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Free Music Notes for Garbage
Free Music Review: An awesome shoegaze/grunge album, but I'm not sure if most people will like it
Hit: 5 Stars
In a way "Garbage" is a slightly cheesy album (mostly for "Only When It Rains"), but there are many great and slightly original songs here that that fact essentially doesn't matter. Not every song is great, but the ones that aren't are pretty decent. 90's grunge fans will especially appreciate it. Sonically it sounds like it was heavily influenced by My Bloody Valentine, Curve, and Sonic Youth. The female vocalist sounds pretty intense compared to what most people are probably used to (it fits the music). Except for the obvious hit-worthy tracks "Only Happy When It Rains" and "Queen", I'm not sure if it has mass appeal (although they DO do a darn good job of trying to popularize the genre). The reason I'm giving it 5 stars is because A: its relative uniqueness to other bands, B: it's pretty interesting musically and lyrically and C: the two hits, "Queer" and "Only Happy When It Rains", plus the number of good grunge/shoegaze songs on here. Open-minded listeners and fans of the genre/band will definitely enjoy it (even if some songs might take a while to like). Not a must-have but definitely recommended if you like the style!
Highlights include:
"Supervixen"
"Queen"
"Only Happy When It Rains"
"Vow"
"Stupid Girl"
"My Lover's Box"
"Fix Me Now"
Free Music Review: Great band, clever name!
Hit: 5 Stars
While I was waiting in limbo between Debbie Harry's last solo album and Blondie's reunion album, into the void came a band that fit my need for great music perfectly.
This eponimous debut from the alternative rock band, Garbage, is the first album in a wave of new generation female-led outfits that took Blondie's example of how to make music from the feminine viewpoint and catapulted it into the rock stratosphere. Shirley Manson's lyrics are pure "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" delight. I don't know who hurt her, but I wouldn't want to be him!
Ms. Manson doesn't shrivel up over her broken heart, but instead comes out spitting and clawing like a wild cat seeking revenge against her former captor. With songs like "Vow", "As Heaven Is Wide" and "Not My Idea", Garbage turn her anger into danceable alt. rock and give the listener the feeling that Shirley and company know how he or she feels. The hit single "Stupid Girl" (not the same as Pink's new tune) takes aim at a woman who uses her shallowness to attract men only to throw them away like old kleenex. It's "Rip Her To Shreds" for the nineties.
All the way through, this album makes vengeance something to rock out to. If you've ever been through a break-up, you'll know just what these songs mean!
Free Music Review: Rock At It's Best
Hit: 5 Stars
Short, but descriptive;1. Supervixen: Gotta luv the skips, and it catches in your head like a fish to a pole (LOL). 2. Queer: I love the musical break after the repeat of the chorus, and the whole song varies from softer to hard. 3. Only Happy When It Rains: I used to love it, but I got kind of... well, bored with it. But it's so catchy it gets repetitve. 4. As Heaven Is Wide: I just don't like it, no variety in music, but cool lyrics. 5. Not My Idea: It's Soooo catchy, you just want to hum...da da da da da da dum... 6. Stroke Of Luck: I love this, it's my 1# song, with beautiful music, and lyrics you just want to sleep. 7. Vow: Lyrics rule, it's O.K. for a little while, you can listen to it every day without getting tired, but more than three times a day..yeesh. 8. Stupid Girl: I like the music, and the pre-choruses. 9. Dog New Tricks: O.K. just not as good as the other songs. 10. My Lover's Box: I like the chorus, and the music, but it gets tiring. 11. Fix Me Now: Chorus is cool, but Shirley's voice sounds weird. Theengs doont have to be thees weeey, catch me on a beeter deey. 12. Milk: Shirley shines, sweet singing, and eerie music makes one hell of a sleeper. I rest my case.
Free Music Review: Totally awesome
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is really really great for anyone who is sick of the same old music. Garbage forms it's own genre of awesome original music. Supervixen-Good but gets repetitive kinda quickily
Queer-Awesome, it kinda grows on you at first seems bad but after two or three listens you start to like it and after 4 or 5 your in love with it
I'm only happy when it rains-The greatest song that can never be matched by any artist ever
Heaven is wide-Really fast paced and in your face with really clever lyrics
Not my idea-Really good but gets stuck in your head and can get annoying
Stroke of Luck-The lyrics here are so well crafted it's unbelievable really dark and makes you think
Vow-An awesome track that has a lot of emotion in it
Stupid girl-A song most people myself included can relate to
Dog new trick-Erg this is the one track I dont really like but it's still really good if your in the mood for it
My lover's box-My personal favorite is totally awesome worth the price of the album
Fix me now-Awesome a little bit like some other tracks but still great
Milk-A unique sound different fromt the rest of it and grows on you with a few listens
Free Music Review: Style with substance and gritty brilliance
Hit: 5 Stars
To me, one of my all time favourites by this stellar band, their debut showcases their raw engery that would later be channelled into avenues down the road of techno, that would be still more captivating.The beginning song starts off the album perfectly with lyrics about obsession, ego, and cyncical self-awareness...then follows into endless highlights such as the smoothy penetrating "Queer"...and continues on and on to form an album you might never have imagined could be so consistantly, jaw-droppingly brilliant in its edge, wit, and melodic span.
Songs like "Stupid Girl", "Stroke of Luck", and "As Heaven Is Wide" are unstoppable and just as satisfying with repeated listening.
At the end of this tale of self-deprication, self-examination and sly remarks on the state of society's conciousness as a whole, is a touching song, "Milk", filled with the culmination of the fragility, tenderness and sensitivity barely in sight all along. In it are knowing apologies and a call for redemption.
I can continually relate to this effort, and I reccomend each successive album for taking this sort of brilliance in a new direction.