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Artist: GarbageEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Published)
CD Release Date: 1995-08-15
Music Label: Almo Sounds
Soundtracks:
- Supervixen
- Queer
- Only Happy When It Rains
- As Heaven Is Wide
- Not My Idea
- A Stroke Of Luck
- Vow
- Stupid Girl
- Dog New Tricks
- My Lover's Box
- Fix Me Now
- Milk
Music reviews of Garbage
Music Review: Garbage scores big in their solid-as-diamond debut album
Rating: 5 Stars
NOTES: Garbage is my favorite band.
1=bad, 2=average, 3=good, 4=great
Supervixen: I'm totally content with what's written as performed by Shirley (who sings like a goddess here; so regal and confident that when she commands me to "bow down", I'm happy to oblige), but the true appeal of "Supervixen" is its all-encompassing, mammoth-sized din that cleverly conjures a hypnotic fever pitch (especially during the self-aggrandizing chorus). It's blaring, subversive mind control with a come-hither wink.
4 / 4
In Queer, Shirley personifies a praying mantis and her provocative, alien whispering muddles the reality that you'd better watch yourself after the deed is done. Decrying her newfound date/mate for having nothing worthwhile (after tearing him apart upon closer inspection), she's grossly disappointed and it shows. Our lady may be all class but it's easy to imagine the entire affair taking place in a seedy motel room. And scarily, I don't think this is the first time it's happened.
4 / 4
Only Happy When It Rains is a biting, sardonic tune that's emblematic of the period it was released in and Garbage on the whole. What I like most about it is the black humor: "I only smile in the dark" (and there's no doubt it's a Cheshire grin). Depending on your perspective, this is either a derision disguised as a parody of pessimists, or a glorious tribute to them. I spent two years "riding high upon a deep depression" but can't settle on a verdict.
4 / 4
As Heaven Is Wide: Although the woman-scorned card is one that gets used all too often, this time it's played with such raw, ferocious, teeth-bared effect that I have no choice but to defer to it my complete, trembling attention. The band is at the top of its game with this apocalyptic number, using religious imagery to describe the sheer magnitude of betrayal that has transpired. Shirley lambastes her ex for excoriating her ("If flesh could crawl/my skin would fall/from off my bones and run away from here") and it's f***ing awesome.
4 / 4
Not My Idea is the actualization of promised revenge as evidenced by one of the most surprising avowals the group has ever written: "Now I'm here burning down your house". On subsequent listens, it's clear that the entire song is preparing us for that remark. Initially it all feels merely peevish compared with "As Heaven Is Wide". But it's impossible not to cheer Shirley on when she ignites the lighter fluid after a few iterations of the stirring, staccato chorus.
3 / 4
A Stroke Of Luck: At this point in the progression of things Shirley is understandably cynical about another relationship and considers her latest to be doomed from the start ("Here comes the cold again/I feel it closing in" she laments). Her life is smeared with the colors of a sickly sunset and there's no way to wipe the canvas clean. The frosty gale blowing throughout is a reminder that history repeats itself. Note the neat reversal of the chorus during its second repetition.
4 / 4
Vow: Only our favorite lead vocalist (in the whole damn world!) can describe herself as "like Joan of Arc coming back for more" and "like Jesus Christ coming back from the dead" and not elicit laughter. Shirley returns to vengeance mode with the strength (and auditory similitude) of a tornado and has apparently ditched her pyromaniacal urges for something a little more homicidal. And we clamor for more! "Vow" was a good first single because it set the standard for this disc and the next.
3 / 4
I've always thought Stupid Girl never really deserved most of its accolades. It doesn't matter if the drums were sampled from the Clash as the sound design is not up to par with anything else on this recording. And vocally gutting a "stupid girl" for being fake and manipulative is been-there-done-that territory. If Shirley's referring to herself, she makes the lyrics moderately more intriguing but not enough to compensate for shallow indictments like, "Don't believe in love/don't believe in hate/don't believe in anything/that you can't waste".
2 / 4
Dog New Tricks: Crunchy, adroit guitars seething beneath the surface help drive home awful truths such as, "Everyone lies/everyone cheats" and "Everyone I know has gone away/died or left or just forgot to stay". An intellectually gratifying testament to those mistakes we all make in life and don't want to acknowledge. The relationships we screw up. The ideas we have trouble articulating. It's hard learning how to change and "Dog New Tricks" has no easy answers.
3 / 4
My Lover's Box: After a brief retrospection, Shirley doesn't exactly repent but asks for a path to salvation anyway. With her charismatic and sympathetic yearning to ascend higher despite her shortcomings, she becomes our fallen angel. If there's hope for someone in her predicament then is there hope for the rest of us? At the end the music intensifies, escalates, and maybe she's being lifted up to heaven after all. Garbage peaks with this majestic elegy and subsides in its two concluding tracks.
4 / 4
If "My Lover's Box" was the climactic foretelling of Shirley's death, then Fix Me Now is her funeral dirge. She asks to be resurrected but eventually relents ("I'll go without a fight"). It's a pensive piece in which the background wailing deflates slowly so that by the time it's over the poor woman can be laid to rest among the clouds. The whole eulogy's a fanciful daydream of course ("Things don't have to be this way/catch me on a better day"), but it's haunting nevertheless.
3 / 4
A postlude with one bizarre lyric ("I am red hot kitchen") and an explanation for everything that came before ("I am lost/so I am cruel"), Milk began the Garbage tradition of picking an adagio lullaby as the farewell to each album. It's a lovely way to close out the proceedings, projecting us into a starry realm where all the songs are on an infinite loop. This one reveals Shirley to be an ultimately lonely siren, willing to try for love once again. And we honestly hope that somehow, this time, it turns out well for her.
3 / 4
Best: As Heaven Is Wide
Worst: Stupid Girl
Description of Garbage
Japanese edition of their platinum debut with two bonus tracks for collectors, the hit version of '#1 Crush' (Nellee Hooper Remix) that was featured on the double plati-num Romeo & Juliet soundtrack and their deleted first single'Subhuman', released before the album came out in 1995. 14 tracks total.Cool, calculating, and Euro-trashy in the grand tradition of Roxy Music and the Eurythmics. --Jeff Bateman
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