A FEW TREATS
GARBAGE’S THIRD LP, Beautiful Garbage, has just received the deluxe treatment (BMG), to follow up similar revisions of its predecessors. And it is a genuine treat.
Historically, Beautiful Garbage (2001) is rarely given half the plaudits that bedeck Garbage and Version 2.0, and that’s sad, because it might well be the crowning gory of their entire career. True, “Androgny,” “Shut Your Mouth,” “Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!) and “Breaking Up the Girl” did not have the commercial impact of the band’s earlier hits. But they demonstrated Garbage had effortlessly escaped the slipstream of their ’90s past, and they did so with a grace and gutsiness that few (we’re being polite here — quite frankly, we can’t think of one) of their peers ever managed.
