Garbage - Absolute Garbage
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Free Music Review: Almost nails it
Hit: 4 Stars
Encompassing elements of electronica and hard-rock over dance-beats, with lush melodies and killer hooks, Garbage has proved to be one of the best bands to come down the pike in the last ten years. Garbage's new compilation "Absolute Garbage" (2007) includes some of the bands best work, along with a terrific new song "Tell Me Where it Hurts."
Nearly eighty minutes (the length allowed for a CD) "Absolute Garbage" is very generous, offering some of the band's best work. But even with eighteen tracks, this best-of misses the mark a bit.
The track list is fairly predictable. As the band's first two albums far out-sold the next two, this compilation is skewed in the direction of "Garbage" (1995) and "Version 2.0" (1998) and a little skimpy on selections from the underrated and appreciated "beautifulgarbage" (2001) and "Bleed Like Me" (2005). Therefore, some of the band's later-day singles like "Breaking up the Girl," "Androgyny" and "Sex is not the Enemy" are left by the way-side.
If you are a casual Garbage fan, this compilation is ideal, as it includes all the well-known hits from the band's commercial peak, so as a "greatest hits" the CD works. However, in terms of covering the band's entire career, this compilation leaves a little something to be desired. While "beautifulgarbage" and "Bleed Like Me" didn't have the sales of the first two, they were easily as good, and more of their singles should have been included here. Perhaps a two-CD anthology, with all the hits as well as essential album cuts would have been preferable.
Still, if you aren't really a Garbage fanatic and just want the hits, this CD should be what you're looking for. That said; if you like what you hear and have the money, all four Garbage albums are definitely worth owning. While Garbage might be a `singles band," each of their four studio albums stands-up on its own right, each with its own flavor, and the non-singles on those albums are excellent.
The new song, the melancholy "Tell Me Where it Hurts" sounds "grand," and wouldn't have sounded at all out of place on the Phil Specter-esque, "beautifulgarbage." It's disappointing, however, that the other new Garbage song "Betcha" is not included on this CD and you have to buy the "Tell Me Where it Hurts" single to get it. Hopefully someday Garbage will release a compilation album of all their b-sides and it will be available there.
Two other hits, "#1 Crush" from the "Romeo and Juliet" soundtrack (1996) and "The World is not enough" from the James Bond film of the same name (1999) are thrown in for good measure.
Free Music Review: 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.
Long live, Garbage.
Free Music Review: Only happy when it rains
Hit: 4 Stars
Alternative rock band Garbage may not have created the techno/rock sound but they certainly have made it commercially appealing to the masses. After twelve years as band, Shirley, Butch, Duke, and Steve have reached a point of giving the public a greatest hits collection aptly titled ABSOLUTE GARBAGE. Is it garbage so to speak? Absolutely no. The single disc collection runs almost 80 minutes long. The cd contains the band's biggest hits as well as one new song ("Tell Me Where It Hurts") and their contributions to a James Bond film ("The World is Not Enough") and the modern version of ROMEO AND JULIET ("#1 Crush"). Most of the songs are from the band's first two albums Garbage and Version 2.0. There are at least two tracks from Beautifulgarbage and Bleed Like Me. Maybe because they didn't spawn any major hits like their first two albums. Personally the band should have turned this greatest hits collection into a two disc set and included more songs from those albums.
I am glad the band gave their songs a remastering treatment especially the songs from their self-titled album which frankly sounded dreck production-wise. I am also glad they inlcuded "The World is Not Enough" and "#1 Crush". Of all the James Bond songs from the past few years, Garbage's theme song is my personal favorite. Their new song "Tell Me Where It Hurts" is great. I can't help but think how much the song sounds like the theme song to that cheesetastic show THE LOVE BOAT. Despite missing a couple of songs from the band's last two albums, ABSOLUTE GARBAGE is a great compilation of the band's music.
Free Music Review: good mix of garbage
Hit: 4 Stars
the remastered sound and collection of essential songs from the first 2 garbage albums alone make this worthwhile. however, it is skimpy on 'beautifulgarbage' material ("androgyny" anyone?), and drops at least one if not 2 worthy inclusions from 'bleed like me.' the version of "#1 crush" is from 'romeo + juliet,' which is the nellee hooper remix. the original (from 'subhuman ["vow"]') is still a stray b-side. apart from the aforementioned omissions, this is the most up to date mastering of the songs that are included. great mix for those that are unfamiliar with the band, and almost "absolute" for those that aren't.Free Music Review: It's what you're looking for...
Hit: 4 Stars
Finally this band releases a greatest hits album!!! Like many other bands, most of the CD's put out by Garbage have two, maybe even three good songs, and the rest of the songs are crap! Now that all of Garbage's hits are on a single CD, you don't have to blow all your dough buying all of the CD's just to have all the hits.
All of the bands top songs are on the first half of the CD, and the more obscure songs by the band are on the last half. All I got to say is, gimme about 30 or 40 minutes with Shirley Manson, and she'd be wanting to marry a brother!!! Damn she's fine!