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Post by Hangin' With The Bichard on May 12, 2012 11:54:28 GMT -5
Good review, but "haven't produced a decent ballad since You look So Fine"?!!! Drive You Home, It's All Over But The Crying and BLEED LIKE ME (!!!) say hello! I really like the title track of the new album too.
I'm surprised by some of the stick I Hate Love seems to be getting in some of the reviews too. For me it's biggest highlight of the record! If anything, the one thing I would have liked more of on the album is electronica...
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Post by Tornado on May 12, 2012 12:43:03 GMT -5
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Post by darkling1219 on May 12, 2012 16:26:02 GMT -5
Rolling Stone 3.5 stars ![](http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e191/riderds/photo4.jpg)
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Post by mfk on May 13, 2012 4:04:45 GMT -5
Rolling Stone 3.5 stars ![](http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e191/riderds/photo4.jpg) funny, the 'key tracks' for me are by far the worst tracks on the album ;D
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Post by BetweenTheEyes on May 13, 2012 19:18:06 GMT -5
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Post by Tornado on May 14, 2012 5:10:03 GMT -5
Metro: 4/5Garbage offer outsider anthems on Not Your Kind Of PeopleAlbum Review: Not Your Kind Of People is a fiery return from Transatlantic alt-rock icons Garbage, still fronted by the fabulous Shirley Manson.Sometimes, musicians must earn blockbuster credits before they can fully relish being ‘indie’ again. Transatlantic alt-rock stormers Garbage sealed their major success in the 1990s and have appeared to spend the past few years in suspension (‘greatest hits’ collection aside). Suddenly, they’re back with a fifth album, pointedly released on their own independent label – and everything clicks sharply into place. Not Your Kind Of People wastes no time in reasserting this quartet’s natural strengths: they have one of the strongest lead singers of any modern band in Edinburgh-born Shirley Manson (she also plays a Terminator in US TV drama The Sarah Connor Chronicles). From the rip-roaring first track, Automatic Systematic Habit, her snarling, swooning vocals propel every number. The band’s gutsy original dynamic sounds recharged, including powerhouse drummer/producer Butch Vig and multi-instrumentalists Duke Erikson and Steve Marker. For Garbage, indie empowerment does seem to mean staying true to their roots. Their collision of dirty great grunge riffs, electronica, sexual politics (and, on recent single Blood For Poppies, a dub undertow) might not sound as radical as it did on their 1998 landmark album Version 2.0, but they still perform with brilliant, voracious gusto. Despite numbers entitled I Hate Love and offbeat ballad Not Your Kind Of People, Garbage are a romantic outfit at heart. Crucially, these new tracks hold up boldly alongside their early successes, as proved by their excellent gig at London’s Troxy last week. These are outsider anthems on a triumphant scale. www.metro.co.uk/music/reviews/898886-garbage-offer-outsider-anthems-on-not-your-kind-of-people
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Post by jamesellaby on May 14, 2012 7:24:05 GMT -5
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Post by Tornado on May 14, 2012 8:42:10 GMT -5
Scotsman: 4/5RUMOURS of Garbage’s demise have been much exaggerated, and this first new material in seven years makes a fist of blending the spiky and snuggly sides of the band. Rating: **** The title track, strangely, sounds like the closing number from a yet-to-be-written stage show documenting how a gal from Edinburgh fell in with Nirvana’s record producer and his grizzly rock pals. Shirley Manson’s solo album was reportedly shelved by the record company for being too leftfield, and her return to Garbage arguably has all the rough edges smoothed off and glossed over. Sugar and Felt play the pop game unconditionally, although single Battle In Me does manage to conjure up a sneer, if not a snarl, favouring the band’s penchant for syncopated skewed rock rhythms. The sensation is reprised on the bouncy barbs of Man On A Wire, which is blessed with all the verve and vigour found in the band’s best material in the early days. The opening Automatic Systematic Habit musically morphs Cream’s White Room into Lady Gaga, then the band goes for the commercial jugular on Blood For Poppies. I never thought I would hear Shirley build a chorus around the word “radio” though. Download this: Control, Man On A Wire www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/music/news-and-features/album-review-garbage-not-your-kind-of-people-1-2291237
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Post by darkling1219 on May 14, 2012 8:53:52 GMT -5
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Post by Tornado on May 14, 2012 9:12:07 GMT -5
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An example of how the logic of some music journalists works:
"Aside from the aforementioned pair of tracks that hit dark pop highs akin to Garbage’s best, this is just another solid disc from solid musicians, no more, no less."
A solid disc from solid musicians but with a 2.5/5 rating? Are you f. kidding me?!
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Post by darkling1219 on May 14, 2012 9:13:41 GMT -5
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Post by luxavalanche on May 14, 2012 10:57:58 GMT -5
It's a shame all these lame indie sites that don't even pay their writers will drag its ratings down.
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Post by darkling1219 on May 14, 2012 13:10:40 GMT -5
AU 7/10 "The growl-along UK single ‘Battle In Me’ is definitely guilty of this, full of weak party- and make-out-related lines."Kinda have to agree with this - for a song called, "Battle in Me" and Garbage's penchant for amazingly written dark songs, I was hoping for more than "shake it" and "I won't tell your girlfriend". But I guess that is what SUGAR and CONTROL are for. ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png)
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Post by luxavalanche on May 14, 2012 13:18:43 GMT -5
Sometimes simplicity and surface values are a virtue. I personally enjoy the "I won't tell your girlfriend" bit, but mainly for my reasons. ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png)
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Post by darkling1219 on May 14, 2012 13:31:57 GMT -5
Sometimes simplicity and surface values are a virtue. I personally enjoy the "I won't tell your girlfriend" bit, but mainly for my reasons. ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png) Touché ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png)
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Post by Tornado on May 14, 2012 13:36:34 GMT -5
BG did some damage to their image. Some lazy journalists think they're a pop band...
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Post by luxavalanche on May 14, 2012 14:34:32 GMT -5
Pop is NOT a dirty word, and they are a great pop band like Pet Shop Boys, New Order, etc.
The problem, let's say, "indie writers" have with this album is that they decided far in advance they couldn't like it. Garbage doesn't fit into the portrait they've painted of 2012. But now that they've released what is, on every level, their best work since 1998, they aren't sure how to deal with it, so they say, "uh, this is good, would have been nice in the 90s, but it's 2012, so here's 2.5 stars...." And then they go listen to some lo-fi band that sounds exactly like a cheap version of a 90s band. The hypocrisy is stunning.
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Post by darkling1219 on May 14, 2012 14:46:09 GMT -5
Pop is NOT a dirty word, and they are a great pop band like Pet Shop Boys, New Order, etc. The problem, let's say, "indie writers" have with this album is that they decided far in advance they couldn't like it. Garbage doesn't fit into the portrait they've painted of 2012. But now that they've released what is, on every level, their best work since 1998, they aren't sure how to deal with it, so they say, "uh, this is good, would have been nice in the 90s, but it's 2012, so here's 2.5 stars...." And then they go listen to some lo-fi band that sounds exactly like a cheap version of a 90s band. The hypocrisy is stunning. I agree. And really Garbage in 2012 doesn't sound that far removed from Yeah Yeah Yeah's "It's Blitz" or even Goldfrapp - but it's okay to like those bands I guess because they weren't around in 1995.
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Post by darkling1219 on May 14, 2012 14:59:04 GMT -5
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Post by Hangin' With The Bichard on May 14, 2012 15:00:33 GMT -5
The two posts above are great and I totally agree.
However, the one thing that is hitting me the more I listen to this (admittedly great) album, is really how little they have added to their sound (as some of the reviews are saying). Don't get me wrong, I love it, but it would have been good for them to have updated the template slightly. I'm thinking a "splicing" of their traditional sound with the more contemporary, electro-filth-pop that's been prevalent in the past year or so (I'm thinking Til The World Ends, Tik Tok, Heavy Metal Lover). These are sounds that would have really melded well with the Garbage staples and it would have been a great opportunity to combine the two.
In fact, when I think about, Version 2.0 is closer to this than NYKOP.
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