The Hell Song

"The Hell Song"
Single by Sum 41
from the album Does This Look Infected?
Released February 10, 2003
Format CD
Recorded 2002
Genre Pop punk, Punk rock, melodic hardcore
Length 3:21
Label Aquarius Records (Canada)
Island Records (US)
Sum 41 singles chronology
"Still Waiting"
(2002)		 "The Hell Song"
(2003)		 "Over My Head (Better Off Dead)"
(2003)

"The Hell Song" is the title of a song recorded by Canadian punk rock group Sum 41. It was released in February 2003 as the second single off the Sum 41 album Does This Look Infected?. The song was featured in the films American Wedding and Punk's Not Dead and in the video game Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home.

Content

Whibley wrote the song after learning that his best friend, a girl he used to date, had contracted HIV.[1] He told Billboard magazine that the song came out in a half an hour after he found out about his friend. "I wasn't even meaning to write about it, but for some reason that just came out right away." Whibley has depicted the event as the heaviest thing that's happened in his group of friends.[2]

Music video

The music video was of a concert with dolls and action figures, with Sum 41's faces on those "performing" in front of a Lite-Brite screen. They were joined with other action figures such as those of Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Ozzy Osbourne with his family, Marilyn Manson, Korn, Metallica, Eddie the Head, Gene Simmons, Spice Girls, Angus Young, Jesus, Tuck Turner Willison, Alice Cooper and Ludacris . The dolls' obscene finger gestures and nudity are comically censored, which parodies real life. The video was directed by Marc Klasfeld.

Tracklisting

UK release

  1. The Hell Song (album version)
  2. The Hell Song (radio edit)

US release

  1. The Hell Song (No-spit Intro)
  2. The Hell Song (Spit Intro)

Part 1

  1. "The Hell Song"
  2. "Over My Head (Better Off Dead)" (demo)
  3. "My Direction" (demo)
  4. "The Hell Song" (video)

Part 2

  1. "The Hell Song" (live)
  2. "Still Waiting" (live)
  3. "Rhthyms" (live)
  4. "The Hell Song" (live) (video)

All live tracks (on this CD) from Sound, London.

7"

A :

  1. "The Hell Song"

B :

  1. "Still Waiting" (Live from Sound, London)

Charts

Chart (2003) Peak
position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart 76
Belgian Singles Chart (Flanders) 59
UK Singles Chart 35
U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks 13
Canadian Singles Chart 2

References

  1. ↑ Sum 41 Sober Up On New LP - News Story | Music, Celebrity, Artist News|MTV News
  2. ↑ Billboard, November 30, 2002, Vol. 114, No. 48, Page 11.

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