[3] The music video for "Queer" was nominated in the Breakthrough Video category at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards[4] (it lost to Smashing Pumpkins' "Tonight, Tonight").[50] The silver dress Manson wore in the video was later donated to the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada for indefinite display.[51]

The "Queer" video was first commercially released, accompanied with out-take footage from the shoot, on 1996's Garbage Video VHS and Video-CD.[52] A remastered version was included on Garbage's 2007 greatest hits DVD Absolute Garbage[5] and made available as a digital download via online music services the same year.[53]

Alternate versions

Track title Length Remixer/Producer
"Queer" (Radio edit) 4:06 Garbage
"Queer" (The Very Queer Dub Bin) 5:12 Adrian Sherwood
"Queer" (The Most Beautiful Woman In Town mix) 5:36 Martin Gore
"Queer" (F.T.F.O.I. mix) 7:17 Rabbit in the Moon
"Queer" (Heftybag mix) 9:10
"Queer" (Danny Saber mix) 5:39 Danny Saber

"Queer" was the first Garbage single to include remixes as a commercial b-side; Mushroom spread four across the UK formats. These were completed by producers Adrian Sherwood, Danny Saber, Depeche Mode's Martin Gore and Florida-based group Rabbit In the Moon.[41] Almo serviced both the Adrian Sherwood and two Rabbit In the Moon mixes to North American clubs.[54] In 1996, the same remixes from the UK release of "Queer" were later used for the Australian pressings of "Stupid Girl"[55] and the Danny Saber mix featured on the b-side to "Only Happy When it Rains" in Europe.[56] The Danny Saber mix also saw inclusion on the bonus disc of the Australian Tour Edition of Garbage's debut album.[57] At the end of the year, Almo re-serviced the Heftybag remix of "Queer" to clubs, along with Rabbit In the Moon's mixes of "Milk".[58] In 1997, Mushroom released a set of four commercial 12" vinyl remix sets to record stores in the United Kingdom, the first was titled Queer Remixes and included the Danny Saber mix, and the Heftybag mix which had not been released in the UK at that point.[59] In 2007, the Heftybag mix was remastered and included on the Absolute Garbage bonus disc Garbage Mixes.[5]

Critical reception

Upon both the release of Garbage, and the release of "Queer" as a single, the song received a positive reception from music journalists. Leo Finlay, in a Music Week article highlighting the campaign for the debut albums release wrote, ""Queer" is eerily reminiscent of Magazine's stranger moments".[60] A reviewer for NME wrote that the single was "an ode to recognising and tolerating those mis-shapen ones among us",[61] and when reviewing the album, their own Shannon O'Connell wrote, "there is a bit of Pat Benatar in [this songs] back-alley swagger".[62] A reviewer for VOX described "Queer" as "Voice of the Beehive roughing up L7",[63] Jackie Hinden of Hot Press wrote that the song was "a slinky work-out against a restrained work-to-rule industrial backing",[64] while a writer for Melody Maker wrote that "Queer" was "sleek, cultivated perversion... sinister and menacing".[65] Kerrang! rated "Queer" as their Single of the Week, stating "an incredible knee-trembling fuck tune... the dirtiest pop tune you'll hear all year. [You'll be] sucked into dark satin sexiness and you'll never want to leave. Gorgeously decadent and utterly fabulous";[66] Hot Press made it their Single of the Fortnight: "Almost indecently brilliant. There's an intelligence at work here in the lyrics and in the music which makes "Queer" a unique proposition, and Garbage utterly indispensable".[67] A reviewer for Raw wrote, "it's brilliant. Seductive and slow-burning",[68] while the single reviewer for NME added "[Manson's] performance on "Queer" elevates a sing-song shuffle into a lullaby to sexual non-conformity".[69]

Release history

Release date Territory Record label Format(s)
August 1995 United States Almo Sounds Airplay: Modern rock
Oct 30, 1995 Australia White Records CD single, cassette single
Europe BMG CD maxi
Nov 11, 1995 United States Almo Sounds Club play (12" promos)
Nov 20, 1995 United Kingdom Mushroom Records UK 7" single, 2×CD single set
April 1996 France BMG France CD single
May 5, 1997 United Kingdom Mushroom Records UK 12" vinyl (as Queer Remixes)

Comprehensive charts

Chart (1995) Peak
position
Australia Singles (ARIA)[32] 55
New Zealand Singles (RIANZ)[33] 37
UK Singles (CIN)[44] 13
US Hot 100 Airplay (Billboard)[23] 57
US Hot Modern Rock Tracks (Billboard)[27] 12
Chart (1996) Peak
position
Belgium Ultratop 40 (GfK)[35] 24
Iceland Singles (IFPI)[36] 7
Spain Airplay (AFYVE)[38] 33

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