Garbage

Released: May 14, 2012

Songwriter: Duke Erikson Steve Marker Butch Vig Shirley Manson

Producer: Garbage

[Verse 1]
We are not your kind of people
You seem kind of phony
Everything's a lie

We are not your kind of people
Something in your make-up
Don't see eye to eye

[Chorus]
We are not your kind of people
Don't want to be like you ever in our lives
We are not your kind of people
We find when you start talking
There's nothing but white noise

[Verse 2]
Running around tryin' to fit in and wanting to be loved
It doesn't take much
For someone to shut you down

When you built a shell, built an army in your mind
You can't sit still and you don't like hanging around the crowd
They don't understand

[Pre-Chorus]
You dropped by as I was sleeping
You came to see the whole commotion
And when I woke I started laughing
The joke's on me for not believing

[Chorus]
We are not your kind of people
Speak a different language
We see through your lies
We are not your kind of people
Won't be cast as demons
Creatures you despise

[Outro]
We are extraordinary people
We are extraordinary people
We are extraordinary people
We are extraordinary people

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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