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GARBAGE
1995 - Garbage.
1998 - Version 2.0
way more Helter Skelter.

August 15, 1995 - 2025: 30 years of: Garbage.

Some of the finest trash.

When rock-producers turn the table to become rock-stars. Audacious, yet this RIAA-certified Double Platinum debut-CD is one of the first monolith of the post-grunge era. Trash your dropped-D guitar and your smelly flannel-shirt ...this is posh alt-rock ...this is GARBAGE.

When indie-rock veterans Steve Marker and Duke Erikson starts a new band, you listen ...and when said band also features 90s power-producer Butch Vig, you fuckin' listen. His studio credits includes the following trend-changing acts: SONIC YOUTH, THE SMASHING PUMPKINS and NIRVANA.

Enters mythic 28 year-old red-head Scottish singer Shirley Manson. Yes that is her real birth-name, rocknroll's coolest moniker. The boys tracked her down in London and found the missing link: angelic demon, love / hate pin-up with the velvet voice ...she would become an instant powerful front-women of the 90s and prized sex-symbol.

This new-alternative becomes the alternative.

Step aside and make way, here comes the obnoxious "Supervixen", where the crew makes it pretty in the verse and apocalyptic on the chorus. Organized chaos as this unit provides a fresh new sound and cuts like a knife into the saturated / delusional rock-market. Onto the divine deconstruction of "Vow", addictive and multi-layered by trashy guitars with dirty punk-attitude: indie-rock packaged for a mainstream audience.

The dark sensual-submissive "Queer" is an intricate reverse point-of-view. The synth-guitars and the hypnotic rhythm, matched by Manson's seductive delivery is sure to possess any soul. "I know what's good for you, I know you're dying to, you can touch me if you want" ...pure magic.

And now, the ultimate 90s college-radio hit in "Only Happy When It Rains". Lovely depressive-delightful, abrasive-adorable, alternative-rock supernova lays the ground-works for the future generation of emo-rock of the turn of the millennium. The front-women's ethereal voice is once again displayed on the whitest of the whites in "Milk". In darkness we find beautifulgarbage, for full effect: headphones strongly suggested.

This is a no recycling-zone, leave it to GARBAGE to revive the scene.

After the Seattle collapse, everything changed and the music-industry was looking for the next big thing ...and for a while GARBAGE was it. NINE INCH NAILS type studio-technology pushed to new extremes, GARBAGE would push these new extremes into overdrive. Rich and ergonomic rhythm-section, natural echoed-guitars and Manson's command. No stage is too big as this is the new sound of the experimental nineties …plus, there is no better man than Vig to polish modern-rock.

Success and fame is all-over this artful release and the band would come back again for more late-night action in 1998's updated Version 2.0 CD ...I think they're paranoid !

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Vow = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZsVcoWRIkY
Stupid Girl = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GhPUAVgHZc
Queer = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ppiohVRZ0s
Only Happy When It Rains = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpBFOJ3R0M4
Milk = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y14Kp1DitpE
Garbage = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmk7XoU1KoE&list=OLAK5uy_mlGzr4kzE-xf9HebsgSG061q8Gr7TXJS4
Live in Boston in 1995
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIPM_saxOYE
Live on Letterman in 1996
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93qi7VhbB1U
Interview in 1996
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEA_HQEgej4
EPK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHOIff2laNI
some girls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DsffGrJK24

May 12, 1998 - 2023: 25 years of: Version 2.0

Late-nineties pop-art.

Top-shelf act during the second-half of the fucked-up 90s. Following 1995's RIAA-certified multi Platinum self-titled powerhouse Garbage CD, from scrap to silver, this new load of GARBAGE is the relevant goods that keeps the scene hip and healthy.

The beat is in, the power-punch lurks in sheep's skin clothing as "Temptation Waits". A lovely sonic disaster that keeps on giving with both fast-stompers "Hammering In My Head" and the "happy hour golden shower" matureness of "When I Grow Up".

Pushing alt-poprock, the Madison madness drives the crowd into some of the most "Wicked Ways". Electric guitar ain't dead. Both MTV-singles, the heavy cervical cacophony of "I Think I'm Paranoid" and the hypnotic thump of "Push It" received critics and fan-appraise for their classic hooks, all embedded in top-class pop production.

The secret 007 department even commissioned the band for The World Is Not Enough's Autumn 1999 worldwide blockbuster. Ruling the MTV Awards, Billboards and Grammys ...the media frenzy was eating straight out of the garbage.

RIAA-certified Platinum and certified bad-ass, the Manson family would tour and conquer more grounds and come back in the new digital millennium, with 2001's Beautifulgarbage CD.

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I Think I'm Paranoid = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypr18UmxOas
Push It = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmd3UiNfNkA
When I Grow Up = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je-CPZRwbh8
Version 2.0 = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1yxXhMxe28&list=OLAK5uy_niRa7PPkLBcfu7yjgkIvwNhN4VQyTRVQY
Interview in 1998
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP55Pt1-BCo
Live at Lorelei Rock in 1998
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9Nls3VLgVQ
The World Is Not Enough = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBrz-5ai1mo