The band’s Wiltern LG show Monday night sold out in a matter of minutes. The initial response has been very promising, with both KROQ-FM (106.7) and Indie 103.1 FM spinning the lead single. And “It’s All Over but the Crying” is a near ballad, but its kiss-off message is felt as harshly as Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right.” The same marriage elevates the lead single, “Why Do You Love Me,” into a memorable diatribe on relationship insecurity.
Manson holds that snarling vocal aggression on “Right Between the Eyes,” a track that melds the quartet’s talent for infectious hooks with the newfound ferociousness. That is evident throughout “Bleed Like Me.” As Grohl lays down a mighty backbeat on “Bad Boyfriend,” Manson gets in touch with her inner Debbie Harry. “You have four members, each of whom is smart, talented and knows rock ‘n’ roll.” “To my mind they have never made a better record,” said Rob Tannenbaum, music editor for Blender magazine, in an interview. He’s not the only one who feels that way. The result, by Vig’s account, is the group’s best record.
“When we did get back together, there was a whole new desperate feeling that we could lose this, and it was like we were playing for our very lives here,” Vig said. It got us really psyched from that point on.”įrom there the group responded with a new vibrancy. “He came in and when he played on that song, he raised the bar,” Vig said. I personally was not digging the way the songs were sounding” during preliminary recording sessions at Garbage’s studio in the group’s hometown of Madison, Wis.Īnother boost came a day later when he ran into old friend Dave Grohl - Vig produced Nirvana’s “Nevermind” album - at a Christmas party and invited him to play on a song. I know Shirley was having a hard time coming up with lyrics and not getting inspired. “There were a lot of personal arguments and we couldn’t agree on songs.
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For whatever reason we just spiraled into a black hole,” Vig said recently from Paris, where the foursome was promoting the new album with a TV performance.
Depending on which band member you ask, the quartet did or did not break up for four months during the recording of the album.Įither way, the group’s drummer and producer, Butch Vig, says he suffered the pain and loss of a breakup.
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Personal and personnel problems have crafted hits for bands from Fleetwood Mac (“Rumours” arguably being the best-known result of a group whose internal strife led to commercial success) to the Police.Īdd to that long list Garbage and its latest album, “Bleed Like Me,” a work whose scars are so vividly painted in music that the songs feel like fresh scabs. There’s nothing like creative tension to bring out the best in a band.
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