Garbage - Version 2.0
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Free Music Notes for Version 2.0
Free Music Review: Bad girls everywhere agree...
Hit: 5 Stars
This is Garbage's best album to date. I love good music, I am a critic and I am a Garbage fan who buys all the B-sides and remixes I come across, so I feel qualified to say this. It's also their most consistent and most accessible album (if you don't already have a penchant for unapologetically trashy pop music). Take the themes of darkness and self-destruction that angsty malcontents can't resist, add the electro-industrial pop hooks that club queens and teen punk-nouveau chicks can't resist, and you have 2.0. Almost every track on this release has a great hook. I'll let you decide which one is the throwaway.
Great hooks aside, though, what I love best about this album are its downtempo inclusions. "The Trick is to Keep Breathing" and "You Look So Fine" are two of my favorite ballads from any band, ever. But keep in mind, in my favorite stories the good guys usually lose and the guy and girl split up after a wrenching estrangement.
If you've ever succumbed to a dark carnal desire, only to be painfully reminded why you knew it was a bad idea in the first place, this album will speak to you. For everyone who has liked a Garbage song they heard somewhere and want to own some, this is the place to start.
Free Music Review: Dance music for the 21st century
Hit: 5 Stars
My "golden age" of listening to music was from the early 80's to early 90's. The punk movement had evolved into what was called New Wave. While the Ramones did it great in the punk vein, the evolution to New Wave led to bands like Blondie and The Talking Heads. What I loved about those bands was the wall-to-wall, "overproduction" if you please, where you definitely got you money's worth from their studio sessions.Alas, music evolved into rap, hip-hop, and something called "alternative" music where spoiled kids with nothing to complain about managed to do nothing but complain about everything.
So the stuff I really like is few and far between. Which is why this album was a breath of fresh air. While they definitely have their own sound, and have taken their genre further, I can still relate to this album big time the same way I related to that "old music". It's dance music, but loaded with, literally, all kinds of bells and whistles that helped make music fun again.
If those that like this want some recommendations from an old guy, check out the best of Blondie and The Talking Heads for more delights. Can't go wrong with the Clash's "Sandinista", either.
Free Music Review: ALBUM OF THE YEAR, NO DOUBT ABOUT IT
Hit: 5 Stars
Its hard to put into words what makes this album so damn good. Every song on this album just kicks but is incredibly melodic, and highly listenable. Most bands expand and perhaps improve from record to record, but Garbage's second effort is a better album than their debut by leaps and bounds. Every song is a potential hit, incredibly catchy, and well played. Lyrically, the band steals many a lines from the Beach Boys, the Pretenders, and many others, but still manage to present a new, exciting product. The album has already yielded three singles, "Push It", "I think I'm Paranoid", and "Special", and could easily have five or six more from the album. "Medication", "When I Grow Up", "The Trick is to Keep Breathing", "Dumb", "Wicked Ways", "You Look So Fine", and "Sleep Together are all standout tracks. Its just a damn shame that the Grammys snubbed the group most deserving of accolades and praise arist in 1998. Unarguably the most intriguing of mainstream releases this year, this album will someday be talked about in the same breath as "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd; its that solid.Free Music Review: Intelligent Guitar driven dance-synth pop with attitude...
Hit: 5 Stars
Is this album for you? Well if you're a guy, ask yourself if you ever fantasized about Marsha Brady with pierced nipples? Or Cindy strung out on heroin? Or how about Maryanne from Gilligans Island redux as doninatrix? What am I getting at? Well, just as these images mix the naughty with the nice, so does Shirley Manson & GarbageI love good pop, but not ear-candy. Catchy hooks, intelligent lyrics, attitude, and well BALLS! Garbage offers all of this in their latest effort which will be no dissappointment to those who got hip to their first outing. It's the dark side of alternative dance-pop. Good Girls can groove even though its the kind of music mommy warned them about, and Bad Boys can bop to it without feeling wimpy. It's grunge-pop...industrial ear candy. No sophomore slump here -- they actually upped the ante.
Shirley Manson is a rarity in music today: a woman who can lure you in with the sexual subtlety of a siren's song, carry on with the rage of a Trent Reznor, and still not compromise her character or her femininity. I think not since Anne Wilson's pre-cow 70's Heart days has a woman rocked with the ferocity of a man, and still managed to be incredibly sexy.
Free Music Review: "Floating out to Wonderland..."
Hit: 5 Stars
Version 2.0 is my favorite album of all time. This is the first record i enjoyed every song from beginning to end. All the songs are so brilliant and genius. Shirley Manson is the best frontwoman that ever existed. God i love her voice, it so seductive and growls like an untamed tiger hunting for a simple kill. Butch Vig is a god! You look so fine, one of the best love songs of all time, the first time i heard it i was hooked when she leaps into the chorus, so gorgeous has great lyrics: "you look so fine i want to break your heart and give you mine." The song Medication is so raw with lyrics like: "Somebody get me out of here, i'm tearing out myself, nobody gives a damn about me or anybody else." I think i'm paranoid is so perfect i love this song, "I fall down just give you a thrill, prop me up with another pill..." Temptation Waits is so sexy and the guitars are layered beautifully: "You come on like a drug i just can't get enough..." Version 2.0 will be in your collection til the day you perish. It will be in mine. This album is sooooo good that i hooked my brother on this album as well, share with friends and family, it will get you talking, also check out Beautifulgarbage as well.