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''Beautiful Garbage'' (stylized as ''beautifulgarbage'') is the third album by alternative rock group Garbage. The album was released worldwide in October 2001 by Mushroom Records UK and in North America by Interscope and was the followup to the band's Grammy-nominated ''Version 2.0''. Marking a departure from the sound Garbage had established on their first two records, ''Beautiful Garbage'' was written and recorded over the course of a year, during which time lead singer Shirley Manson chronicled their efforts weekly online, becoming one of the first high-profile musicians to keep an internet blog. The album is marked by expanding on the musical variety, with stronger melodies, more direct lyrics, and sounds that mix rock with electronica, new wave, hip hop and girl groups. The album's title is taken directly from a lyric in the song "Celebrity Skin" by Hole.〔 Released three weeks after the September 11 attacks, the album suffered from lack of promotion, mixed reaction from critics, and the failure of its lead single "Androgyny" to achieve high chart positions.〔''Thanks for the, Uhhh, Support'' documentary〕 Despite faltering in major markets, ''Beautiful Garbage'' debuted at number 13 on the ''Billboard'' 200, number 1 on ''Billboard'''s Top Electronic Albums, topped the album charts in Australia, and peaked within the top tens of multiple European countries. It was named one of ''Rolling Stones "Top 10 Albums of the Year". ==Background== The origins of ''Beautiful Garbage'' came from a three-day September 1999 recording session during Garbage's world tour in support of their second album ''Version 2.0''. The sessions resulted in "Silence Is Golden" and "Til the Day I Die", which were written for a proposed B-sides album.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1999.10 "Shirley's Lesbian Kiss ", Kerrang! )〕 Both songs were loose and organic, contrasting the very dense layered production that featured on ''Version 2.0''. "Silence Is Golden" in particular had been written with an odd structure for a Garbage song: a 6/8 shuffle that progressed to a straight 4/4 beat.〔"Garbage's Pail Kids", written by Ben Bartlett, published in ''Guitarist'' August 2002 issue〕 The sale of the band's North American independent record label Almo Sounds to UMG in early 2000 put the B-sides album on hold; Garbage decided to simply start work on recording their third album instead.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Garbage Regroups in the Studio )〕 Garbage began writing and recording the album at their own Smart Studios, in Madison, Wisconsin in April of that year. "The only vision we had was that we wanted it to sound different," recalled guitarist Duke Erikson about the influence that the two new tracks had cast, adding that the band wished to evolve the chemistry that the band had developed from touring the previous two years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Recording Garbage (Interview with Duke Erikson, Butch Vig and Billy Bush) )〕 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「Beautiful Garbage」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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