Garbage similarities

[silhouettes 4]

This album sounds very much like Garbage. Not so much the vocals, only sometimes, but the production is very much like a Garbage ballad or slow song(West Coast and Ultraviolence), more so from the Bleed Like Me album.

[yourdangerousgirl 145]

Omfg yess. Also some similarities with Cat Power, esp Pretty When You Cry.

I don't know if she got influenced by Garbage in particular, but that kind of sound suits her a lot.

[BLOODSHOT 3,029]

At first I thought you were slandering the album

[Creyk 11,726]

I thought this was gonna be about how Trash Magic (Miss America) should have made the album....

 

[dirkdabo 17]

[veniceglitch 379]

I'm so happy you made this thread, because I was considering bringing up the G/LDR comparisons in its own topic (hence my "Lana is the Shirley of our generation" post the other day).

 

I still feel #1 Crush is a song Lana must be aware of and subtly shaped by. Garbage has been exploring this terrain of sex, psychological surrender, masochism, power, sadness, perverse joy, and outsiderdom for almost 20 years. Once LDR posted a screenshot of an analysis of their song "Supervixen," so I think she's a fan.

 

Their song "Sugar" from the last record, Not Your Kind of People, is so, so Lana.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXe9OhTU-Gk&feature=kp

 

Give me sugar
Give me, something deep
Don’t make a habit
Of crawling on my knees
But this is different
Can’t you see I’m in control?

[veniceglitch 379]

It's All Over But The Crying / Sad Girl are kindred spirits.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR8focJmWhU

[lavender-sunshine 79]

Every time I hear "go, baby, go" in FMWUTTT it makes me think of "go, baby, go go!" from Cherry Lips. I had never contemplated any serious similarities between the artists' sounds, so it's funny to see that other people have made connections too.

[silhouettes 4]

Every time I hear "go, baby, go" in FMWUTTT it makes me think of "go, baby, go go!" from Cherry Lips. I had never contemplated any serious similarities between the artists' sounds, so it's funny to see that other people have made connections too.

I think vocally they are much different, West Coast's guitar is like the guitar in The World is Not Enough. Bleed Like Me is very similar to Brooklyn Baby with those organ sounds and vocally the closest song to Garbage would be Ultraviolence.

 

FMWUTTT reminds me of Sugar because it sounds quite atmospheric, the structure of the song reminds me of Summertime Sadness more than anything.

[ChasingTheGhost 55]

Every time I hear "go, baby, go" in FMWUTTT it makes me think of "go, baby, go go!" from Cherry Lips. I had never contemplated any serious similarities between the artists' sounds, so it's funny to see that other people have made connections too.

 

That's what I always think about too when I hear that line. 

[technicolor 243]

[dirkdabo 17]

OMG did she really? Anyway, I don't think Ultraviolence sounds like any Garbage album really, but Flipside really reminds me of those 90's dream pop bands with fuzzy guitars.

 

It's not the first time she has tweeted about Lana.

 

Here's another one from 9 May 2014:

 

@@lanadelrey I am swooning to West Coast. Just saying….. You SO are the real deal. We knew it all along.Love love Love Sx

 

She also retweeted Lana's tweet from 15 Apr 2014 about West Coast being available on iTunes.

[veniceglitch 379]

She's also made a point to stand up for Lana in the press since Day One.

 

From 2012, Vanity Fair:

 

SM: I’m looking at what’s happened with Lana Del Rey, and I feel sympathy for her. That kind of venom is what I attracted when we first came out. Everyone called me a fake even though I’d been in bands for a decade—everybody was really on our back. We weren’t “real,” whatever that fucking meant.

What’s the driving force behind the Lana backlash? Is it just because she’s good looking?

SM: She’s beautiful. She’s really talented. She’s the real deal, and I think that’s threatening to people. She clearly has an aesthetic and clearly has worked hard before she got to this point in her career. She has a past? God forbid, they lambasted her for having a musical past. It’s good she’s failed and she had the wherewithal to try again. Shouldn’t we be applauding her for that?

[prostitutestare 142]

I love Shirley for defending Lana, and I hear the similarities.

[timinmass101 100]

http://www.luckymag.com/blogs/luckyrightnow/2011/10/shirely-manson-gives-lana-del-rey-her-seal-of-approval

 

 

"I’m obsessed with 'Video Games' by Lana Del Rey," Manson told us. "Absolutely obsessed by that song. Her whole story is fascinating on so many levels. To me, the music really stands up on its [own]. Whether people believe in her or not I don’t care. The music is so strong."

 

"I first discovered 'Video Games' by total default," she continued. "I was just mooching around on the internet. I sat on my bed on a Friday night and played it over and over again crying to the point where my husband was like, 'honey, you need to shut the computer now.'"