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I'm only happy when it rains 🌧 15 years of Garbage news, incidentals and anniversaries

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4 years
Reminder: you can reuse your official @garbage 1999 calendar this year! The dates all match up! 🧡
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🇺🇸 December 7th, 2012: Garbage perform Not Your Kind Of People album cut "I Hate Love" live on the Tonight Show
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👀 August 14th, 1995: @garbage release "Queer" to alternative radio and MTV in North America a day ahead of the debut album street date
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21 years ago today @garbage released Push It as the first single from Version 2.0
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🇺🇲 July 28th, 2005: #Garbage perform "Bleed Like Me" live on The Tonight Show
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Today in 1995 @garbage performed their first live show EVER at Minneapolis @FirstAvenue 7th Street Entry
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Today in 1995 @garbage released their debut album in the UK on CD, pink cassette, double LP and 7" box set
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Happy International Version 2.0 Day ;) @garbage 🧡
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NEW: Shirley Manson interview in The New Cue
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿March 21st, 1996: @Garbage play their first-ever Scottish show at @TheBarrowlands in Glasgow. The band wear kilts for the encore to acknowledge the fact that it's a homecoming show for Shirley!
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Today in 1998 the video for @garbage The Trick Is To Keep Breathing premiered in Germany 🇩🇪
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Today in 2005 @garbage released their fourth album BLEED LIKE ME
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❤️‍🔥 October 30th, 1998: @garbage performed a semi-acoustic version of " #1 Crush" on @HowardStern
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Interviewer: hey @garbage how does this CD packaging even work Duke: *cracks knuckles* 😂
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Today in 1999 @garbage released YOU LOOK SO FINE as the fifth single from Version 2.0 in UK and Europe
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If you recognize this piece of clothing i love you
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If you recognize this piece of clothing i love you
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿July 1st, 1999: @garbage headline The Garden Party, an open-air concert in Edinburgh's Princes St Gardens to mark the Opening of the Scottish Parliament, re-established after 292 years; Garbage perform @Thebeatles "Don't Let Me Down" as a message to MSPs
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A photo that should make OG @garbage fans smile. Always a pleasure to see Daniel Shulman appear with the band again.🦑
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Raise a dram of whisky to Shirley's father, who celebrates his birthday today 🥃 @garbage
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20 years ago today @garbage performed a massive show under the shadow of the castle in Edinburgh's Princes St. Gardens to mark the Opening of the Scottish Parliament, dedicating a cover of The Beatles "Don't Let Me Down" to all future politicians
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🏳️‍🌈 October 23rd, 1995: "Queer" is released as the second single from #Garbage 's debut album across Europe and in Australia/New Zealand.
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Today in 1999 @garbage released WHEN I GROW UP as the fourth single from Version 2.0
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Happy Birthday to The Duke! @garbage 🍻
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It's been a beautiful 15 years @garbage 01.10.2001
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Today in 2013 @garbage performed BATTLE IN ME live on The Late Show
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October 1st, 2001: #beautifulgarbage , the third studio album from @garbage is released worldwide (ex-North America)
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"Stupid Girl" recently crossed 90 million streams and is by far their most streamed #Garbage track on Spotify and will likely cross the 100 million count around the new year
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Bleed Like Me @garbage fourth album was @britcertified SILVER in the UK five years ago today
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The #RunBabyRun video premiered ten years ago today @garbage http://t.co/oMRy2ZmuZB
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Today in 2001, @garbage released gender nonconformity anthem "Androgyny" as a commercial single in UK, across Europe and Australia/New Zealand, backed with "Begging Bone" and remixes from @TheeRealFDHC @TheNeptunes + The Architechs
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Garbage's evergreen hit " #1 Crush" certainly is getting around. Originally a 1995 b-side to "Vow" and "Subhuman", it was remixed by Nellee Hooper for 1996's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, hit #1 on the US alternative charts, while the OST sold 7 million copies worldwide
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#EMPTY video directed by Samuel Bayer (Vow, Only Happy + Stupid Girl) premieres later today @garbage
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❤️‍🔥October 29th, 1996: Capitol releases the Romeo + Juliet OST to retail, but Garbage's label Almo Sounds refuses to allow Nellee Hooper's remix of " #1 Crush" to be the lead single. Group manager Shannon ignores them and sends CDRs of the track to alt radio stations anyway.
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🦑 June 11th, 2021: @garbage released their seventh studio album #NoGodsNoMasters worldwide, featuring the singles "The Men Who Rule the World", "No Gods No Masters" and "Wolves"
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25 years ago, @garbage "Vow" debuted on the @billboard Hot 100 Singles chart as the highest new entry that week.
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🎬 MTV: Making the Video @garbage "The World is Not Enough"
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Sarah Michelle Gellar's Insta:
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Today in 2005 @garbage released SEX IS NOT THE ENEMY as a single in the UK b/w b-sides Honeybee and Never Be Free (feat @john5guitarist ) on CD, DVD and white 7" vinyl (some red taped, some without)
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#NEW 🔥 GARBAGE "ANTHOLOGY 1995-2022" GREATEST HITS COMING IN OCTOBER 28th on BMG Includes "The World is Not Enough", "Tell Me Where it Hurts", the single version of "You Look So Fine", and also, "Witness to Your Love" appearing on a Garbage release for the first time.
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Version 2.0 was released 21 years ago today!
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✨️ October 12th, 1998: @garbage serviced "Special" to alternative radio stations in North America
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🇺🇸 January 16th, 1996: #Garbage shoot the music video for "Only Happy When It Rains" with Samuel Bayer in Los Angeles 🌧️
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🌠 April 8th, 1994: Shirley meets Butch, Duke and Steve for the first time in London's Landmark Hotel
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🇺🇸 March 20th, 1999: #Garbage perform current US hit single "Special" on Saturday Night Live, hosted by Drew Barrymore. They closed the show with a performance of their next scheduled US single, "When I Grow Up".
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🇺🇸 December 4th, 2001: Rolling Stone magazine declares #beautifulgarbage one of the Top 10 Albums of 2001 🌹 @garbage
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25 years ago today, Shirley met Butch, Duke and Steve for the first time at the Landmark Hotel, London @garbage 💜
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Spotted @garbage "I Think I'm Paranoid" t-shirts on-sale in Urban Outfitters UK
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Thanks to #NationalAlbumDay the @garbage debut album is currently sitting at #24 in the @officialcharts Album Update - if it hangs on til the end of the week, it'll be the first time it's been in the UK Top 40 for 21 years!
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Microsoft’s new campaign for their 10” Surface Go is soundtracked by @garbage Cherry Lips 🍒
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Breaking: @Alanis Hollywood Bowl show with @garbage and @lizphairmusic on June 11, 2021 has been rescheduled to October 5th
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🤎🧡 November 20th, 1995: @garbage released "Queer" as their fourth single in the UK, where it debuted at #13 and was the highest selling 7" vinyl that week
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Finally!
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🍑August 20th, 2005: @garbage and @peaches perform together onstage at the Amsterjam mash-up festival in New York, dueting on "Push the Pain Away", "Shut Your Dixx", "Why Do You Love Me/Rock Show" and "Bad Reputation/I Don't Give a..."
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🇬🇧 July 16th, 2007: @garbage released "Tell Me Where It Hurts" on white 7” vinyl, DVD + CD single, as the lead single from their greatest hits album #AbsoluteGarbage 🍒🐾👢🕶
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Today in 2005 @garbage released SEX IS NOT THE ENEMY as a UK-exclusive single
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Garbage 2022.
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Straight from the horse's mouth - the situation regarding North America:
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DJ: "We are live on air Shirley, please don't swear" ... Shirley: *swears* 30 minute BBC Wales interview from yesterday
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Version 2.0 is sweet sixteen today! Released on 11.5.1998 and #1 debut in UK, France and New Zealand @garbage http://t.co/w3iwOkl3fr
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Shirley Manson ALWAYS understands the assignment
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Of course, who could forget the epic video? @garbage #Special released 16 years ago today. http://t.co/ncJ7XxrVRu
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🇬🇧 March 20th, 1995: @garbage released their debut single "Vow" on a embossed metal sleeved 7" vinyl, backed with an alternate mix. Just under 1,000 copies are provided to retail and sell out within hours.
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Bleed Like Me was released 10 years ago today @garbage http://t.co/YwXsXpv5vr
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🚀 September 9th, 1999: The music video for @garbage "Special" won Best Special Effects at the @MTV @vmas and was awarded to Sean Broughton, Stuart D. Gordon and Paul Simpson of Digital Domain
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Happy Birthday to the one and only Shirley Manson xxx 🥃🎂🎈🎁 @garbage
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June 13th, 2005 @garbage release Sex Is Not the Enemy as the second single from Bleed Like Me in the UK
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🇺🇸 January 16th, 1996: #Garbage shoot the music video for "Only Happy When It Rains" with Samuel Bayer 🌧️
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❤️‍🩹 April 11th, 2005: @garbage release their fourth album Bleed Like Me, which immediately powers to #4 in Australia, UK and the USA.
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Shirley with a familiar outfit
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"[The new Garbage album] has lots of guitars, lots of melodies and hooks. It’s poppier than the last record. We were very inspired by the weird, subversive pop of Roxy Music — that was kind of our muse"
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There is and it's 25 years old next week 🧡
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@raptalksk There’s not a single album ever made where every song hits
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She just turned 21. 🍒💋go baby go! @garbage
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On Jan 4th, 1997, #1Crush hit #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart in the USA + stayed there for 4 weeks @garbage
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Today in 2002 @garbage released CHERRY LIPS (GO BABY GO!) 🍒🫦🏳️‍⚧️
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The very first album that Shirley Manson sang lead on, Angelfish's debut Angelfish, was released 30 years ago today on Radioactive Records 💚🖤🐠
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My fall plans: the Delta variant:
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Run Baby Run was 2005 but Shirley was already in 2020
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GARBAGE - No Gods No Masters Out June 11th, 2012 Standard CD / Neon green LP Deluxe CD with bonus disc feat. Garbage RSD singles Webstore exclusive white vinyl LP
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Garbage on the red carpet last night, along with the original "The World Is Not Enough" bass player and from 1996-2002 touring member Daniel Shulman Photo by Candice Love
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HMV in Glasgow have redesigned their CD racks with headers in classic band fonts. Very impressed with a certain pink one.
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Mad Men actor Christina Hendricks married her partner George Bianchini in New Orleans yesterday and the ceremony was officiated by Shirley Manson herself" Photos in E! Online
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8 years today that Stephanie Remers got torn a new arsehole
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How good would it have been if Garbage had recorded an MTV Unplugged set at the end of the 90's and released it.
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I have many theories on why this one soft-landed in the UK, yet was the biggest single from Version 2.0 in the US. Pour a whisky and I'll start...
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I will never really make peace with how Mushroom UK managed to fumble this. Massive Radio One support and that video alone should've had this song in the top 5.
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Released 18 years ago today, @garbage Androgyny is now old enough to go for its first drink in an LGBTQ+ bar 💜💙
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🐆 April 22nd, 2016: #Garbage shot the music video for "Empty" in Los Angeles with director Samuel Bayer, who had filmed their videos for "Vow", "Only Happy When It Rains" and "Stupid Girl" two decades before
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Happy Birthday to Shirley Manson @garbage best wishes for the coming year. Have a good one! xxx
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#25Years Garbage released "You Look So Fine" as the final single from Version 2.0 in the UK 🩷🩶
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Today in 1996 @garbage performed their first ever Scottish show at @TheBarrowlands in Glasgow
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Very RARE photo of Shirley Manson @garbage taken by @LachapelleLand for French @VogueMagazine http://t.co/he8INQD6lL
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