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Garbage
Garbage came together in Madison when three producers and players — Butch Vig, Duke Erikson, and Steve Marker — went looking for a singer and found Shirley Manson, then fronting the Scottish band Angelfish. Vig had already produced Nirvana's Nevermind, and the group put that studio craft to work on their own songs, layering guitars, loops, and Manson's cool, cutting vocals into something that sat comfortably between grunge and 90s alternative. Their debut went big on the strength of "Only Happy When It Rains" and "Stupid Girl," and they kept it going with Version 2.0 and a James Bond theme, "The World Is Not Enough."
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Garbage (1995). The debut is where the whole sound arrives fully formed. "Only Happy When It Rains," "Stupid Girl," and "Queer" are all on it, and it still sounds like nothing else from that year.
Biography
Garbage is an American rock band formed in 1993 in Madison, Wisconsin. The band's line-up, consisting of Scottish musician Shirley Manson (vocals) and American musicians Duke Erikson (guitar, bass, keyboards), Steve Marker (guitar, keyboards), and Butch Vig (drums, percussion), has remained unchanged since its inception. All four members are involved in songwriting and production. Garbage has sold over 17 million albums worldwide.
The band's 1995 eponymous debut album was critically acclaimed, selling over four million copies and achieving double platinum certification in the UK, the US, and Australia. It was accompanied by a string of increasingly successful singles, including "Stupid Girl" and "Only Happy When It Rains". Follow-up Version 2.0 (1998) was equally successful, topping the UK Albums Chart and receiving two Grammy Award nominations. The band followed this by performing and co-producing the theme song to the 19th James Bond film The World Is Not Enough (1999). Their third album Beautiful Garbage (2001) was also critically praised, but failed to match the commercial success of its predecessors, despite selling over a million copies in its first three months.
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Studio albums
Discography
Official studio albums and EPs.
- 2025Let All That We Imagine Be the LightAlbum
- 2025Get Out My Face aka Bad KittyEP
- 2024Copy/PasteEP
- 2024Lie to MeEP
- 2023Witness to Your LoveEP
- 2021No Gods No MastersAlbum
- 2016Strange Little BirdsAlbum
- 2012Not Your Kind of PeopleAlbum
- 2005Bleed Like MeAlbum
- 2001beautifulgarbageAlbum
- 1998Version 2.0Album
- 1997GarbageEP
- 1995GarbageAlbum
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