When was the last time you thought, "You know, I would love to hear some Garbage"?
― Mark Rich@rdson, Friday, 1 August 2008 05:03 (fifteen years ago) link
When I saw this thread!
― moley, Friday, 1 August 2008 06:14 (fifteen years ago) link
1995
― electricsound, Friday, 1 August 2008 06:42 (fifteen years ago) link
1 month ago i put version 2.0 on. the debut still kicks its ass, but Push It is something else.
― Surmounter, Friday, 1 August 2008 13:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I stuck Supervixen (aka Only Shallow II) on the other day!
― Just got offed, Friday, 1 August 2008 14:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Always made me car-sick.
Bunch of fat dads squeezing into those tight pants.
― Hadrian VIII, Friday, 1 August 2008 14:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I re-discovered 2.0 year ago and I still listen it to it pretty regularly. I like it much better than the debut
― baaderonixx, Friday, 1 August 2008 14:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Surely Shirley's debut should have been out by now, no?
― StanM, Friday, 1 August 2008 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Three weeks ago! I really wanted to hear "Hammering in My Head."
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 1 August 2008 15:16 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Friday, 1 August 2008 15:46 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― David R., Friday, 1 August 2008 16:00 (fifteen years ago) link
And that's all I'm saying about that.
― David R., Friday, 1 August 2008 16:01 (fifteen years ago) link
they have some good songs
― latebloomer, Friday, 1 August 2008 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 6 February 2009 05:05 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 6 February 2009 05:08 (fifteen years ago) link
dud becuz lol 90s
― velko, Friday, 6 February 2009 05:14 (fifteen years ago) link
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).
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Alternacandy is the best!
― u s steel, Friday, 6 February 2009 22:41 (fifteen years ago) link
i'd forgotten how exciting 'vow' was, having just heard it for the first time in probably ten years
― carbonara not glue (electricsound), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 05:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Tubular bells + kettle drums in middle section of Cherry Lips = classic
― ecuador_with_a_c, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 06:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I still really like 2.0
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 08:52 (fifteen years ago) link
"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.
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 09:05 (fifteen years ago) link
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!
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 24 September 2010 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 24 September 2010 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
new album out, yeah? halfway through it and it's more like "bleed like me" than the earlier albums, unfortunately.
― producer / dj / humanitarian (reddening), Thursday, 24 May 2012 04:09 (eleven years ago) link
I stuck Supervixen (aka Only Shallow II) on the other day!― Just got offed, Friday, 1 August 2008 15:01 (4 years ago) Bookmark
― Just got offed, Friday, 1 August 2008 15:01 (4 years ago) Bookmark
lol thought i'd bone up on old mbv and this suddenly hit me. and it's pink
now listening to this instead obv
― r|t|c, Sunday, 3 February 2013 11:35 (eleven years ago) link
lol, so true.
This is better than anything on the new MBV record.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 3 February 2013 12:00 (eleven years ago) link
beyond love the first two albums, especially v2.0 which is so generous in its devotion to thinking of sounds you haven't heard.
― a permanent mental health break (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 3 February 2013 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
also never get tired of the "supervixen" drop-out gimmick; i am easily amused (aroused?)
― a permanent mental health break (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 3 February 2013 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
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
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 3 February 2013 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
you'll take Version 2.0 from my cold dead hands
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 3 February 2013 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
anyone else heard the new one? the first track threw me off so much, i love it
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 June 2016 19:15 (seven years ago) link
like it sounds like it belongs on portishead's third
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 June 2016 19:16 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I listened to it this morning. It's their strongest album in years. Some of the ballads are really great.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 9 June 2016 19:31 (seven years ago) link
wow @ "magnetized." wow.
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 June 2016 19:42 (seven years ago) link
very positive 4 star review in the current mojo !
― mark e, Thursday, 9 June 2016 19:44 (seven years ago) link
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!
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Thursday, 9 June 2016 19:45 (seven years ago) link
i am so excited to really enjoy a garbage album in 2016 !!!!
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 June 2016 19:47 (seven years ago) link
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".
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Thursday, 9 June 2016 19:52 (seven years ago) link
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.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 9 June 2016 19:52 (seven years ago) link
Empty seems like a very strange choice of single. It's one of the weakest songs on here.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 9 June 2016 20:00 (seven years ago) link
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.
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Thursday, 9 June 2016 20:04 (seven years ago) link
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
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 10 June 2016 20:24 (seven years ago) link
Nice to see this getting some pretty good reviews.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 10 June 2016 22:07 (seven years ago) link
That feeling when your old favourite band releases their best album in 18 years!
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Saturday, 11 June 2016 07:06 (seven years ago) link
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.
― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Saturday, 11 June 2016 10:05 (seven years ago) link
also not that impressed. 'Sometimes,' 'If I Lost You,' and 'We Never Tell' are great, though.
― KevRus, Saturday, 11 June 2016 17:53 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcfOmhGJ8G4
their best song/video combination in... idk how long. reminds me of "push it' in moood
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 7 October 2016 17:36 (seven years ago) link
I came around to tear your little world apart!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 8 October 2017 05:44 (six years ago) link