KICK MY ASS :: An Essential Garbage sync listen (TONIGHT 8PM)

[GinAg (39)]

I remember mentioning Garbage in my job before last, to a room of blank stares from the kids. Some of them recognised the songs. Sadly they don't quite have the long-lasting legacy beyond the fanbase.

 

[COB]

You're HUNGRY cos you STARVE

 

[GinAg (39)]

Queer certainly stirred something in a 15-year-old me.

How fabulous having a song in the charts called QUEER.

 

[jivafox]

Oh to have Shirley tie you down and shave your head

 

[straightorbroken]

This is one amazing haircut experience Gail Porter's having here.

 

[GinAg (39)]

I'd let her headbutt me.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

You can touch me if you want......

 

[straightorbroken]

Wheelbarrowed by Shirley. They truly were video innovators.

 

[COB]

Yes, Shirley could do anything up to and including spitting in my face and I'd thank her for it tbh

 

[GinAg (39)]

TAPE ME UP SHIRLEY!

 

[Raining on Me]

Shirley's so charismatic in all of these videos (and all the time full stop obviously). She looks like the ULTIMATE VILLAIN

 

[jivafox]

5. TEMPTATION WAITS

 

[straightorbroken]

He looks like the drummer from No Doubt. What a cameo that could have been.

 

[jivafox]

Shitty photo montage for this one sorry

BUT ALL OF SHIRL

 

[Cerro de Casa]

Temptation Waits is SEX MUSIC.

 

[COB]

OMG MY FAVOURITE

 

[straightorbroken]

What an opener Temptation Waits is. A proper side opener.

 

[GinAg (39)]

She really was the 90s gay icon for us boys that wanted something a little different.

 

[straightorbroken]

This is proper exhilarating.

 

[RJN]

Thank you for the montage Carolina S

 

[GinAg (39)]

And she was making a buddhist all along.

 

[Raining on Me]

Omg can you imagine this not being a single! What an opener to that album. It's a rollercoaster through space and time!

 

[straightorbroken]

I always heard that backing vocal as "Roxette". Or maybe that should be wanted to hear

 

[GinAg (39)]

Oh my God, this is basically my 1998 bedroom wall.

 

[RJN]

Oh this one has a great chorus

 

[COB]

I was thinking earlier about how one of your usernames on the forum we knew each other from (twenty years ago ) was a Garbage song title... possibly one we'll be getting tonight! I hope so anyway

... and here it is! Yes, our RoM was Temptation Waits on the mysterious other forum we frequented around the turn on the millennium

 

[GinAg (39)]

Omg can you imagine this not being a single! What an opener to that album. It's a rollercoaster through space and time!

The whole V2 album were potential singles, it was a GUESSING GAME for the whole campaign what was NEXT.

 

[straightorbroken]

Actually, this song is very Roxette. I've got a #1 crush on you

 

[GinAg (39)]

Temptation is SUCH A POP CHORUS.

 

[straightorbroken]

That picture of Shirley in that polka dot salsa dress is ravishing.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

When I'm not sure what I'm living for
(When I'm not SUUUUURE what IIIIII'M)

 

[GinAg (39)]

I always forget Butch Vig PRODUCED Nevermind and went onto make Garbage. What a man. LONG HAIRED BEAUTIES ONLY!

 

[straightorbroken]

"I rarely hoover the house" a quote from a rare interview with Woman's Own.

 

[jivafox]

6. #1 CRUSH (NELLEE HOOPER MIX)

 

[Raining on Me]

I love that she was more or less 30 by the time everything kicked off proper

 

[straightorbroken]

How heavy and dense are those final beats

 

[Cerro de Casa]

"I'm very suspicious of any toilet that I don't police myself" - a rare quote from Q magazine

 

[straightorbroken]

Oh here we go. The legendary #1 Crush.

 

[GinAg (39)]

The Hooper mix of course includes a sample of Bedtime Story!

 

[Cerro de Casa]

Iconic moment