Garbage - Absolute Garbage
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Free Music Review: Absolutely Recycled Garbage
Hit: 4 Stars
Garbage's star shone brightly in 1995 with their self-titled debut placing hits like Stupid Girl, Only Happy When It Rains and Milk on the charts. Stupid Girl, with its electro guitar strums, was especially refreshing after a wave of college rock and alternative music. Of course, lead singer Shirley Manson's foxy style adds to the glam rock equation.
Their height came with their stellar follow-up aptly titled Version 2.0. The album fully mixed electronic with rock music and produced crowd favorites like Special, When I Grow Up and Push It, each also fueled by stunning videos. However, due to limited CD space, excellent non-singles like The Trick is to Keep Breathing and Sleep Together are omitted. The album garnered them a string of Grammy nominations including the coveted Album of the Year.
BeautifulGarbage saw a change in direction which left fans miffed. The band toyed with beats and move towards a slightly urban sound with the excellent Androgyny which is unceremoniously left off this compilation and its DVD companion. Similarly, the Phil-Spectoresque Can't Cry Anymore is also not found here along with Breaking Up The Girl.
By the time the band reached their fourth album Bleed Like Me in 2005, the band was almost forgotten though the album did bring back some of Garbage's trademark electronic rock sound found on their earlier albums. Still, great tracks like Why Do You Love Me (classic Garbage), Run Baby Run and Right Between the Eyes (of which the latter two is absent here) prevail.
New track Tell Me Where It Hurts sounds like a cast-off from their previous albums, but it's better than none. Two other superior tracks, the B-side Betcha and the iTunes bonus track All The Good In This Life deserve a place on this compilation too.
For the casual fan, Absolute Garbage serves as a good, albeit late introduction to the fantastic band. For fans, it would just be something to add to their collection though it's severely lacking since the tracklisting is somewhat incomplete. The 2-CD Special Edition is slightly more collectible as it pulls the different club remixes of their songs together on one collection for the first time though all of which were available somewhere before.
Long live, Garbage.
Free Music Review: Great compilation, bad mixes
Hit: 4 Stars
I've been waiting for this greatest hits since tha late nineteens, the selection is great but the second disc, wich i thoug would be great is actually very averge with performances in all the songs, except for the last track wich is by tha way the only one garbage did.Free Music Review: Garbage is my favorite band...
Hit: 4 Stars
... so I had every song on here. I was disappointed, though, by their light coverage of "Bleed Like Me."
Additionally, there were far better remixes they could have chosen to showcase the broad range of alternative visions of their work.
Free Music Review: A good compilation of hits...
Hit: 4 Stars
This would be five stars except Androgyny is not included except on the mix CD. Otherwise an excellent addition for anyone wanting to have a chronology of Garbage and an idea of how they have evolved over the years.Free Music Review: GARBAGE IS NOT GARBAGE
Hit: 4 Stars
One of the best of best of CD's I have ever bought don't hesastate buy it now