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Garbage
Background information
Years active1995–present
MembersDuke Erikson
Shirley Manson
Steve Marker
Butch Vig

Garbage is an American rock group formed in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1994. The band members are Duke Erikson, Shirley Manson, Steve Marker and Butch Vig.

A greatest hits album, b-sides album, and various long-awaited DVDs are rumored for release in late 2006 or early 2007.

The band cut short their 2005 world tour, and announced an indefinite hiatus, but emphasized it was not a break-up.

Overview

Vig, the producer of such influential albums as Nirvana's Nevermind and the Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream, decided he wanted to play in a band again. He asked fellow producers Marker and Erikson, with whom he had played in Spooner and Firetown, to join him. After Steve Marker saw Manson on MTV (in the music video "Suffocate Me" with her band Angelfish), they invited her to audition for (and after two auditions, asked her to join) the band. According to Vig, Garbage was named before Mason joined the band, after Pauli Ryan walked in while Vig was working on a remix for Nine Inch Nails and said it sounded like garbage.[citation needed] A longstanding rumor attributes the statement to Trent Reznor.[citation needed]

Garbage's angry, emotional lyrics contrasted with their catchy, pop alternative rock music. Garbage utilizes samples, electronic loops, grungy guitars, and various other effects to produce haunting and melodic tracks, made distinctive by Scottish singer Shirley Manson's sultry vocals. The fact that Garbage is composed of three music producers is made obvious by the high production quality, with many layers and a "wall of sound" production aesthetic.

Known publicly as an experimental group like Brit band Radiohead, Garbage used their powerful videos to distort the dimensions of their songs.

Career

Garbage released a string of increasingly-successful singles over a period of one year from 1995-1996, culminating in the massive hit "Stupid Girl". They released their debut album, Garbage, later that year, on the Mushroom Records label, signed by Gary Ashley. It went top 20 in the United States and top 10 in the United Kingdom.

Garbage spent two years working on their follow-up album, during which time Manson became well-known by the technologically savvy by being one of the first artists to maintain a blog. "Push It" was released and became a summer hit in 1998, reaching #9 in the UK and #52 in the U.S. Their second album Version 2.0 topped the charts in the UK and hit #13 in the US. It was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards, Album of the Year and Best Rock Album. In 1999, they performed the theme song to the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough.

After again retreating into the studio for several years, Garbage released beautifulgarbage in 2001. While it represented the band's most eclectic and mature sound to date, it contained no standout commercial singles. Hence, no songs charted in the US, and the four singles released charted in UK Top 30. Still, the album managed to reach #6 in the UK and #13 in the US, though it quickly slid down the charts. Garbage followed the album up with a successful tour of the US and Europe.

Garbage's newest album, Bleed Like Me, was released on April 11, 2005. It hit the charts in many countries, including a #4 peak in the United States and a radio rock hit single, "Why Do You Love Me". It originally had the working title "Hands on a Hard Body", but Manson announced that the band had come up with a new title, Bleed Like Me, that better fits the band's improved dynamic following a period of tension and crisis in October 2003. Mason has also said Bleed Like Me is more hard rock and a return to Garbage's roots after the eclectic experiment of beautifulgarbage, an announcement that resonated with most fans.

In late 2005, rumors swirled that the band would break up, and Manson was said to have said on stage that this was the last time they would do this together.[citation needed] In September 2005, the band's official website refuted the rumors of a break-up but confirmed an indefinite hiatus.[1]

As of May 2006, the band has also confirmed that a Greatest Hits album, a B-Sides album, a live DVD from the Bleed Like Me tour, and a video compilation DVD are set to be released if all goes right with the band's record label-related legal issues. [citation needed] The greatest hits album, Absolute Garbage, was originally set for release on May 23, 2006, but currently has been pushed back to fall of the same year. [1].

Discography

Albums

Singles

Year Song UK singles U.S. Hot 100 U.S. Modern Rock AUS singles Album
1995 "Vow" 138 97 26 32 Garbage
1995 "Subhuman" 50 - - - —
1995 "Only Happy When It Rains" 29 55 16 80 Garbage
1995 "Queer" 13 - 12 55 Garbage
1996 "Stupid Girl" 4 24 2 47 Garbage
1996 "Milk" (featuring Tricky) 10 - - 44 Garbage
1996 "#1 Crush" - - 1 - William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet Soundtrack
1998 "Push It" 9 52 5 31 Version 2.0
1998 "I Think I'm Paranoid" 9 - 6 57 Version 2.0
1998 "Special" 15 52 11 54 Version 2.0
1999 "The Trick Is to Keep Breathing" - - - - Version 2.0
1999 "When I Grow Up" 9 - 23 22 Version 2.0
1999 "You Look So Fine" 19 - - - Version 2.0
1999 "The World Is Not Enough" 11 - - - The World Is Not Enough Soundtrack
2001 "Androgyny" 24 - - 21 beautifulgarbage
2002 "Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)" 22 - - 7 beautifulgarbage
2002 "Breaking Up the Girl" 27 - - 19 beautifulgarbage
2002 "Shut Your Mouth" 20 - - 74 beautifulgarbage
2005 "Why Do You Love Me" 7 94 8 19 Bleed Like Me
2005 "Bleed Like Me" - - 27 - Bleed Like Me
2005 "Sex Is Not the Enemy" 24 - - - Bleed Like Me
2006 "Run Baby Run" - - - 47 Bleed Like Me

B-sides and rare tracks

See: Garbage B-side Chronology

Live show covers and ad-libs

Garbage frequently feature cover songs as part of their live sets, and have become quite known for doing faithful and honest renditions of past tunes.

On their first tour in 1996 it was just as common for them to cover Vic Chesnutt's "Supernatural" as it was for them to do "Kick My Ass" which they'd covered for his tribute album.

For 1998's Version 2.0 tour, the band were including The Beatles' "Day Tripper". In 1999, the band even played traditional Scottish poem "John Anderson" by Robert Burns, and The Beatles' "Don't Let Me Down" as part of a special Edinburgh show to celebrate the opening of the Scottish Parliament in July 1999.

By the time of the beautifulgarbage, the band were actively asking the audience for their requests, and this led them to attempt Manson's previous band Angelfish's "Suffocate Me" and ABBA's "Dancing Queen", as well as throwing in a cover of "Can't Get You out of My Head" by Kylie Minogue at a few shows. By the end of the tour cycle, the band also joined with No Doubt and The Distillers in performing Blondie's "Call Me" as a closer for their joint-headline arena tour.

The band played U2's "Pride (In the Name of Love)" for Bono at a special MusiCares award night in 2003, and also played "I Fall to Pieces" by Patsy Cline for the first time in Nashville, Tennessee at the Ryman Theatre as a tribute to playing the Grand Ole Opry. They later played this cover again in Columbus, Ohio. Manson has also recently been quoting "Singin' in the Rain" at a number of recent performances of "Only Happy When It Rains".

Mason has been known to throw in a few ad-libs onstage during certain performances of certain songs - some examples are listed here -

Songs "A Stroke of Luck", "Queer" and "You Look So Fine" also regularly featured ad-libs but so far, no-one has worked out what they were. Indeed for one 1999 "You Look So Fine" ad-lib, many fans argue over what the words were, never mind where they came from!

Tours

Garbage have completed four full length tours - one for each album release - and each album took between 15 to 20 months to complete. During these tours they headlined their own shows (from clubs to arenas), supported acts such as the Smashing Pumpkins, No Doubt, Alanis Morissette, U2 and Red Hot Chili Peppers as well as playing on the line-ups of some of the world's largest and most famous festivals such as the Big Day Out, Glastonbury Festival and the Roskilde Festival.

Their tours are:

  • "Garbage" November 1995 - December 1996
  • "Version 2.0" May 1998 - November 1999
  • "Beautifulgarbage" October 2001 - November 2002
  • "Bleed Like Me" March 2005 - October 2005

Garbage toured to promote their fourth album Bleed Like Me, starting in March 2005. However, in late August 2005 all previously announced tour dates in Europe were cancelled, and the tour ended in Australia in September 2005. The official news stated that "the band feel they have somewhat overextended themselves." The fulfilment of the remaining dates in the U.S. and Australia probably reflects high financial penalties for cancelling closer dates.

Trivia

Early auditions saw former Pigface vocalists, Lesley Rankine and Meg Lee Chin try out. Rankine, who had already been a vocalist in Pigface as well as Silverfish, instead started her own project named Ruby. Chin, who had been in the band Crunch, essentially replaced Rankine in Pigface, after her departure.

See also

References

  1. ^ [http://www.garbage.com/news/news.php?uid=320 title=Dear worried and confused publisher=Garbage.com date=September 23, 2005 accessdate=2006-08-04 http://www.garbage.com/news/news.php?uid=320 title=Dear worried and confused publisher=Garbage.com date=September 23, 2005 accessdate=2006-08-04]. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help); Missing or empty |title= (help); Missing pipe in: |url= (help); line feed character in |url= at position 45 (help)
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