The Absolute Collection

The Absolute Collection
Greatest hits album by
Garbage
ReleasedNovember 2, 2012 (2012-11-02)
Recorded1994–2012
Madison, Wisconsin,
Los Angeles, and Silverlake, California
Genre
Label
ProducerGarbage
Garbage chronology
Not Your Kind of People
(2012) 		The Absolute Collection
(2012) 		Strange Little Birds
(2016)

The Absolute Collection is the second greatest hits album by American-Scottish alternative rock band Garbage. It was released in Australia and New Zealand on November 2, 2012 on their own label Stunvolume, via Liberation Music,[1] and supersedes the band's previous major label compilation, Absolute Garbage.[2] The album was released in advance of the band's 2013 tour dates throughout both countries.[3]

The collection compiles a run of singles from the band's career, including the band's three Australian top twenty hits "Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)", "Breaking Up the Girl" and "Why Do You Love Me". It followed the release of their fifth studio album, Not Your Kind of People, which reached the top ten earlier in 2012.[4] The Absolute Collection charted at #88[5] for a single week on the ARIA Charts.[6]

In 2015, The Absolute Collection was remastered for iTunes. On this re-release, "#1 Crush" was replaced with the original version from Garbage: 20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition.[7]

  1. ^ "ALBUM BIO: Garbage – The Absolute Collection (out 2 November 2012) Liberator". Mushroom Group Promotions. Retrieved 2012-12-03.
  2. ^ "Greatest Hits Album coming soon!". Garbage.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2012-12-03.
  3. ^ "Garbage announce NEW ZEALAND tour February 2013!". Mushroom Group Promotions. Retrieved 2012-12-03.
  4. ^ "The ARIA Report (May 21, 2012)" (PDF). ARIA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-06-15. Retrieved 2012-12-03.
  5. ^ "The ARIA Report (Nov 19, 2012)" (PDF). ARIA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-12-04. Retrieved 2012-12-03.
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