Audio CD review:
Garbage - Beautifulgarbage

Garbage - Beautifulgarbage

Band: Garbage Title: Beautifulgarbage Rating: Release Date: 02 October, 2001 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Shut Your Mouth 2: Androgyny 3: Can't Cry 4: Til The Day I Die 5: Cup Of Coffee 6: Silence Is Golden 7: Cherry Lips 8: Breaking Up The Girl 9: Drive You Home 10: Parade 11: Nobody Loves You 12: Untouchable 13: So Like A Rose

Editoral Review Shirley Manson, Butch Vig, Duke Erickson, and Steve Marker robustly straddled the line between alternative rock and techno in their two efforts, whipping up two finely crafted CDs that captured the cultural mood of the late '90s. Garbage's third album is an almost total departure for modern rock's renowned poster children. After six years in the saddle, they've shaken off the charge that they're a producer's creation and have emerged as a full-blown band. The band has also given up all pretext at being au courant and topical, instead combining '80s kitsch with '70s pop, with a stop along the way to worship at the altars of Phil Spector and Chrissie Hynde and even at times arriving at their own version of nu soul. "Shut Your Mouth" is raw and menacing and does as much for female empowerment as a Missy Elliott hit. "Can't Cry These Tears Anymore" is a modern take on Leslie Gore's "It's My Party (And I'll Cry If I Want To), but with all the strangeness of Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. If there is a single theme to Beautiful Garbage (named after a line in a Courtney Love song), it's that smart girls don't put all their faith in love. The heroine in most of these 13 songs would rather kick a faithless lover in the, er, shins with her stilettos than pine by the phone. The "Stupid Girl" of the band's debut is now just a stupid memory. --Jaan Uhelszki .. You can see a complete list of all Garbage discography, or go back to the Garbage tabs