"Tell Me Where It Hurts" | ||||
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Single by Garbage | ||||
from the album Absolute Garbage | ||||
B-side |
"Betcha" |
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Released | July 16, 2007 (See release history) |
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Format |
7" vinyl, CD single, DVD, Digital download |
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Recorded | March 2007 at Kung Foo Sound & GrungeIsDead, Los Angeles |
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Length | 4:10 | |||
Label | A&E Records | |||
Writer(s) | Garbage | |||
Producer(s) | Garbage | |||
Garbage singles chronology | ||||
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"Betcha"
"Tell Me Where It Hurts" is the 2007 lead single from alternative rock band Garbage's career-spanning greatest hits album Absolute Garbage, and was released as a physical single by A&E Records in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and as a digital single or airplay-only release in other worldwide territories.
"Tell Me Where It Hurts" was written by Garbage members Duke Erikson, Shirley Manson, Steve Marker and Butch Vig in Los Angeles in March 2007 after an eighteen-month hiatus from working as a group, as they needed to write some new songs for inclusion on Absolute Garbage. The song was written around a string arrangement by the band coupled with newly written lyrics and a title that vocalist Manson had come up with a few years prior.
Garbage began work on "Tell Me Where It Hurts" in earnest during February and March 2007 at Vig's home studio in Los Angeles, ending their self-imposed hiatus to record new tracks following the band's appearance at a benefit show in Glendale, California for musician Wally Ingram who had been suffering from throat cancer. In an interview prior to that event, drummer Vig told Billboard "Despite the layoff, the group has been sharing song ideas via the Internet. We need to sit down in a room and play them and get them complete".