Garbage

Garbage – Strange Little Birds (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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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) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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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) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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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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Garbage – Garbage (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition/Remastered) (1995/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Garbage is celebrating the 20th anniversary of their critically acclaimed self-titled debut record by releasing a special edition two CD set of the album remastered from the original analog tapes. Originally released in 1995, ‘Garbage’ achieved double platinum in multiple territories, reached top 10 charts worldwide, and received three Grammy Award Nominations including Best New Artist. The rerelease includes ‘I’m Only Happy When It Rains’ & ‘Stupid Girl’ as well as all G-sides released from 1995-1996.

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Garbage – Bleed Like Me (Remastered) (2005/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Described as a thundering return to the band’s original hard rock sound, ‘Bleed Like Me’ features eleven tracks that return to the power and simplicity of their debut. The first single is the explosive ‘Why Do You Love Me’. Amongst the other highlights of the album are the dynamic opener ‘Bad Boyfriend’, a heavy out and out rock song featuring a guest appearance from Dave Grohl on drums. Aside from Grohl, the album also features an additional guest in the shape of Beck bassist Justin Meldal-Johnsen. This new Hi-Res release marked as “Remastered version”.

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Garbage – Beautiful Garbage (20th Anniversary Edition) (2001/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Garbage will reissue a 20th anniversary edition of their third studio album, Beautiful Garbage, in October.

The album saw a slight departure for the band in terms of their sound and delivered four hit singles – ‘Androgny’, ‘Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go)’, ‘Breaking Up The Gir’l and ‘Shut Your Mouth’. None of them got higher than number 20 in the UK singles chart (Version 2.0 had delivered three top ten hits in Britain).

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Garbage – Beautiful Garbage (2001/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Garbage’s 2001 release and third album, debuted at #13 on the “Billboard 200.”

Beautiful Garbage (stylized as beautifulgarbage) is the third album by alternative rock group Garbage. The album was released worldwide in October 2001 by Mushroom Records UK and in North America by Interscope and was the followup to the band’s Grammy-nominated Version 2.0. Marking a departure from the sound Garbage had established on their first two records, Beautiful Garbage was written and recorded over the course of a year, during which time lead singer Shirley Manson chronicled their efforts weekly online, becoming one of the first high-profile musicians to keep an internet blog. The album is marked by expanding on the musical variety, with stronger melodies, more direct lyrics, and sounds that mix rock with electronica, new wave, hip hop and girl groups. The album’s title is taken directly from a lyric in the song “Celebrity Skin” by Hole.
Released three weeks after the September 11 attacks, the album suffered from lack of promotion, mixed reaction from critics, and the failure of its lead single “Androgyny” to achieve high chart positions. Despite faltering in major markets, Beautiful Garbage debuted at number 13 on the Billboard 200, number 1 on Billboard’s Top Electronic Albums, topped the album charts in Australia, and peaked within the top tens of multiple European countries. It was named one of Rolling Stone’s “Top 10 Albums of the Year”.

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Garbage – Anthology (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Anthology is a greatest hits album by Scottish/American rock band Garbage, released on October 28, 2022 through Stunvolume and BMG. It is the band’s third overall and second international greatest hits album. The album includes remastered versions of 35 tracks, among hit singles and fan favourites, as well as rare track “Witness to Your Love”, a song recorded in 2008 for inclusion in the Give Listen Help charity compilation.

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