Absolute Garbage Week
It’s here, it’s really here! After a one week schedule delay and a mandatory 3-day financial waiting period [Translation: I had to wait until I got paid to order a copy], I finally have my copy of the first Garbage retrospective.
Disc 1: The A-Sides
A few opening thoughts: the songs have been remastered. That can’t have been a tough job. The albums were so carefully sculpted the first time that giving them a quick digital once-over had to be a fairly straightforward task. The early songs do sound a little better after their remix.
“Tell Me Where It Hurts” is OK, meaning it’s a perfect song to stick on a greatest hits package as the token new song. It’s a slower number, and that seems to be a direction the band would like to go should they choose to reconvene next year. It’s neither essential nor awful.
“The World is Not Enough” was more or less a new song for me. I never bought the soundtrack or the single. I’ve often wondered how I managed to not do that considering how much I love Garbage. Now I have a copy for the collection and I quite like it even if it is pretty typical fare for a Bonds theme.
Disc 2: The Remixes
I’m listening to these now, this disc representing the bulk of what will be new for me.
Filed under: Tags: Garbage, Music of the Moment
