Garbage

Released: January 1, 2012

Songwriter: Butch Vig Duke Erikson Shirley Manson Steve Marker

Producer: Garbage

[Verse 1]
All the money, all the pearls
All the rubies in the world
They can't buy her
They can't have her
They'll just have to use somebody else

All the money on the walls
All the people that you can call

[Chorus]
A love like suicide
When opposites collide
You dive into it blind
A love like suicide
Love like suicide

[Post-Chorus]
It's all there is
It's all you've got
It's all you want
It's all you need

[Verse 2]
All the kudos, all the praise
All the connections that we make
All the queerlords, all the girls
All the love in the world

All the changes, all the fun
All the damage that could be done

[Chorus]
A love like suicide
When opposites collide
You dive into it blind
A love like suicide
Love like suicide

[Outro]
Love like suicide
Love like suicide
Love like suicide
Love like suicide
Love like suicide
Love like suicide
It's all there is
Love like suicide
It's all you've got

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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