Bleed Like Me
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Released | April 11, 2005 | |||
Recorded | March 2003 – December 2004 | |||
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Length | 45:00 | |||
Label | Geffen | |||
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Bleed Like Me is the fourth studio album by American
Following critical praise and high chart positions for its lead single "Why Do You Love Me", Bleed Like Me had a strong opening week globally, debuting in the top five in eight countries including the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States.
Background
Garbage's third album Beautiful Garbage had been promoted by a
Recording and production
Initial recording and band breakdown
On the first day in the studio, Garbage composed a new track, "Right Between the Eyes", in 30 minutes.
Vig left the studio and returned to Los Angeles. Over the Christmas period, he encountered excited Garbage fans eager to hear about the album's progress. Not wanting to disappoint them, he disclosed some song titles to them; after this encounter, he realized that the band still had a future.[6] During the break, Vig met Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters in a party, and casually asked if he would perform drums on a Garbage track, "Bad Boyfriend", as Vig had been frustrated with the song's existing drum track.[13]
Regrouping
At the beginning of 2004, the band decided to try to salvage the album, taking their management's suggestion to work with an external producer for the first time. The musicians also decided that neutral territory would be beneficial, and went to Los Angeles.
The experience with King, despite only resulting in the completion of one track, "Bad Boyfriend", gave the band perspective and direction.
Feeling that previous album Beautiful Garbage seemed fractured, the band decided to use their live sound; Vig said that he wanted "the pumping energy that all the best raw rock records have".[20] The band decided that their fourth album would have a straightforward rock sound, instead of a reliance upon electronica and computer interventions. The musicians composed separately at their home studios, sending each other tracks through e-mail and couriers, and the band returned to Wisconsin to finish the album. Bleed Like Me emerged from a collage of samples and loops, and this time the sound was simpler. Erikson said that rather than production, they depended on the songs.[6] Vig opted to focus on the production duties and leave the drums to guest musicians such as Grohl, whom he considered better at the instrument than him.[13][15] He also played more guitars on the album, which he found liberating.[15] As a result, drummer Matt Walker also played on several tracks on the album,[21] while Meldal-Johnsen played bass guitar.[22] Most of Manson's vocals were recorded at Vig's home studio, GrungeIsDead.[23]
On October 18, the band began
Composition
"We've almost gone backward in this album. It's getting us back to a more primal sound—guitars, bass, drums and Shirley's voice".
Bleed Like Me is a departure from the heavily electronic music of previous albums Version 2.0 and Beautiful Garbage in favor of a basic alternative rock sound. Vig said that while the band tried to figure out a new sound for the record, they "went back to getting great sounds from guitars". The band tried a more spontaneous approach; Manson did most of her singing in the first take and the drums were recorded in a way "that everything was not perfectly balanced—and not so electronic".[17] The band members tried to translate the energy of the band's live performances onto the album; Marker said that the album showed that above all, Garbage is "a loud rock band".[6] Vig still thought that some of the songs resembled the band's earlier material, such as "Metal Heart", with "a lot of weird electronics that Steve and Duke did, as well as some pretty gnarly guitar."[29]
The lyrics of Bleed Like Me talk about relationships and political themes; Manson said, "the last few years ... have been very worrying and you'd have to be dead to not have some kind of political view at the moment",[30] and that after many years being insecure about articulating her feelings writing lyrics,[19] she found herself confident that she could express her ideas and sentiment of being "very out of kilter with a lot of the common thoughts of today" in her music.[11] "Boys Wanna Fight" criticizes world affairs and "Sex Is Not the Enemy" is about moral guardians,[6] inspired by the outcry caused by Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction at the 2004 Super Bowl.[31] The songs about relationships follow Manson's tendency to discuss dark topics and emotions; "Bleed Like Me" discusses problems with empathy and "Bad Boyfriend" is about "a predatory female meeting a predatory man".[32] The album closer "Happy Home" is about conflict within the band and in the wider world during production, the search of forgiveness, peace and coming to terms with one's place in a chaotic world.[11]
Promotion
Tour
Garbage launched the
In 2012, Manson recalled, "The making of this record was very sad for me. Being the only girl in a gang of four can get pretty lonely. We were all struggling to find our chemistry together, and as a result, the experience of making and promoting this was tense and unenjoyable. Ironically, our shows were selling out every night. But after a while, we decided that we needed to go home to lick our wounds."[38]
Singles
The album was preceded by the lead single "
The
Critical reception
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 56/100[47] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Entertainment Weekly | B+[48] |
The Guardian | [49] |
Kerrang! | [50] |
PopMatters | 4/10[51] |
Robert Christgau | [52] |
Rolling Stone | [53] |
Slant Magazine | [2] |
USA Today | [54] |
Yahoo! Music UK | [55] |
Bleed Like Me received mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 56, based on 18 reviews.[47] Entertainment Weekly's Tom Sinclair complimented the "humongous hooks",[48] and Kerrang! described it as the "most exciting, touching, and most painfully human material they've put out in years".[50] Rolling Stone's David Fricke commented that "the first two-thirds of Bleed Like Me is easily the best sustained run of studio Garbage since the opening half of their 1995 debut", but that the final tracks had "a sameness—a feeling of roaring in circles".[53] Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine praised the new sound and wrote that "a few of the songs ("Run Baby Run" and "Right Between the Eyes" in particular) have all the right ingredients but lack the venom present on the group's first two releases".[2] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic wrote that the album was enjoyable if outdated in its musical approach "as if the band doesn't quite know how to do anything else but sound like it's the heyday of post-grunge alt-rock."[1] This opinion was shared by Yahoo! Music's Sharon O'Connell, who wrote that despite the intelligent songs with expertise in "muscly, alt. rock lick or the bubblegum pop hook", Bleed Like Me "strikes a depressingly dated note".[55]
Writing for The A.V. Club, Nathan Rabin said the album's lyrics lacked an emotional punch. He wrote stating that it "approaches a kind of shimmering technical perfection, but remains strangely, stubbornly uninvolving".[56] Betty Clarke of The Guardian wrote, "while Manson's changeling vocals are always worth listening to, Garbage's songs often aren't."[49] Philip Robertson of PopMatters stated the music sounds manufactured in its too-polished manner, and that "much of what is brought to the fore on this latest musical foray is an earnest attempt at building on the marginal success of their previous power-pop/rock submissions."[51]
Commercial performance
Bleed Like Me debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 with 73,000 copies sold in its first week, becoming the band's first top-10 album on the chart.[57] It fell to number 24 the following week, selling 32,000 copies.[58] By October 2011, the album had sold 284,000 copies in the United States.[59] Bleed Like Me debuted at number four on the UK Albums Chart, selling 27,375 copies in its first week.[60] The album had sold 84,339 copies in the United Kingdom as of July 2007,[61] and on July 22, 2013, it was certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).[62] Bleed Like Me also charted within the top 10 in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Mexico, and Sweden.[63][64][65]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Garbage, except where noted
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Bad Boyfriend" | 3:46 |
2. | "Run Baby Run" | 3:58 |
3. | "Right Between the Eyes" | 3:56 |
4. | "Why Do You Love Me" | 3:54 |
5. | "Bleed Like Me" | 4:01 |
6. | "Metal Heart" | 3:59 |
7. | "Sex Is Not the Enemy" | 3:06 |
8. | "It's All Over But the Crying" | 4:39 |
9. | "Boys Wanna Fight" | 4:16 |
10. | "Why Don't You Come Over" | 3:25 |
11. | "Happy Home" | 6:00 |
Total length: | 44:54 |
No. | Title | Length |
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12. | "Why Do You Love Me" (video) | 3:52 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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12. | "I Just Wanna Have Something to Do" | 2:26 | |
Total length: | 47:20 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Sex Is Not the Enemy" (video) | 3:52 |
2. | "Making of Sex Is Not the Enemy" (video) | 5:05 |
3. | "Bleed Like Me interview" ( Electronic Press Kit ) | 30:01 |
4. | "Cherry Lips" (Live in Mexico – audio) | 3:20 |
5. | "Image gallery" |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | First released on | Length |
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12. | "Space Can Come Through Anyone" | "Why Do You Love Me" single | 3:13 | |
13. | "Nobody Can Win" | "Why Do You Love Me" single | 2:55 | |
14. | "I Just Wanna Have Something To Do" |
| "Why Do You Love Me" single | 2:25 |
15. | "Honeybee" | "Sex Is Not the Enemy" and "Run Baby Run" singles | 4:02 | |
16. | "Never Be Free" | "Sex Is Not the Enemy" and "Run Baby Run" singles | 4:25 | |
17. | "Badass (2003 Ruff Demo)" | "Run Baby Run" single | 3:15 | |
18. | "Tell Me Where It Hurts" | Standalone single | 4:10 | |
19. | "Betcha" | "Tell Me Where It Hurts" single | 4:41 | |
20. | "All the Good In This Life" | "Tell Me Where It Hurts" single | 4:21 | |
21. | "Witness To Your Love" | Give Listen Help: Volume 5 compilation | 3:39 | |
22. | "Bad Boyfriend (Sting Like a Bee Remix)" | "Tell Me Where It Hurts" single | 5:03 | |
23. | "Bleed Like Me (Kuppers Klub Radio Edit)" | "Bleed Like Me" single | 4:04 | |
24. | "Sex Is Not the Enemy (IL's Vocal Mix)" | "Sex Is Not the Enemy" single | 5:43 | |
25. | "Sex Is Not the Enemy (Devil's Gun Circuit Sex Remix)" | "Sex Is Not the Enemy" single | 6:06 | |
26. | "Never Be Free (Goth Mix)" | Facebook release, 2010 | 5:29 | |
27. | "Tell Me Where It Hurts (Belle de Jour Mix)" | "Tell Me Where It Hurts" single | 3:49 | |
28. | "Witness To Your Love (Acoustic)" | Facebook release, 2010 | 4:14 | |
Total length: | 1:56:36 |
Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Bleed Like Me.[66]
Garbage
Additional musicians
Artwork
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Technical
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Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Certifications and sales
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA)[92] | Gold | 35,000^ |
United Kingdom (BPI)[62] | Silver | 84,339[61] |
United States | — | 284,000[59] |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
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