Garbage "Not Your Kind Of People" Deluxe

Have to respect Butch Vig, though I wasn't a fan of most of the bands he worked with.  Liked Shirley Manson in Angelfish before she joined Vig in Garbage.  Absolutely enjoyed the first two albums, thought the third record skewed toward too much pop, and completely missed the fourth release seven years ago.  Bought into the hype for this new record and made the purchase sans sampling. 

My bad.

The opening track sounded like a song more fitting to the Backstreet Boys.  OUCH!!!  
During the second song I dictated, "could be a bad Berlin album."  Now some of you may consider that redundant but I happened to love Berlin from the start.  At least Terri Nunn bothered to learn how to sing after her initial success.  A couple of tracks late in "...People," it's painfully obvious that Manson hasn't.  Hey, Butch, who's idea was it to leave those vocals untreated? 

They got it right by releasing the third track as a single...



Track four was a keeper, too, and it provided hope for a turnaround.  Didn't happen.  I retained uno more song from the album proper though I noted one as a Blondie wannabe.  The four songs which comprised the "Deluxe" additions are collectively better than any four you want to put together from the main release.  Here is an outstanding fan video for my favorite song of the entire package...




That's more of what I expected, not the overwrought, heavy-handed, splashy production that mars the album.  I understand why a major label wasn't involved.