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''Absolute Garbage'' is the 2007 greatest hits album released by alternative rock group Garbage. The album was compiled and released by Geffen imprint Almo Sounds through Universal Music Enterprises back catalogue division in North America and Warner Music's record label A&E Records throughout the rest of the world. It was released while Garbage were on "hiatus" following the band's one-off reformation to perform at a benefit concert early in the same year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Butch Vig Says Garbage Hiatus Is Over )〕 The album includes remastered versions of sixteen of the band's singles which run chronologically in the track listing, plus a brand new track, specially recorded for the compilation, "Tell Me Where It Hurts", which preceded the album at radio across the world, with a commercial single release in the United Kingdom. ''Absolute Garbage'' was released on CD and a special edition Double-CD package which included a second disc of remixes. A DVD compilation rounded out the formats; among the sixteen Garbage music videos featured is an hour-long documentary film titled ''Thanks For Your, Uhhh Support'', incorporating footage filmed backstage and behind the scenes, archive live performances, and interviews spanning the band's entire career. In 2012, ''Absolute Garbage'' was superseded by a reconfigured greatest hits set titled ''The Absolute Collection'', which was released by the band via their own imprint in Australia and New Zealand.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ALBUM BIO: Garbage – The Absolute Collection (out 2 November 2012) Liberator )〕 ==Compiling ''Absolute Garbage''== The band's drummer, Butch Vig felt that ''Absolute Garbage'' would be "a full stop on part of our career",〔 marking the group's movement to a new part of their development, rather than simply a contractual obligation,〔 while guitarist Duke Erikson stated that "putting out a collection of our singles would be a good way to stay busy without working so hard".〔''Welcome Back... Garbage'', by Malcome Dome, published in ''Classic Rock'' magazine, August 2007 issue〕 However, singer Shirley Manson revealed in 2012 that the compilation emerged from a demand by the band's UK label A&E Records in order to meet their quarterly requirements. When Garbage began to collate the material for ''Absolute Garbage'', it transpired that the analog masters of their debut album had been lost. Neither of the band's record labels had them, and after further searching, the band established that none of the mastering facilities they had used had stored them either. Vig and audio engineer Billy Bush were able to track down an archived, but rather incomplete and damaged, set of 16bit 44.1kHz safety DAT mixes. Despite the backups being far from an optimal situation, mastering engineer Emily Lazar at The Lodge in New York City was able to reverse engineer the missing songs from the damaged archive.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Absolute Garbage remasters )〕 Lazar used some alternate versions of the songs when completing the final master.〔 Her assistant, Joe LaPorta, mastered and edited the remixes for the special edition.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Absolute Garbage'' credits )〕 Eschewing the Midwestern location of their Wisconsin-based Smart Studios, Garbage chose to record new material for the album in GrungeIsDead, Vig's California-located home recording studio.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Another Butch interview )〕 The band members had been sharing ideas over the internet prior to the sessions, and were keen to record them;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Garbage, Raitt Lead Benefit For Veteran Drummer )〕 vocalist Shirley Manson had came up with the song title "Tell Me Where it Hurts" a few years previously,〔''Pop Trash'', Duke Erikson interview, by Germaine Lim, published by ''Lime'' magazine, September 2007 issue〕 and had matched newly written lyrics with a Burt Bacharach-style string arrangement that the band had created via email correspondence. After producing an electric guitar heavy version of "Tell Me Where It Hurts", Garbage recorded a second mix of the track with more emphasis on the strings〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''The Making of "Tell Me Where It Hurts"' )〕 and recruited their former touring bassist, Daniel Shulman, to perform bass guitar on the song.〔 The band completed another three songs during the sessions, including "Betcha" (Vig: "it's fuzzed up"〔), "Girls Talk Shit" ("pretty cool sounding, lots of fast pizzicato guitars and cellos"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Girls Talk Shit )〕), and "All the Good In This Life", which Vig described as "kinda Pink Floyd-y".〔 Vig had created a new version of their song "Bad Boyfriend", which had opened their ''Bleed Like Me'' album, when he had been updating his home studio the previous year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Performing Songwriter Presents: Butch Vig'' )〕 Keeping to the Garbage formula of incorporating non-musical sounds in their work, Vig used a digital recorder to capture the sound of his baby daughter's swing in motion as a percussive loop.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Butch Vig and Billy Bush: Achieving Studio Nirvana )〕 Thinking that the compilation would benefit from the inclusion of a new remix, Vig presented his rework to Manson and Erikson who had been unaware of the new version. Both agreed that "Bad Boyfriend" should be included, but rather than solicit an outside producer, Vig spent a few days finishing the mix.〔 Inversely, Garbage recruited production team Jeremy Wheatley and Brio Tellefario to create a new version of ''Bleed Like Me'' track "It's All Over But the Crying"; the band hoped the song would be a possible second single.〔 A rock version of ''Version 2.0s "Push It" was completed by producer Chris Sheldon.〔''Music Week'' magazine, July 15 chart issue〕 The group argued over the albums running order, eventually dropping a few of their singles, including "Androgyny" (from ''Beautiful Garbage'') after Manson objected to its inclusion, before finalizing on the eighteen tracks that the group believed represented their best work.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Smells Like Team Spirit )〕 Vig oversaw the liner notes and thanks list for the album: "It's been a burden because we're encompassing what we've done over the last 10 years in one short paragraph;"〔 music journalist Peter Murphy composed a biography on the band's history for the booklet, while the album artwork was designed by Tom Hingston Studio - a foil blocked silkscreen image photographed by David Hughes. The booklet also compiled a number of promotional photographs of the group taken over the course of their career by Stéphane Sednaoui, Ellen von Unwerth, Rankin, Pat Pope, Warwick Saint and Joseph Cultice.〔 The band compiled an hour-long documentary titled "Thanks For Your Uhh, Support" for the DVD format, featuring footage filmed backstage and behind-the-scenes, and archive live performances and interviews spanning the band's entire career.〔 As well as interviews with the members of Garbage, the documentary also features Duke Erikson's daughter Roxy, Madison club owner and friend Jay Moran, engineer Billy Bush, former touring bassists Daniel Shulman and Eric Avery, Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins, White Stripes' Jack White and former ''MTV News'' anchor Kurt Loder.〔"Thanks For Your Uhh, Support" documentary〕 Region 0 pressings of the DVD contained all sixteen music videos to accompany the singles featured on the CD formats,〔 with the exception of "#1 Crush", for which there was no clip filmed.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=`Romeo, Juliet' doth climbeth albums chart )〕 Region 1 releases did not include the video for "Tell Me Where It Hurts".〔 Garbage later said that the album was released as a contractual obligation to Warner Music: "This was the final straw that broke our backs," recalled Manson five years later. "The record company we had been sold to in the U.K. demanded that we release a "greatest hits" in order to meet their quarterly requirements. We were not in a position to stop it. As a result, they shoved this collection out with no promotion whatsoever. It was right there and then that we realized how crazy and out of whack things had gotten."〔 Garbage remained on hiatus for a further three years until regrouping to record their fifth studio album, ''Not Your Kind of People'', released in 2012. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Absolute Garbage」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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