bag. Both formats sold out in the first week. "Subhuman" debuted at #50 on the UK Singles Chart. In case of demand, Mushroom also manufactured an extra 2,000 copies of the 7" in a simple black card sleeve. These made it into shops the following week, at the end of which "Subhuman" fell to #77. Commercial track listings UK CD single Mushroom D1138 "Subhuman" – 4:36 "#1 Crush" – 4:52 "Vow" – 4:30 UK 7" vinyl Mushroom S1138 / SX1138 "Subhuman" – 4:36 "#1 Crush" – 4:52 Digital download "Subhuman (Supersize mix)" – 5:13 Post-release Both "Subhuman" and "#1 Crush" were never intended to be included on the band's debut album, which was released in the United Kingdom in October 1995. Both tracks were however included as bonus tracks on the Japanese edition of Garbage. In November, "Subhuman" was included on Rare Track Collection, a five track sampler given away free by Virgin Megastores in France with purchases of the album. Towards the end of the following year, "Subhuman" b-side "#1 Crush" was remixed by Nellee Hooper for inclusion on the soundtrack album to Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet. As the album opener, "#1 Crush" received massive airplay at alternative radio. At the start of 1997, "#1 Crush" hit #1 on the Modern Rock chart and stayed there for four weeks. Later the same year, limited two-disc edition of Garbage featuring "Subhuman" and three other b-sides was issued in Korea and Singapore. In 1998, "Subhuman" was included on Independent Access, a CD sampler given away by Newbury Comics stores in the United States with purchases of Garbage's second album Version 2.0. In 2015, Garbage announced the 20th Anniversary Edition of their debut album with a free download of an extended version of "Subhuman" with all pre-orders. "Subhuman" was included on the deluxe edition of the reissue. "I just don’t feel that everyone felt ["Subhuman"] was strong enough to put on the record", Shirley Manson stated in 2015. "In retrospect it’s a bit silly, because it’s fantastic. You make strange choices and you have to live by them". In 2022, "Subhuman" was remastered by Heba Kadry and included in the band's third greatest hits album Anthology. Critical reception "Subhuman" received a mostly positive response from music critics. Before the release of the single, Volume described the song as having a "dark sensibility and bouts of Trent Reznor-esque depression". Both Kerrang! and