- Hush (Tool song)
"Hush" is a song by Tool from their 1992 EP "Opiate". The song was first recorded on a self-titled demo tape variously known as "Toolshed" and "72826", recorded in mid-1991. It was the first song that helped establish the band's reputation.cite web
url = http://www.mywire.com/pubs/Muze/2006/03/01/626679?extID=10051
title = Tool Biography
work = Encyclopedia of Popular Music
publisher = Muze
date =2007-02-01
accessdate = 2007-05-13
format = excerpt; fee required
quote = ..."Hush" helping establish a buzz for the band; the accompanying video graphically displayed the song's anti-censorship slant... as the band appeared naked with their mouths taped shut.]The lyrics protest
censorship , which is a recurring theme in Tool songs. [cite web
url = http://www.mywire.com/pubs/RoughGuidesMusic/1999/10/01/284720?extID=10051
title = Tool
author = Craig Joyce
publisher =Rough Guides
date =1999-10-01
accessdate = 2007-05-13
quote = The first release from OPIATE, “Hush”, was a condemnation of censorship, something the band have repeatedly run into.] [cite news
url = http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/172259_tabootunes07.html
title = Author's 'Taboo Tunes' hits a timely note
author = D. Parvaz
publisher =Seattle Post-Intelligencer
date =2004-05-07
accessdate = 2007-05-13]Music video
The
music video for "Hush" was Tool's first. Inblack-and-white film, the band members appear nude in a white room, with tape over their mouths and signs hanging over their crotches that read "Parental Advisory: Explicit Parts", a parody of the "" sticker.The Canadian music channel
MuchMusic played it regularly, [cite episode
title = Tool interview with Theresa Roncon
series = Spotlight
serieslink = Spotlight (TV series)
network =MuchMusic
city =Toronto
airdate = February 1997
transcripturl = http://toolshed.down.net/articles/index.php?action=view-article&id=February_1997--Muchmusic.html Transcribed by Rory Mitchell and archived at the Tool Page. “Theresa: We played it all the time on MuchMusic.”] but it received little airtime elsewhere.Fact|date=May 2007The concept was entirely provided by vocalist
Maynard James Keenan . [cite web
url = http://toolshed.down.net/articles/index.php?action=view-article&id=December_1994--Hypno.html
title = Tool
author = David Jenison
publisher = "HYPNO", transcribed by K [elly] and archived at the Tool Page
month = December | year = 1994
pages = 37
accessdate = 2007-05-13
quote = The idea for the video, which was completely thought up by Maynard...] It is the only Tool music video other than "Sober" in which the band members appear, and the only one in which they appear in a prominent fashion.There is a misconception thatKen Andrews was the director, [The Tool FAQ, D2.] cite news
url = http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/multiarticlesub.aspx?csid1=1&csid2=9&fid1=167
title = Tool: Stepping Out From the Shadows
author = Roman Sokal
publisher =Exclaim!
date = February 2000
accessdate = 2007-05-13
quote = The video for "Hush," directed by Failure’s Ken Andrews, portrays the band naked walking across a white room with Parental Advisory signs over their buttocks.] but this is not the case.Fact|date=May 2007Notes
References
* cite web
url = http://toolshed.down.net/faq/faq.html
title = The Tool FAQ
author = Kabir Akhtar
publisher = The Tool Page
date =2001-07-16
accessdate = 2007-05-13
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