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SubhumanGarbage

Released: August 15, 1995

Songwriter: Garbage

Producer: Garbage

[Verse 1]
Burn down all your idols
Destroy your idols
Create a scene
There goes all your reason
It's helter skelter
It's not a dream
Come down from the altar
Remove your blindfold
What do you see?
Nothing left to do here
There's nothing new here
It's all the same

[Chorus]
You're going down, down, down
How low can you go?
You're going down, down, down
How low can you go?
You're going down, down, down
How low can you go?

[Verse 2]
Hare, Hare Krishna
Was that your sister?
A cover girl
A wasted primadonna
She lost her way here
She disappeared
Come back to your altar
And build a fire
It's getting cold
Nothing stops the rain here
There's not a soul here
You're all alone

[Chorus]
You're going down, down, down
How low can you go?
You're going down, down, down
How low can you go?
You're going down, down, down
How low can you go?

[Interlude]
Here we go now

[Verse 3]
Kill the new religion
No inhibition
No alibi
Televised confession
A true obsession
Is on the rise
Miscommunication
Disinformation
A perfect waste
Bite the sacred apple
And suck the poison
Enjoy the taste

[Chorus]
You're going down, down, down
How low can you go?
You're going down, down, down
How low can you go?
You're going down, down, down
You're going down, down, down
You're going down, down, down
How low can you go?

[Outro]
How low can you go?
How low can you go?
How low can you go?
How low can you go?
How low can you go?

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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