Garbage – Version 2.0 (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Remastered) (1998/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:24:09 minutes | 1,90 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Infectious Music

20th Anniversary remastered reissue of Garbage’s acclaimed second album.

Three years after the electronic-tinged rock of their 1995 self-titled debut made them a worldwide name, Garbage returned with its highly anticipated follow-up. If its title suggested Version 2.0 was more of the same, it was actually a starker, darker record than its predecessor. Frontwoman Shirley Manson exuded a similarly sensual eroticism with her vocal delivery, but, on the whole, the music was more irascible and confrontational—even the plaintive, slow melody of “Medication” sounds like it was deliberately defiled to be less accessible.

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Garbage – Version 2.0 (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition / Remastered) (1998/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:24:09 minutes | 1,50 GB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Stunvolume

Digitally remastered 20th Anniversary edition. Version 2.0 is the second studio album by alternative rock band Garbage, originally released in 1998. The album was recorded primarily at Smart Studios from March 1997 to February 1998. Despite a slow start, Version 2.0 went on to equal it’s predecessor, earning platinum certifications in many territories. With the album, Garbage aimed to improve and expand on the style of their 1995 self-titled debut rather than reinvent their sound. In 1999, Version 2.0 was nominated for Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Rock Album. The album’s third single “Special” was further nominated the following year for Best Rock Song and for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group.

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Garbage – Version 2.0 (1998/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:43 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Almo Sounds

Version 2.0 is alternative rock group Garbage’s second studio album originally released in 1998. The two-time Grammy nominated album features Grammy nominated single “Special” as well as “Push It”, “I Think I’m Paranoid” and more.

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Garbage – Strange Little Birds (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:45 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Stunvolume Records

Garbage made their comeback in 2012, returning to action after a seven-year hiatus with Not Your Kind of People. Strange Little Birds arrived four years later — a gap that’s just over half the length of their hiatus — and it plays as a continuation of its predecessor, a record that draws a conscious bridge to the band’s ’90s heyday. If Garbage are no longer opting in with new trends, they’re also not grasping at elusive straws from the past: Strange Little Birds is a comfortable record, an album from a band that embraces its signatures and limitations. As they’re a group of studio musicians, Garbage still thrill with the possibilities of recording, loading each track with all manner of trickery — showiness that envelops, not alienates. Part of the pleasure of listening to Garbage is how their form is their substance: it’s about lush, dark waves of sounds as much as it is pop hooks. Shirley Manson may tackle risky sociological or personal issues in her lyrics, but how she sings is paramount, how her voice alternately soars above and is subsumed by the washes of treated guitars. Strange Little Birds showcases this narcotic pull so well because it doesn’t push at the edges of the band’s sound: it embraces this ebb and flow. Such modesty doesn’t mean Garbage settle for the expected — they can achieve a sultry slow burn on “If I Lost You” — but the impressive thing about Strange Little Birds is how it feels simultaneously familiar and fresh, a record that echoes the past without being trapped by it.

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Garbage – No Gods No Masters (Deluxe) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:23:23 minutes | 1,61 GB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Infectious Music

Although they might not be the first ’90s band to come to mind, it’s hard to overstate Garbage’s long-lasting influence on “pop” music—you can hear the industrial yet accessible dance-floor rhythms in the songs of Lady Gaga, while Billie Eilish’s darker twists and turns echo those of singer Shirley Manson. For the band’s seventh album, released a quarter-century after they broke through, Garbage’s formula isn’t so different, but they’ve revitalized it with lyrics that fit a shaken-up world that feels like it’s rapidly changing and also not fast enough. “It was our way of trying to make sense of how fucking nuts the world is and the astounding chaos we find ourselves in,” Manson has said—noting that the lyrics are critiques of racism, sexism, misogyny and capitalism. She comes out guns blazing on the industrial ass-shaker of an opener, “The Men Who Rule the World”: “The men who rule the world/ Have made a fucking mess/ The history of power/ The worship of success.” Her past experience of being rejected as a solo artist by her record label—for being too noir—drives the high-speed chase sounds of “The Creeps” (“They were selling me cheap out there on the street … they got a gun against my head”). “Waiting for God,” inspired by the Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements,” is haunting and almost dirge-like as Manson explores the futility of hopes and prayers to deal with man’s evil. Elsewhere, the ballad “Uncomfortably Me” snakes like ’80s goth pop, “Anonymous XXX” slinks with a Latinx flair of driving drums and drunken horns sounds, and Manson’s heaving whisper (“If I had a dick would you blow it?”) prowls around a Depeche Mode-like dance-floor groove. But it’s not all doom and gloom. “Flipping the Bird,” as you would expect, is a lyrical kiss-off to people who pigeonhole, but it is as poppy-sounding as old hits like “Only Happy When It Rains.” “This City Will Kill You” (a warning to not be lulled into danger by glamour) indulges in a Roxy Music lushness. And the title track isn’t just upbeat—it’s hopeful. It was inspired by a trip she took to Santiago, Chile, witnessing protests against corruption and inequality. As she sings: “Be kind, beware/ Be good, don’t be scared/ Nothing lasts and no one stays/ The same forever so accept the change.” – Shelly Ridenour

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Garbage – Garbage (20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition Remastered) (2005/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 04:34:26 minutes | 5,73 GB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Infectious Music

Garbage is the debut studio album by American rock band Garbage. It was released on August 15, 1995, by Almo Sounds. The album was met with critical acclaim upon its release, being viewed by some as an innovative recording for its time. It reached number 20 on the US Billboard 200 and number six on the UK Albums Chart, while charting inside the top 20 and receiving multi-platinum certifications in several territories. The album’s success was helped by the band promoting it on a year-long tour, including playing on the European festival circuit and supporting the Smashing Pumpkins throughout 1996, as well as by a run of increasingly successful singles culminating with “Stupid Girl”, which received Grammy Award nominations for Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group in 1997.

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