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“Talk Shows On Mute” by Incubus

From the album A Crow Left of the Murder… (2004)

“Talk Shows On Mute” by Incubus appears on 21 radio countdowns from 21 stations in 2004. It was first released in 2004 on the album A Crow Left of the Murder…. Its best result is #13 on the X96 Top 50 Songs of 2004. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #21 alternative song of 2004 and #206 of the '00s.

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"Talk Shows on Mute" was the second single from Incubus's 2004 album A Crow Left of the Murder..., and it's the band at its most restrained, a mellow, pared-back track where Mike Einziger's guitar hangs back and José Pasillas and bassist Ben Kenney leave plenty of air around Brandon Boyd's voice. Brendan O'Brien produced and mixed it, with Nick DiDia recording.

Boyd got the idea on a plane, idly making up dialogue for a talk show playing on the plane's TVs, until it struck him that one day the television might be watching the viewer instead. The lyric runs with that creepy notion, nodding to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. Floria Sigismondi directed the video, and the song climbed to No. 3 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Hard Rock & Metal

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2004 24 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2004 107
2004 30 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 2004 91
2004 31 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2004 101
2004 17 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2004 100
2004 25 K-Rock New York, NY K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2004 93
2004 56 WFNX Boston, MA WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2004 100
2004 39 107.7 The End Seattle, WA The End Top 77 Songs of 2004 77
2004 27 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON 89X Top 89 Songs of 2004 89
2004 29 Y100 Philadelphia, PA Y100 Top 100 Songs of 2004 99
2004 27 CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON CFNY Top 102 Songs of 2004 102
2004 95 CHOI Radio X Quebec City, QC CHOI Top 98 Songs of 2004 98
2004 89 The Bear Ottawa, ON The Bear Top 107 Songs of 2004 107
2004 15 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2004 99
2004 83 WCCC The Rock Hartford, CT WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2004 106
2004 38 Channel 104.9 San Jose, CA Channel 104.9 Top 104.9 Songs of 2004 105
2004 39 99X Atlanta, GA 99X Essential 99 of 2004 99
2004 26 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2004 88
2004 52 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 2004 103
2004 20 WHTG Monmouth-Ocean, NJ G106.3 Top 106 Songs of 2004 106
2004 13 X96 Salt Lake City, UT X96 Top 50 Songs of 2004 50
2004 21 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2004 100

Also listed as: Talk Show on Mute; Talk Shows on Mute; Talk Show On Mute.

Charting alongside it in 2004

Best songs of 2004 →
  1. 1Somebody Told MeThe Killers
  2. 2American IdiotGreen Day
  3. 3Float OnModest Mouse
  4. 4Take Me OutFranz Ferdinand
  5. 5VertigoU2
  6. 6MegalomaniacIncubus

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