What Absolute Garbage

"Push it. Make the beats go harder."

It's been almost ten years since Shirley Manson first whispered those words in my ear, and I've been part of a captive audience since.

I can't remember if I saw the video for Push It first, or heard it after borrowing Version 2.0 from one of my rock goddesses. I call the three girls who got me into rock music back in high school my rock goddesses. You see, girls got me into rock because most of the boys I went to school with were pretty much pussies, music-wise. But I digress.

But whichever it was, after I first heard Push It, I was hooked.

And now, around fifteen years after they first got together, Garbage has finally released a greatest hits CD!

It's all here people! Only Happy When It Rains, I Think I'm Paranoid, Bleed Like Me, and bunches more. And can you believe I only heard Vow now? Their first single, and me, a HUGE Garbage fan, has only heard it now. Tsk tsk. But I always say better late than never. Unless you're late because you're knocked up and not ready hehe...

And of course, Push It is here. That is, and always will be, my favorite, favorite Garbage song. The angry energy, Shirley's segues from a scream to a whisper... It always gets me.

And The World is Not Enough and #1 Crush are here too. I don't think they've ever been released on a Garbage CD before so that's an added bonus.

Of course, this is the Philippines, and no one listens to Garbage here, so they didn't have the limited edition Absolute Garbage. Mofos... I was willing to cough up ANY amount for that edition, since it had a disc two full of kickass remixes. Guess I'll have to buy it online. But first, me needs a credit card.

I wish some of my favorites from Version 2.0 were in here too, though: The Trick is to Keep Breathing, Dumb, Wicked Ways, and Hammering in My Head. Obviously, they weren't there since this is all just singles, but I still wish they were. My Version 2.0 is a tape, seeing as I got it in 1999. Unfortunately, I've worn it down playing it over and over again and now it won't play anymore. I guess that's another thing I'll have to buy online. And Garbage's eponymous first album while I'm at it.

But now a greatest hits album is out, and considering that Garbage has had some, shall we say, trouble over the past few years (a spat between the members seriously delayed Bleed Like Me, and they actually split up for a bit), it begs the question, are they still continuing? Because God I hope so. Too many good bands, favorites of mine, have disbanded over the past few years, or are rumored to be disbanding. I'll have a serious motherfucking fit if my favorite band follows suit.

So here's hoping Garbage will continue to put out beautiful music Till the Day That I Die (hehe, song reference). And I'll be playing Push It on a loop while offering human sacrifices to the gods of rock just to make sure they do.