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Beautiful Garbage
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0606949311520
Format: Enhanced
Label: Interscope Records
Manufacturer: Interscope Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Interscope Records
Release Date: October 02, 2001
Studio: Interscope Records
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Editorial Review:
Garbage's third album is an almost total departure for modern rock's renowned poster children. 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. 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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Shut Your Mouth
This is my all time favorite album by Shirley Manson and the boys; from the very beginning of the power punch "Shut Your Mouth" through the angst, anger, humor and drama to "So Like A Rose" there isn't a bad song on this set. I'm sure other Garbage heads would go for the first or even the second album, both of course are dynamite but this is the one that does it for me.
By this time, I was of course a fan, having the first two albums and loving them up, but along came Beautifulgarbage, ... Read More
Rating:  - A sonically diverse album
By far, beautifulgarbage is the most diverse album sonically that Garbage has released. The album incorporates influences from 1950's doo wop to music from the late 1970's and into the 1980's, laid back ballads, as well as what could be called "typical Garbage." Even with these diverse sounds, they are arranged and mixed in such a way that they flow well and fit together on the CD.
Overall, it's a decent album. However, I would have left "Nobody Loves You" off the disc, because it breaks ... Read More
Rating: - Garbage's qualitatively schizoid release contains their best and worst material ever
NOTES: Garbage is my favorite band.
1=bad, 2=average, 3=good, 4=great
Shut Your Mouth: From the bass-heavy disco strut augmented by a salvo of fractured guitar scratches to rapid-fire condemnations of not only stardom, the media and wannabes but the entire human race ("And the world spins by/with everybody moaning/pissing, bitching and everyone is s****ing/on their friends/on their love/on their oaths/on their honor/on their graves/out their mouths/and their words say nothing"), it's the ... Read More
Rating: - Partly Stereotyped, Partly Magical
What happened to Garbage? Why, in the year 2000, did they abandon the experimental, full-blooded sound of their first albums and venture into a territory of over-produced pop? I don't know. Now, Garbage are the last band I should be criticising. But it seems to me that they almost entirely forgot about their spirit in the process of making this album.
The rather kitsch title, Beautifulgarbage, does nothing to help this album. The opening track, "Shut Your Mouth", is the first sign of this album's ... Read More
Rating: - awesome
Yet another crisis in my life. This is still the album I turn to listen to when I am so depressed I need "suicide music". Not going to commit suicide or anything, but when I am really upset and down in the dumps...this is the perfect soundtrack. Deep, emotional tracks. Awesome job, Garbage!
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