Garbage - classic or dud

When was the last time you thought, "You know, I would love to hear some Garbage"?

When I saw this thread!

1995

1 month ago i put version 2.0 on. the debut still kicks its ass, but Push It is something else.

I stuck Supervixen (aka Only Shallow II) on the other day!

Always made me car-sick.

Bunch of fat dads squeezing into those tight pants.

I re-discovered 2.0 year ago and I still listen it to it pretty regularly. I like it much better than the debut

Surely Shirley's debut should have been out by now, no?

When was the last time you thought, "You know, I would love to hear some Garbage"?

Three weeks ago! I really wanted to hear "Hammering in My Head."

I had the hits album out the other day (the regular albums are in storage). Speaking of Shirley, I read in TV Guide that she's going to appear in a semi-regular role this season on Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles.

I spent an afternoon a few weeks ago scouring the web in the hopes that some enterprising nerd compiled & illegally uploaded a collection of Garbage b-sides.

And that's all I'm saying about that.

they have some good songs

The first album singles SOUND fantastic, with awesome hooks, and I love them... but god are they inane. "I'm Only Happy When It Rains"? Just look at that title. Couldn't find a worse example of packaged DARK NINETIES NIHILISM AND BADDITUDE. Obviously this was essential to their success but it'd be kind of nice if they had less aggressively stupid lyrics.

Still great though. "I'm only happy when it ray-heeens!" So much fun to sing along to. This was great car music.

They're also your one-stop shop for alt-rock videography cliches, if you're into that kind of thing. Dirty, chemically damaged film... illegible writing scrawled everywhere... flares between over- and under-exposed shots...awkward stop-and-start speed changes... watching "Stupid Girl" just brings back hours and hours of MTV.

dud becuz lol 90s

They're also your one-stop shop for alt-rock videography cliches, if you're into that kind of thing. Dirty, chemically damaged film... illegible writing scrawled everywhere... flares between over- and under-exposed shots...awkward stop-and-start speed changes... watching "Stupid Girl" just brings back hours and hours of MTV

One of the basic hd TV channels in my area is a Latin music channel. I was channel surfing the other day and and happened upon a video by a singer/group that I missed the name of which was practically a cover of the "Stupid Girl" video (similar visual effects & sets, even the singer looked like a latina Shirley Manson).

Alternacandy is the best!

i'd forgotten how exciting 'vow' was, having just heard it for the first time in probably ten years

Tubular bells + kettle drums in middle section of Cherry Lips = classic

I still really like 2.0

"I Think I'm Paranoid" was integral to my improvement as a Rock Band player last year.

Never thought I'd see Shirley T-1000 it up as urinal and then stab a guy at the time. Shows what I knew.

I heard "Why Do You Love Me?" for the first time in years on the muzak where I had lunch yesterday. I'd forgotten how crummy it was. Sounds like an outtake form the first album. It seems like it should work--the band has a good pulse, Manson was a charismatic as ever--but it just doesn't gel. And that was their comeback single!

I remember, as a 16 year old, thinking that Garbage would take over the world; be the next Sonic Youth or Nirvana. Hah! I pretty much only like the intro riff fromt he first song ont he first album now, even if it does sound like the intro of Loveless.

new album out, yeah? halfway through it and it's more like "bleed like me" than the earlier albums, unfortunately.

I stuck Supervixen (aka Only Shallow II) on the other day!

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lol thought i'd bone up on old mbv and this suddenly hit me. and it's pink

now listening to this instead obv

lol, so true.

This is better than anything on the new MBV record.

beyond love the first two albums, especially v2.0 which is so generous in its devotion to thinking of sounds you haven't heard.

also never get tired of the "supervixen" drop-out gimmick; i am easily amused (aroused?)

well since it's asked way upthread this is the thread with the back and forth between ned and tim about garbage TS: Curve's "Horror Head" vs. Garbage's entire discography

an ilx classic imo

you'll take Version 2.0 from my cold dead hands

anyone else heard the new one? the first track threw me off so much, i love it

like it sounds like it belongs on portishead's third

Yeah, I listened to it this morning. It's their strongest album in years. Some of the ballads are really great.

wow @ "magnetized." wow.

very positive 4 star review in the current mojo !

I'm listening to it now. Accidentally had it on shuffle and "Sometimes" going straight into "Magnetized" was incredible - disappointed it's not the actual running order. "Empty" is the only weak moment out of the first five songs so far!

i am so excited to really enjoy a garbage album in 2016 !!!!

Shirley's lyrics haven't got any better since the last album (which, no, stop saying things) but it really doesn't matter.

Opening of "Even If Our Love Is Doomed" reminds me of the melody of "Take Me Out". Like how part of "Night Drive Loneliness" seems to hark back to "You Look So Fine".

The enthusiasm in this thread is making me excited. Version 2.0 is like my original favourite album of all time but the last two were so not the direction they should have been following.

Empty seems like a very strange choice of single. It's one of the weakest songs on here.

Wish "We Never Tell" had had the megapop chorus it sounds like it should have had, and "So We Can Stay Alive" does but sounds like it shouldn't. Still like both of them! This is so much better than the last two records it's not even funny.

revisited most of the catalog over the past two days, and yeah, this is the best since version 2.0. gets better every time i listen to it

Nice to see this getting some pretty good reviews.

That feeling when your old favourite band releases their best album in 18 years!

I was really wanting to like this, but I didn't think too much until Magnetized. And thought the rest of the album was solidly great from there.

also not that impressed. 'Sometimes,' 'If I Lost You,' and 'We Never Tell' are great, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcfOmhGJ8G4

their best song/video combination in... idk how long. reminds me of "push it' in moood

I came around to tear your little world apart!