Garbage - You Look So Fine (Fun Lovin’ Criminals Remix)

Do you remember the first band you really loved? The one who taught you what it meant to be a fan, the one whose music articulated your feelings better than you ever could, whose sonic reverberations resonated perfectly with the frequency of your soul? For me, that band was Garbage. From about 6th grade, the quartet from Madison, WI (and Edinburgh, Scotland, cumulatively) made my ‘tween and teen years bearable. Having recently garnered a Demonoid account, I spent the majority of the weekend downloading the entire Garbage discography. I had forgotten about this ridiculously beautiful remix of ‘You Look So Fine’, one of the later singles from the seminal Version 2.0 album. While the original is a lush electronic landscape of heady synths and frigid, beautiful vocals, this collaboration with New York’s Fun Lovin’ Criminals is a a much more warm, organic piece, shifting the song from hi-tech electronic pop into a dark, jazzy downtempo diamond.

This shit breaks my heart.