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6/22/18

20 years of 'Version 2.0.'


20 years ago Garbage reached no.1 on the UK album chart with their second album 'Version 2.0.' This record was a really excellent follow-up to their debut album 'Garbage', and quite a surprise as they brought a new sound totally different from the grunge and rock-ish style of their flawless debut. And while they tried to bring new sounds to their following albums ('Beautiful Garbage' was a nice effort that grows on you with the years, whereas 'Bleed Like Me', 'Not Your Kind of People' or 'Strange Little Birds' were ok but failed to impress), they haven't been able to reinvent themselves like they did with their sophomore album.

And as such an important date couldn't be missed, Garbage planned to make a anniversary concert in London to remember this amazing album (i've got tickets for that), but there was such a high demand that they ended making an anniversary tour and they will even make it to the US. I really can't wait to see them playing live this amazing album, it's gonna be something beyond, as i've only saw them play live during the 'Beautiful Garbage' tour and it was great.

 So, as a celebration of this very important and ground-breaking album, and while everyone remembers 'Push It', 'I Think I'm Paranoid' or 'When I Grow Up' from this record, i'm bringing you my top 5 songs from 'Version 2.0.' that you probably have forgotten, even though two of them were actually singles. It's going to be worth it because this album is complete perfection from beginning to end, a pure jewel to the ears:

Hammering My Head
"I use the ones that I love the best"

4 more:

10/5/16

15 years of 'Beautiful Garbage'

I remember when Garbage's third album 'Beautiful Garbage' came out in 2001, i was spending three weeks in Dublin attending an English course, and somehow it always reminds me to that brief period of my life where i was really happy. And while the record didn't fascinate me as much as their previous two albums, 'Garbage' and 'Version 2.0.', with time it has gotten better and better.

Anyway, as i did with the perfection that is still to this day 'Version 2.0.', i'm dedicating a post to 'Beautiful Garbage', because, i feel, it's Garbage's last good album, at least to their good old self. Songs like 'Silence is Golden', 'Cup of Coffee', 'Breaking Up the Girl', 'Nobody Loves You', 'Drive You Home' or everyone's favourite 'Cherry Lips' are among my favorite songs ever from the band, and while they released 'Androgyny' and 'Shut Your Mouth' as singles, i thought that was a total mistake because those were the weakest songs from the album in my opinion.

But well, this little underrated jewel is turning 15 and i loved how it has grown on me with time, so give it a listen because Garbage doesn't have only two good records, it has, at least, these three:

5/24/16

Garbage's music video for 'Empty'

The first music vid of Garbage's upcoming album 'Strange Little Birds' is out with its first single 'Empty' directed by Samuel Bayer who also directed other videos for them like 'Vow', 'Only Happy When It Rains' and 'Stupid Girl', iconic music vids from the 90s. And just like the track is classic Garbage, the vid is also good old Garbage in a modern way.

We can say that the vid's direction is really similar to 'Vow', with frontwoman Shirley Manson dressing a fur coat like in that vid, but this time it's pink, just like the colour of her dress in the OHWIR's vid and like her hair colour now. I feel the vid is kinda like a mix of 'Vow' and 'Stupid Girl', like a modern version of them, and while the good old formula is good, i wished they did another turn of their signature style and surprise everyone like they did with the 2.0 era. Anyway, enjoy the vid below.


4/21/16

Garbage's new single 'Empty'

Garbage are back in full force with a new album coming out soon titled 'Strange Little Birds', and a lot of expectation from their most hardcore fans. The first taste of what's coming was released yesterday with the first single 'Empty' and while i've been waiting for new music for so long, this new song was ok. It's good old Garbage, which means that while it has their signature sound and the song is catchy as hell, still it really sounds like it's nothing new. But anyway, the song sounds powerful and despite not being impressed when i first listened to it, now it's growing on me. 

The new album will be out on June 10th and i will see them live in Madrid at the Madcool Festival in Madrid in a few months, so in the meantime i hope they release some more songs. Enjoy 'Empty' below!

9/17/14

Top 10 Garbage songs


Garbage have surprisingly teased with new music on their website and it seems that a new album is coming, which is super good news. It's true that their latest two albums 'Bleed Like Me' and 'Not Your Kind of People' were not as superb as their debut, 'Version 2.0.' and the underrated 'Beautiful Garbage' but one can only hope. Also, Garbage's lyrics always get me to the core and i love these weirdos so new music is more than welcome and i'm already excited about it.

So, ahead of this upcoming release i'm doing the unbelievable difficult task for me to try to make a Top 10 but, i'm gonna do two different top 10s because Garbage has super powerful songs and awesome ballads, so two lists for them. I haven't included b-sides because they're so awesome i might do another top 10 some day for them but i have included covers this time.

Go ahead to garbage.com to get teased and enjoy both top 10s with some of my favourite lyrics after the cut!

1. Only Happy When It Rains
I'm riding high upon a deep depression

6/6/12

Stereotyping you by your favourite 90s band

90s music is only getting better and better with time and with the lack of anything decent these days, so that's why this article of Flavorwire is really great. I posted some of my favourites but you can check out the rest at the original source, they warn us this is all for fun so don't take it really seriously, though my stereotype is so accurate it hurts, guess which one:

Oasis
Aging Anglophiles who still read the NME religiously.
Pulp
People who had no problem paying $70 to see Jarvis et al at Radio City last month, and yet insist on shopping exclusively at Beacon’s Closet.
The Lemonheads
Slackers who watch The Big Lebowski at least once a week.
Placebo
Sexually fluid types confronting the fact that androgyny doesn’t work so well with a receding hairline.
The Offspring
Veteran skaters who never could understand how people could refer to Talking Heads as “punk,” anyway.
Rage Against the Machine
Conspiracy theorists who think Republicans are out to get them, and may be correct.
Ben Folds Five
Conspiracy theorists who think women are out to get them, and may be correct.
L7
Angry women who really do keep shitlists.
Pearl Jam
People who consider “alternative” to be a viable genre.
Matchbox Twenty
People who consider “alternative” to be a viable genre, but secretly never actually liked it that much.
The Prodigy
Slightly pungent bug-eyed types who still take ecstasy regularly.
Garbage
Girls who are generally awesome but still somehow seem to have really terrible relationships.
Manic Street Preachers
Thirtysomethings who eschew leopard print these days, but are still messes of eyeliner and spray paint at heart.
My Bloody Valentine
Sound engineers.
Presidents of the United States of America
Determinedly oddball types who are not as funny as they think they are.
The Bloodhound Gang
Bros who own all the Farrelly brothers’ films on DVD.
Republica
Sports fans.
Blink-182
People born between January 1, 1987 and December 31, 1988.
Portishead
Well-off couples who enjoy hosting dinner parties.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Dudes who can’t really understand how anyone could possibly dislike LA.
Bikini Kill
Cool girls who wear Doc boots with long shorts.
Smashing Pumpkins
Carbuncular adolescents who can play the guitar very, very, very, very well.
Blur
Lads who wear polo shirts with the collars turned up and secretly wish that Damon would stop all this larking about with Gorillaz and African music.
Hole
Despairing überans who will agree in private conversation that Courtney does need to “sort herself out.”
Babes in Toyland
People who’ve always known that Courtney needs to sort herself out.
Counting Crows
Cashed-up lefties who now live in the West Village.
Catatonia
Girls who have had their stomach pumped at least once.
Jeff Buckley
Guys who fancy themselves as romantics and would be happy to invite you in for coffee. If you want. Of course. It’s up to you. Just saying.
Pavement
Earnest music nerds who will, in casual conversation, use the word “angular” to describe guitar riffs.
Green Day
Guys who you used to dislike at high school and who now claim that they actually always liked the Clash better than Blink-182.
Mazzy Star
Sad-eyed girls who read a lot on the subway.
Bush
That one person you know who always laughs even though you know deep down they don’t quite get the joke.
Belle & Sebastian
Bookish types who will pay very good money on eBay for a copy of the original C86 tape.
The Cranberries
Earnest women who sign online petitions about global “issues.”
Suede
Impossibly slender men who own at least one blouse.
Teenage Fanclub
Scots.
Nirvana
A whole new generation of angry, disaffected teenagers. Hold on, kids. It does get better eventually.

5/12/12

Absolutely my kind of people

Garbage's new album 'Not Your Kind of People' is streaming online and it rocks! i wasn't expecting much from it, i adore Garbage but it's been years since they released something that sounded like new, but in this new album, even though it doesn't amaze, they have a new sound but sounding like their good old them, which is a really good thing and which makes me have faith in them again.

You can stream it online here but i just posted below my two fave songs from the cd, 'Automatic Systematic Habit' which powerfully opens the album and 'Sugar' where Shirley Manson's voice haunts you while she sings "Won't someone love me", Garbage really have the best ballads and lyrics, i love to see my band back and sounding so good:



sources: garbage.com

3/11/12

Not your kind of people but mine.

The first song from Garbage's upcoming album 'Not Your Kind of People' is out!!! Just the other night i was trying not to argue with a friend who was saying that they were pretty much done, i mean he had a point, but you can't judge without listening first to the new stuff and here it is! The song 'Blood for Poppies' is a grower, at first i was like, "Damn, my friend was right" because it sounds like like every other Garbage song, but after listening to it a few times, it gets wayyy better, maybe it has a lot of production done and you can't really hear the lyrics, but it sticks with you and the ending part is my fave one, and i'm loving it like the darkling that i am.

Listen to it Here
source: ontd

10/12/11

Achtung baby

Back in the day when my brother bought U2's album 'Achtung Baby', he played it so much that i scratched the cd in hopes of never listening to it again. Back then i hated U2. And years later i happily inherited that cd as i ended up loving it (luckily, i scratched the wrong side so it stills works).

Anyway, the good news today is that Q is going to release an 'Achtung Baby' covers album and this is the setlist:

Nine Inch Nails - Zoo Station
U2 (Jacques Lu Cont Mix) - Even Better Than The Real Thing
Damien Rice - One
Patti Smith - Until The End Of The World
Garbage - Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Depeche Mode - So Cruel
Snow Patrol - Mysterious Ways
The Fray - Trying To Throw Your Arms Around The World
Gavin Friday - The Fly
The Killers - Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
Glasvegas - Acrobat
Jack White - Love Is Blindness


So it's going to be interesting to listen to NIN's, Depeche Mode's and The Killers' take on those songs but OMG, my fave band performing one of my fave songs from U2, 'Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses', this song is on my top 5 of U2 ballads ('With or Without You', 'One', 'Stay, Faraway So Close', 'Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own') so i can't wait to listen to Shirley Manson singing those beautiful lyrics <3

"The doors you open I just can't close"

source: Q & u2station

10/6/11

G-2012


Garbage used to be my favourite band, and i say used to be because they haven't released anything in the past few years and their last album was kinda forgettable, but they always have written some amazing stuff, they used to give me the feeling that they wrote songs about me and that's not easy to find for someone who's not into music as much as the rest of the world (of course i like music, but i'm surrounded by people who lives and breathes music and that ain't me).

But that's (maybe) about to change, they have just announced that they will release an album next year, a new single this Christmas "as a christmas present from Garbage as a thankyou to you all for sticking around" and a tour next year (OMG). So am i to blame if i get excited? i've always loved this band, Shirley and the boys, who have always taken care so well of their fans (never forget that the band had secretly split up until Butch Vig decided to get them all together after bumping into some excited fans). They didn't invent the term "darkling" to refer to their fanbase just for nothing. So here i am, a dear darkling waiting for my G-Christmas present and posting some of of my fave songs from them, difficult to choose but here they are:





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source: GFacebook