Re Britney, that's the ennervated quality, yeah?
― Tim F, Friday, 8 February 2013 09:54 (eleven years ago) link
"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?)
― Tim F, Friday, 8 February 2013 09:56 (eleven years ago) link
"Stupid Girl" really stood out as the most perfectly realised of the singles on this listen.
― Tim F, Friday, 8 February 2013 10:25 (eleven years ago) link
It sure is! "Queer" has worn the worst imo.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 February 2013 12:13 (eleven years ago) link
Possibly. It was my favourite at the time.
― Tim F, Friday, 8 February 2013 12:19 (eleven years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Friday, 8 February 2013 12:31 (eleven years ago) link
og or tricky mix
― r|t|c, Friday, 8 February 2013 12:36 (eleven years ago) link
(well both obv but i have never decided which i prefer)
― r|t|c, Friday, 8 February 2013 12:37 (eleven years ago) link
both, and same
― lex pretend, Friday, 8 February 2013 12:40 (eleven years ago) link
maybe the tricky mix just for the added angle?
― lex pretend, Friday, 8 February 2013 12:41 (eleven years ago) link
Tricky remix was some of dude's prettiest work.
― Tim F, Friday, 8 February 2013 12:43 (eleven years ago) link
his single with creep and alejandra deheza last year reminded me of "milk" (though not as good)
― lex pretend, Friday, 8 February 2013 12:45 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 8 February 2013 12:48 (eleven years ago) link
wookie might have made a good garbage remixer, always so well attuned to goth vengeance
― r|t|c, Friday, 8 February 2013 13:15 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah his remix of "Bulletproof" would have been a classic if it was a remix of Garbage rather than La Roux.
― Tim F, Friday, 8 February 2013 13:22 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGGYzcs8fsM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP63o79qyu0
zomg
― r|t|c, Friday, 8 February 2013 13:28 (eleven years ago) link
finally a proper soundtrack for evading goblins while out shopping
― r|t|c, Friday, 8 February 2013 13:33 (eleven years ago) link
"stupid girl" is one of those cases of "obvious sample makes song kind of surprising forever" re: the "train in vain" drums
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 8 February 2013 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
THIS IS THE NOISE THAT KEEPS ME AWAKEMY HEAD EXPLODES AND MY BODY ACHESLET THE BEATS GO WILD
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 16 September 2015 20:01 (eight years ago) link
Or whatever she hisses
I bet you wish you could let it goYou'll never COMEsucking your THUMBBetter off DUMB
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 February 2016 19:30 (eight years ago) link
why are all the best ilx posts about garbage
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 15 February 2016 19:41 (eight years ago) link
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
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 15 February 2016 19:42 (eight years ago) link
some A+ posts here
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 February 2016 19:48 (eight years ago) link
Meritricious vajazzling!
― Tim F, Monday, 15 February 2016 20:25 (eight years ago) link
for the tautologous thot
― r|t|c, Monday, 15 February 2016 20:46 (eight years ago) link
the guitar solo in "supervixen" sounds like my cat
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 15 February 2016 20:57 (eight years ago) link
the feline star that you cannot live without
― r|t|c, Monday, 15 February 2016 21:06 (eight years ago) link
The bass in "Temptation Waits" sounds like my boyfriend a few years ago when we broke up.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 February 2016 21:10 (eight years ago) link
I understand at last: the Pumpkins leave me cold because Garbage's plastic gothic overstatement exists.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 February 2016 21:17 (eight years ago) link
lol my roommate was just telling me about when she saw garbage open for sp
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 15 February 2016 21:19 (eight years ago) link
"shirley manson tended to stick her hands in her armpits a lot"
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 15 February 2016 21:20 (eight years ago) link
alfred you can sing "shattered dreams" over "vow"
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 15 February 2016 21:21 (eight years ago) link
I tried. So much for your promises.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 February 2016 21:25 (eight years ago) link
lol i was only imagining it
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 15 February 2016 21:26 (eight years ago) link
*exegesis about how this is the sophistipop evolution of grunge*
wouldn't that be STP
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 February 2016 21:29 (eight years ago) link
gross
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 15 February 2016 21:29 (eight years ago) link
sweat it all out
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 15 February 2016 22:10 (eight years ago) link
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.
― gaz coombes? yo he don't got NUTHIN ta prove! (Neanderthal), Monday, 15 February 2016 23:24 (eight years ago) link
'The Trick is to Keep Breathing'
Still holds up well, although I prefer the debut.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 9 May 2019 15:35 (five years ago) link
(and I speak as someone who thought they sucked in the '90s)
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 9 May 2019 15:44 (five years ago) link
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
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 23 September 2023 02:17 (seven months ago) link
is that a shrinkwrapped 3" cd single on a card
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 23 September 2023 02:47 (seven months ago) link
that’s what it is
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 23 September 2023 04:26 (seven months ago) link
well, in a blister pack.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 23 September 2023 04:31 (seven months ago) link
I love this thread
― Tim F, Saturday, 23 September 2023 05:20 (seven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKAUQCQhkbc
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 23 September 2023 22:06 (seven months ago) link
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn),
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 23 September 2023 22:28 (seven months ago) link
In a few weeks it'll be the 25th anniversary of the one time I saw them live, the first show I saw on my own. Girls Against Boys opened. Between sets I unexpectedly ran into a female classmate who was there with her Mom. Come Monday morning at school, she must have told her friends that I was at the show, because I had girls coming up to my locker the rest of the day asking about it and telling me how cool they felt Shirley was.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 23 September 2023 22:56 (seven months ago) link