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Not My IdeaGarbage

Released: August 15, 1995

Songwriter: Butch Vig Steve Marker Duke Erikson Shirley Manson

Producer: Garbage

[Intro]
One, two, three

[Verse 1]
I bit my tongue and stood in line
With not much to believe in
I bought into what I was sold
And ended up with nothing

[Chorus]
This is not my idea of a good time
This is not my idea of a good time
This is not my idea of a good time
This is not my idea

[Verse 2]
You thought that I would never see
What was meant for you was meant for me
I was distracted at the time
Forget about yours, now what about mine?

[Chorus]
This is not my idea of a good time
This is not my idea of a good time
This is not my idea of a good time
This is not my idea

[Verse 3]
You thought I was a little girl
You thought I was a little mouse
You thought you'd take me by surprise
Now I'm here, burning down your house

[Chorus]
This is not my idea of a good time
This is not my idea of a good time
This is not my idea of a good time
This is not my idea

[Live Ad-lib 1]
Oh you’ve got blue eyes
Oh you’ve grey eyes
Oh you’ve got green eyes
Oh you’ve got blue eyes
Oh you’ve grey eyes
Oh you’ve got green eyes

[Live Ad-lib 2]
Everything's gonna be alright now
Everything's gonna be alright now
Everything's gonna be alright now
Everything's gonna be alright now

Garbage

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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