by Garbage List Price:$13.00 Our Price:$11.00 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Product Details
Media: Audio CD
Release Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Label: Geffen Records
Average Customer Review: 4.5 Based on 131 reviews.
Sales Rank: 67
Tracks
1.
Why Do You Love Me
2.
Why Do You Love Me [CD-ROM Track][Multimedia Track]
3.
Why Don't You Come Over
4.
Sex Is Not the Enemy
5.
Run Baby Run
6.
Right Between the Eyes
7.
Metal Heart
8.
It's All Over But the Crying
9.
Happy Home
10.
Boys Wanna Fight
11.
Bleed Like Me
12.
Bad Boyfriend
Editorial Review
Despite making it through a difficult four-year stretch in which the band temporarily broke up, singer Shirley Manson left her husband, and new technologies made the sleek electro-rock sound of its first three albums feel passé, Garbage resurfaces in rude health on Bleed Like Me. Manson is still kickboxing the air and stomping the glitter under her heels, as she channels Debbie Harry and Chrissie Hynde on edgy glam-rock anthems like "Run Baby Run" and "Metal Heart." All the while three bookish producers in the background--including Butch Vig, who famously helmed Nirvana's Nevermind--turn up the sleazy machine-like rhythms. Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl sits in on the drums for the menacing "Bad Boyfriend," but it's the confessional title track Bleed Like Me"--part "Walk on the Wild Side," part therapy session for former cutter Manson--that shatters Garbage's image as the ultimate non-stick studio band. "You should see my scars," goes the chorus. And, for once, Manson is actually willing to reveal them. -- Aidin Vaziri
Top Customer Reviews
Rating:
3 Garbage has some healing to do
It's tempting to wonder what Garbage's fourth studio effort would have sounded like had its predecessor, Beautiful Garbage, not flopped commercially. Had the quartet not been punished for experimentation so harshly, they might not have made such a brash return to the gritty sound that launched their career.The problem with it is there was also a healthy dose of pop in their first two albums and Garbage seems very interested in burying it beneath layers of, well, musical bleeding. The album starts off fine, but even after just eleven tracks, they've tested this new formula. Songs that should be hooky and catchy slip out of the memory almost instantly and don't support the repeated listens they may have if written in a more mainstream style.It's hard to fault them for getting this emotional, though. After all, the band almost didn't survive as a group to make this album. And, it does ring true on tracks such as "Run, Baby, Run" or the lone soaring single (and quite possibly the lone appearance of their once-abundant pop vibe), "Why Do You Love Me".All in all, it's a surprising follow-up to Beautiful Garbage, and it does stand on its own. While it hits closer than Beautiful did, it still isn't a sufficient credit to the first two albums. In short, Bleed Like Me's sound isn't going to last for another album, so it's kind of disconcerting to know in the back of the mind they're going to have to clean up a bit for their next studio effort, if they hold together to make one at all.
Rating:
4 Welcome Back!
Garbage is back and they're sounding much more rock-oriented than the straight pop of their BeautifulGarbage CD.The CD opens strong with "Bad Boyfriend," an excellent layering of what the album has in store. It sounds like something a band would play to open a concert. It prepares the audience for what it is about to hear.The rest of the CD is decent, although a few songs are cliche and juvenile, including the title song "Bleed Like Me." It addresses problematic issues like anorexia, homosexuality, and other addictions casually and without much emotion. The song that is accompanied by a music video, "Why Do You Love Me," sounds like something an angsty middle school student might have written in study hall.The best song on the album is "Sex is not the Enemy." It takes a strong stance against popular religious teachings and sides with the rebellious actions of 1960s hippies. For this, it is slightly political, but it comes off true and strong. However, this song is probably the reason that the cd is stamped with a Parental Advisory label. Overall, the CD is accessable to Garbage fans and also for anyone who likes rock obviously perfect for radio play. NOTE: PLEASE VOTE REGARDING THE QUALITY OF THE REVIEW, NOT WHETHER YOU AGREE WITH IT.
Rating:
5 GARBAGE Soars to New Level of Excellence!!
Of the four GARBAGE albums, all of which are indispensable, this is clearly the best, in addition to being their latest. It is certainly their most accessible, deserving of the attention of all age groups within the Rock audience and beyond. Despite or perhaps because of vocal chord surgery since the 3rd GARBAGE album, "Beautiful Garbage," which was a commercial dud in spite of unanimous critical praise, lead vocalist Shirley Manson is in the best voice of her career and is clearly at the top of her game as she wraps that voice around the notes in a way that would challenge the top female vocalists of any genre, in any era.Lyrically, GARBAGE seems to have pulled off the neat trick of expanding their reach without abandoning their core audience, the young males so in evidence at their mind-blowing concert appearances. This GARBAGE vehicle hasn't exactly left its lane, but it has edged close enough to the Mainstream lane to wave--and perhaps smile--at passengers in the other vehicles.Particularly outstanding this time around is the inspired guitar work of GARBAGE lead guitarist, Rock's Incredible Hulk, Steve Marker. I am not just saying that because he's my nephew, either.
