I gave Garbage's Version 2.0 a spin last night, and in the 10 years since it was released (yes, 10 years) it's aged quite well. For me, at least. Butch Vig has a few Liberace moments, especially on Push It's 120 separate tracks. But this is Butch Vig plus Shirley Manson, so instead of turning out like an over-accessorised emo kid it's powerful goth pop.
But what about that Shirley Manson solo album? It's been in the works since 2005, but might not see the light of the CD pressing factory due to record label thumb-twiddling. The main concern is apparently that the material is "too noir". Maybe they're right to be worried, because Candie Payne has the monopoly on that genre. Obviously.
Maybe the songs that are in the can are crap. But come on, she's been working with Greg Kurstin. Greg bloody Kurstin! He is responsible for all sorts of wonders, including Sophie Ellis-Bextor's Catch You (one of my favourite pop songs from 2007). Shirley Manson + Greg Kurstin = pop noir perfection. If destroyed still true.
PS I was such a Garbage fan girl, that I had a ginger tom named Shirley. He was a very effeminate cat.
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