A Look Back at Garbages Electro-Grunge Masterpiece Version 2.0 [Video]

Producer Butch Vig described the second Garbage album, Version 2.0, as “the sound of a band growing up.”

The album features the band’s defining hits, “I Think I’m Paranoid,” “Push It,” and “Special.” But it also presented a group of musicians embracing new technology. Vig called the album a combination of “razor-sharp clarity and soft beauty.”

For Scottish singer Shirley Manson, it thrust her into conversations around authenticity and feminism. Manson didn’t look like a riot grrrl, but she embodied the punk spirit in a new way. Her own way.

In a 1996 interview with The Face, Manson said, “A lot of women still feel like they can’t play up their feminine side and be taken seriously as an artist, but I still see that as suffering at the hands of a male-dominated industry. I love to wear beautiful clothes and I love wearing make-up and I love for people to make me look as good as I possibly can.” Manson was BRAT before BRAT was a thing.

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