Editorial Reviews
Version 2.0
Music Review:
Music Review
Collection [Original recording remastered] [Import]
Hovhaness: Talin for Clarinet & Orchestra
Komuro Tetsuya - Blue Fantasy Remix [CD-single] [Import]
Global Underground: Toronto: Sharam
Ich Will Keine Schokolade [Import]
Hustler/Rapper [Explicit Lyrics]
Ibert: Divertissement; Saint-Saëns: Danse Macabre; Le Rouet D'Omphale
Jazz Music: 'Round Midnight Concert [Live]
Rachmaninov: Complete Operas (Aleko, The Miserly Knight, Francesca di Rimini)
Amazon.com
It's not that Garbage is doing anything particularly new. At times, singer Shirley Manson borrows Chrissie Hynde's phrasing, Patti Smith's rock beat poetry, and Brian Wilson's chorus from "Don't Worry Baby." But producer Butch Vig provides a modern sheen to Version 2.0 that makes it sound fresh and distinctly modern. Purists may blanch--the album is a hybrid of rock guitars, dance rhythms, and pop choruses--but songs such as "I Think I'm Paranoid" (a rip of Elastica) and "The Trick Is to Keep Breathing" (Depeche Mode, without the chill) sound great no matter what they're called. --Keith Moerer
Rolling Stone
It's rare to hear a rock record so carefully put together that still sounds so fresh and playful.... On Version 2.0, [vocalist Shirley] Manson uses her sultry voice to drag Garbage's intricate guitar textures out of the studio and into the real and scary world of pop emotion, where they belong.