The hiatus is over.  If Garbage can come back after a seven year break…I can come back after a couple month layover for them.

The biggest challenge in creating a list for this band isn’t just listening to the songs and deciding what sounds the best…it’s more about sifting through their dozens of B-sides to decide which can lay side-by-side with their album tracks…when most of their B-sides are on par with the album tracks making it that much harder to distinguish between them all.

I have probably spent more time at music stores over the years looking for rare Garbage releases.  I once made a taxi in London stop outside an HMV in hopes to find an elusive double CD for their second album, Version 2.0…and they had it!  For the first three album I have all the CD singles, promo singles, and imports.  One might think they were my favorite band…but they’re not.  They just happened to be the most fun to collect.  I liked the music more because of the effort I went through to get it.  I didn’t take for granted the chase.  And sometimes…the chase is the best part.

Here are the 11 Best Songs by Garbage:

1. Only Happy When It Rains (Garbage)
2. Vow (Garbage)
3. The Trick Is to Keep Breathing (Version 2.0)
4. Medication (Version 2.0)
5. Special (Version 2.0)
6. I Think I’m Paranoid (Version 2.0)
7. Run Baby Run (Bleed Like Me)
8. Soldier Through This (You Look So Fine)
9. Breaking Up The Girl (Beautiful Garbage)
10. Queer (Garbage)
11. Can’t Seem To Make You Mine (The Trick Is To Keep Breathing)