It is sometimes said that Garbage has been around since 1994. All its members are far from amateurs: Butch Vig produced discs of such groups as Nirvana (the Nevermind album, and the group as a whole, Shirley’s voice works not only to compensate for the often absent or non-predominant solo guitar parts, but also enriches and without that, the sound would seem good. And there’s no need to talk about the effects at all. Specialists in the field of sound recording and remixes who worked with such a thing. in various directions, both Eurotechno Depeche Mode and rock U2 know how to work with samples no worse than The Prodigy. Well-balanced music that works on the mood.

Critics began to call the group's style post-grunge, gothic pop, and even alternative. Although they are not classified as soon as possible. On the Internet, and not only, you can find their songs in sections of a hodgepodge of alternative music, rock of various degrees of freedom, and even thrash. During this period, the musicians themselves define their music as something between Curve, Nine Inch Nails and Eurythmics, with a clear predominance of Roxy Music.

The songs from their first album can seem dark if you don't listen to the words, and if you listen closely, they can seem cruel and too honest. As someone said: “The band’s music absorbs the despair of the 90s and does not need a selection of epithets.”

Video clips were shot for several songs from the first album, later combined into a single video released on VHS and, naturally, called “Garbage”. By the way, this half-hour film featured not only original versions of songs, but also interruptions from remixes. Getting this masterpiece is currently quite difficult.

In early 1997, Garbage entered the studio to record their second album. "We'll just hang out in the studio and tape whatever comes to mind," Steve Marker said. Coming out every day new album Garbage, named "Version 2.0". Marker described the upcoming LP as "more black and danceable than the first. "It'll be like 'As Heaven Is Wide.' We dedicated one of the songs to our idol, singer Chrissie Hynde from The Pretenders,” he said.

As it turned out later, a couple of years spent recording is not the longest period of waiting for numerous fans. While recording the second studio album the group came up with a non-standard, as they say now, marketing ploy. Shirley Manson began keeping her online diary, or, as they say now, a blog. From this diary, fans of the group learned news about the tracks being recorded, what is called “first-hand.” Numerous music publications reprinted parts of Shirley's diary, which fueled the already high interest in the group. This continued until careless criticism of Radiohead's new album caused widespread displeasure and almost led to lawsuits. After which the group changed the rules and prohibited reproducing and quoting the diaries without written permission.

In principle, “Version 2.0” repeats the recipe of the first album: a rock band writes excellent pop songs, makes them sound more modern with the help of samples and all kinds of electronics. Shirley noted: “Everything on the album is about me, about my life. It's more personal than the first one." The album appealed to lovers of high-quality sound and rose to first place in the national and indie charts in Britain (and to 13 in its homeland in the USA). Butch Vig described the band's music at that stage as: "Heavier than Nine Inch Nails, groover than hip-hop, more guitars than My Bloody Valentine." Particularly popular are the songs “Push It” (the first single from the album), “When I Grow Up”, “I think I’m paranoid” and “You Look So Fine”.

Quite a long time passed before the group announced the start of work on their third album. Even after this, the work did not go very well. “The boys were hanging out at the bar,” recalls Shirley Manson, “and I was sitting comfortably in some corner, wrapped in an old blanket, staring blankly at the TV.” The confusion and confusion of the musicians can be explained: despite the abundance of ideas and a clear desire to work, they did not yet fully understand in which direction they should develop. The musicians decided to work with pop music. “We have always been fans of this particular movement,” says Shirley. - This partly manifested itself in “Version 2.0”, but then we were still under pressure from guitar fashion. Just don’t rush to conclusions - we put our own meaning into the concept of “pop!”

Unlike its rather conceptual predecessors, “Beautiful Garbage” is a provocative mixture of caustic R&B (“Androgyny”), stylized folk (“So Like A Rose”), more or less familiar rock drive (“Silence Is Golden”) ", "Shut Your Mouth"), outright parody ("Can't Cry These Tears") and a brilliant tango ("Untouchable"). “We have come to the conclusion,” says Butch Vig, smiling sarcastically, “that not being afraid to try and move away from the usual sound is not only a necessary thing, but also an interesting thing. Everyone except Shirley is a producer to one degree or another, so the process of learning new things was quite harmonious.” The musicians really had a lot of time to afford everything, because work on “Beautiful Garbage” lasted 14 months.

The album was followed by an exhausting world tour, during which Shirley began to have problems with her voice, followed by a diagnosis of nervous and physical exhaustion. After the end of the tour, troubles fell on the group - Butch Vig began to have health problems, family troubles haunted Shirley, who suffered major surgery on ligaments. Duke Erickson's father died, and Steve Marker lost his mother... When they met, they could talk about anything, but not about work or the studio. “I remember we sat across from each other and were silent,” recalls Shirley Manson. - Because they didn’t know at all whether we would continue to work together. If yes, then working on new songs will be very difficult. If not... I don't know. It seems like I didn’t feel anything at all then.”

After the first, not very successful attempt to go into the studio, the members of Garbage took a long time out. The next time they found themselves in the studio was by chance - one fine morning a ten-ton truck drove into the building of their Smart Studios. After the renovation, the guys gradually joined the process of recording the album.

In Russia, the album was released on April 11, 2005. According to the musicians, “On the new album, for the first time, we tried to get away from the thoughts: “Let's see how far our ideas will take us.” We didn’t experiment, we didn’t try to surprise anyone on purpose, we just wrote songs. Therefore, the music on the album will be closer to the “Version 2.0” disc, and the nature of the songs will be sexually aggressive.” Garbage, famous for always recording their albums themselves, invited outside musicians into the studio. The first recruit was John King from the Dust Brothers. Shirley admits that it was with the appearance of this man that she finally “calmed down and realized that the album would be completed.” Dave Grohl from Foo Fighters then joined them and contributed drums to the new album's opening song, "Bad Boyfriend."

New album Garbage bands demonstrates high performance in the charts. It not only became the band's fastest-selling album, but also showed the most top scores in the charts compared to previous releases.

It debuted in the top 100 of Billboard magazine in fourth place, and it is also in fourth place on the American chart - musicians have never managed to climb so high on the first try.

In 2010, the group entered the top rotation on the radio of the alternative community freakoff.net and received high ratings from users.

www.garbage.com - official website

Garbage(Garbich) is an American rock band from Madison (USA, Wisconsin), dating back to 1994.

With their creativity, the members of Garbage proved to the entire world of rock music that they are one of those rare groups, whose uncompromising and creative approach is completely in tune with mass tastes. Using a mixture of musical components such as sampling, tape looping, and other studio techniques, the group finds itself among those who have not strayed from the traditions of such hit bands of the past as Blondie.

Biography

Garbage's history begins in Madison, where in 1983 former students Steve Marker and Brian "Butch" Vig decided to open a recording studio. For the past six years, Vig has been the drummer and part-producer for the college pop group Spooner, which released three albums between 1978 and 1982.

By the mid-'80s, Marker and Vig's studio was open for business, and although Spooner had broken up, Vig and a new group Duke Erickson's Firetown signed an agreement with Atlantic. In 1987, Firetown released the album "In the heart of the heart country", which became a hit modern rock, with the single "Carry the tourch".

However, Firetown's run was short-lived, and in 1988 Vig joined Marker's Smart studio and began his production career in earnest. The following year he oversaw the release of Killdozer's For Ladies Only and worked on Fluid's 1990 album Glue. The real breakthrough in Vig's career was producing Nirvana's second album, Nevermind, in 1991, which became a milestone in the history of alternative music in the 1990s. After this, Vig received many invitations. His track record includes such legendary albums as “Siamese Dreams” by the Smashing Pumpkins and “Dirty” by Sonic Youth. From 1990 to 1994, Vig produced more than a dozen albums, and by mid-decade he had become known as a remixer. Erickson and Marker became very skilled in the field of sound engineering at this time, working with such bands as Nine Inch Nails and Depeche Mode.

All this time, Vig, Marker and Erickson continued to work on their own music. In 1994, Marker watched the MTV show 120 Minutes, which showed the video for “Suffocate Me” by the little-known Scottish band Angelfish, whose vocalist was Shirley Manson. Vig became interested in the singer and sent her an invitation. Since Angelfish was already on the verge of collapse, Manson soon agreed to take part in a new project called Garbage.

In 1994-1995, the group was preparing to release their debut album, experimenting with sound and recording more and more new tracks. On October 2, 1995, Garbage's first self-titled album was released, which soon became one of the most commercially successful albums of the year. The record was a wonderful blend of studio work, top-notch vocals and technical brilliance. Hits such as "Stupid Girl", "Milk", and "Only Happy When It Rains", released within a year, achieved incredible sales.

The band's debut album already represents all the features of the Garbage style, about which Butch Vig said: " We are a rock band playing pop music". The record demonstrates an original combination of creaking and viscous grunge sound with pop melodicism and electronic effects. Great skill in the field of electronic sampling, allowing you to “collect” musical texture compositions from huge amount sound tracks superimposed on each other immediately made the group famous. The musicians themselves explained the origin of the group’s name in exactly this way (Garbage - “garbage” in English): “we collect compositions from various musical garbage.”

An innovation in the history of post-grunge was the demonstrated Garbage the manner of “technically” composing the guitar sound itself - from individual pre-recorded samples layered on top of each other (as opposed to classic grunge, where live guitars were used without subsequent electronic processing). And the introduction of the composition “Supervixen”, which opens debut album, for the first time introduced the start-stop effect typical of alternative music, created not “live”, but using recording means (the short pause after the first bars was absolute, without any guitar echoes).

The group’s style is also characterized by musical eclecticism, the desire to create compositions at the intersection of different styles (for example, the composition “Queer” combining elements of trip-hop, industrial, grunge and blues).

As a result, the debut album sold more than 4 million copies (excluding pirated copies). In 1996, the young group's success was bolstered by their participation in the soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, which included a lightweight remix of their song "# 1 Crush" made by Nelly Hooper.

This was followed by long haul new experiments. The group members were very picky about the quality of their musical material and the pause between the first and second albums was two whole years. In May 1998, the second album Garbage Version 2.0 was released. Despite the long promotion, within a year the disc also became multi-platinum. Long tours 1998-1999. active advertising on MTV, the release of original videos (for example, the legendary “surreal” video “Push It”) contributed to great success album; songs such as “I Think I’m Paranoid”, “Special” and “When I Grow Up” became worldwide hits.

Compared to its predecessor, Version 2.0 is distinguished by a greater bias towards electronics and techno, as well as reminiscences of the hits of various rock groups of the 1960-1980s, giving the record a subtle nostalgic mood. On this album, the musical eclecticism characteristic of the group is even more felt: there is aggressive techno (“Hammering In My Head”) and melodic pop ballads in the style of the Beatles (“Special”). The highlight of the album is stylized as music from films and recorded with accompaniment symphony orchestra lyrical ballad “You Look So Fine”.

Garbage's popularity peaked when the band performed David Arnold's song " The World is Not Enough"for the soundtrack to the James Bond film of the same name - And the World Is Not Enough.

Garbage: Beautifulgarbage (2001)

The third album “Beautifulgarbage” (2001) was musically conceived as biting satire to the cult of glamor and modern pop culture, and was built on cliches brought to the point of parody dance music(elements of rap in “Shut Your Mouth”, r"n"b in “Androgyny”, sickly sweet vocals in “Cherry Lips” (“Go, Baby, Go!”)).

Completely rejected by mainstream pop fans (for whom it was intended) and coldly received by the band's former fans, this record was a modest success - even despite the radical change in the image of the vocalist.

Garbage: Bleed Like Me (2005)

New rise in popularity Garbage marked the fourth disc of Bleed Like Me (2005). The album was released after a long three-year break, during which the group was on the verge of breaking up several times. The disc debuted in Billboard magazine's Top 100 in fourth place, and it was also in fourth place on the American chart - the musicians had never managed to climb so high on the first attempt. According to the musicians, “On the new album, for the first time, we tried to get away from the thoughts: “Let's see how far our ideas will take us.” We didn’t experiment, we didn’t try to surprise anyone, we just wrote songs.” Unlike its predecessors, the sound of Garbage's fourth album is simpler, even rougher, with minimum quantity sampling, and rather resembles the style concert performances groups rather than their studio work.

During the recording of this album, the band, famous for always handling the recording of their albums themselves, invited several outside musicians into the studio for the first time. The first recruit was John King from the Dust Brothers. Shirley admits that it was with the appearance of this man that she finally “calmed down and realized that the album would be completed.” Dave Grohl from Foo Fighters then joined them and contributed drums to the new album's opening song, "Bad Boyfriend."

In 2007, the group released the "nostalgic" single "Tell Me Where It Hurts", stylized as 1970s pop music.

Since then, the group has been on sabbatical, did not give concerts or record new songs, and vocalist of Garbage Shirley Manson took up an acting career for some time.

In 2010 Garbage announced work on a new album.

At the end of 2011, the band took part in the recording of the tribute "AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered" in honor of U2's album "Achtung Baby", recording the song "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses" for it.

On August 26, 1966, the vocalist was born popular group Garbage. Scottish singer Shirley Anne Manson will celebrate her forty-seventh birthday this Monday.

The singer has been interested in music since childhood - she played the piano and guitar. Before Garbage, she managed to take part in several musical projects, but only this group brought her recognition and world fame.

In honor of the singer’s birthday, we have selected the team’s best hits for you and invite you to remember and listen to them again.

Shirley Manson joined the group in August 1994, when the musicians were already finishing their first album. Thus, she almost did not participate in the “birth” of the songs, but she brought her amazing vocals to the group, without which it is now simply impossible to imagine her.

By the way, the singer’s vocals are really unusual - it’s called contralto, which means the lowest singing voice. Finding one is not so easy.

In general, in 1995, Garbage's debut album went on sale and brought the group wild popularity. It sold more than 4 million copies. Songs became big hits

"Only Happy When It Rains"

"Stupid Girl"

After extensive touring that followed immediately after the release of the album, the group began working on the second. And this time Manson made a huge contribution to the song creation process - she became the main lyricist for this record.

The second album was not inferior to the first, the group went on tour again. At the same time, they continue to work - during the tour the famous The World Is Not Enough:

This composition was recorded for one of the James Bond films. It’s hardly necessary to say what she was like resounding success– you can still hear it on the radio, even after so many years.

The group became the third Scottish performer to glorify the famous superspy. Previously, the James Bond theme was performed by Lulu and Shinna Watson.

Garbage's most successful album was released in 2005. Many critics agreed that it was on this record that Manson revealed herself most as an author - her lyrics became open and very touching.

It was this album that opened the main single, and now the group’s most famous hit - "Why Do You Love Me"

Largely due to this, the album took record positions in most world music charts and stayed there for a record amount of time.

Before recording the album, Manson underwent major surgery to have a cyst removed from her vocal cords. The singer had problems with her voice for a long time. It is all the more surprising that despite the problems, she was able to perform her solo parts no worse, and in some cases even better, than before.

After such a resounding success and a number of sold-out concerts, the group is taking a break. Until 2007, little was heard about musicians: most took up solo career, but no one reached the popularity of their joint success.

In 2007 Garbage finally got together. A new album was not released, but the group released a single "Tell Me Where It Hurts"

This song, stylized as pop music from the 70s, quickly became a hit and delighted all old and new fans. We started talking about the revival of the team, about the first indicators of their fruitful work.

Unfortunately, this was not the case - soon after recording the single, the musicians broke up again. However, the reunion was announced again in 2010, and in 2012 the musicians released their new album. It turned out no worse than the previous ones - singles

"Blood for Poppies"

And "Battle in Me"

took the top lines of the charts and made it clear that the musicians were still capable of much.