STACK #204 Oct 2021

MUSIC FEATURE

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GARBAGE BEAUTIFUL GARBAGE

Bryget Chrisfield hits you with some juicy nuggets of wisdom surrounding classic records.This month it’s Garbage’s electronica-new-wave-rock jewel, Beautiful Garbage (2001).

Year 2001

Garbage’s Breaking UpThe Girl video was premiered on Daria

An extra drummer was brought in to add swing Drummer Butch Vig wasn’t happy with his performance of a 6/8 groove within the ‘50s-girl-group-inspired Can’t Cry These Tears so Matt Chamberlain (Bowie, Dylan) was called in. Matt’s trademark bitchin’ funk was also utilised on two more Beautiful Garbage album tracks: Cup Of Coffee and Confidence . Shirley’s buzzcut was mistakenly viewed as a cry for help While promoting Beautiful Garbage in 2001, Shirley lopped off her trademark ranga locks and dyed her ‘boy-short’ ‘do platinum blonde (partly to spite their record label). “People

Garbage’s third album Beautiful Garbage , which topped the Australian charts, contains monster hits such as Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!) and Breaking UpThe Girl . Following a gruelling 20 months spent touring off the back of their preceding Version 2.0 record (1998), Garbage’s three American band members returned home while their self- appointed MVP, Shirley Manson, went back to Scotland to address her mental health issues. After enlisting the help of a therapist, Shirley opened up about her self-harm battle – publicly – before returning toWisconsin, Michigan.There she poured her emo heart into Garbage’s gothic-pop

Remember the Is It College Yet? TV movie that concluded MTV’s cult animated series Daria – a Beavis And Butt-Head

spin-off – back in January, 2002? Well, that was also the final ep of the show that birthed this cartoon spokesperson for Gen X apathy. Garbage’s

Breaking Up The Girl was synced to Is It College

Yet? , and although widely regarded as

the show’s ‘theme song’, that honour actually goes to College Try (Gives Me Blisters) by NYC riot grrrls Splendora. Meanwhile, check out the animated versions of Garbage band members that the Daria team created to also appear in this episode. So effin’ cute!

went nuts… like, literally,” she recalled to journalist Roberto Reyes. “I got phone calls from the record company when they saw me on Letterman , I think it was, and they were freaking out, saying, ‘F-ck, what are we going to do about your hair? Tell us what we can do to help!’ and I said, ‘I don’t want any help. I like it’.”

Prepare to covet the remastered and expanded editions of Beautiful Garbage – such as the Deluxe Vinyl iteration (pictured above), containing B-sides, setlist, poster and more – which drops this month, to mark 20 years since its release.

masterwork Beautiful Garbage , which was

released three weeks after the September 11 attacks.

If you like Beautiful Garbage , you’ll love:

Garbage in 2001, L-R: Duke Erikson, Steve Marker, Shirley Manson, ButchVig

PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea (2000)

Skunk Anansie 25LIVE@25 (2019)

The Breeders Last Splash (1993)

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