2.0 garbage version two point poll 2.0

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.

I love this thread

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

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

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn),

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.

"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)

Huh? TIL

it is quite obvious when you know it but never connected the two of them before.

The Parallel Lines of the nineties.

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, February 4, 2013 2:23 PM (ten years ago)

otm

Supposedly they had to put up some serious $$$ for that Clash sample (they didn't name names in interviews, only alluding to dealing with a 'seminal band' who were surprisingly uncool about clearing samples, and they ultimately had to meet all of that group's demands to secure it).

“… but you didn’t charge Big Audio Dynamite anything!”

Weird that they’d be fixed on using the sample, they could have brought a drummer and copy it and it would’ve been difficult to prove it as a rip-off. It’s a fairly common drum groove.

"the trick is to keep breathing" was my mantra in high school partially thanks to this album.

Apparently there’s also an REM sample but I’m not noticing it.

It’s been a while since I listened to it, I just noticed there’s also some creepy noises that sound like digital pig grunts.

There was a Todd Terry remix of "Stupid Girl" that used the opening of "Orange Crush"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkzKNAySas8-

Supposedly the original one also has the “orange crush” sample at 1:23

I remember Beautiful Garbage was a bit of a letdown after the brilliant first two albums. Might need to give it a second chance because the first two are really good and the singles are some of the best of the decade.

Even non album singles for soundtracks like Crush #1 and the james bond song are the best things on those movies.

It's so badly sequenced.

Version 2.0 is probably the album I listened to the most in ‘98. Just ALL THE TIME.