History Music / Garbage

* DownerEnding: Every album they ever made throws a depressing ballad at the end: "Milk", "You Look So Fine", "So Like a Rose" and a few others.

For their follow-up, ''Version 2.0'', Garbage continued with the same electro-rock sound but added a denser production, more techno and trip-hop influences and more EarWorm melodies. ''2.0'' became another well-received success and gave them a few more hit singles as well, such as the technoey "Push It", the super-heavy EpicRiff-driven "I Think I'm Paranoid", and the [[SurprisinglyGentleSong ballad]] "You Look So Fine". Around this time, they were recruited to perform the theme to ''TheWorldIsNotEnough'', on which they worked alongside composer DavidArnold.

* VideoFullOfFilmClips: "The World Is Not Enough" was remade into one of these (since it ''was'' made for [[TheWorldIsNotEnough the James Bond movie of the same name)]]

* BiggerIsBetterInBed: [[http://web.archive.org/web/19991007235640/http://www.cafemomo.com/inprint/9604details.shtml Shirley believes in this.]]

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Usually ranges from 1 (such as "So Like a Rose" and "You Look so Fine" to 5, with a couple songs being a 6 (such as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb7fLA5ccWg "Vow"]] and "Battle in Me").

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Usually ranges from 1 to 5, with a couple songs being a 6 (such as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb7fLA5ccWg Vow]]).

Their discography as of 2009:

* SurrealMusicVideo: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-CHEnJ7gnc&feature=related Push It]]", "I Think I'm Paranoid"
* TeenageDeathSongs: "So Like a Rose"

* VillainSong: "The World Is Not Enough" is a memorable villain song for [[spoiler:Elektra King]]. Bond usually goes for TheVillainSucksSong, but this is definitely villain PoV.

* LongRunnerLineUp

* AppropriatedAppellation / AGoodNameForARockBand: Someone told Vig that their new songs were garb age.

** Resulting in a case of [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]] in "Stupid Girl", where she pronounces the word "stupid" as "stju-pid" as opposed to the American pronunciation as "stoo-pid."

** Resulting in a case of Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping in "Stupid Girl", where she pronounces the word "stupid" as "stju-pid" as opposed to the American pronunciation as "stoo-pid."

* "Not Your Kind Of People" (2012)

* AwesomeMcCoolName: "I read that I'd made it up as a mixture of Shirley Temple and Charles Manson - and I wish I had - but, yes, it is my name." (three guesses on [[MarilynManson how]] this is HilariousInHindsight)

* AppropriatedAppellation / AGoodNameForARockBand: Someone told Vig that their new songs were garbage.

* EpicRiff: The MyBloodyValentine-[[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute sounding]] "Supervixen" and the singles, for starters.

* RecordOfLoudnessWar: ''Bleed Like Me'''s been roundly bashed by audiophiles the world over for its lifeless, dynamic-deficient and horribly clipping sound. A real bad moment considering three of the band members are producers and their previous albums had dynamics despite all the distortion and loudness.
** It should be noted that this is done in the mixing and mastering phase of production, not the recording phase. It's out of the producer's hands by that point.
** ''Bleed Like Me'' isn't alone. I've analyzed the waveforms for ''Absolute Garbage'' and the original album versions and found that ''AG'' pretty much deserves to be burned. The album version of "Special" has no clipping, whereas the ''Absolute Garbage'' remaster contains three or four dozen instances of clipping.

* AGoodNameForARockBand: Someone told Vig that his production was garbage.
* AppropriatedAppellation
* {{Bifauxnen}}/ {{Bishonen}}: The ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I2S_29IbuM Androgyny]]'' video, which was kind of the point.

* FaceOfTheBand: Shirley Manson
* FanCommunityNickname: Shirley refers to her fans as "darklings" on her Facebook page.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Shirley Manson is a playable character in ''Guitar Hero 5'' with the song "Only Happy When It Rains" and played Catherine Weaver in [[TheSarahConnorChronicles Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles]].

Garbage was formed in 1994 by famous RecordProducer Butch Vig, known for his work on with famous alternative rock acts like {{Nirvana}} (''Nevermind''), SonicYouth, SmashingPumpkins and {{L7}}. Vig took up the position of drummer and brought in some old bandmates and fellow producers, guitarist/keyboardist Steve Marker and bassist Duke Erikson. The lineup was completed with the recruitment of Scottish vocalist Shirley Manson, formerly of alt-rock bands Angelfish and Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie. Their bandname comes from somebody commenting that Vig's remix work sounded "like garbage", a quote frequently attributed to [[NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] for some reason.

* FetishFuel: The video for "Androgyny".
** And the video for "Cherry Lips"
*** ''[[RuleOfThree And]]'' the video for ''TheWorldIsNotEnough''.
** No stopping at three. "When I Grow Up" [[AuthorAppeal references]] "golden showers".
** FetishFuelStationAttendant: [[HeroesWantRedheads Shirley]] [[PetitePride Manson]], [[FieryRedhead without]] [[ZettaiRyouiki a]] [[FemmeFatale doubt]].