“#1 Crush” by Garbage

"#1 Crush" began life as a Garbage B-side, tucked behind their debut single "Vow" in 1995 and behind "Subhuman" in the UK, and it's the band at their most seductive and unsettling: a slow, creeping groove with Shirley Manson whispering and purring over a bed of murky guitars and keyboards. The four members wrote it together and produced it themselves, with Butch Vig on drums, Duke Erikson on guitar and keyboards, and Steve Marker on guitar and bass.

Its second life made it famous. In 1996 Nellee Hooper and Marius de Vries remixed it for the soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, pulling the guitars back, rebuilding the percussion and synth parts, and adding a distorted vocal sample from Madonna's "Bedtime Story". That version, darker and more hypnotic than the original, was issued in March 1997 and climbed all the way to the top of Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart, staying there four weeks.

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