Garbage

Released: April 11, 2005

Songwriter: Butch Vig Steve Marker Duke Erikson Shirley Manson

Producer: Garbage

[Verse 1]
No evolution, sometimes it depresses me
The same old same, oh, we keep repeating history
The institution curses curiosity
It's our conviction, sex is not the enemy

[Chorus]
A revolution
Is the solution
A revolution
Is the solution

[Verse 2]
I don't feel guilty, no matter what they're telling me
I won't feel dirty and buy into their misery
I won't be shamed 'cause I believe that love is free
It fuels the heart and sex is not my enemy

[Chorus]
A revolution
Is the solution
A revolution
Is the solution

[Verse 3]
True love's like gold, there's not enough to go around
But then there's God, and doesn't God love everyone?
Give me a choice, give me a chance to turn the key
And find my voice: sex is not the enemy

[Chorus]
A revolution
Is the solution
A revolution
Is the solution
Sex is not the enemy

A revolution

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.

more tracks from the album

Bleed Like Me

From the albums

Bleed Like Me (2005)
Sex Is Not the Enemy - Single (2005)

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