Garbage

Released: April 11, 2005

Songwriter: Butch Vig Duke Erikson Steve Marker Shirley Manson

Producer: Garbage King Gizmo

[Verse 1]
I've got a fever, come check it and see
There's something burning and rolling in me
We may not last but we'll have fun till it ends
C'mon baby, be my bad boyfriend

[Verse 2]
I wanna hear you call out my name
I wanna see you burn up in flames
Keep you on ice so I can show all my friends
C'mon baby, be my bad boyfriend

[Verse 3]
So ripe, so sweet, come suck it and see
But watch out, daddy, I sting like a bee
I know some tricks I swear will give you the bends
C'mon baby, be my bad boyfriend

[Verse 4]
My fever's rising, you ran into luck
Say what sugar, you wanna get what?
I wanna give you one hundred and ten
C'mon baby, be my bad boyfriend

[Breakdown]
It's wild the way you tease me
It's wild the way you free me
It's wild the way you reach me
Wrapped me up in your wire from the start

[Verse 5]
You've got the women waiting in line
I'm not asking you to make up your mind
But I can make you happy, at least now and then
I've got something special for my bad boyfriend

[Outro]
If you can't love me, honey, go on, just pretend
I've saved something special for the very end
If you can't love me, honey, go on, just pretend
C'mon baby, be my bad boyfriend

Oh, c'mon baby, be my bad boyfriend
C'mon baby, be my bad boyfriend
C'mon baby, be my bad boyfriend
C'mon baby, be my bad boyfriend

Garbage is a Scottish-American Alternative rock band, formed April 8th 1994. Once producer Butch Vig decided to break out of the rock he had been producing ever since Nirvana’s Nevermind, he got together with his college/studio partners Duke Erikson and Steve Marker to write some demos that would basically be remixes in song form. Once someone commented that “it sounds like garbage”, Vig decided to embrace the name. Then they invited Scottish singer Shirley Manson after seeing her on MTV, and the band’s sound was completed with sly, dark and snarky lyrics delivered in a sultry way.

The band’s eponymous debut album was a surprise hit upon release in August 1995, selling more than 4 million copies worldwide. Follow-up Version 2.0 (1998) was equally successful, even receiving a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year. Then the band recorded “The World Is Not Enough” to the eponymous James Bond movie, and the record industry started to bring the band down.

Beautiful Garbage (2001) was barely promoted due to a release too close to the 9/11 attacks, and underperformed at the charts. Fourth album Bleed Like Me (2005) had a troubled production where bandmembers were frequently arguing, and eventually the album’s tour was cut short and Garbage disbanded for 2 years, only regrouped in 2007 to record new tracks for greatest hits compilation Absolute Garbage.

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