Sweet smelling 'Garbage'

Garbage's self entitled debut album, "Garbage," gains a younger sibling, "Version 2.0"

CD REVIEW

By Holly Watson, On-line Forty-Niner

June 11,1998

Shirley Manson, who is no stupid girl, and her band members, Duke Erikson, Steve Marker and Butch Vig have constructed another fantastic album, Garbage's "Version 2.0," that hit stores May 12th.

"Version 2.0" is a knock-out album that like cannon fodder, sprays one fire-packed song after the next.

These fire-packed songs include "Temptation Waits," I Think I'm Paranoid," "When I Grow Up," "Medication," "Special," "Hammering in My Head," "Push It," "The Trick is to Keep Breathing," "Dumb," "Sleep Together," "Wicked Ways" and "You Look So Fine." If only all garbage could sound, let alone smell so sweet.

What really makes "Version 2.0" a blast of an album

is every single one of its darn tracks

According to the band this album like the last is full of precision sampling and looping. One sample involves the recurring line "don't worry baby" in the single "Push It." It really is a quote from Beach Boy, Brian Wilson's song "Don't Worry Baby," in case any listeners were wondering,

Another dynamo of a song, "I Think I'm Paranoid" has also penetrated radio airwaves and gained popularity for its catchy melody and lyrics combined with its techno pop stunts such as the loops and samples.

Still, two songs do not an album make. What really makes "Version 2.0" a blast of an album is every single one of its darn tracks. Shirley Manson's voice is its teasingly textured self, pure as the driven technology that accompanies it.

Garbage has again created an album with uncanny smash-song consistency!