Garbage – Beautiful Garbage
Whether you've been a regular on the fan forum since 2002 or you simply know them as the band that did the song from Romeo and Juliet, chances are you know a little about this episode's subject – Garbage. But there is no way in gay hell you know anywhere near as much as this episode's guest, Liam, who has deeply stanned the band ever since discovering an obscure Garbage remix on his 12th birthday.
Experimental and unapologetically queer, Garbage cut their tusks in the nineties with their inimitable cocktail of genres across grunge, trip-hop, pop and rock. The method behind the music was frontwoman Shirley Manson who, a good decade younger than most of her bandmates, lead the foursome to victory, winning commercial success, critical kudos and even a Bond theme.
Here we explore Beautiful Garbage the band's third, and arguably most divisive, album. Released just three weeks after the September 11 attacks, the record initially received mixed reviews from fans and critics. But so like a rosé, Beautiful Garbage has matured over time to become a beloved curio in the band's canon that celebrates self-expression, deliberate weirdness and gender fuckery.
Join Drew and Andy as Liam showers them with Beautiful Garbage and leaves them positively shooketh at the true identity of Cherry Lips' muse, JT LeRoy.
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