You've Been Here Before
Aug. 26th, 2005 11:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alfvaenAs I listen to three Garbage albums on shuffle over and over, I find myself noticing certain samenesses in their music. Not really surprising, I suppose. And it doesn't seem to be actually making me dislike them, which is good because I've spent money on that ticket.
Maybe three listens in a week is not that much(unless you compare it to my normal once-a-year-and-a-half cycle), but what I'm finding is that I hear a lot of choruses and not much else. Garbage does good choruses, on the whole, but the verses are completely overwhelmed by them. I barely notice them--admittedly, I'm not actively listening as much as I'm having it on as background noise. So maybe it's just that I'm only retaining the hooks and not much else. There are some exceptions, mostly from Beautifulgarbage. "Cherry Lips(Go Baby Go)", for instance. And not all of the hooks are in the chorus--"Supervixen"'s is that opening guitar riff with the half-second pause in it. But even the songs I feel like I know best, like "Push It" and "Androgyny", I can barely recognize until the chorus.
Oh, well. Maybe Garbage isn't my favourite band after all, but they're decent. Or maybe I just haven't listened to them enough.
Maybe three listens in a week is not that much(unless you compare it to my normal once-a-year-and-a-half cycle), but what I'm finding is that I hear a lot of choruses and not much else. Garbage does good choruses, on the whole, but the verses are completely overwhelmed by them. I barely notice them--admittedly, I'm not actively listening as much as I'm having it on as background noise. So maybe it's just that I'm only retaining the hooks and not much else. There are some exceptions, mostly from Beautifulgarbage. "Cherry Lips(Go Baby Go)", for instance. And not all of the hooks are in the chorus--"Supervixen"'s is that opening guitar riff with the half-second pause in it. But even the songs I feel like I know best, like "Push It" and "Androgyny", I can barely recognize until the chorus.
Oh, well. Maybe Garbage isn't my favourite band after all, but they're decent. Or maybe I just haven't listened to them enough.
