Here's to Shutting Up explained

Here's to Shutting Up
Type:Album
Artist:Superchunk
Cover:Here's_to_Shutting_Up.jpg
Released:September 18, 2001
Genre:Alternative rock, indie rock
Length:43:41
Label:Merge
Producer:Brian Paulson, Superchunk
Prev Title:Come Pick Me Up
Prev Year:1999
Next Title:The Clambakes Series Vol. 1
Next Year:2002

Here's to Shutting Up is the eighth studio album by American indie rock band Superchunk. Brian Paulson, who served as co-producer, previously worked with the band on 1994's Foolish.

The band left "Phone Sex" out of the initial performances of the accompanying tour; with the September 11, 2001 attacks a painfully fresh memory, the members felt uncomfortable performing a song featuring the lyrics "Plane crash footage on TV. I know, I know that could be me."[1]

The title of the album is taken from the opening of the song "Out on the Wing."

Track listing

  1. "Late-Century Dream" – 4:37
  2. "Rainy Streets" – 2:07
  3. "Phone Sex" – 4:54
  4. "Florida's on Fire" – 3:11
  5. "Out on the Wing" – 5:51
  6. "The Animal Has Left Its Shell" – 3:32
  7. "Act Surprised" – 3:59
  8. "Art Class (Song for Yayoi Kusama)" – 4:15
  9. "What Do You Look Forward To?" – 7:41
  10. "Drool Collection" – 3:32

Notes and References

  1. http://www.highbeam.com/library/docFree.asp?DOCID=1G1:85700188