Garbage is the name of a radio-only single released in 1996 by Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band TISM

TISM

TISM was a seven piece anonymous alternative rock band from Melbourne, Australia. The group was formed in 1982 and enjoyed a large underground/independent following. Their third album Machiavelli and the Four Seasons reached the Australian national top 10 in 1995...

. It is off their album Machiavelli and the Four Seasons

Machiavelli and the Four Seasons

-GOLD! GOLD! GOLD! For Australia! - A Bonus Disc:To celebrate Machiavelli going "gold", it was re-released with a bonus disc. It featured previously unreleased tracks as well as the b-sides from all the singles released off Machiavelli and the Four Seasons....

(1995).

Song

The song, which superficially deals with garbage

Waste

Waste is unwanted or useless materials. In biology, waste is any of the many unwanted substances or toxins that are expelled from living organisms, metabolic waste; such as urea, sweat or feces. Litter is waste which has been disposed of improperly...

, enforced by the line "I know that we should separate our garbage / The environment

Natural environment

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 will give us thanks" is, as a closer look reveals, about music, and especially the trend of "copying" older musical styles in an attempt to seem original. This is spelled out in the verse "What's so good about the sixties

1960s

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, that we gotta keep rewindin' the clock? / You know the best thing about the sixties? They never heard of classic rock

Classic rock

Classic rock is a radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format features music ranging generally from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, primarily focusing on the hard rock genre that peaked in popularity in the...

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Track list

Tracks 1, 2 and 4 are remixes of Garbage, the original version is on the album Machiavelli and the Four Seasons

Machiavelli and the Four Seasons

-GOLD! GOLD! GOLD! For Australia! - A Bonus Disc:To celebrate Machiavelli going "gold", it was re-released with a bonus disc. It featured previously unreleased tracks as well as the b-sides from all the singles released off Machiavelli and the Four Seasons....

(1995). Track 3 is remix of Strictly Loungeroom, which is found on the Greg! The Stop Sign!!

Greg! The Stop Sign!!

"Greg! The Stop Sign!!" is a single by Australian alternative rock band TISM. It was the second single from the album Machiavelli and the Four Seasons ....

single.

1. "Garbage"
2. "Junk"
3. "Strictly Refuse"
4. "Rubbish"

External links

• Garbage lyrics (original version)