2.0 garbage version two point poll 2.0

My Lover's Box >>>

Really I'm mostly reminded how powerful those anguished, self-loathing lyrics delivered as if they were threats and as if the singer was the most powerful being in the world were

Production-wise I don't think I made the JLP connection then or now: it's like a heavier Sneaker Pimps (and the template Tori took REALLY out there on Venus/Choirgirl) (and PJ on Desire?), and was like my token rock-because-it-sounds-like-trip-hop album

It's also weird how the Britney thing is inescapable when listening to the debut but NOT Version 2.0

Oh sorry I meant to say: I think that's what i thought at the time but not now. But yeah it also fit in with Portishead and Bjork and etc. that I was listening to, to some extent at least (the other stuff you mentioned obv coming afterwards).

Re Britney, that's the ennervated quality, yeah?

"A Stroke of Luck" SO GOOD.

There's a kind of bleary quality to the production which is very trip hop (and which actually not many major label people had picked up on circa 1995 - but it was everywhere by the following year) - whereas the second album is too pristine to give that vibe.

(also Depeche Mode's Songs of Faith & Devotion - I'd expect that was a big reference point for Butch going into this?)

"Stupid Girl" really stood out as the most perfectly realised of the singles on this listen.

It sure is! "Queer" has worn the worst imo.

Possibly. It was my favourite at the time.

nah Queer totally held up this morning, it's def the one Britney should cover

I was never a huge fan of Stupid Girl and I think Only Happy When It Rains should probably be relegated to karaoke fun status

Milk is still incredible

og or tricky mix

(well both obv but i have never decided which i prefer)

both, and same

maybe the tricky mix just for the added angle?

Tricky remix was some of dude's prettiest work.

his single with creep and alejandra deheza last year reminded me of "milk" (though not as good)

Good point about SOFAD and the electro-goth/trip hop nexus. Put the Portishead remix of In Your Room next to the Tricky and Massive Attack mixes of Milk and it makes total sense.

wookie might have made a good garbage remixer, always so well attuned to goth vengeance

Yeah his remix of "Bulletproof" would have been a classic if it was a remix of Garbage rather than La Roux.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGGYzcs8fsM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP63o79qyu0

zomg

finally a proper soundtrack for evading goblins while out shopping

"stupid girl" is one of those cases of "obvious sample makes song kind of surprising forever" re: the "train in vain" drums

THIS IS THE NOISE THAT KEEPS ME AWAKE
MY HEAD EXPLODES AND MY BODY ACHES
LET THE BEATS GO WILD

Or whatever she hisses

I bet you wish you could let it go
You'll never COME
sucking your THUMB
Better off DUMB

why are all the best ilx posts about garbage

anyway i don't admit this on the thread but i heard version 2.0 first which is probably actually why i prefer it to the debut, beyond tim's point about its embrace of bubblegum upthread

some A+ posts here

Meritricious vajazzling!

for the tautologous thot

the guitar solo in "supervixen" sounds like my cat

the feline star that you cannot live without

The bass in "Temptation Waits" sounds like my boyfriend a few years ago when we broke up.

I understand at last: the Pumpkins leave me cold because Garbage's plastic gothic overstatement exists.

lol my roommate was just telling me about when she saw garbage open for sp

"shirley manson tended to stick her hands in her armpits a lot"

alfred you can sing "shattered dreams" over "vow"

I tried. So much for your promises.

lol i was only imagining it

*exegesis about how this is the sophistipop evolution of grunge*

wouldn't that be STP

gross

sweat it all out

god, Garbage. this brings back so many warm feelings. I was a huge fan after seeing "Vow" on 120 Minutes one night, got the s/t as a Christmas present. Even emailed the band a few times using an email address I had on this shitty BBS, always disappointed that it was Steve Marker and not Shirley that replied.

recall being uber excited for the sequel and loving "Push It" when it came out, loved that it managed to get more firmly entrenched in pop than its predecessor. still prefer the s/t I think, but choosing a fav on this album is tough.

"Special" was one I always loved, "The Trick is to Keep Breathing", "Temptation"....I haven't listened to this album since probably the 90s and yet the songs are still seared into my head.

'The Trick is to Keep Breathing'

Still holds up well, although I prefer the debut.

(and I speak as someone who thought they sucked in the '90s)

every song is shrinkwrapped

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, February 4, 2013 9:16 AM bookmarkflaglink

only learned about this today, perfect:

https://i.imgur.com/5frr6yY.jpg

is that a shrinkwrapped 3" cd single on a card

that’s what it is

well, in a blister pack.