Shut Up – The Footy's on the Radio explained

Shut Up – The Footy's on the Radio
Cover:footy-radio.jpg
Type:single
Artist:TISM
Released:June 1997
Recorded:March 1997
Genre:Alternative rock
Length:2:40
Prev Title:Garbage
Prev Year:1996
Next Title:Yob
Next Year:1997

"Shut Up – The Footy's on the Radio" is a song by Australian Alternative rock band, TISM. It was written as an entrant for a Triple M football competition in 1997, which it won. Its prize was to be the theme music for Triple M's AFL coverage.[1] The song peaked at number 90 on the ARIA Charts.

The song was rerecorded and re-released in March 2010 and used in Triple M's AFL coverage for the 2010 season.[2]

On 17 September 2021, the extended B-side remixes were released on the group's remix album Collected Remixes, followed by the radio edit on the 2022 best of Collected Versus. This is the first time the song has been made available beyond its parent CD single.

Reception

By some, the single was described simply as "commercial opportunism".[3]

Heard magazine's reviewer rated the track as 8.5 out of 10, with the explanation "The masked men return with a pretty cool commercial hit... the guys go a long way to get every listener into the football spirit by getting the guitars & general 'yob' atmosphere happening."[4] However, they felt that "There doesn't really seem to be much point to having three different [mix] versions to me, when we could have had one of their album out-takes or something similar."[4]

Track listing

CD single (G008)

  1. "Shut Up – The Footy's on the Radio" (Radio edit) – 2:40
  2. "Shut Up – The Footy's on the Radio" (extended mix) – 3:05
  3. "Shut Up – The Footy's on the Radio" (Triple M edit) – 3:02

Charts

Chart (1997)!scope="col"
Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[5] 90

Notes and References

  1. Web site: TISM History - 1997. serious.sbn. 1997. https://web.archive.org/web/20071026174705/http://serious.sbn.bz/base/view/document/history1997. 5 June 2021. 26 October 2007.
  2. Web site: Shut Up - The Footy's On The Radio 21st Century Remix. Apple Music . March 2010. 9 June 2021.
  3. http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/dossier/id165/pg1/index.html TISM at Disinformation.
  4. News: http://nla.gov.au/nla.arc-11793-20021219-0000-heard0997/REV10.HTM . TISM – 'Shut Up – The Footy's on the Radio' . Heard . 19 December 2002 . 20 July 2016 .
  5. Web site: The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles Chart – Week Ending 15 Oct 1995. Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA). 6 July 2017. 282. N.B. The HP column displays the highest peak reached.