Tell Me Where It Hurts (Garbage song)

"Tell Me Where It Hurts"
Single by Garbage
from the album Absolute Garbage
B-side
  • "Betcha"
  • "All the Good in This Life"
ReleasedJuly 16, 2007
RecordedMarch 2007
StudioKung Foo Sound & GrungeIsDead, Los Angeles
Length4:10
LabelA&E Records
Songwriter(s)Garbage
Producer(s)Garbage
Garbage singles chronology
"Run Baby Run"
(2005)
"Tell Me Where It Hurts"
(2007)
"Blood for Poppies"
(2012)

"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.[1]

"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[2] coupled with newly written lyrics and a title that vocalist Manson had come up with a few years prior.[3]

  1. ^ "New Best Of Album". Garbage.com. Archived from the original on 2009-06-20. Retrieved 2007-05-22.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference TMWIHDVD was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Interview with Duke Erikson, Lime magazine, September 2007 issue