"World Shut Your Mouth" was released as a single from Saint Julian in September 1986.

Cope said of the success he achieved with the song, "I hated [being a pop star].

And I hated the fact ... it's what Smithy [Mark E. Smith] said himself, that all the English bands act like peasants with free milk.

All their belligerence went and they turned into forelock-tugging gruelheads as soon as they were around record company types".

[1] Ned Raggett of AllMusic described the song as a "simply fantastic hit UK single".