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Did you at least just score the singles?
COMPLETE GARBAGE: The Discography Rate (WINNER!)
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Did you at least just score the singles?
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Nope. I wanted to do it all! I'm gonna blame myself if any of my favourites go early. I'm dreading it already.
THE CHEMICALS (FEAT. BRIAN AUBERT)
AVERAGE SCORE: 6.609
HIGHEST SCORE: 10 x 3 (@AllGagaLike, @Andy French, @bichard)
LOWEST SCORE: 2 x 1 @ohnoitisnathan)
The Chemicals features the guitar slinging frontman of LA alt rock band Silversun Pickups and was released for R***** S**** D** in 2015. Recorded during the Strange Little Birds sessions, it's generally more bombastic sounding than anything that made the final tracklisting of the album and would've stuck out like a bit of a sore thumb. As a big fan of Strange Little Birds, even the most distant relation to that album leaving this early stings and I absolutely adore the sections where the wall of noise drops out and Shirley and Brian are left repeatedly intoning the song title with that creeping sense of dread as bit by bit the layers of guitars, drums and electronic textures are brought back in. Goosebumps!
Shirley and the boys hooked up with Brian after playing the same Pablove Foundation benefit gig. Speaking to Mashable about the single, Shirley had this to say about him, "We love his energy and he's really funny and an amazing talent and an incredible singer. And we love that he sounds androgynous — you don’t know what he is. You don’t know whether he's a girl or a boy a lot of the time, and I love that." Like the R***** S**** D** singles before it, a music video for The Chemicals was filmed. Director Sophie Muller had filmed footage of friends and relatives dancing and raving in a dingy London club and after conversations with Shirley rueing the loss of that particular type of club culture that both had grown up in, decided to marry the footage up with the song.
@sfmartin: After a Garbage drought between 2012 and 2016 this was very welcome appetiser. I would have liked a bit more fire like this on the most recent album actually.
@digitalkaiser: I've always loved this, it's a very interesting direction for them. It feels like it should have been a big moment on an album. It feels very 'Push it’.
@ohnoitisnathan: Oh dear, another featuring song. Has doing these collaborations with younger artists scored them a hit? No. So why compromise your artistic integrity? I see that the band is absent from the video... because they're deemed too old for public display?
@Ray: I don’t know why but this song makes me tired. Maybe it’s the mix of barely having a baseline and being recorded, mixed and mastered in a basement made of bricks.
@constantino: That PRODUCTION though, yes ma'am!
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AFTERGLOW
AVERAGE SCORE: 6.635
HIGHEST SCORE: 10 x 3 (@enjoy, @etienne, @marie_05)
LOWEST SCORE: 3 x 1 (@AshleyKerwin)
Part Bond theme? Part Portishead remix? Part Telenovela villain theme? Afterglow is one of the g-sides to Version 2.0's I Think I'm Paranoid single and looking at the g-sides left (song list for anybody wondering what's left coming in a few elims time) it could've lasted a bit longer over some of the lesser album tracks we've still got in the running. Slinky, sensual but given a sinister edge with Shirley's lyrics and vocal delivery.
@sfmartin: It's kind of like a poor mans version of Milk.
@magictreehouse: This very much sounds like their audition to do the Bond theme doesn’t it? Well I guess it was successful!
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THE CHEMICALS (FEAT. BRIAN AUBERT)
AVERAGE SCORE: 6.609
HIGHEST SCORE: 10 x 3 (@AllGagaLike, @Andy French, @bichard)
LOWEST SCORE: 2 x 1 @ohnoitisnathan)
Oh noooooo, now this one I'm actually pretty sad about!
I might have rated it even higher (although I think I gave it a pretty decent score ddd don't remember) now if I was still scoring. It's grown on me a lot! It's like there isn't even a feature because half the time Brian Aubert sounds like Shirley!
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The Chemicals? For fucks sake!!! It's one of the best things they've done. End of sentence!!!
I happen to quite like Afterglow too, so double trouble kids.
I happen to quite like Afterglow too, so double trouble kids.
Well, I suppose it's one of the best 90 things they've done.
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Many, many times, in fact, and Sometimes is still better than all of them. Sorry 'bout it.I'm happy Sometimes is out. It is simply an intro track and barely even a song and certainly not as good as most of the g-sides we've lost already.
What is really upsetting is that y'all think that Sometimes is better than Can't Seem To Make You Mine, Why Don't You Come Over, I Just Wanna Have Something To Do, Candy Says, What Girls Are Made Of, Butterfly Collector, Lick The Pavement..etc
Did you even listen to the songs before you rated them?
No heartbreakers yet, but it really feels like one is just around the corner...
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Compared to most Garbage songs, TWINE is pretty shit. I suppose it wasn't written by them, so that's probably why.
With the fall of The Chemicals, I think I've lost six (six) tens now.
With the fall of The Chemicals, I think I've lost six (six) tens now.
@NecessaryVoodoo please can you leak the full list of forum
Users who scored afterglow below an 8 including addresses so that i can go and make them a feature in the next series of britains unsolved murders? X
Users who scored afterglow below an 8 including addresses so that i can go and make them a feature in the next series of britains unsolved murders? X
I cannot believe giving it a 7 - like I did - would be the end of me.
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Recap #4:
95. Bright Tonight - 6 - What Girls Are Made Of should not have lost to this. The by-the-beach guitars tricked me into thinking this would be a lot more enjoyable than it ends up being. Still those guitars alone led to my above-average score.
94. Witness To Your Love - 9 - This was such a pleasant surprise. Sounds so much more uplifting and carefree compared to many of the G-Sides, with the reminiscent storytelling being the engine behind that. It's wrong to see this go before some of the lower-end material on the albums. The cover art @NecessaryVoodoo made is hilarious too.
92. Fucking With You - 6 - I don't hate it and probably would give it a 7 today because it's definitely easier on the ears overall than Bright Tonight for example. These kind of songs need to show me a little something to latch onto to keep me coming back and this barely manages it. They do 'sleepy' songs so much better than this.
91. Use Me - 7 - I don't know if the verses are ever going to sell me despite the edge opening lyrically, but the chorus is perfectly catchy.
90. Sometimes - 5 - Good, we need to cut away from this album more than the others. I'm not a huge ambient-music fan, so if that's your thing great but this is rather boring to me. Yeah it's an atmospheric mood piece and they do a lot of that, but this instantly sounded like a different direction musically and I feared for what the album would be like (I was unfortunately right)
89. The Chemicals - 5 - Two great eliminations in a row for me. Sounds repetitive on entry despite having a decent foundation instrumentally, for the most part.
88. Afterglow - 5 - Three great cuts in a row! I guess 'Bond theme' would fit the bill, especially in the little interludes of the song. The problem is how most of the song is doing it's best to put me to sleep. Their 'worst' is never anything less than pleasant background music though which why I handed out many fives like this and few less than that.
95. Bright Tonight - 6 - What Girls Are Made Of should not have lost to this. The by-the-beach guitars tricked me into thinking this would be a lot more enjoyable than it ends up being. Still those guitars alone led to my above-average score.
94. Witness To Your Love - 9 - This was such a pleasant surprise. Sounds so much more uplifting and carefree compared to many of the G-Sides, with the reminiscent storytelling being the engine behind that. It's wrong to see this go before some of the lower-end material on the albums. The cover art @NecessaryVoodoo made is hilarious too.
92. Fucking With You - 6 - I don't hate it and probably would give it a 7 today because it's definitely easier on the ears overall than Bright Tonight for example. These kind of songs need to show me a little something to latch onto to keep me coming back and this barely manages it. They do 'sleepy' songs so much better than this.
91. Use Me - 7 - I don't know if the verses are ever going to sell me despite the edge opening lyrically, but the chorus is perfectly catchy.
90. Sometimes - 5 - Good, we need to cut away from this album more than the others. I'm not a huge ambient-music fan, so if that's your thing great but this is rather boring to me. Yeah it's an atmospheric mood piece and they do a lot of that, but this instantly sounded like a different direction musically and I feared for what the album would be like (I was unfortunately right)
89. The Chemicals - 5 - Two great eliminations in a row for me. Sounds repetitive on entry despite having a decent foundation instrumentally, for the most part.
88. Afterglow - 5 - Three great cuts in a row! I guess 'Bond theme' would fit the bill, especially in the little interludes of the song. The problem is how most of the song is doing it's best to put me to sleep. Their 'worst' is never anything less than pleasant background music though which why I handed out many fives like this and few less than that.
SHOW ME
AVERAGE SCORE: 6.648
HIGHEST SCORE: 10 x 3 (@bichard, @constantino, @Sprockrooster)
LOWEST SCORE: 2 x 1 (@etienne)
Show Me closes out the deluxe edition of Not Your Kind Of People. Those Texas I Don't Want A Lover guitars are the best part of the song for me which is another that's never really done a lot for me, but maybe that's just because I'm usually exhausted for Not Your Kind Of People to finish.
@Sprockrooster: A bonus track doesn't deserve to be this good.
@sfmartin: A strange one, lots of interesting parts but it takes a while to kick in till the guitars get going then I'm fully on board. It's still quite repetitive and overlong.
@digitalkaiser: This song feels like it could fit in nicely with strange little birds, if I’m being honest! It’s a bit better then a lot of the material on that album though, woops! I love how this song builds, its a rate rediscovery for me!
@constantino: W I G. It’s criminal that this is a mere bonus track when it blows even the singles from this era out of the water. So sharp. So refined. So powerful. The NYKOP album tracks cannot relate.
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UNTOUCHABLE
AVERAGE SCORE: 6.648
HIGHEST SCORE: 9 x 1 (@marie_05)
LOWEST SCORE: 2 x 1 (@magictreehouse)
I colour coded the albums on my results spreadsheet to make it easier to see and wow I was shocked when I saw the purple of a beautifulgarbage song looming on the horizon already. But looking at the scores, Untouchable didn't manage to snatch a single 10 from any of the voters so it's probably not too much of a surprise, right?
If any song from Garbage's third album had to leave at this point, I'm happy for Untouchable to take the hit as it's always been one of my least favourites on beautifulgarbage, sorry about it. A sleek, ersatz early 00's sounding pop&b song, which from interviews with the band from that time, I gather was the whole point. Still it's never really done it for me and I usually find myself skipping it to get to the sublime So Like A Rose.
@GimmeWork: I remember when this came out and Britney was the biggest pop star the world had seen in a long time and this song to me kind of sounded like the poppiest sounding song Garbage had ever attempted. I still love it but am simultaneously glad they never made another song as early 2000’s pop sounding ever again!
@constantino: A reverse Samantha ‘Our Sam’ Fox experience. This is choppy and weird, and that’s exactly why I dig it.
@sfmartin: I think this is the only song on the album I came remotely close to skipping, and even may let it play because it's harmless. It just doesn't do enough of anything. Tries a few things but doesn't quite pull them off.
@digitalkaiser: Another pop-R&B spliced with Garbage song, and it just works for me. I think this is the song that grew on me the most after all this time, I used to despise it. They really know their way around a punchy beat.
@magictreehouse: One of the things I dislike about beautifulgarbage is that some of it feels really overcooked in terms of production and this is a perfect example. They really should have just stopped tinkering around with the album much sooner.
@Filler: To be honest I prefer this to the Girls Aloud song. Don't tell anyone
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TRIP MY WIRE
AVERAGE SCORE: 6.673
HIGHEST SCORE: 10 x 1 (@bichard)
LOWEST SCORE: 3.5 x 1 (@AshleyKerwin)
"This is the kind of song that you write when your boyfriend fucks you over, when he fucks other girls behind your back, when he gives you a dose of the clap. Like I said, this is the kind of song you write, it's called Trip My Wire." - Shirley's song intro on the 20 Years Queer tour.
Trip My Wire was one of the b-sides to feature on the Queer single from their debut album and like most of their early g-sides it's one that sounds quintessentially Garbage. Had it been recorded and finished earlier, there's no reason it couldn't have ended up on the album and thanks to the 20th anniversary reissue of Garbage, it now kind of has.
@Sprockrooster: Very spacey and would have fit easily on the album.
@sfmartin: There's no reason in the world why this didn't deserve its place on the album. It stands up to the rest more than easily. "I'm a freak and I'm on fire" is one of their best lyrics.
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NOT YOUR KIND OF PEOPLE
AVERAGE SCORE: 6.722
HIGHEST SCORE: 10 x 2 (@Andy French, @Remorque)
LOWEST SCORE: 2 x 1 (@A&E)
Out of all the albums so far, it's Not Your Kind Of People that's losing the most songs and at 84 we say goodbye to the twangy, woozy title track. Butch came up with the title while out driving, seeing some of the more unusual types that call Los Angeles their home. When Shirley heard the title she agreed that it had to become a song and very soon it also became the album title. Steve talked about the creation of the track in a song-by-song interview for the album:
"Like so many songs, this one happened fast. Butch had the line, and we just grabbed the guitars and wrote it. Shirley’s vocals, too – I wouldn’t call them ad-libbed, but the words came together quick.
"I'm playing the intro guitar part. It was a kind of heavy metal riff when Butch brought it in, something he was playing around with, sort of Black Sabbath-like, but we put a clean, twangy, country-ish sound to it. There’s a lot of guitars on the track. I’m doing the slide stuff in the middle; it’s supposed to sound a little Pink Floyd/David Gilmour. I used a Henman guitar. I’ve been playing those live and having a lot of luck with them."
Not Your Kind Of People also has the dubious honour of being recorded in another language. Translated into Simlish to be precise, it featured on the Dark Wave station added to the radios and stereos in The Sims 3 for the Supernatural expansion pack:
Some of my other faves Austra and Ladytron also recorded songs in Simlish for the same expansion. That Dark Wave station is lit.
Still on the video game theme, the song also served as the soundtrack to the premiere trailer for Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain at the 2013 Game Developers Convention and later included on the official soundtrack album for the game. Get that video game nerd cred Garbage!
@sfmartin: Kind of like an amalgamation of Nobody Loves You and So Like a Rose. But not as good as either because it feels a tad uninspired. Saying that, it is still catchy as hell and is a bit epic towards the end with a key change.
@digitalkaiser: It’s not my favorite on this album, it sort of feels like it could fit in on Bleed Like Me, It’s that sort of song. Kooky Garbage.
@AshleyKerwin: The Sims 3 Supernatural made me love/hate this song.
@constantino: I can’t tell if this is cute or a whole lotta nothing...it’s a bit of both, really.
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