Garbage

Editor's Review:

Every now and then an album comes along that is so fantastically awful it is almost impossible to believe that a record company agreed to fuel its shit-smelling fire with millions of dollars in recording, production and marketing. Beautiful is just such an album. Containing possibly the worst single of the young century, "Androgyny," the album meanders through 53 minutes of utter terribleness. It contains such lyrical gems as: boys in the girls room / girls in the men's room / you free your mind in your androgyny. It sounds like a Ginger Spice solo album gone horribly wrong. It wanders through hip-hop ("Shut Your Mouth"), retro-'50s syrupy pop ("Can't Cry These Tears"), roadhouse blues ("Silence is Golden") and God the fuck knows what ("Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)). I have officially fallen out of love with Shirley Manson - and Butch Vig. Every song is absolutely shocking.
- Brian Brophy


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Record Label Interscope Records Released December 2001

Tracks Shut Your Mouth Androgyny Can't Cry These Tears Til the Day I Die Cup of Coffee Silence is Golden Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!) Breaking Up the Girl Drive You Home Parade Nobody Loves You Untouchable So Like a Rose