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Dear Garbage,

Posted over 2 years ago
When I first got your album Garbage, I got sucked into your world of pink feathers, charming vices, bitter revenge stories and one of the most sensual female voices I had heard. I grew up emotionally with that album (I was 14-15 years old at the time), I can't even begin to explain its importance to me.Then came Version 2.0. Your dark stories got a tad lighter, but were also enriched with aggressive and melodic beats. I was there, dear Garbage, enjoying the hell out of it. Someday Shirley Manson announced that she is seeing a therapist & is actually feeling happy. Hooray!, I thought. Silly me. You went ahead and dropped a pointless, shallow, bubble gum album, Beautiful Garbage; I won't waste many words on this album, let's just say that I'm still waiting to see the "Beautiful" part.Next album was Bleed Like Me, which wasn't as bad as Beautiful Garbage, but it was still bad. I stopped bothering, and yet, for some reason, kept a small light in my heart for you, a ray of hope that you would one day go back to what you do best.After some years of silence, rumours of getting back together and solo careers, you decided to release your best of. And you even wrote a new song, titled Tell Me Where It Hurts:I'll tell you where it hurts; it hurts in the heart. Some years back, you took a shit over what you created and your fans loved, and after all these years, the best you could come up with was an uninspired song with childish lyrics, to shit some more on my memories? Well, FUCK YOU right back. Thank you for killing the last hope I had left. It's time for us to truly break up and never meet again. The more I see of you, the more disappointed I get. I'll keep those first two albums & my memories and you keep the money I spent on you.Used to be yours,Anna.
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Comments (36)

  1. mister gary at work again
    mister gary at work again says I still carry a serious love affair with both "Vow" and "#1 Crush" ... I feel your pain completely.
    Permalink posted 05/21/2007
  2. chulsmith
    chulsmith says mmmmm... shirley manson... but yeah, beautiful garbage was the end...
    Permalink posted 05/21/2007
  3. Me and the Horse I Rode In On
    Me and the Horse I Rode In On says Wow........I hope I'll never do you wrong.
    Permalink posted 05/21/2007
  4. 1234chainsaw
    1234chainsaw says Anna, kudos for striking an eloquent balance between righteous anger and a wistful break-up letter. But fret not. There always is, and always will be, Curve.
    Permalink posted 05/21/2007
  5. Dale
    Dale says Oh Anna, I'm so sorry. This is the final nail in the coffin of a once-promising band. As you already know, I'm with you all the way on Garbage; their first albums were very good, but since then, their output has stunk. Did they think that we'd happily wallow in the mire, just to hear Shirley Manson writhe about and sing those increasingly inane lyrics? Did the therapy really make their music bad, or did they run out of good lyrical ideas, and resort to cheap tittilation (which worked well on Version 2.0, but became a crashing bore after)? I don't know, but I do thank you for bringing this to our attention, so we may all know to steer clear of their "greatest hits" album. For me, the only greatest hits Garbage album I'll need is the debut.
    Permalink posted 05/21/2007
  6. oceanrain
    oceanrain says shirley manson can do no wrong for me i mean just look at her
    Permalink posted 05/21/2007
  7. Dale
    Dale says This is EXACTLY why I get so upset when U2 releases another album that spits on their earlier back catalog. So, I understand just what you're feeling. It's like finding out that your parents lie. It'll take time, but here's something to get the bitter taste out of your eardrums:
    Permalink posted 05/21/2007
  8. Anna
    Anna says Thank you, Gary and Chul. Henry, be afraid, be very afraid... I'll gladly cry on your Curve shoulder, Pekka. oceanrain, look at what? The ghost of what I used to adore? Nah, I think I'll pass :) Thank you, bro. I couldn't have said it better. "I can't use what I can't abuse" was written all over my school books. I am furious, furious, I tell you!
    Permalink posted 05/21/2007
  9. SatisfiedMind614
    SatisfiedMind614 says I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. Margaret Mitchell She says it so much better than I could
    Permalink posted 05/21/2007
  10. TroyPowers
    TroyPowers says stupid girl
    Permalink posted 05/21/2007
  11. QueenofHell
    QueenofHell says It's a bit too Sophie Ellis Bexter, really, isn't it? All style and no substance. She looks hot, and I don't think the track's that bad. I wonder if after therapy Manson prefers better mental health (if she's achieved that) to the ability to make engaging music. As a goal in life surely feeling better in oneself has to take priority.
    Permalink posted 05/21/2007
  12. Anna
    Anna says Blair, excellent. I have to say that the same goes also for relationships. Troy, she is! Thanks :D Hell, the track is Blah to me and it is especially bad because it comes from a band that gave us two very good albums that had nothing to do with this. So disappointing :( If she now lives in any way relating to what she writes, she must be bored out of her mind :( /sobbing quietly
    Permalink posted 05/21/2007
  13. mktackabery
    mktackabery says Anna, at least we have the Ping Pong Bitches to turn to.
    Permalink posted 05/21/2007
  14. QueenofHell
    QueenofHell says I've never been a big Garbage fan, so I'm not gutted by their current inadequacy.
    Permalink posted 05/21/2007
  15. Augusts1
    Augusts1 says I'm so totally with you Anna. In fact I didn't even bother to p/u their 2nd cd cause they were already headed away from their debut with it. I've enjoyed a song or two I've heard here or there but lost interest/faith in their music long ago. I don't even recall the last time I listened to their debut, it's been that long!
    Permalink posted 05/21/2007
  16. chucky
    chucky says Ouch. You didn't even let them down easy with the whole "it's me, not you" line. Haha.
    Permalink posted 05/21/2007
  17. blueone51
    blueone51 says Liz Phair broke my heart quickly and cleanly but Shirley has just slowly tortured me – glimmers of false hope leading me on, little hints of what once used to be. I think it’s time for me to move on; if only PJ would return my calls.
    Permalink posted 05/21/2007
  18. Taylspin
    Taylspin says I think you were honest and brave to write them this letter, Anna. Did they respond? (I DO hope they read MOG regularly) I hate "best of" albums from bands that don't deserve it. Like I said in a blog, I think depression can sometimes make an artist better - more inspired, perhaps. Maybe she needs to read your letter, fall into a deep state of mental anguish, and come out with the most bitter, angry, and beautiful song they've ever done. But it sounds like, at least for this once-dedicated fan, its already too late.
    Permalink posted 05/21/2007
  19. Rawkkiddoh
    Rawkkiddoh says and that my friends is one big cup of greek coffee........by the way I am with Henry, hope I never piss in your cornflakes
    Permalink posted 05/21/2007
  20. metalheart
    metalheart says I don't know what to say. I really don't. Their music has been on the decline; that's a given. But I still have some hope. I still can find some great (really great) songs in the last 2 albums. I guess they'll have to do "more" to lose me. BTW Anna you have to admit she looks even hotter in the new vid.
    Permalink posted 05/21/2007
  21. guso
    guso says my dear, First thing I have to say, love the way you write. Second, you made me stand up from the computer and get a CD with pink feathers, that has a rare photo on the back cover, where is a gal with the fingers on her mouth. Third, The Queerest of the Queer Yeah, last year I saw them play here in Mexico City for third time and many people, including me, loved the sound of the first and second albums, actually I never bought the Bleed Like Me CD, why? well probably cuz it did not has the GARBAGE word on it, what's wrong in the fact that all your albums has this word on it? Four, You can touch me if you want For Long Time, my nick on msn and yahoo what guSo v2.0.... yeah Fifth, I'm only happy when it rains Probably it was over on the Crush Number One, for 1997's (damm 10 years) Juliet + Romeo movie filmed here in Mexico City. And yes, probably our hope, died with Garbage's last song I'm waiting I'm waiting for you... .guSo
    Permalink posted 05/21/2007
  22. emit
    emit says Hmmm, Garbage... To be honest, I didn't "get" even first time around - it all sounded way too formulaic, too contrived, too "grunge-chic" for me even back when they relseased their first album. But if you actually fell for them, then I'm really sorry - they were just clearly unable (or unwilling) to go beyond the zeitgeist even in their best moments, and taking them seriously is a recipe for a heartbreak. Mind, they were never that original, either. Anna, 1234chainsaw, did I hear you say "Curve"? Ha.
    Permalink posted 05/21/2007
  23. Jonh Ingham
    Jonh Ingham says Stupid Girl....started on the slippery slope from there.
    Permalink posted 05/22/2007
  24. ciphermedia
    ciphermedia says Haven't listened to them since the first album. This track sounds suspiciously like a Pretenders rip-off - and what's the point in rehashing something that was done better twenty years ago.
    Permalink posted 05/22/2007
  25. Neill
    Neill says (Please, please, please God, let Shirley Manson walk past us at the O2 Wireless Festival just after Anna's sixth pint....)
    Permalink posted 05/22/2007
  26. The Serenity Vortex
    The Serenity Vortex says Anna: Like what you said!!! Neill: lol!! dude, please take a video camera with you. . . .
    Permalink posted 05/22/2007
  27. Dale
    Dale says Neill, if that were to happen, I'd be able to clearly hear the screaming here in Wichita. I could then kick back and enjoy it. "Kill yr idols":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Yr_Idols, indeed.
    Permalink posted 05/22/2007
  28. dangerpilot
    dangerpilot says once again, we are soul sisters. i could have wrote this, word for word.
    Permalink posted 05/22/2007
  29. Spike
    Spike says Anna, does your disappointment in the lastest Garbage permit me to say that the video you featured has a melody that goes nowhere and does nothing, and that the images are edited terribly?
    Permalink posted 05/22/2007
  30. milkshake
    milkshake says I love #1 Crush (remix)! Sadly I can't find it anywhere.
    Permalink posted 05/23/2007
  31. 9Mile
    9Mile says I can relate to the passion you feel. Point-in-fact: Garbarge did drop off the face of the Earth ... Maybe therapy does work? Just like the rest of us, I'll bet the rage she felt as a younger person burnt itself out as she journied deeper into the third decade of her life. And as the spoils of her success accumulated, perhaps she found another way to make sense of the world. Still sucks though, they WERE a great band.
    Permalink posted 05/23/2007
  32. 9Mile
    9Mile says I can relate to the passion you feel. Point-in-fact: Garbarge did drop off the face of the Earth ... Maybe therapy does work? Just like the rest of us, I'll bet the rage she felt as a younger person burnt itself out as she journied deeper into the third decade of her life. And as the spoils of her success accumulated, perhaps she found another way to make sense of the world. Still sucks though, they WERE a great band.
    Permalink posted 05/23/2007
  33. 9Mile
    9Mile says I can relate to the passion you feel. Point-in-fact: Garbarge did drop off the face of the Earth ... Maybe therapy does work? Just like the rest of us, I'll bet the rage she felt as a younger person burnt itself out as she journied deeper into the third decade of her life. And as the spoils of her success accumulated, perhaps she found another way to make sense of the world. Still sucks though, they WERE a great band.
    Permalink posted 05/23/2007
  34. Anonymous says totally feel your pain on this, I too was a Garbage fan. It all seemed to go down hill though. grrr!!!!!!
    Permalink posted 05/23/2007
  35. Twig
    Twig says Not affiliated with 'Garbage' Poem (yes... that's the title of this poem...kindo') GARBAGE dear garbage you was once a big part of my life... some of you i ate with... some of you i ate on some of you i shared with others but now your garbage i like some of the colors that you are... i like some of the aroma well... not anymore when i think of you as you are now... i think of my "X" when i think of you now... i feel that i'm thinking about this world we live in when i think of you as you are now... i remind myself that i'm not like you garbage... you used to be a big part of my life... but now your just garbage goodbye...
    Permalink posted 05/28/2007
  36. deadflowers
    deadflowers says I was always a big fan of "You Look So Fine," but stopped listening to them after the first two albums.
    Permalink posted 05/30/2007

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