Something Stupid This Way Comes (Garbage vs Barry Adamson)

Barry Adamson: “Something Wicked This Way Comes“ (from Lost Highway) Garbage: “Stupid Girl“ Shirley Manson, not Marilyn Manson, leading the band Garbage, drawls out a story suitable for Naomi Watts character in the second half of Mulholland Drive, while a Marilyn Manson contribution to the Lost Highway soundtrack, “I Put a Spell on You,“ penned by Screamin Jay Hawkins and appropriately trance-inducing, might seem the perfect complement to the tone and bewildering existentialism of either Lost Highway or Mulholland Drive, although its pulsing, driving tone really only fits one of them, not Mulholland Drive, while this, the track were concerned with, clearly suits Lost Highway and its regard of the monotony of the road of existence, its relentless reach stretching out to the horizon and beyond, rendering all of us dumb animals in the face of our own long mortality, the circularity of life and death and the never-ending cycles, cycles of perception and intent and soul-dropping despair, continuing, on and on, a story forever drawling out its next line, never quite completing, never slowing, never ceasing, never... From the album Mashed in Plastic Mashup by G3RSt Video by The Reborn Identity
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