Absolute Garbage

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Artist: Garbage
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2007-07-24
Music Label: Almo Sounds
Soundtracks:
  1. Vow
  2. Queer
  3. Only Happy When It Rains
  4. Stupid Girl
  5. Milk
  6. #1 Crush
  7. Push It
  8. I Think I m Paranoid
  9. Special
  10. When I Grow Up
  11. You Look So Fine
  12. The World is Not Enough
  13. Cherry Lips
  14. Shut Your Mouth
  15. Why Do You Love Me
  16. Bleed Like Me
  17. Tell Me Where It Hurts
  18. It s All Over But The Crying

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Free Music Review: Garbage's poignant pantheon of their greatest works is a must-own
Hit: 5 Stars

Garbage is my favorite band. Shirley Manson is the only celebrity I want to meet before I die. I can't express how highly I revere this group.

Absolute Garbage (2007) is a fitting "greatest hits" collection. It does NOT include every single the band ever released, only the most popular ones. And although we can all gripe about its omissions, the fact remains that what we're left with is a fine, comprehensive-enough album that presents an exciting retrospective of Garbage at their rise, peak, and fall (in surprisingly chronological fashion).

The first 5 songs are from their eponymous debut (1995) and of them, "Queer" and "Only Happy When It Rains" are the truly great cuts. "Vow" and "Milk" are good while "Stupid Girl" remains average and the weakest pick from their first CD (although it was a huge hit).

Tracks 7 - 11 hail from Version 2.0 (1998) and I would call all of them terrific, except "When I Grow Up", which is good but not great. "Push It", in particular, is almost the best song Garbage ever produced (my personal favorite would have to be "So Like A Rose" from beautifulgarbage).

"Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)" and "Shut Your Mouth", both from the third album beautifulgarbage (2001), are two of the best selections from that release, which was filled with dizzying highs and terrifying lows.

Although "Why Do You Love Me" was the first (and best) single from Bleed Like Me (2005), that album's title track was one of the worst songs Garbage has ever made (though admittedly "Bleed Like Me" is a love it/hate it affair). The remix of "It's All Over But The Crying", a middling ballad that almost became a single, is a little more downbeat and snappier but mostly it's not much of a deviation from the original.

Fortunately there are three other tracks (all of them great) scattered throughout that deserve special attention:

#1 Crush is so brilliantly twisted that you can either issue a restraining order or take it as a darkly comedic retelling of Romeo + Juliet (the soundtrack this came from). Underneath a canopy of pulsating drums, Shirley drones on with creepy pledges like, "I will lie for you/beg and steal for you/I will crawl on hands and knees until you see/you're just like me". "#1 Crush" is the kind of obsessively lovelorn stalker who rummages through your trash and keeps a blow-up doll with the same color hair as yours in their closet.

"When we first got together, we all said that we wanted to make a James Bond Theme, because that's how we come up with our songs." - Garbage, The World Is Not Enough Ultimate Edition DVD

The World Is Not Enough represents Garbage at their swankiest, naturally evolving from the brisk, posh sonance of Version 2.0 to a Bond theme that melds `90s techno fiendishness with `60s orchestral flourish. It's a riveting achievement, showcasing melodramatic radiance ("There's no point in living if you can't feel alive") and insatiable craving ("If we can't have it all then nobody will"). Shirley's expansive delivery is pitch-perfect and she's arguably never sounded stronger. Too bad it was attached to one of the worst Bond movies.

If Tell Me Where It Hurts is Garbage's fond goodbye, then I couldn't think of anything more appropriate. Shirley finally finds the right man ("To hell with everybody else/all I care about is you/and that's the truth/they don't like me yeah I can tell/but you do") and we applaud her wholeheartedly. Steve, Duke and Butch paint the sumptuous music with shades of nostalgia in a sincere salute to their fans. "Tell Me Where It Hurts" catches our gorgeous firecracker reflecting ("I've been loved but I didn't know how to feel it/and I've been adored but I don't know if I ever believed it") and its exquisite lyrics culminate with a grateful payoff that was worth the wait ("I've been loved my whole life but I didn't know how to take it/until you").

This is a magnificent offering that can be enjoyed by hardcore fans and newcomers alike. If you've barely (or never) heard of Garbage or, like me, have bought BOTH versions of Absolute Garbage just to complete your collection, there's no reason not to check out this disc. In a word, it's amazing.

(P.S. Check out my reviews of Garbage's other four albums for a song-by-song dissection.)

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Four albums and seven Grammy® nominations later, Garbage has its first best of collection--Absolute Garbage. Along with the new track Tell Me Where It Hurts, Absolute Garbage features 17 songs of extreme and intense emotion, from Stupid Girl, Queer and #1 Crush to Special, Bleed Like Me and Why Do You Love Me.

With the band recently emerging from a hiatus for a live performance and the recording of Tell Me Where It Hurts, Absolute Garbage offers the best of a band that, to quote a lyric from Queer, has been the strangest of the strange, the coolest of the cool.
Taking inspiration from little known British band Curve, the formula behind Garbage was simple enough: Industrial strength beats, grungy guitars and ice queen vocals. But in Scottish fireball Shirley Manson the three middle-aged studio whizzes from Wisconsin not only found a muse but a front woman whose infinite charisma and wicked sense of humor--as evidenced by the title of this greatest hits set--gave even No Doubt a solid run in the hits race. For a few years, the group ruled the charts with shiny metallic pop gems like "Queer," "Stupid Girl," and "Only Happy When It Rains," hampered only by some remedial lyrics and a penchant for cribbing other bands' melodies (see: The Pretenders aping "Special"). There's a discernible dip in quality midway through this collection, when at the turn of the millennium Garbage seemingly lost its fire, but at least the group's token James Bond theme, "The World Is Not Enough," is more Shirley Bassey than Sheena Easton. Fans who are already up do date with the originals will want to pick up the special edition set that features a bonus disc of remixes by some of the biggest players on the '90s electronic music scene, including Massive Attack, The Crystal Method, and Unkle. --Aidin Vaziri

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