While experimenting with various phrasing over the outro to "Special", group vocalist Shirley Manson ad-libbed "We were the talk of the town" from the refrain of the Pretenders' song " Talk of the Town". Īfter the initial riff, at the beginning of each verse line, the pronounced word "I" was sung as a sample from the Beatles' " All I've Got to Do" song. At the end of the first chorus, Garbage recorded a multi-tracked harmony vocal from Manson ("I can't think of any latter-day bands where a female is singing those sort of stacked '60's style vocals"). The guitar solo intro (which returns at the end of both choruses) was performed on a 12-string Rickenbacker guitar. Garbage employed touring bassist Daniel Shulman to perform electric bass on "Special", which he performed using a Fender Precision Bass run through an Ampeg SVT and then treated with "severe" equalization to achieve a Paul McCartney-esque Höfner sound to the part.
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Garbage recorded all of their work for the second album through a 48-track digital system digitally, direct to hard drives utilizing a 24bit Pro Tools rig. Garbage intended their second album to build upon the framework, music style and musical template laid down by their first release to create a rapprochement between the "high-tech and low-down, the now sound and of golden memories" and wear musical references to the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. When they felt they had made a good start, Garbage took the work they made in Washington back to their Madison, Wisconsin, base at Smart Studios and begin fleshing out the ideas and rough sketches over the following year. The group demoed and made rough outlines for new songs, of which "Special" was one. Garbage began writing their second album, which would go under the working title of Sad Alcoholic Clowns, in March 1997 in the band's label-head Jerry Moss's Friday Harbor, Washington, vacation house. In 2007, "Special" was remastered and included on Garbage's greatest hits album Absolute Garbage. The sci-fi-inspired music video for "Special" also received nominations from music industry award panels, winning a D&AD Award, a MTV Video Music Award, and a VH1 Visionary Video award. The song received nominations for Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group at the 2000 Grammy Awards, and winning a Wisconsin Area Music Industry award for Song of the Year and a Citation of Achievement from the BMI Pop Awards. The track contains a vocal interpolation of a lyric taken from " Talk of the Town" by the Pretenders.Ĭommercially, "Special" reached number 15 in the United Kingdom, number 52 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and number 54 in Australia. It was released as the album's third single. " Special" is song by American rock band Garbage from their second studio album, Version 2.0 (1998). Standard artwork for European commercial release
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