Garbage (band)

Garbage is an international rock group formed in Madison, Wisconsin in 1993. The band members are Butch Vig, Steve Marker, Duke Erikson, and Shirley Manson.

Discography

Albums

Hit singles

A - The Hot 100 airplay chart

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B-sides and rare tracks

See: Garbage B-side Chronology

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Live show covers and ad-libs

Garbage frequently feature cover songs as part of their live sets, and have become quite known for doing faithful and honest renditions of past tunes.

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On their first tour in 1996 it was just as common for them to cover Vic Chesnutt's 'Supernatural' as it was for them to do 'Kick My Ass' which they'd covered for his tribute album.

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For 1998's Version 2.0 tour, the band were including The Beatles' 'Day Tripper' and 'Black Sabbath' by Black Sabbath in their set. In 1999 the band even played traditional Scottish poem 'John Anderson' by Robert Burns, and The Beatles' 'Don't Let Me Down' as part of a special Edinburgh show to celebrate the opening of the Scottish Parliament in July 1999.

Related Topics:
The Beatles - Black Sabbath - Robert Burns - Scottish Parliament

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By the time of the 'beautifulgarbage', the band were actively asking the audience for their requests, and this led them to attempt Shirley Manson's previous band Angelfish's 'Suffocate Me' but also ABBA's 'Dancing Queen', as well as throwing in a cover of 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head' by Kylie Minogue at a few shows. By the end of the tour cycle, the band also joined with No Doubt and The Distillers in performing Blondie's "Call Me" as a closer for their joint-headline arena tour.

Related Topics:
Angelfish - ABBA - Kylie Minogue - No Doubt - The Distillers - Blondie

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The band played U2's 'Pride In The Name Of Love' for Bono at a special MusiCares award night in 2003, and also played 'I Fall To Pieces' by Patsy Cline for the first time in Nashville, TN at the Ryman Theatre as a tribute to playing the Grand Ole Opry. They later played this cover again in Columbus, OH. Manson has also recently been quoting 'Singing In The Rain' at a number of recent performances of 'Only Happy When It Rains'.

Related Topics:
U2 - Bono - Patsy Cline - Singing In The Rain

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Shirley has been known to throw in a few ad-libs onstage during certain performances of certain songs - some examples are listed here -

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• Not My Idea - ad-libs from Talking Heads 'Once In A Lifetime', Bob Marley's 'No Woman No Cry' and New Order's 'Temptation'.
• Vow - ad-libs from Patti Smith's 'Revenge', Marianne Faithfull's 'Why D'Ya Do It?', The Beatles 'Why Don't We Do It In The Road', Carly Simon's 'You're So Vain', Cole Porter's 'Let's Do It', Bright Eyes' 'Lover I Don't Have To Love' and Yeah Yeah Yeahs' 'Mystery Girl' and 'Maps'.
• Special - ad-lib from The Pretenders 'Kid' and 'Talk Of The Town'.
• Trip My Wire - ad-libs from Junior Parker's 'Mystery Train' and Little Richard's 'Good Golly Miss Molly'.
• Stupid Girl - ad-libs from Spice Girls 'Wannabe' and Britney Spears 'Baby... One More Time'.
• Parade - ad-libs from Missy Elliot's 'Get Ur Freak On'.

Songs A Stroke Of Luck, Queer and You Look So Fine also regularly featured ad-libs but so far, no-one has worked out what they were. Indeed for one 1999 YLSF ad-lib, many fans argue over what the words were, never mind where they came from!

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