miércoles, 16 de febrero de 2011

Garbage Review

Welcome to our blog! We're mad about music, so we've decided to write this blog to share our fave bands and singers. We'll include Youtube links and other resources and you'll check them. Hope you enjoy. Your comments'll be welcome as well!


We'd like to start with...

Garbage

Garbage are a Scottish/American alternative rock band formed in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1994. The band consists of Scottish vocalist Shirley Manson and American musicians Duke Erikson, Steve Marker and Butch Vig, and has counted worldwide album sales of over 17 million units. Garbage released a string of increasingly successful singles in 1995–1996, including "Stupid Girl". Their debut album, Garbage, was an unexpected smash, selling over 4 million copies and certified double platinum in the UK, USA and Australia. Garbage won the Breakthrough Artist award at the 1996 MTV Europe Music Awards.


Garbage spent two years working on follow-up album, Version 2.0, which topped the charts in the UK upon its 1998 release and the following year was nominated for two Grammy Awards, Album of the Year and Best Rock Album. Version 2.0 went on to match the sales of its predecessor. Garbage followed this up by performing and co-producing the theme song to the nineteenth James Bond movie The World Is Not Enough.

Despite being named one of Rolling Stone's Top 10 Albums of The Year, Garbage's 2001 third album Beautiful Garbage failed to match the commercial success achieved by its predecessors. Garbage quietly disbanded in late 2003, but regrouped to complete fourth album Bleed Like Me in 2005, peaking at a career-high #4 in the U.S. The band cut short their concert tour in support of Bleed Like Me announcing an "indefinite hiatus", emphasizing that they had not broken up, but wished to pursue personal interests. In 2006, Vig returned to producing while Manson recorded a solo album. Garbage ended their hiatus in 2007, and released greatest hits retrospective Absolute Garbage.

The band began work and recording their fifth studio album in 2010, and have confirmed that they will tour in 2011 in support of the album.

Current Members

Shirley Manson - lead vocals, guitar


Steve Marker - guitar, keyboards

 
 

Duke Erikson - bass, keyboards, guitar, percussion



Butch Vig - drums, percussions


Touring Members

Daniel Shulman - Bass guitar
Eric Avery - Bass during the Bleed Like Me tour
Matt Chamberlain - Drums during some legs of the Beautiful Garbage tour
Matt Walker - Drums during some legs of the Beautiful Garbage tour and Bleed Like Me tour

Source: Wikipedia.

This is one of our fave songs, Why do you love me? Listen and enjoy.






Lyrics:

I'm no Barbie doll
I'm not your baby girl
I've done ugly things
And I have made mistakes
And I am not as pretty as those girls in magazines
I am rotten to my core if they're to be believed

So what if I'm no baby bird hanging upon your every word
Nothing ever smells of roses that rises out of mud

Why do you love me
Why do you love me
Why do you love me
It's driving me crazy

Why do you love me
Why do you love me
Why do you love me
It's driving me crazy

Why do you love me
Why do you love me
Why do you love me
It's driving me crazy

Why do you love me
Why do you love me

You're not some little boy
Why you acting so surprised?
You're sick of all the rules
Well I'm sick of all your lies
Now I've held back a wealth of shit but
I think I'm gonna choke
I'm standing in the shadows
With the words stuck in my throat
Does it really come as a surprise
When I tell you I don't feel good
That nothing ever came from nothing, man
Oh, man, ain't that the truth

Why do you love me
Why do you love me
Why do you love me
It's driving me crazy

Why do you love me
Why do you love me
Why do you love me
It's driving me crazy

Why do you love me
Why do you love me
Why do you love me
It's driving me crazy

Why do you love me
Why do you love me

I get back up and I do it again
Get back up and I do it again
Get back up and I do it again
Get back up and I do it
Do it again

I think you're sleeping with a friend of mine
I have no proof
But I think that I'm right

You still got the most beautiful face
It just makes me sad
Most of the time

I get back up and I do it again
Get back up and I do it again
Get back up and I do it again
Get back up and I do it
Do it again
Do it again
Do it again
Do it again

Why do you love me
Why do you love me
Why do you love me
It's driving me crazy

Why do you love me
Why do you love me
Why do you love me
It's driving me crazy

Why do you love me
Why do you love me

Why do you love me
Why do you love me






6 comentarios:

  1. Hi Myriam and Talia,

    I really like your idea of creating a blog to share your favourite bands. I like Garbage as well. One of my favourite bands is Portishead. They are from Bristol and their music is classified as trip hop. Here you have a link to Youtube where you can see and listen a live version of Glory Box with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Hope you like it!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnUFhrmk3Os&feature=related

    Ruth.

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  2. Hi girls! I personally enjoy listening to music all the time, so I find your blog truly inspiring and useful. Thank you for sharing your music with us!

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  3. Congratulations for such an amazing blog! I really love the topic, the organization and the information provided. I have to admit I haven't heard about Garbage before so it has been nice to discover them. I personally like all sorts of music, so it would be a pleasure to read your next post. Thanks a lot!

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  5. Garbage are not included among my favourite bands because I do not really like the music they play but I have watched the clip and read the lyrics because your blog is really well structured and appealing!! Congrats! ;p

    Jenny

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  6. Interesting, very interesting and appealing!!!I strongly belief that it is a quite funny and amazing way of introducing a topic, such as it is music. Indeed, the way you have distributed the infomation is the key, to ny way of thinking, to attract people's attention! Very good girls!

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