"When I got the lyrics, I thought it was a bit like a nursery rhyme. I was like, Oh, okaaaay, this isn't quite what I thought these guys would be doing. I thought they were going to be much more heavy and deep."
In July 1994, after her band Angelfish broke up following their final show supporting Live on their Throwing Copper US club tour, Shirley Manson flew to Madison, Wisconsin to meet up with Butch Vig, Steve Marker and Duke Erikson to work on a new project they'd sarcastically titled Garbage. The four musicians had met up earlier that year in London to discuss working together, somewhat ironically on the day that Nevermind producer Vig learned that Nirvana's Kurt Cobain had been found dead in Seattle, but their first jam session In Madison was - in Manson's memory - "a fiasco". Nevertheless, that summer, the 28-year-old Scottish singer was invited to come out to Smart Studios to record vocals on new songs the trio had written. Looking back on the experience 25 years on, Manson recalled "sitting on an airplane, about to touch down in Madison, not having a clue where I was going or who I was going to be working with."
"It was both thrilling and terrifying," she told Spin. "I was so young and so afraid."
