Garbage scraps plans for B-Sides Comp as Manson takes on Napster
After a good four months off, Garbage is excited to be in the studio and cranking out new songs. The good news is a new album should be out by the end of year or early 2001. The bad news is that the scheduled Garbage B-sides compilation has been put on hold.
Singer Shirley Manson says of the band’s current recording stint in Madison, Wisconsin. “We got back together following a four-month-long vacation with the sole intention of finishing work on the B-sides and rare remix collection that we’ve been talking about for some time now, but felt so rejuvenated and excited to be back making music again that we’ve shelved said aforementioned project for the time being, and have gotten stuck into writing some brand-new songs instead. Needless to say we are super psyched. The B-sides thing will just have to wait until a rainy day.”
Garbage currently has nine definite songs for the album, out of a total of 32 songs written. Don’t expect Garbage to cater the mainstream with its new material, as Manson told LAUNCH. “There’s a sort of insatiable greed at the moment in the world it seems regarding pop music and bands in general,” she said. “Everything is about the one immediate hit and there’s no sort of care or passion for bands anymore. It’s just whatever can make the most money immediately, and we didn’t want to be part of that conveyor belt.”
Manson also shared her view on Napster on garbage.com. “I see Napster has had a reprieve for the time being, and that really pisses me off! It pisses me off that the entire world believes it’s morally A-OK to rape musicians of their art and their livelihood. Well, it would be a completely different story, wouldn’t it, if there was a huge, big Nike factory that was being plundered on a regular basis and everyone knew who was doing the stealing and the stolen Nikes were being given away on the Internet for free to anyone who wanted them. Do you think the f–king establishment would just sit back and allow it to happen?!?!?!??!?!?! No, I don’t think so.That particular racket would be shut down in a matter of hours!!!!”
– Darren Davis, New York
source: music.yahoo.com