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Post by kingastarte on Oct 21, 2016 17:51:15 GMT -5
Hey. Long time no post.
So I know these polls have been done before, but now that SLB has been out for a while, I wanna know which album people love the most.
I voted for BG.
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Post by kingastarte on Oct 21, 2016 17:41:18 GMT -5
So We Can Stay Alive could also be a pretty cool video. I could see that one being like a mini movie. I always picture a lot of strobes for that one during the chorus. I can definitely see what you mean with this. I love the new music video just for Shirley's costumes. She looks really bizarre, I love it!
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Post by kingastarte on Jul 19, 2016 11:22:38 GMT -5
Now that it's been out for almost a month, how would you rank Strange Little Birds among other Garbage albums?
Being honest here, but right now I place it at the bottom with BLM. Good, but they've done better. My ranking looks like this:
1. Beautifulgarbage (Bet this is a lot of people's least favourite) ★★★★★ 2. Version 2.0 ★★★★★ 3. Garbage ★★★★½ 4. Not Your Kind of People ★★★★ 5. Bleed Like Me/Strange Ltitle Birds (BLM would win by a somewhat insignificant margin) ★★★½
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ETOLID
Jun 3, 2016 21:49:05 GMT -5
Post by kingastarte on Jun 3, 2016 21:49:05 GMT -5
Much happier with this new release than "Empty".
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Post by kingastarte on Apr 22, 2016 11:46:44 GMT -5
I thought it might be the second recorded version of some scrapped demo they had. It kinda sounds like it used to be part of a normal song that they edited heavily.
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Post by kingastarte on Apr 11, 2016 21:33:47 GMT -5
I dont know much, but i think #1 Crush and Subhuman were recorded during album sessions for the debut.
I highly doubt "I'm Really Into Techno" was meant to be on Beautifulgarbage.
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Post by kingastarte on Mar 24, 2016 22:45:26 GMT -5
Which Garbage album has your favourite title?
For me it's a close match between Beautifulgarbage and Not Your Kind of People, but ultimately I have to pick NYKOP even if it is a mouthful. It just perfectly sums up the albums tone, though BG and V2.0 both do this as well.
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Post by kingastarte on Mar 10, 2016 14:58:18 GMT -5
OMG COVER ART!
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Post by kingastarte on Mar 6, 2016 17:07:46 GMT -5
I was listening to a podcast interview Butch did back in November and he said 6 or 7 songs will sound like "classic" garbage and the other 6 or 7 will sound totally new and different. Ooh i likes the sound of that!
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Post by kingastarte on Feb 27, 2016 22:10:41 GMT -5
I get the feeling that this album is going to sound alot like the early stuff. I think they have embraced the early albums as being their best work, and I think making this album around the same time as the 20 yr anniversary tour influenced it. After trying different things on the last 3 albums and going through different times as people, they are back to finding their old identities as people and as a band. Shirley's tweet about this being "100% garbage" makes me think they tried to find the old formula that made them great...i certainly hope so. I respectfully disagree. I don't feel they need to take a step backwards to their old selves to be great artists. I still think that Beautifulgarbage is their truest masterpiece. Exploring new territory can be very rewarding. However, I don't feel this album is going to be a tread backwards to their first two albums. If it is similar to the first two, I hope it builds upon them, although Version 2.0 is hard to top in perfecting their original formula.
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Post by kingastarte on Feb 24, 2016 15:23:32 GMT -5
Who's excited? What does the title of the album make you think/feel/speculate?
I think the album title is very Shirley-esque. Wonder if it's gonna appear in the lyrics anywhere. I've been creating a chart for Garbage's discography, so I'm i'm interested to see how this album will fit in.
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Post by kingastarte on Jan 25, 2016 16:58:11 GMT -5
Any further news on the album? I follow the band on Twitter but that's about it. Wondering and hoping I've missed something. Also, is this the main hub for us darklings? If so, it quite dead around here. facebook kinda took over (this group has a facebook group which is much more frequently updated), but i personally prefer a more private forum setting.
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Post by kingastarte on Jan 14, 2016 18:05:26 GMT -5
K so i'm probably really late to this news, but the new album will be coming out in may this year!
I wonder when they are going to announce a title...
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Post by kingastarte on Dec 23, 2015 0:00:27 GMT -5
BUMP.
Assuming the point of this thread is to introduce someone else to Garbage, I'd pick these three:
Hammering In My Head Androgyny Happy Home
I could just say "Only Happy When It Rains, I Think I'm Paranoid, and Stupid Girl" but why pick the signature songs that everyone knows when I could show someone the diversity, the range, and the hidden gems of the Garbage's discography?
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Post by kingastarte on Sept 4, 2015 10:08:11 GMT -5
I didn't know what to expect, but Subhuman sounds even better than before. I'm pumped!
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Post by kingastarte on Aug 22, 2015 19:05:10 GMT -5
I like your theory! Its feasible although the characters Shirley plays seem very different to me, although perhaps thats just because theres 12 years between them and the video aesthetic different. Its a shame that even with the anniversary and 6th album next year that this forums so dead. The BeautifulGarbage forum was amazing, hundreds of regular users. Maybe itd help if the official website had a forum again. You going to any of the live shows in October? I'd like to go see the one in Toronto, but i think it's in the middle of my midterms and I live in NS :\ I may be able to go if I do some serious string pulling.
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Post by kingastarte on Aug 14, 2015 21:09:25 GMT -5
Thought I'd try breathing some life into this forum again.
Now obviously the girls in both the music videos for Queer and TMWIH are Shirley Manson, but I wanted to ask you guys whether not you think they are the same character.
Here's my theory. you be the judge of whether it seems legit:
The "Tell Me Where It Hurts" music video is a prequel to the "Queer" music video. Our heroine, played by Shirley, is a regular escort in this video and finds a client in a restaurant; A rather pretty, young adult male. They go to her hotel room but something goes wrong and he beats her. In retaliation, our heroine murders her client. At the end of the video we can see her suggestively, even slyly posing with the disguised corpse of her attacker.
This encounter has lead to our heroine becoming sadistic and deranged. She begins to find joy in deceiving young men with the false promise of a "good time" and then proceeding to humiliate and overpower them.
Here we reach the "Queer" music video, some time later. Our heroine has found a victim, entices him back to her place like an escort, and proceeds to tear his clothes, push him around, wrestle him to the floor, and shave his head. Victim has been successfully violated.
Note how her target both times are rather pretty, preppy young men. She is going after targets similar to her initial attacker. The reason I consider Tell Me Where It Hurts as the prequel despite it being made much later than Queer is because our heroine appears relatively normal, even somewhat innocent at the start of the video. The incident in the Tell Me Where It Hurts video is the one that changes her and twists her.
So what do you guys think?
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Post by kingastarte on May 20, 2015 15:53:33 GMT -5
Any update? I think that it only took about 2 weeks for Girls Talk / Time Will Destroy Everything were available on iTunes on May 6, 2014 - just a couple os weeks after Record Store Day 2014. I would definitely drive to a record store to buy a coupon that would give me early access to a digital version. It's official. The digital release via iTunes will be on June 2nd.
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Post by kingastarte on Apr 15, 2015 15:48:24 GMT -5
DAMN. I mean just, woah. I was not expecting that level of darkness on the new single. They had seemed to have left their darker days behind with NYKOP, but looks like the new album could be more like the self-titled than I'd thought. I was especially reminded of the self-titled by the religious references in the song. But seriously, this was one badass record store day release.
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Post by kingastarte on Apr 4, 2015 13:02:21 GMT -5
I actually REALLY like "Girl Talk" as a song, especially production wise. It's a bit of a different sound, but also totally sounds like a Garbage track? But I agree that Brodie screaming really hurts the track. If you removed her, I would dare say the song belongs on NYKOP. Now that I think about it, I feel like the band is taking some of the more sonically challenging songs and putting them out as bsides/rsd tracks instead of on the albums. I think it should be the other way around. I feel they had a lot of songs on NYKOP that took new directions for the band, like Beloved Freak, Sugar and Big Bright World. However, I will say that Time Will Destroy Everything would have been interesting on the record.
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