Garbage - Beautiful Garbage
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Free Music Review: Don't Ignore This Beautiful Garbage
Hit: 5 Stars
There aren't too many new or new-ish bands out there that I truly like---I mostly go for the veteran groups of the 60's & 70's. But of the crop of groups that came out during the 90's, two of them, in my opinion, really stood out proudly from the rest, both for their creativity & originality. One of them was Nirvana (who are sadly no more), and the other is this wonderful band, Garbage, fronted by sultry Scottish lass Shirley Manson. Shirley & her cohorts Butch Vig, Duke Erikson, and Steve Marker have created some truly incredible music since their 1996 debut disc. Their music is a glorious whirlpool of rock, dance, techno, & industrial, filled with lots of giddy noises, sound effects, and samples, with Manson's seductive voice spearheading the proceedings. There is no other band out there right now that is quite like them, and, with the unfortunate demise of Nirvana, I can't think of any other 90's band still active today that can still hold my interest. Garbage are it---they're that good.How disappointing then, that Garbage's third album, "beautifulgarbage," is not doing particularly well in the shops. This is a very appropriately titled album, another beautiful whirpool blend of pop, rock, and sounds from Shirley & the boys. This time, Garbage streamline their sound just a bit, going into new musical areas like 60's girlgroup torchsong ("Can't Cry These Tears") and bubblegum pop ("Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go)"), which are quite refreshing. However, the band still serve up their familiar, unique blend of industrial rock in gems like "Shut Your Mouth," "Silence Is Golden," "Breaking Up The Girl," and "Parade." And there's also a couple of gorgeous ballads in the form of "Cup Of Coffee" and the lovely album closer, "So Like A Rose," two of the finest songs the band have ever recorded.As "beautifulgarbage" clearly shows, Garbage are still a major musical force to be reckoned with in the rock world. I seriously hope the disappointing sales of this album haven't put them off. They're a great band, and I'm sure they'll be back again in the next couple of years. In the meantime, don't make the same mistake that the masses have: add this "beatifulgarbage" to your CD collection now. Rock on, Garbage! :-)Free Music Review: In Rapture....
Hit: 5 Stars
Garbage front woman Shirley Manson has built her reputation on saying naughty things in interviews. So it should come as no surprise that the first track on Garbage's new album "beautifulgarbage" is titled simply "Shut Your Mouth". Manson sneers sexily throughout the song's catchy tirade against the music media. Shirley and the boys in Garbage simultaneously love and hate the hype machine that struggles to define them. "Beautifulgarbage" reinvents the band as the thinking man's new wave/Goth-pop band. Manson excels as a Debbie Harry for the new millennium; the new record transplants her trademark vocal purr and saucy lyrics over Butch Vig's pumping soundscapes and throbbing electronics. "Androgyny" is perhaps the best anthem of gender confusion since Blur's "Girls and Boys". Almost every track has a different and distinctive sound-from the Polly Harvey-esque bluesy swagger of "Silence is Golden" to the Shangri-La's inspired girl group sonics of "Can't Cry These Tears". The band jumps styles at warp speed-sometimes in the space of a single song. "Cup of Coffee" evokes Portishead in its torchy, trip-hop tone while on "Shut Your Mouth", Manson nearly raps the song's verses (think Blondie's "Rapture") with apparent venom. "Beautifulgarbage" often feels like the perfect mix tape with something for every mood. The group's self-titled 1995 debut established Garbage as a darkly modern musical presence but "beautifulgarbage"'s defining moment is perhaps the album's lightest. "Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)" is the perfect pop song. Over a bed of new wave melodies, Manson croons like an underage pop diva. When she whispers "You could make grown men gasp/When you'd go walking past", you cannot help but smile at Manson's tongue-in-cheek ode to her own former sex kitten antics. Never one to take herself too seriously, the interplay between Manson's straightforward torch songs and unabashedly ironic, humorous tracks are what make "beautifulgarbage" such a rewarding and fascinating listen. Though it may sometimes seem disjointed, "beautifulgarbage"'s stylistic diversity makes for the year's most consistently fun pop record. Shirley Manson, known for saying dirty words to her critics, has reinvented and transformed that dirtiest word of them all. For the first time, Manson is a pop singer-and seemingly not too proud to admit it.Free Music Review: Are you gonna take this Garbage? You bet!
Hit: 5 Stars
Since when do the words "beautiful" and "garbage" belong in the same sentence? Well, maybe if one is referring to the third album of a group with Shirley Manson on vocals that isn't Angelfish. Maybe someone else beat them to the album title Version 3.0.Butch Vig, Shirley, and company aren't afraid to try new things, risky coming from the highly acclaimed Version 2.0, and the result is a collage of sounds that I've heard from various other groups but doesn't open the door marked "Plagiarism" because that sound has been put into a Garbage compactor and mixed around, to yield their best album yet.
"Shut Your Mouth" has a characteristic heavy metal guitar crunch that makes Metallica sound like Savage Garden.
There's a trace of Ace of Base on "Androgyny" while the bridge appropriates a lush Kim Wilde sound.
"Cup of Coffee" is beautifulgarbage's "Medication" with added string synthesizers. with slight rumblings of the Pretenders.
Upon hearing "Can't Cry These Tears", I got sucked into a timewarp that took me to a high school prom night in the late 1950's where the couples were slow dancing. I love these reinterpretations of retro sounds, but let's draw the line in describing them as "recycled garbage", okay?
That song and "Silence Is Golden", which ironically opens with a bluesy guitar followed by a pounding INXS-ish guitar riff, repeated throughout the song, are my two favorite tracks on here, with "Breaking Up The Girl" coming in a close third.
"Cherry Lips" sports an L7-ish low-fi sound, while "Drive You Home" is a "Milk"-style ballad that surpasses that song from their debut album.
"Untouchable" is a lesson on how to do a Garbage-style Britney song. I wonder if the latter will knock on Shirley's door asking to produce a new album with a new sound.
The closing track, "So Like The Rose", has Shirley singing with low-key, Velvet Underground/Mazzy Star/U2's "Faraway So Close" slowness, with a sound akin to the latter.
This surpasses Version 2.0, and for those who disagree with me, well, one man's music is another person's gar... no, one person's Garbage is another person's... oh never mind!
Free Music Review: Garbage in, Garbage out, Garbage's best!
Hit: 5 Stars
Since when do the words "beautiful" and "garbage" belong in the same sentence? Well, maybe if one is referring to the third album of a group with Shirley Manson on vocals that isn't Angelfish. Maybe someone else beat them to the album title Version 3.0.Butch Vig, Shirley, and company aren't afraid to try new things, risky coming from the highly acclaimed Version 2.0, and the result is a collage of sounds that I've heard from various other groups but doesn't open the door marked "Plagiarism" because that sound has been put into a Garbage compactor and mixed around, to yield their best album yet.
"Shut Your Mouth" has a characteristic heavy metal guitar crunch that makes Metallica sound like Savage Garden.
There's a trace of Ace of Base on "Androgyny" while the bridge appropriates a lush Kim Wilde sound.
"Cup of Coffee" is beautifulgarbage's "Medication" with added string synthesizers. with slight rumblings of the Pretenders.
Upon hearing "Can't Cry These Tears", I got sucked into a timewarp that took me to a high school prom night in the late 1950's where the couples were slow dancing. I love these reinterpretations of retro sounds, but let's draw the line in describing them as "recycled garbage", okay?
That song and "Silence Is Golden", which ironically opens with a bluesy guitar followed by a pounding INXS-ish guitar riff, repeated throughout the song, are my two favorite tracks on here, with "Breaking Up The Girl" coming in a close third.
"Cherry Lips" sports an L7-ish low-fi sound, while "Drive You Home" is a "Milk"-style ballad that surpasses that song from their debut album.
"Untouchable" is a lesson on how to do a Garbage-style Britney song. I wonder if the latter will knock on Shirley's door asking to produce a new album with a new sound.
The closing track, "So Like The Rose", has Shirley singing with low-key, Velvet Underground/Mazzy Star/U2's "Faraway So Close" slowness, with a sound akin to the latter.
This surpasses Version 2.0, and for those who disagree with me, well, one man's music is another person's gar... no, one person's Garbage is another person's... oh never mind!
Free Music Review: Another great album from the band
Hit: 5 Stars
Garbage's third album "Beautiful Garbage" is a terrific, highly underrated album. It has never received the acclaim or sales it deserves. Garbage still has their trademark pop/alternative/techno sound. However, compared to the band's self-titled debut and "Version 2.0," the production on this CD is more sleek, and more (and this is a cliché about the album) Phil Specter like. The sound and scope of this album is bigger, more adventurous. I personally feel that this is an album that grows on you and gets better with subsequent listens. Most of the tracks on this album are quite strong, with only a few fillers. But unlike the band's first two albums, most of the songs took a few listens to really enjoy. I also found this album to be somewhat darker, more morose and cynical than the bands previous albums.
Some of the songs I liked instantly. The album opens strong with the very infectious "Shut Your Mouth" and "Androgyny." "Can't Cry These Tears" at first seems like a simple pop song, but then intricate, overlapping guitar and keyboards kicks in, which is both cool and unexpected. "Til the day that I die" is solid and catchy and keeps up the momentum. "Cup of Coffee" tells the depressing story of someone obsessed with an ex-lover. The music here sounds like a cross between a balled and a Sci/Fi movie soundtrack. "Silence is Golden" is one of the album's weaker tracks. It starts out good but collapses under its own weight. "Cherry Lips" and "Breaking up the Girl" are two of the most catchiest, infectious songs in Garbage's catalogue. The band lets its guard down with the sensitive "Drive You Home." "Parade" is a good, but not great rocker. "Nobody Loves You," musically, is in the same vein as "The World is Not Enough." It's a nihilistic number about the meaninglessness of life. "Untouchables" is the album's only song that I don't care for. It just sounds weak. Like Garbage's self-titled album, and Version 2.0, the album ends with a dark slower number. "So Like a Rose" is a beautiful, enchanting song, whose meaning I always thought dealt with the suicide of a young teen (I could be way off here).
Despite a little filler, this is a terrific CD and highly recommended for fans of Garbage.