Below is a playlist that Duke Erikson, guitar player of Garbage, just put together of his favorite most influential songs.
He has commented on each song and why he likes it, check out the list:
01. See My Friends - The Kinks
One of their more obscure early singles. An Indian-influenced guitar with evocative lyrics and a beautiful bridge.
02. Lightning Strikes - Lou Christie
A perfect pop gem. The lead guitar break had to have inspired Springsteen in his lead guitar on Born to Run.
03. Rain - The Beatles
Some of the best bass and drum playing they ever did. And Lennon’s vocal is wonderful.
04. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams
I picked this because it is the title song from an album on which every song is superb.
05. I Still Miss Someone - Johnny Cash
Breaks your heart the way only Johnny could.
06. Evie’s Garden - Freedy Johnston
I was somewhat involved in the mix on the album ‘Perfect World’. This is only one great song from it.
07. Ella Guru - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
This song, from ‘Trout Mask Replica’, is an example of Beefheart at his most bizarre, funny and inventive.
08. Daydream Believer - The Monkees
Great, shallow, wonderful pop.
09. Hurt - Johnny Cash
Cash nails this Nine Inch Nails song with more force than they could muster, and with a much lighter hammer.
10. Here Comes the Rain Again - Eurythmics
Annie Lennox’s vocal on this is beautiful. The arrangement is genius.
11. Rosie Won’t You Please Come Home - The Kinks
This lovely song from ‘Face to Face’ is another of Ray Davies’ great overlooked works.
12. What’s New Pussycat? - Tom Jones
From the movie of the same name. Very weird.
13. Can’t Seem to Make You Mine - The Seeds
Garbage covered this song, and we did a respectable (and respectful) job of it. Doesn’t hold a candle to the original though.
14. Tomorrow Never Knows/Within You Without You - The Beatles (‘Love’ soundtrack album)
The ‘mash-ups’ on this record were interesting…some worked, some didn’t. This is one of the more successful combinings of two Beatles classics.
15. 7 and 7 Is - Love
It’s hard to believe that I first heard this very strange number on Top 40 Radio in the middle of Nebraska. It blew my little mind.
16. Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan
This was the follow-up single to Like a Rolling Stone…a hard act to follow, but a worthy successor.
17. Respect - Aretha Franklin
It doesn’t get any better than this.
18. Hot Fun in the Summertime - Sly and Family Stone
One of the great ‘summer singles’.
19. Good Vibrations - Beach Boys
Brian Wilson’s self-described ‘mini-opera’. Imaginative, melodious, and, sometimes, it rocks.
- Duke Erikson
“(One) musician, upon seeing the innumerable loops and samples strewn about the studio, inadvertently inspired the band’s name when he said, ‘This looks like garbage.’ Replied Vig, ‘Exactly. And we’re going to turn this garbage into a song.’” -- Garbage Bio, 1995
Four albums and seven Grammy nominations later, Garbage has its first “best of” collection - the CD and DVD collections, Absolute Garbage (Almo Sounds/Geffen/UMe), released July 24, 2007. Along with the new track “Tell Me Where It Hurts,” Absolute Garbage features 17 songs of extreme and intense emotion, from “Stupid Girl,” “Queer” and “#1 Crush” to “Special,” “Bleed Like Me” and “Why Do You Love Me.”
Among the 15 Garbage music videos on DVD for the first time - including “Vow,” “Only Happy When It Rains,” “Stupid Girl” and “Milk” directed by Samuel Bayer (Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Hole’s “Doll Parts,” The Cranberries’ “Zombie”) and “Queer” by Stephane Sednaoui (Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Give It Away”) - are two previously unreleased in the U.S.: “You Look So Fine” and “Shut Your Mouth.” Also included is almost an hour of never-before-seen footage backstage and behind-the-scenes, live performances and interviews, spanning the band’s entire career.
Garbage Official Website
Check out the Absolute Garbage audio streams:
Crush
Push It
Tell Me Where It Hurts (New Song)
Only Happy When It Rains
Why Do You Love Me
Queer Remix
Androgyny Remix
Bad Boyfriend Remix
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