Joshua. "Johnny Yen" is a satirical jab at the concepts of outsider music and being a tortured artist. The band had a different song with a similar lyrical theme, which was improvised live despite being unfinished; "Johnny Yen" was inspired by having seen Iggy Pop live. Booth wrote the lyrics in the back of their touring van, with Whelan offering one of two lines. "Summer Song" is about reincarnation and people who damage the planet for the sake of progress. It is followed by "Really Hard", which talks about being misunderstood. Booth referred to the former as one of their first "journey" tracks—songs that do not follow particular structures; they had worked on it over the course of a few years. Booth considered "Billy's Shirts" one of the band's "stranger experiments in song", inspired by "Rock Lobster" (1978) by the B-52's. "Why So Close" is a pseudo-protest track about the questionable choice of working with nuclear energy. It is an acoustic remake of the Jimone track "Fire So Close" that placed an emphasis on Booth's lyrics and Whelan's piano playing, which contrasted with Jimone version of a full-band punk sound. The closing track, "Black Hole", talks about the mind being one's worst enemy, and features some of Booth's earliest lyrics. Release In June 1986, "So Many Ways" was released as a single, and featured "Withdrawn" and "Just Hipper" as extra tracks. Sire funded a music video for "So Many Ways", which saw the band standing in a field. In early July 1986, the band played a warm-up show before a performance at WOMAD Festival. Sire and Blanco y Negro Records released Stutter on 28 July 1986. The following month, the band embarked on a four-show tour in the UK. Except for some performances in mainland Europe, the band opted not to tour to support the album. The band were invited to support the Smiths on their tour of the United States; however, they pulled out four days before it started. Sire and Stein were annoyed by the album's lack of success, and with the band for not including a song on the album that Stein had heard them play live previously. "Skullduggery" was sampled as part of a remix done by Andrew Weatherall of one of the band's later singles "Come Home" (1989). Stutter was released on CD for the first time in 1991, and again in 2017 as part