Beautiful Garbage
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Beautiful Garbage
Beautiful Garbage (stylized as beautifulgarbage) is the third studio album by American rockband Garbage. It was released on September 27, 2001, by Almo Sounds and Interscope Records. Marking a departure from the sound the band had established on their first two releases, the album was written and recorded over the course of a year, when lead singer Shirley Manson chronicled their efforts weekly online, becoming one of the first high-profile musicians to keep an Internet blog. The album expanded on the band's musical variety, with stronger melodies, more direct lyrics, and sounds mixing rock with electronica, new wave, hip hop, and girl groups. -Wikipedia
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The Tech
The album is a large disappointment, for this Garbage fan at least. It may very well do rather well due to the large audience there is for the kind of music you’ll find on Beautiful Garbage, but long time fans aren’t going to enjoy this album very much and are just going to have to pray that it will take less than three years for Garbage to find themselves again.
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Sputnik Music
On this album, Garbage are overwhelmed by their pop inclinations, dispensing mostly with their trademark intensely constructed techno-industrial-rock, and instead churning out disappointing pop/new wave knockoffs and by-the-numbers rock lacking their early spark.
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Albumism
It's apparent now, outside of the glare of varying expectations Garbage was subject to at the height of their popularity, that beautifulgarbage is a Garbage album that is more than capable of pulling its own weight in their beloved canon. And it's most definitely worth a second spin.
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Slant Magazine
Yet beautiful isn’t so much about breaking ground as it is about coming down to it. Make no mistake though: Garbage makes music just above pop’s sea level and it’s beautiful indeed.
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NME
Shirley Manson and co's third album is a bit rubbish...
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All Music
Beautiful Garbage is a more consistent record. It's unlikely to storm the charts like their first two records, especially since there aren't standout singles like on the earlier albums, but overall the record works better, perhaps their best album.
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Drowned in Sound
beautifulgarbage should be seen as a good album in it’s own right. It’s not for kids, it’s for adults who don’t want to listen to Dido quite yet. Essentially the sound of reality without the "authentic" reality sound of moping blokes and acoustic guitars.
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CLUAS
Damn it. I've fallen into their trap. Like the decade it's based on, beautifulgarbage isn't disposable at all like I thought. A whole new generation will be secretly singing this for the next 20 years.
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Prindle Record Reviews
This music is garbage. Expertly-produced state-of-the-art audio with absolutely zero in the way of new musical ideas.
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Hidden Jams
Beautiful Garbage seemed much lighter in mood. It was more poppy and upbeat, yet still very alternative and eclectic.
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Buzzsprout
But so like a rosé, Beautiful Garbage has matured over time to become a beloved curio in the band's canon that celebrates self-expression, deliberate weirdness and gender fuckery.
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EW
the band’s third album, beautifulgarbage, succeeds in modest ways. Manson still revels in the aggressive bite of previous Garbage records, and the band backs it up with throbbing tracks like ”Till the Day I Die” and ”Shut Your Mouth.”
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RTE
'Beautiful Garbage' however, could well be the album to scorch all previous copy as singer Shirley Manson, producer turned drummer Butch Vig and the other two (Duke Erikson and Steve Marker) create their most sublime and accomplished offering to date.
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AV Club
It helps that the disc is never less than briskly listenable, aided by the fact that no two tracks go for quite the same effect. As always, it's not high art, but with a name like Garbage, this is a band that has never claimed such highfalutin ambitions.
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The Solute
It’s not their strongest album, but Beautifulgarbage is the band at their most self-consciously eclectic, and while it can border on gimmicky, it’s an interesting experiment; a pop album with some character, which is more than what can be said about a lot of music from 2001. It deserved more recognition.
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Entertainment.ie
Paradoxically, however, it also sounds like the first authentic Garbage album, easily their richest and most satisfying to date.
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