Into Yer Shtik

the main person with the shtik is courtney love though the other verses are about the hole guitarist Eric something,who went out with drew barrymore at the time hence the hollywood model thing, the next is about layne stanley the alice in chains singer who hung around with them, the last one is janet sue billig part of nirvana/hole management.

the whole song is mark arms disgust at what these people had become...

one of the finest angriest garage songs ever written

This song is great for anger management. :)

It's so good in that it applies to just about any person (famous or not) who goes through life with an overinflated ego and/or a 'woe is me/poor me/you don't know what I've been through' mentality (and we all know how many of those types there are out there). But at the same time, you know who Mark Arm was likely directing the message to at the time he wrote it (Courtney Love and various other characters in the Seattle scene whose celebrity attitudes he'd grown sick of).

The person who mentioned the current emo/post-grunge drudgery that is being beaten to death on the airwaves right now also had a good point. The overall meaning of the song just fits so many different situations and will always be relevant.

I'm not a fan of Mark Arm, especially because his grumbling rants, against everybody up there seattle, makes me wonder if he had some jealousy problem or if he like to talk shit on everybody. I can understand his frustration for not being included in the "seattle four" but he have to accept that there are many variables and that many times the success is made 50-50 of talent and luck. But he will always be considered one of the founders of the latest innovative music for 30 years now.

Anyway, these are my thoughts: this song is about the "scene" and how, when the business overcome the music, everything start to be about money, shit and phony classic rock dude, sex drug and rock and roll.

"You're so tormented Demented Indebted To all the assholes (Just like you) Who've come and gone (Before you) predictable Just plain dull Why don't you Blow your brains out, too You're so into yer shtik

You're so hounded Ungrounded Surrounded By scum suckin' leeches Who will shovel your shit Sweep your dirt (Hoping for an...) Feed your ego They never tell you no All of you Make me sick You're so into yer shtik"

You play the role of the damned rocker that, as a clichè, sooner or later will die, or because of drugs or because commits suicide. This parts seems to be about Nirvana entourage. Courtney and Kurt, the tormented couple of Seattle trapped by their own fantasies, sorrounded by too muck "yes men" that, indeed of spank them, feed their addictions for the money and for stay under the spot light of their fame. But a great role in this scenario is played by Courtney, who, on the basis of a difficult and complicated childhood , pour out on her husband and on the group, her whole madness (madness that seems more like a mask than a reality). And Mark Arm says: kill yourself, make us this favour.

Well, Mitchell's got a new girl She's nineteen Hollywood model Star of the screen Well, she's up here To support the scene It's all part Of his rock and roll fantasy

This guy, as in a movie, now have this model girlfriend (little story: The alternative scene was always being against models, considered a bad role model for women. One day, Axl Roses arrived in the back stage with a model and Courtney Love started to began to tease her and eventually Axl told Kurt: hey, shut up your bitch! and Kurt, referring to Courtney: Shut up bitch! Or Beth Liebling, in the backstage, screamed Models! Models! as a warning signal when she saw them coming - ah, the irony!) that, as at Coachella, play the role of alternative girlfriend of the alternative rocker, but it's all a bunch of bullshit!

Stan was at the bar With bandaged hands They tried to dry him out And he got mad He cut his fist Punchin' hospital glass Made his myth Now he's trapped

This part is obviously about Layne Staley (Stan). Bandaged hands because of abscesses from heroin, sourrounded by many people that would like him being clean and sober. But, according to Arm, he is ok in the myth of tormented guy. He escape from rehab, he's ok being an addicted. But now, even if he would like to stop, he is trapped into the cage build by himself. ( a note: Mark Arm considers himself cooler of Layne and Kurt because he overcome his addiction)

Susie's just a girl Who's doin' her job That came to New York And wanted a car Workin' with the management To the stars Kissin' ass Is a part of her job

Well, it's part of her job Yeah, it's part of her job Oh she loves her job What the hell She does it so well

Susie is a girl that work in the music management, and even if her job is, for a great part, kiss the ass of spoiled musicians ( again, musicians that have sold their souls to majors and have kicked the music for money) she enjoy her job. and seems to be a great sin because the business is full of shit!

I'm not perfect I live a life of mistakes I'm not perfect But there's one thing I can't take You are into yer shtik You're so into yer shtik And they're so into yer shtik Fuck you all, you make me sick

A little awareness from Mark Arm: I'm not perfect, I made ​​mistakes and so on. But you do a lot more crap to me and I will not stand it. Fuck everything and everyone.

about the scene, and people that went head over heels for fame. I hope the "blow your brains out too" is NOT about Kurt Cobain. It may be though, the timing would be correct.

It seems like it's about people who've sold out and abandoned thier integrity for fame or money or whatever. "The blow your brains out too" does seem like its about Kurt to me, which makes me think the first verse is about the lovely Ms. Love (Please don't let this turn into a murder debate like EVERY Nirvana song.) I don't think it's necassarily disrespectful to Kurt it just seems like they're saying "Why don't you follow this trend aswell?" Also the timing is all wrong and I know this isn't what Mudhoney had in mind when this song was written but that first verse reminds me so much of the current emo phase we're in with music at the moment. Maybe once a genre goes mainstream it becomes like this as almost a default.

Most of everyone hit it on the head with it about being about the commercialization of the grunge scene.

According to Mark and Steve (as told in "Everbody Loves Our Town; An Oral History of Grunge"): The first two verses are equally about Courtney Love and Scott Weiland. "Stan" is Layne Staley. "Mitchell" is Eric Erlandson of Hole, and his 19 year old girlfriend (at the time) is, Drew Barrymore. "Susie" is Janet Billig of Gold Mountain Management.

the "blow your brains out too" line is probably about kurt, but i think the song or at least that verse is about artists who copy other artists who came before them. hes mocking the post-grunge bands saying, ok since youve copied everything nirvanas ever done, now that hes dead why dont you put a shotgun in your mouth and be really authentic. real angry song

The song is about Layne Staley , who was the singer of Alice In Chains. Mark Arm said it in the " Grunge is dead " book by Greg Prato .

I don't think Mark considers himself "cooler" or somehow better than Kurt and Layne because he successfully quit smack and they didn't. There isn't really anything "cool" or superior about being a recovered addict, because that means you were an addict at some point. I think Mark is more disappointed and/or frustrated that they didn't make it. Yes, he can be an abrasive character with little tolerance for sugar-coating and bullshit, and that's bound to rub some people the wrong way. However, he's said himself that without his wife's ultimatum, he'd likely be a dead junkie too. "Cool" is probably about the last thing the members of Mudhoney would ever call themselves, as a group or individually.

The verse "made his myth, now he's trapped" refers directly to Layne's self-expressed contentment with becoming the junkie rockstar caricature he drew for himself on 'Dirt'. For as many times as he tried and failed to kick heroin for good, Layne eventually got to a point where he gave up and convinced himself that he was just meant to be an addict. It's very true that Mark considered this attitude pathetic, and a waste. You probably would too, if you have ever spent a significant amount of time watching an active alcoholic and/or addict slowly and deliberately kill themselves.

"Why don't you blow your brains out too?" along with that entire first verse, and the title of the song itself, are obvious jabs at all of the copycat 'post-grunge' bands like Candlebox, Bush, Seven Mary Three, Creed, etc. that ripped off the grunge sound for a quick profit.

The second verse is about Courtney Love and the Nirvana entourage.

I always thought "Susie" was Susan Silver, manager of Soundgarden and Alice in Chains and ex-wife of Chris Cornell. Honestly though, there were (and still are) loads of those self-aggrandized con artists running around collecting paychecks at the expense of the actual performers.