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...drugs and perversions, and the minds of the young, ungrounded by their absent parents' experience or protection, become unrecognizably weird. Mindy, a model-pretty 17-year-old and former Nazi Low Rider gone over to the Sharps, nonetheless reports that her heroes--besides Alicia Silverstone--are Hitler and Charles Manson: "I think [Manson]'s cute...
Happily, Garbage's sophomore album, Version 2.0 (Almo Sounds) doesn't live up--or down--to the band's name. The quartet, based in Madison, Wis., and consisting of singer Shirley Manson (originally from Edinburgh, Scotland), guitarists Steve Marker and Duke Erikson, and drummer Butch Vig (who produced Nirvana's album Nevermind), had never played outside the studio before recording their debut album, Garbage, in 1995. Their inexperience showed: while the album had its moments, it often felt indecisive and inorganic. In the past three years, Garbage has had a chance to tour, and now it sounds more like...
...Marker and Erikson had played together and separately in a number of small, Wisconsin-area bands. One night they saw Manson on MTV fronting another band, called Angelfish. They tracked her down, asked her to join their nascent group, and Garbage was launched. "Madison is isolated, so we're kind of removed from the music business or the distractions you may have in New York, Los Angeles, London or Paris," says Vig. "It's a great city, but there's not much to do, so everyone kind of leaves us to our own devices...
...boasts a unique, expansive sound that fills the speakers and the ears. The songs are hormonal yet thoughtful, mostly morose but always energetically so. Dreamy, cooing verses give way to booming choruses driven by electronic percussion. On one of the album's best songs, the jittery, upbeat Special, Manson seems to channel the spirit of Pretenders' lead singer Chrissie Hynde: "You were the talk of the town," Manson sings in the track's closing moments, a reference to one of the Pretenders' hits. Indeed, Manson called Hynde up to ask her permission for the vocal homage. Says Manson...
...Manson is another one of Garbage's central charms. She has a warm, sensuous voice and a charismatic personality that comes through in her songs: angry but needy, wounded but enduring, a little jaded but somehow guileless. She's clearly a rock star in the making...