Garbage

Released: June 10, 2016

Songwriter: Duke Erikson Steve Marker Butch Vig Shirley Manson

Producer: Garbage

[Verse 1]
You left me black and blue bruises
You cheated on me with lots of girls
Always from behind, in public places
So you didn't have to look into their face

You said there was no one quite like me
Coming inside me felt like coming home
I was so naive, it made me feel like a queen
Such is the ego of the young

[Chorus]
But fucking with you was always fun
Fucking with you was always fun

[Verse 2]
I want you to know I will always love you
I need you to know I forgive you
I want you to know that I was also to blame
I was never easy to live with back then

[Chorus]
Fucking with you was always fun
Fucking with you was always fun

[Bridge]
And if I could, I wouldn't leave
And I'd do the same again

[Chorus]
Fucking with you was always fun
Fucking with you was always fun
Fucking with you was always fun
Fucking with you was always fun

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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