LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - This is one of the best cd Garbage has made. It is a two disc cd, one is filled with a dance Remix of there songs, and the other cd has there best songs that they have made. All of the songs I wanted were on this cd. I would really recommend it to any of there fans...You ll love it.
Amazing compilation! - Exceptional compilation by the best band to emerge from the post-grunge era. On the terrific new track Tell Me Where It Hurts, Ms. Shirley never sounded better!
Absolute MUST! - Loved it! Great music whatever you do, either it is driving a car, hanging out with friends or just relaxing! Very pleased that I have all my favorite hits in one album! Get it, you won t regret it!
Garbage s poignant pantheon of their greatest works is a must-own - Garbage is my favorite band. Shirley Manson is the only celebrity I want to meet before I die. I can t express how highly I revere this group. Absolute Garbage (2007) is a fitting greatest hits collection. It does NOT include every single the band ever released, only the most popular ones. And although we can all gripe about its omissions, the fact remains that what we re left with is a fine, comprehensive-enough album that presents an exciting retrospective of Garbage at their rise, peak, and fall (in surprisingly chronological fashion). The first 5 songs are from their eponymous debut (1995) and of them, Queer and Only Happy When It Rains are the truly great cuts. Vow and Milk are good while Stupid Girl remains average and the weakest pick from their first CD (although it was a huge hit). Tracks 7 - 11 hail from Version 2.0 (1998) and I would call all of them terrific, except When I Grow Up, which is good but not great. Push It, in particular, is almost the best song Garbage ever produced (my personal favorite would have to be So Like A Rose from Beautifulgarbage). Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!) and Shut Your Mouth, both from the third album Beautifulgarbage (2001), are two of the best selections from that release, which was filled with dizzying highs and terrifying lows. Although Why Do You Love Me was the first (and best) single from Bleed Like Me (2005), that album s title track was one of the worst songs Garbage has ever made (though admittedly Bleed Like Me is a love it/hate it affair). The remix of It s All Over But The Crying, a middling ballad that almost became a single, is a little more downbeat and snappier but mostly it s not much of a deviation from the original. Fortunately there are three other tracks (all of them great) scattered throughout that deserve special attention: #1 Crush is so brilliantly twisted that you can either issue a restraining order or take it as a darkly comedic retelling of Romeo + Juliet (the soundtrack this came from). Underneath a canopy of pulsating drums, Shirley drones on with creepy pledges like, I will lie for you/beg and steal for you/I will crawl on hands and knees until you see/you re just like me. #1 Crush is the kind of obsessively lovelorn stalker who rummages through your trash and keeps a blow-up doll with the same color hair as yours in their closet. When we first got together, we all said that we wanted to make a James Bond Theme, because that s how we come up with our songs. - Garbage, The World Is Not Enough Ultimate Edition DVD The World Is Not Enough represents Garbage at their swankiest, naturally evolving from the brisk, posh sonance of Version 2.0 to a Bond theme that melds `90s techno fiendishness with `60s orchestral flourish. It s a riveting achievement, showcasing melodramatic radiance (There s no point in living if you can t feel alive) and insatiable craving (If we can t have it all then nobody will). Shirley s expansive delivery is pitch-perfect and she s arguably never sounded stronger. Too bad it was attached to one of the worst Bond movies. If Tell Me Where It Hurts is Garbage s fond goodbye, then I couldn t think of anything more appropriate. Shirley finally finds the right man (To hell with everybody else/all I care about is you/and that s the truth/they don t like me yeah I can tell/but you do) and we applaud her wholeheartedly. Steve, Duke and Butch paint the sumptuous music with shades of nostalgia in a sincere salute to their fans. Tell Me Where It Hurts catches our gorgeous firecracker reflecting (I ve been loved but I didn t know how to feel it/and I ve been adored but I don t know if I ever believed it) and its exquisite lyrics culminate with a grateful payoff that was worth the wait (I ve been loved my whole life but I didn t know how to take it/until you). This is a magnificent offering that can be enjoyed by hardcore fans and newcomers alike. If you ve barely (or never) heard of Garbage or, like me, have bought BOTH versions of Absolute Garbage just to complete your collection, there s no reason not to check out this disc. In a word, it s amazing. (P.S. Check out my reviews of Garbage s other four albums for a song-by-song dissection.)
Garbage is my favorite band... - ... so I had every song on here. I was disappointed, though, by their light coverage of Bleed Like Me. Additionally, there were far better remixes they could have chosen to showcase the broad range of alternative visions of their work.