Garbage - Bleed Like Me
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Free Music Review: Back with Authoritai !
Hit: 5 Stars
Thats really the best way I can sum up this album. Its like they went back to their rock roots that you heard in album 1 but made the lyrics more mainstream.
One thing I have always loved the most about Garbage is that none of their songs sounded the same to me. There was always a clearly different flavor about each song whether you liked it or not ...you knew where you were at. This album unfortunately comes close to sounding the same ...for Garbage. If you compare them to other bands, the songs don't sound the same on this album. But once you start to compare this to previous Garbage albums you'll feel like each song lost its individuality. But take that with a grain of salt, if you're busy gaming or working its still quite easy to tell when a new song comes on.
Another thing I dig about garbage albums is that every album had memorable crazy lines that just slapped you in the face. (e.g. songs: Only When It Rains, As Heaven is Wide, I Think I'm Paranoid, You Look So Fine (my favorite), Cup of Coffee, Parade) There are some good lyrics in Bleed Like Me but nothing that stands out like, "Bend me, break me anyway you need me, as long as I want you baby its alright." (I Think I'm Paranoid - V2.0) Or how about, "If flesh could crawl, my skill would fall from off my bones and run away from here." (As Heaven is Wide - self titled) Unfortunately, there really aren't any lines like that in this album, the song Bleed Like Me comes close and I can't see them playing it on the radio but its not quite the same effect.
So if I'm missing my slap in the face how can I say they're back with authoritai? Its like others said before me. The first half of this album is just straight out rock in your face, if you don't like it my name is Garbage and I don't give a crap what you think. But staying true to themselves they didn't stay linear, the middle i would deem as fun songs (may seem them remixed for club jams) and after that the album slows down in tempo to more of a ballad.
One thing is fer sure, Shirley is still on top of her game. She still has that fiery, bitter rock girl attitude in her vocals that works so well you just want to forgive her sins.
Thankfully they kept their trademark closing song, though You Look So Fine and Milk are still my favorites. I have listened to this cd full circle 5 times now and it keeps sounding better each time, and true to every garbage cd I have I prefer to listen to the full cd versus song jumping and then moving on to the next cd. Its already on my mp3 player and i'm sure i'll hit it up quite a bit.
I'd put this as the third best garbage cd,.. its just too hard to beat V2.0 and their 1st self-titled album. I'm defintely rounding up w/ the 5 stars, but thats because its a good album and anything less would give a different perception. Agree or not, thas my stance.
Free Music Review: Garbage Takes Out The Trash
Hit: 5 Stars
I discovered Garbage when their first CD came out. I had no idea who they were but the name of the band and the fuzzy pink stuff on the cover of the CD intrigued me so I made an impulse purchase. The music I heard was beyond my wildest expectations. Songs like "Stupid Girl" and "I'm Only Happy When It Rains" were startlingly good and highly original (despite the Clash sample on the former). Their sound was savage, sexy and sophisticated. I was hooked. Far too many bands only have one good release in them and Garbage set the bar pretty high with that first CD. Nevertheless, when they released Version 2.0 I thought "what the hell?" and bought that one as well. That CD turned out to be a quantum leap forward. I heard more electronica, more bizarre nuances in the mix, more anger in the attitude and Shirley Manson's performance had gotten sexier, nastier and more magnetic. (She evokes more with a whisper than most singers can with a scream!) The songs were a varied collection of gems that fit together seamlessly beneath a subversive pop veneer. Genius.....the CD was genius. Then I waited and waited and finally Beautiful Garbage came out. I was a bit disappointed with it despite a couple of excellent songs. I thought to myself; "Oh well I guess they reached their peak on 2.0 and now they're on their way down." I expected the usual pattern where a band's CDs get progressively weaker and weaker till they finally peter out.
SURPIRSE!!!!!!!! Bleed Like Me hit me like a mule kick to the cranium (in a good way). The first track "Bad Boyfriend" had me bouncing off the walls. I cranked my system all the way up and peeled the paint. (Who's that amazing drummer?...oh yeah Dave Grohl!) The tracks kept coming at me fast and furious one after another: "Run Baby Run", "Right Between The Eyes" and "Why Do You Love Me." This was the original Garbage back in all their glory! The songs were much more direct, the guitars were way out front and Shirley was spitting razorblades. NICE! After the full frontal assault of the first four songs they settled into the brilliant, confessional "Bleed Like Me". (I never knew Shirley was a "cutter". Ouch!) I won't go on at length about the rest of the songs except to say that they're all damn good. My advice is to go buy the CD.
I have heard rumors about severe tensions in the band that are threatening to tear them apart. I can only say; "Please don't break up guys! Good music is almost impossible to find these days and Garbage is the real deal, a truly excellent band!" Oh yeah one more thing. I'm a married man but; "Shirley, I love you! Won't you please please be my bad girlfriend???!!!!!!!"
Free Music Review: run baby run and buy it!
Hit: 5 Stars
Garbage are the best band ever in the fact that they can completely transform themselves from one album to a next and still sound amazing every time. Bleed Like Me is no exception from their other three amazing albums. This album does not have the traditional electro sounds and samples like most of their other stuff. It is, I don't want to say heavy, just a lot more guitars this time around.
Bad Boyfriend- First song off the album, very rock. A very sexual but angry sounding song. Like violent sex!
Run Baby Run-Probably one of the best songs on the album. The lyrics are great. The verses are pretty poppy sounding, and light, but then the chorus starts and it sounds a bit darker and sad. Amazing song.
Right Between The Eyes- Rock/Pop song, good lyrics. Best part of the song is the end though when she belts out the line, "Stay alive my love" very good, beautiful voice
Why Do You Love Me- First single off the album, and a good choice for one. It's extremely catchy. The versesare slower, or at least seem so because of the super-fast rockin chorus.
Bleed Like Me- A very strange ballad forthem to do, but then what is normal for them? It has very dark lyrics, but the sound of the song is lighter and smooth. Still a great song, very sad song.
Metal Heart- Obviously a song about the war in Iraq and shirley's opinions, it's the only song on the album with some electro sounds in it, and the loud banging noises are real cool, I love this one!
Sex Is Not The Enemy- An Anthem if there ever was one. "A revolution is the Solution" nicely said, very good song!
It's All Over But The Crying- Another ballad, smooth she sounds very beautiful on this song. I just love her voice
The Boys Wanna Fight- Another song about the government type situation. I believe I heard the chorus pretty much means that guys in office think violence(war) is always the answer, but then girls wouldn't take the situation seriously, so is there anybody else?
Why Don't You Come Over- probably the strangest song on the album, but in a good way. It's a very angry song, she's talkin to someone she definitly is angry with, and it shows, guitars are great in this one.
Happy Home- Final song on the album, which is sad, the album should be longer! This song is extremely long,has a nice guitar solo type thing at the end which is what seems to be what the do with all their albums. Good song, shirl sounds very good!
Go buy this album, you wont regret, I promise!
Free Music Review: Yet Another Great Garbage CD
Hit: 5 Stars
My favorite Garbage CD is always the most recent, perhaps because each of the four offerings has been emotionally relevant to me at the time it was released. Bleed Like Me is no different, except in the unequal distribution of the great songs among the average.
First off, the sterling quality of the music stands out more on BLM than any of the previous CD's. The drums, in particular, are brilliant. While I only remember Shirley Manson's name, the rest of the band makes her emotional punch possible.
As to Manson herself, it is a wonderful thing that we can imbibe the nectar of her pain, eloquently expressed and ever-soulful. However, with Bleed Like Me, enough of a pattern emerges to make one wonder how much of her Roger Waters doom & gloom is genuine.
My friends and I once classified every Foreigner song into one of four categories: "Lonely Boy On The Run", "Woman You Done Me Wrong", "Woman I Need You," and "I'm a Love Machine". OK - there was a Miscellaneous category too for songs like "Star-Rider". But anyway, Garbage is easing toward the point where there is the same discernable set of themes. And the clear parody of Foreigner in "Bad Boyfriend" is not the sole justification for thinking this.
It also makes me wonder - with Manson's self-revelatory deviance expressed in "Bleed Like Me", how much stock should we put in her exhortations to chuck all the social conventions and live a life of free and uncommitted sex? For someone as depressed and miserable as she seems, you would think she'd be a little less of an evangelist for her lifestyle.
Nevertheless, despite a certain monotony in the thematic approach, there is absolutely nothing monotonous about the songs themselves. A few are disposable (such as Bad Boyfriend, Bleed Like Me, and Why Don't You Come Over), but the remainder are astounding. As disparate as these songs may be, "Metal Heart" is at the top of Garbage's accomplishments, with "It's All Over But the Crying" not too far behind. "Why Do You Love Me?" and "The Boys Want To Fight" are likewise great songs. Even the more subtle "Happy Home", the last song on the CD, is very well done - it succeeds in capping the CD in a way that "So Like A Rose" failed to do on Beautiful Garbage.
And now there's that dreadfully long time until the next Garbage CD. But if it takes this long to make music this good, then I'll be happy with another long wait.
Free Music Review: There's nothing grander than the big surprise
Hit: 5 Stars
It's been 4 long years since we've heard from the likes of Garbage, fronted by the fierce Shirley Manson, only this time she has a voracious appetite and is nearly frothing to unearth the bands battle scars. The albums first cut, 'Bad Boyfriend' starts the album off on a sinister note, guitars echoing like a beekeeper whose lost control of his hive, Shirley spits venom almost tempting her lover ''If you can't love me honey, go on just pretend/Let's save something special for the very end.''
This sets the tone of the remainder of the album, which is chock full of surprises and veers from formulas of old, to shine with something new, yet patentedly Garbage all the same.
Vig, Marker and Erickson the remainder of Garbage (for those who don't know) all play with a passion that seemed to lack since BeautifulGarbage's release back in 01. Hell, you could barely tell they existed in Version 2.0, This time they make their presence known, and it's no longer just Manson's show.
This album has many highlights, the anthemic 'Sex is Not the Enemy' (A direct statement to the puritanical mentality after Janet's fiasco), the politically charged 'Boy's Wanna Fight' (a direct swing to the Bush doctorine of Iraq)and 'Metal Heart' a rollicking synth/rock track about media betrayal.) The band gets personal as well with Shirley opening a new bottle of Xanax and ingesting the prescription for all the world to see, in the title track 'Bleed Like Me' (It's better off than trying to take a bullet from a gun/She cries, Hey baby, can you Bleed like me?''.) This album isn't without the kleenex either, 'It's All Over But The Crying', seems to refernce her pained relationship which ended in divorce and the lovenotes must still be wet...
These may sound like indigestible themes to some, but when put in the context of Garbage's sound, they seem almost androgynous when wrapped around the melodies and sounds which coat them. This album may lack the patended rocktronica sound they've mastered, but it makes up for that with U2esque guitar work and excellent lyrical content.
This is Gabages most ambitious album yet, and they should be commended for not playing it safe. If your looking for an album thats consistently good, rocking and catchy from begining to end, then GARBAGE HAS DELIVERED THIS IN SPADES.
My pick for rock album of the year.