{"id":7186,"date":"2025-12-05T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/deep-cut-friday-hammering-in-my-head-by-garbage\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:30:00","slug":"deep-cut-friday-hammering-in-my-head-by-garbage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/deep-cut-friday-hammering-in-my-head-by-garbage\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Cut Friday: \u2018Hammering In My Head\u2019 by Garbage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2238062715.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"778\" alt=\"Shirley Manson, Duke Erikson, Steve Marker, and Butch Vig of Garbage in 1995. (Credit: gie Knaeps)\"><figcaption>Shirley Manson, Duke Erikson, Steve Marker, and Butch Vig of Garbage in 1995.<br \/>\n(Credit: gie Knaeps)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Few bands have married the harsh clang of industrial rock to sugary pop hooks quite as deftly as Garbage. So it feels appropriate that a little of one of the band\u2019s best albums was recorded in a dilapidated building that had been a candy factory. In a piece about the making of 1998\u2019s <em>Version 2.0<\/em> for the August 1999 issue of <em>Keyboard<\/em> magazine, drummer Butch Vig and guitarist Steve Marker revealed that they\u2019d set up a drum kit in the vacant building in Madison, Wisconsin, to get percussion sounds with the space\u2019s unique acoustics. Local police cut the recording session short after neighbors complained, but Garbage were still able to use some of those drum sounds on three songs on the album, including the standout \u201cHammering In My Head.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/12\/lily-allen-west-end-girl-on-tour\/\">Lily Allen Taking \u2018West End Girl\u2019 On Tour<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/12\/5-albums-i-cant-live-without-randy-bradbury-of-pennywise-and-84-days\/\">5 Albums I Can\u2019t Live Without: Randy Bradbury of Pennywise and 84 Days<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/12\/rosalia-arena-tour\/\">Rosal\u00eda Readies Massive \u2018LUX\u2019 Arena Tour<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"3IpgoR_YEmQ\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The song features one of Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson\u2019s most memorable vocal performances. The visceral imagery in her extended spoken outro might even contain an allusion to the track\u2019s candy factory backstory: \u201cSweat it all out in our electric storms and our shifting sands \/ our candy jars and our sticky hands.\u201d A remix by Eli Janney of Girls Against Boys was never officially released, but that track, \u201cHammering In My Head (Americruiser Remix)\u201d eventually leaked on the internet.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"6dEUCnT3WZw\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Last year Garbage played \u201cHammering in My Head\u201d live for the first time since 2018. And it\u2019s remained a staple of the <em>Happy Endings <\/em>tour that wrapped up in November, which the band has said will likely be their final headlining North American tour.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"K8jtvq8Oh5o\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-three-more-essential-garbage-deep-cuts\"><strong>Three more essential Garbage deep cuts:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-supervixen\"><strong>\u201cSupervixen\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>My brother bought Garbage\u2019s self-titled debut in the summer of 1995. And I can still vividly remember that I thought the CD skipped when the first track abruptly went silent about four seconds into \u201cSupervixen,\u201d one of my favorite album openers of all time.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-bad-boyfriend\"><strong>\u201cBad Boyfriend\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Butch Vig and Dave Grohl were both propelled to fame by their work on Nirvana\u2019s 1991 album <em>Nevermind<\/em>. And they first reunited a decade later when Grohl played drums on the opening track to Garbage\u2019s 2004 album <em>Bleed Like Me<\/em>, followed by Vig producing the 2011 Foo Fighters album <em>Wasting Light<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-chinese-fire-horse\"><strong>\u201cChinese Fire Horse\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>One of the standouts from Garbage\u2019s eighth album <em>Let All That We Imagine Be the Light<\/em>, released in May, is Manson\u2019s defiant shot back at sexist and ageist detractors: \u201cYou think I\u2019m too ambitious \/ You\u2019re so dumb it makes me cry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shirley Manson, Duke Erikson, Steve Marker, and Butch Vig of Garbage in 1995. 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