Album: Garbage
Year: 1995
Man, did that first Garbage album age well. In the mid-90s, the idea of melding sampled beats, grunge guitar and impossibly cool basslines with an even impossibly cooler female lead singer felt like a whole new thing.
The fact that the mastermind was super-producer Butch Vig, who had helmed a couple of little records called Siamese Dream and Nevermind meant that the project was always going to be high-profile enough to fail miserably.
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