Music: Music Review: Garbage: Not Your Kind ..
Initially, Garbage ’s calling card was drummer Butch Vig, who produced Nirvana ’s Nevermind , among other grunge-era classics. In spite of that bankable association, the band wisely held grunge at arm’s length. After all, grunge was obsessed with the admittedly slippery ethic of authenticity. Garbage, by grunge’s standards, had none. Here was a group blatantly manufactured by Vig and guitarist Duke Erikson , journeymen who first played together professionally in 1975. The multiplatinum sales of 1995’s Garbage (and to a lesser extent, 1998’s Version 2.0 ) proved that the band’s sharp, dark hooks—plus Shirley Manson ...
The A.V. Club
22 May 2012