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ONE WAY Recommends [Issue
#14]
Garbage By
Ken Micallef
Bleed Like Me
(CD
Geffen)
Just
when they seemed predestined for the black dust heap of history,
Madison, Wisconsin’s finest power rock and freak electronica
quartet Garbage kicks it high and hard with the most guitar heavy,
drum beating, rousing anthem-blasting album of their brilliant seven-year
career. As storming guitars (many taken from the Pretender’s
James Honeyman-Scott school of plectrum riffage) bellow through
exacting songs like a tornado laying waste to George Bush’s
White House, Garbage - vocalist Shirley Manson, drummer/producer
Butch Vig, and guitarists Steve Marker and Duke Eriackson - sound
reborn. Dave Grohl pummels opening track and single, “Bad Boyfriend”
with a wicked excitement that Butch Vig, as good as he is, could
never have marshalled. Grohl and new band member, drummer Matt Walker,
thrust Garbage into new terrain, driving the music with a stomping
supremacy that the consummately written songs always deserved, but
never quite received. Garbage’s melody blaring material is
still enough to turn ignorant listeners into true Garbage believers,
from acetylene torch burner “Right Between the Eyes” to
nu-metal concoction “Why Do You Love Me?”
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