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“When I Grow Up” by Garbage
From the album Version 2.0 (1998)
“When I Grow Up” by Garbage appears on 11 radio countdowns from 9 stations between 1999 and 2003. It was first released in 1998 on the album Version 2.0. Its best result is #12 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 1999. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #61 alternative song of 1999, #5,885 alternative song of all time and #426 of the '90s.
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"When I Grow Up" is Garbage at their most gleefully bratty, a 1998 cut from the band's second album, Version 2.0, that they wrote, recorded and produced themselves. Shirley Manson sings it with a smirk over a glossy, buzzing pop-rock machine put together with Butch Vig, Duke Erikson and Steve Marker, and Billy Bush engineered.
Overseas it became the album's fourth single over the following year, charting in the UK and Spain and doing better in Australia and New Zealand than anything the band had released there before. In parts of Europe it was the band's first split single, while some countries got "The Trick Is to Keep Breathing" in its place. In North America it rode out on the soundtrack of the Adam Sandler comedy Big Daddy, and much later it was woven into the plot of the fifth and final season of Warehouse 13.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 63 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1999 | 107 |
| 1999 | 25 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1999 | 106 |
| 1999 | 85 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1999 | 101 |
| 1999 | 61 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1999 | 100 |
| 1999 | 38 | 107.7 The End Seattle, WA | The End Top 107 Songs of 1999 | 107 |
| 1999 | 96 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 1999 | 103 |
| 1999 | 12 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1999 | 100 |
| 1999 | 81 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 104 Songs of 1999 | 104 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 375 | WHFS | WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999) | 500 |
| 1999 | 705 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1077 |
| 2003 | 1995 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
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