thecallus:

kateoplis:

This is how middle-aged folks rock, kids.

Start taking notes.

Make a whole new religion…

Oh man I had Shirley Manson photos from SPIN up in my locker from middle school until at least 11th grade.

Garbage had two AMAZING albums that were the best music you could ask for to be 13 to. The b-sides up until the middle of 2.0 could’ve been a perfect third album in their own right. (For weird British reasons, each single would have two versions with one or two b-sides and two remixes on each, so that’s a lot). Even the later 2.0 b-sides – I mean, Tornado and 13X Forever were at least fun.

The third and fourth albums were crap. I think the thing was the boys didn’t have any fresh ideas, and Shirley – Shirley was clear in interviews how much she looked up to Chrissie Hynde and Siouxie Sioux and, uh, some names I can’t remember drunk in 2013 – and she stopped writing songs about what it was like to be a teenager listening to those songs and started trying to imitate them directly. And they all had brassy singing voices and she has a breathy voice, and so all the singles were kind of half-assed performances of half-assed arrangements of half-assed takeoffs from Top of the Pops circa 1987? And wow was the filler filler.

This honestly sounds like the second disc of 2.0 which I really wish they’d done instead.