Garbage

Garbage's Shirley Manson isn't the kind of rock star you trust. Mom warned you about stars
like this: Manson has such a great time working her danger-girl pose that you swoon for her
even when you don't believe a word she says. She's a capo in the Redhead Mafia with hair
that always looks dyed but never washed; she uses her evil sneer, fake fur and buckets of
black eyeliner to come on like the tough art chick smoking in the girls' room, all... More >

The chrome-plated hooks and metronome hardbeats of this irresistibly dislikable exercise are perfect for a frontwoman whose vaunted sexuality is no more welcoming than Tina Turner's. For those of us with no knack for real-life sadomasochism, how better combine pleasure and pain than to let 12 impregnable theoretical hits march over us in their digital boots? (Grade: A-)