Butch Vig: (on doing James Bond film music) We're a bunch of geeks, ... We're not cool at all. We're the geekiest band out there, let me tell you, so it's an honor to do the theme song for such a cool international spy.
Butch Vig: (to Kurt Cobain) John Lennon did overdubs!
Shirley Manson suffered from body dysmorphia and depression as a teenager. She often inflicted self harm upon herself, due to both of these mental disorders.
When Shirley Manson plays guitar, she plays an orange Fender Stratocaster. It is named Rita.
Two times, the band A.M. Vibe has been given work originally offered to Garbage. In both cases, Shirley Manson asked for too much money, leading the contractors to the less expensive band A.M. Vibe. An episode of Cold Case in January of 2006 featured A.M. Vibe's 'Tantrum', and the 2005 Ashton Kutcher film A Lot Like Love featured 'Strawberry Smell'.
Shirley Manson appears in She Wants Revenge's music video for 'These Things'. Shirley plays the part of a dominatrix who is involved in a love story with Justin Warfield of She Wants Revenge.
Garbage has been featured on several movie soundtracks; 'Number 1 Crush' for the 1996 film Romeo + Juliet, 'When I Grow Up' for 1999's Big Daddy, and the self-titled theme song for 1999's The World Is Not Enough.
Early auditions for vocalist of Garbage saw former Pigface vocalists Meg Lee Chin and Lesley Rankine audition. After failing to join Garbage, Lesley started her own band called Ruby. Meg filled in the gap Lesley left, returning to Pigface.
According to Butch Vig, the band picked the name Garbage prior to Shirley Manson joining them. At the time, Duke Erikson, Steve Marker, and Butch were making some guitar riffs and electronics for the song 'Vow'. Supposedly, guest producer Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails) called the noise 'Garbage' several times, which they decided to name their band.
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