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The sound of Garbage (once) was synonymous with absolute irresistibility, both for the radio-friendly audience and for some orphans of early '90s rock bands.
Their success is mainly due to the skill of the members, established producers (...) who arrive at a sound balancing between dance, trip hop, and the noise rock of My Bloody Valentine and Sonic Youth. But the irresistible element, surely, is none other than the singer Shirley Manson, a voice as fine and delicate as it is harsh and visceral, in the service of a wild riot grrrl.
After singles like Queer and Only Happy When It Rains, the first album (Garbage - 1996) is established as a best-seller. Version 2.0 continues, by and large, the style of the previous work, but the resulting tracks are much more complex -and "crafted"- than in the past. With no fewer than five singles released, the album manages to confirm the sales of the first album, despite much of the criticism that panned this record. Certainly, the lyrics still denote a notable simplicity and immaturity, but Shirley Manson embodies in full the role of a "burned out" teenager with all her stories, her multiple "experiences." It's this duality of performer and savvy icon that is her strongest characteristic, thanks to which Garbage manage to establish themselves. Temptation Waits, without Manson's sensuality, would be an anonymous track from any shoegaze band. The psychodramas of I Think I'm Paranoid and Special, two perfect singles, could be the most representative -and the best- tracks of Garbage's entire career.
A significant record for those who want to observe the evolution of the pop-rock song form in the nineties.
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
01 Temptation Waits (04:38)
I'll tell you something, I am a wolf but
I like to wear sheep's clothing
I am a bonfire, I am a vampire
I'm waiting for my moment
You come on like a drug, I just can't get enough
I'm like an addict coming at you for a little more
And there's so much at stake, I can't afford to waste
I never needed anybody like this before
I'll tell you something, I am a demon
Some say my biggest weakness
I have my reasons, call it my defects
Be careful what you're wishing
You come on like a drug, I just can't get enough
I'm like an addict coming at you for a little more
And there's so much at stake, I can't afford to waste
I never needed anybody like this before
You are a secret, a new possession
I like to keep you guessing
You come on like a drug, I just can't get enough
I'm like an addict coming at you for a litttle more
and there is so much at stake, I cannot afford to waste
I never needed anybody like this before
When I'm not sure what I'm living for
(When I'm not sure who I am)
When I'm not sure what I'm looking for
(When I'm not sure who I am)
When I'm not sure what I'm living for
(When I'm not sure who I am)
When I'm not sure what I'm looking for
(When I'm not sure who I am)
When I'm not sure what I'm living for
(When I'm not sure who I am)
When I'm not sure what I'm looking for
(When I'm not sure who I am)
02 I Think I'm Paranoid (03:40)
You can look but you can't touch
I don't think I like you much
Heaven knows what a girl can do
Heaven knows what you've got to prove
I think I'm paranoid and complicated
I think I'm paranoid, manipulated
Bend me break me
Anyway You need me
All I want is you
Bend me break me
Breaking down is easy
All I want is you
I fall down just to give you a thrill
Prop me up with another pill
If I should fail, if I should fold
I nailed my faith to the sticking pole
I think I'm paranoid, manipulated
I think I'm paranoid, too complicated
Bend me break me
Anyway you need me
All I want is you
Bend me break me
Breaking down is easy
All I want is you
I think I'm paranoid
I think I'm paranoid
Bend me break me
Anyway you need me
All I want is you
Bend me break me
Breaking down is easy
All I want is you
Steal me, deal me, anyway you heal me
Maim me, tame me, you can never change me
Love me, like me, come ahead and fight me
Please me, tease me, go ahead and leave me
Bend me break me
Anyway you need me
As long as I want you baby it's alright
Bend me break me
Anyway you need me
As long as I want you baby it's alright
03 When I Grow Up (03:26)
Cut my tongue out, I've been caught out
Like a giant juggernaut
Happy hours, golden showers
On a cruise to freak you out
We could fly a helicopter
Nothing left to talk about
Entertain you, celebrate you
I'll be back to frame you
When I grow up I'll be stable
When I grow up I'll turn the tables
Trying hard to fit among you
Floating out to wonderland
Unprotected, God I'm pregnant
Damn the consequences
When I grow up I'll be stable
When I grow up I'll turn the tables
Blood and blisters on my fingers
Chaos rules when we're apart
Watch my temper I go mental
I'll try to be gentle
When I grow up I'll be stable
When I grow up I'll turn the tables
When I grow up
When I grow up
When I grow up I'll turn the tables
Don't take offence
Can I make amends?
Rip it up to shreds and let it go
Don't take offence
Can I make amends?
Rip it up to shreds and let it go
Rip it up to shreds and let it go
Rip it up to shreds and let it go
Rip it up in shreds and let it go
04 Medication (04:10)
I don't need an education,
I learned all I need from you.
They've got me on some medication,
My point of balance was askew.
It keeps my temperature from rising,
My blood is pumping through my veins.
Somebody get me out of here,
I'm tearing at myself.
Nobody gives a damn about me or anybody else.
I wear myself out in the morning,
You're asleep when I get home.
Please don't call me self defending,
You know it cuts me to the bone.
And it's really not surprising,
I hold a force I can't contain.
Somebody get me out of here,
I'm tearing at myself.
Nobody gives a damn about me or anybody else.
And still you call me co-dependent,
Somehow you lay the blame on me.
And still you call me co-dependent,
Somehow you lay the blame on me.
Somebody get me out of here,
I'm tearing at myself.
I've got to make a point these days,
To extricate myself.
Somebody get me out of here,
I'm tearing at myself.
Nobody gives a damn about me or anybody else.
And still you call me co-dependent,
Somehow you lay the blame on me.
And still you call me co-dependent,
Somehow you lay the blame on me.
Somehow you lay the blame on me......
05 Special (03:45)
I'm living without you
I know all about you
I have run you down into the ground
Spread disease about you over town
I used to adore you
I couldn't control you
There was nothing that I wouldn't do
To keep myself around and close to you
Do you have an opinion?
A mind of your own?
I thought you were special
I thought you should know
But I've run out of patience
I couldn't care less
Do you have an opinion?
A mind of your own?
I thought you were special
I thought you should know
I used to amuse you
I knew that i'd lose you
Now you're here and begging for a chance
But there's no way in hell i'd take you back
Do you have an opinion?
A mind of your own?
I thought you were special
I thought you should know
But I've run out of patience
I've run out of comments
I'm tired of the violence
I couldn't care less.
I'm looking for a new...
I'm looking for a new...
I'm looking for a new...
I'm looking for a new...
But we were the talk of the town
We were the talk of the town
We were the talk of the town
We were the talk of the town
I thought you were special
I thought you were special
I thought you were special
I thought you were special...
06 Hammering in My Head (04:54)
I'm stressed but you're freestyle
I'm overworked but I'm undersexed
I must be made of concrete
I sign my name across your chest
Give out the same old answers
I trot them out for the relatives
Company tried and tested
I use the ones that I love the best
Like an animal you're moving over me
Like an animal you're moving over me
When did I get perverted
I can't remember your name
I'm growing introverted
You touch my hand and it's not the same
This was so unexpected
I never thought I'd get caught
Play boomerang with your demons
Shoot to kill and you'll pop them off
BANG! BANG!
Like an animal you're moving over me
Like an animal you're moving over me
You should be sleeping, my love
Tell me what you're dreaming of
You should be sleeping, my love
Tell me what you're dreaming of
You should be sleeping, my love
Tell me what you're dreaming of
You should be sleeping, my love
Tell me what you're dreaming of
I knew you were mine for the taking
I knew you were mine for the taking
I knew you were mine for the taking
When I walked in the room
I knew you were mine for the taking
I knew you were mine for the taking
Your eyes light up
When I walk in the room
A hammering in my head don't stop
From the bullet train
From Tokyo to Los Angeles
I'm leaving you behind
A flash in the pan
A storm in a teacup
A needle in a haystack
A prize for the winning
A dead for the raising
A catch for the chasing
A jewel for the choosing
A man for the making in this blistering heat
Sweat it all out
Sweat it all out
With your bedroom eyes and your baby pouts
Sweat it all out
In our electric storms and our shifting sands
Our candy jars and our sticky hands
Sweat it all out
Sweat it all out
Sweat it all out
Sweat it all out
Sweat it all out
Sweat it all out
Don't forget what I wrote you then
And don't forget what I told you then
And don't forget I that meant to win
And don't forget your ventolin
So a hammering in my head don't stop
In the bullet train from Tokyo to Los Angeles
07 Push It (04:04)
I was angry when I met you
I think I'm angry still
We can try to talk it over
If you say you'll help me out
Don't worry baby
No need to fight
Don't worry baby
We'll be all right
This is the noise that keeps me awake
My head explodes and my body aches
Push it
Make the beats go harder
Push it
Make the beats go harder
I'm sorry that I hurt you
Please don't ask me why
I want to see you happy
I want to see you shine
Don't worry baby
Don't be uptight
Don't worry baby
We'll stay up all night
This is the noise that keeps me awake
My head explodes and my body aches
Push it
Make the beats go harder
Push it
Make the beats go harder
C'mon push it, you can do it
C'mon prove it, nothing to it
C'mon use it, let's get through it
C'mon push it, you can do it
Don't worry baby
Don't be uptight
Don't worry baby
We'll stay up all night
This is the noise that keeps me awake
My head explode and my body aches
Push it
Make the beats go harder
Push it
(This is the noise that keeps me awake)
Make the beats go harder
(My head explodes and my body aches)
Push it
(This is the noise that keeps me awake)
Make the beats go harder
Push it
(This is the noise that keeps me awake)
Make the beats go harder
(My head explodes and my body aches)
Push it
Make the beats go harder
Push it
Make the beats go harder
Push it
Make the beats go harder
Push it
Make the beats go harder
Don't worry baby
We'll be alright
Don't worry baby
We'll be alright
Push it
Push it
Push it
Push it
Push it
09 Dumb (03:52)
I never claimed to be your saviour.
I said I had a dirty mouth.
Stop analysing my behaviour,
If you're too dumb to work it out.
I've got to keep myself together.
You know I hate to disappoint.
A masochistic lamb to slaughter,
Maybe you miss the point?
I'm feeling small.
Climbing the walls.
Don't let it show.
Now that you know what you know,
I bet you wish you could let it go.
You'll never come sucking your thumb.
Better off dumb.
Maybe I could write a letter
To help me with my self-esteem.
You should get to know me better.
No one's ever what they seem.
I'm feeling small.
Climbing the walls.
Don't let it show.
Now that you know what you know,
I bet you wish you could let it go.
You'll never come sucking your thumb.
Better off dumb.
You still don't know what you think of me.
You still don't know what you need from me.
You still don't know what to think of me.
You still don't know what you think of me.
Now that you know what you know,
I bet you wish you could let it go.
You'll never come sucking your thumb.
Better off dumb.
Now that you know what you know,
You're gonna reap what you sow.
Nothing will come sucking your thumb.
Better off dumb.
You still don't know what you think of me.
You still don't know what you mean to me.
You still don't know what to think of me.
You still don't know what you think of me.
You still don't know what you think of me.
You still don't know what you think of me.
You still don't know what you think of me.
You still don't know what you think of me.
You still don't know what I think of me.
You still don't know what you think of me.
10 Sleep Together (04:05)
I got you crawling up a mountain
Hanging round my neck
I got you twisted round my finger
Crawling round my legs
The emptiness
The crazyness
Satisfy this hungriness
Darling, how would it feel?
If we sleep together
Will you like me better
If we come together
We'll go down forever
If we sleep together
Will I like you better
If we come together
Prove it now or never
Make me a pretty person
Make me, feel like I belong
Make me hard and make me happy
Make me beautiful
The emptiness, the crazyness
Satisfy this hungriness
Darling, how would it feel?
If we sleep together
Will you like me better
If we come together
We'll go down forever
If we sleep together
Will I like you better
If we come together
Prove it now or never
(If we sleep together) nothing satisfies me baby
(If we sleep together) I wear something pretty baby
(If we sleep together) Give me what I crave now baby
(If we sleep together) Save the rest for later baby
(If we sleep together) You will drive me crazy baby
(If we sleep together) Save this one for you my baby
If we sleep together, if we sleep together
11 Wicked Ways (03:45)
I tried hard to mend my wicked ways.
I acted like a lunatic for years.
Lord knows, I try to be good.
I'd keep my promises, if only I could.
You count your blessings that I can't rely on you.
And I tried.
And I tried.
And I tried.
And I tried.
Clutch your pictures of the Pope.
Pray to God for love and hope.
Bring the Virgin home for luck.
Bolt the door, better keep it shut.
I've done things I never thought I'd do.
Sure, it helps to lose myself in you.
A little time and I'll be all right.
Come on, sugar, let's go out tonight.
Forgive your trespasses and all that we've been through.
Oh, I tried.
And I tried.
And I tried.
And I tried.
And I tried.
And I tried.
And I tried.
And I tried.
Clutch your pictures of the Pope.
Pray to God for love and hope.
Bring the Virgin home for luck.
Bolt the door, better keep it shut.
That sinking feeling
When you are leaving,
All I believe in
Walks out the door.
I tried hard to mend my wicked ways.
The damage done, there's nothing left to save.
Oh, I tried.
And I tried.
And I tried.
And I tried.
And I tried.
And I tried.
And I tried.
Clutch your pictures of the Pope. (just like I told you)
Pray to God for love and hope. (just like I warned you)
Bring the Virgin home for luck. (just like I told you)
Bolt the door, try to keep it shut. (just like I warned you)
12 You Look So Fine (05:27)
You look so fine
I want to break your heart
And give you mine
You're taking me over
It's so insane
You've got me tethered and chained
I hear your name
And I'm falling over
I'm not like all of the other girls
I can't take it like the other girls
I won't share it like the other girls
That you used to know
You look so fine
Knocked down
Cried out
Been down just to find out
I'm through
Bleeding for you
I'm open wide
I want to take you home
We'll waste some time
You're the only one for me
You look so fine
I'm like the desert tonight
Leave her behind
If you want to show me
I'm not like all the other girls
I can't take it like the other girls
I won't fake it like the other girls
That you used to know
You're taking me over
Over and over
I'm falling over
Over and over
You're taking me over
(Melt in me one more time)
Over and over
(Hide inside me tonight)
I'm falling over
(Do what you want to do)
Over and over
(Let's pretend, happy end)
You're taking me over
(Let me know let it show)
Over and over
(Ending with letting go)
I'm falling over
Ending with letting go
Ending with letting go
Ending with letting go
Let's pretend, happy end
Let's pretend, happy end
Let's pretend, happy end
Let's pretend, happy end
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