Of course, working on albums like that all the time can take it out of you, and Vig, Maker and Erickson reconvened in 1994, originally to work on remixes for the likes of Depeche Mode, U2 and Nine Inch Nails. However, Vig started seeing more success as a producer, leading to the breakup of Spooner and Vig getting hired by Sup-Pop to produce some album by some guys called Nirvana, you might have heard of it, it was called Nevermind. The pair had already worked together in a bands called Spooner and Fire Town, the latter of whom future Garbage guitarist Steve Maker was also the sound engineer for.
The world needed them at the time and they still sound as fresh as they ever did over twenty years after the band formed, originally as a duo of bassist Duke Erikson and drummer Butch Vig. It was a combination that made them global rock stars in a time when a band in the U.K could get signed by playing a single Wonderwall sound-alike in the right Camden pub and God only knows what was going on in the states at the time. A band whose mix of raucous grunge and dark hued electronica came at exactly the right time but was still purpose built for the outsider in all of us. All couldn’t have come out of any other decade but still hold up in this one, and it doesn’t get more gloriously 90’s than Garbage.
Few things have aged well since the halcyon days of the 1990’s but what has still shines as brightly as it ever did.
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