# The Absolute Collection > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Absolute_Collection > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Absolute_Collection.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Absolute_Collection > Source revision: 1311457907 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = The Absolute Collection | type = Greatest Hits | artist = [Garbage](/source/Garbage_(band)) | cover = The Absolute Collection.png | alt = | released = {{start date|2012|11|02}} | recorded = 1994–2012
[Madison, Wisconsin](/source/Madison%2C_Wisconsin),
[Los Angeles](/source/Los_Angeles), and [Silverlake, California](/source/Silverlake%2C_California) | venue = | studio = | genre = {{flatlist| * [Alternative rock](/source/Alternative_rock) * [electronica](/source/electronica) }} | length = | label = {{flatlist| * [Liberation Music](/source/Liberation_Music) * Stunvolume }} | producer = Garbage | prev_title = [Not Your Kind of People](/source/Not_Your_Kind_of_People) | prev_year = 2012 | next_title = [Strange Little Birds](/source/Strange_Little_Birds) | next_year = 2016 }} '''''The Absolute Collection''''' is the second [greatest hits album](/source/greatest_hits_album) by American-Scottish [alternative rock](/source/alternative_rock) band [Garbage](/source/Garbage_(band)). It was released in Australia and New Zealand on November 2, 2012 on their own label Stunvolume, via [Liberation Music](/source/Liberation_Music),{{cite web|url=http://moshroom.com.au/2012/11/02/album-bio-garbage-the-absolute-collection-out-2-november-2012-liberator/|title=ALBUM BIO: Garbage – The Absolute Collection (out 2 November 2012) Liberator|publisher=Mushroom Group Promotions|accessdate=2012-12-03|archive-date=January 15, 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130115013503/http://moshroom.com.au/2012/11/02/album-bio-garbage-the-absolute-collection-out-2-november-2012-liberator/|url-status=dead}} and supersedes the band's previous [major label](/source/major_label) compilation, ''[Absolute Garbage](/source/Absolute_Garbage)''.{{cite web|url=http://www.garbage.com/news/news.php?id=116|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716201030/http://garbage.com/news/news.php?id=116|archivedate=2011-07-16|title=Greatest Hits Album coming soon!|publisher=Garbage.com|accessdate=2012-12-03}} The album was released in advance of the band's [2013 tour dates](/source/Not_Your_Kind_of_People_tour) throughout both countries.{{cite web|url=http://moshroom.com.au/2012/11/22/garbage-announce-new-zealand-tour-february-2013/#more-12435|title=Garbage announce NEW ZEALAND tour February 2013!|publisher=Mushroom Group Promotions|accessdate=2012-12-03}}{{Dead link|date=September 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }} The collection compiles a run of [singles](/source/single_(music)) from the band's career, including the band's three Australian top twenty hits "[Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)](/source/Cherry_Lips)", "[Breaking Up the Girl](/source/Breaking_Up_the_Girl)" and "[Why Do You Love Me](/source/Why_Do_You_Love_Me)". It followed the release of their fifth studio album, ''[Not Your Kind of People](/source/Not_Your_Kind_of_People)'', which reached the top ten earlier in 2012.{{cite web|url=http://www.aria.com.au/Issue1160.pdf|archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20120615140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20120616-0000/Issue1160.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-06-15|title=The ARIA Report (May 21, 2012)|publisher=ARIA|accessdate=2012-12-03}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} ''The Absolute Collection'' charted at #88{{cite web|url=http://www.aria.com.au/Issue1186.pdf|archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20121204015700/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20121204-1257/Issue1186.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-12-04|title=The ARIA Report (Nov 19, 2012)|publisher=ARIA|accessdate=2012-12-03}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} for a single week on the [ARIA Charts](/source/ARIA_Charts). In 2015, ''The Absolute Collection'' was remastered for [iTunes](/source/iTunes). On this re-release, "#1 Crush" was replaced with the original version from ''Garbage: 20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition''. ==Album package== ''The Absolute Collection'' track listing differs from 2007's worldwide release ''Absolute Garbage'': it is not chronologically sequenced and the single inclusions favour towards the latter half of the band's career. Unlike the earlier compilation, ''The Absolute Collection'' includes both "[Androgyny](/source/Androgyny_(song))" and "Breaking Up the Girl", which reached #21 and #19{{cite book|title=ARIA Report; Issue #636|date=2002-05-06|publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association|url=http://www.aria.com.au/Issue636.pdf|url-status=bot: unknown|archiveurl=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20020514140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20020515-0000/www.aria.com.au/Issue636.pdf|archivedate=2002-05-14}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} on the [Australian singles chart](/source/ARIA_Charts) respectively; inversely, it omits both "[You Look So Fine](/source/You_Look_So_Fine)" and the band's [James Bond](/source/James_Bond) theme, "[The World Is Not Enough](/source/The_World_Is_Not_Enough_(song))". Both singles failed to chart in either Australia{{cite web |url=http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Garbage&titel=Androgyny&cat=s |title="Androgyny" - Garbage |publisher=AustralianCharts.com |accessdate=2011-01-02}} or New Zealand.{{cite web |url=https://charts.nz/showitem.asp?interpret=Garbage&titel=Androgyny&cat=s |title="Androgyny" - Garbage |publisher=charts.nz |accessdate=2011-01-02}} ''The Absolute Collection'' also includes "[Supervixen](/source/Supervixen)", a cut from the band's [debut album](/source/Garbage_(album)), and their most recent single releases, "[Blood for Poppies](/source/Blood_for_Poppies)" and "[Big Bright World](/source/Big_Bright_World)", both from 2012's ''Not Your Kind of People''. In place of an extended bio, the band compiled a thanks list for the album booklet, while the [album artwork](/source/album_artwork) was [designed](/source/Art_Direction) by Ryan Corey for Smog Design, from artwork created for the ''Not Your Kind of People'' booklet with a group shot image photographed by Paul Scala. The booklet also compiled a number of [promotional photographs](/source/Press_kit) of the group taken over the course of their career by [Stéphane Sednaoui](/source/St%C3%A9phane_Sednaoui), [Ellen von Unwerth](/source/Ellen_von_Unwerth), [Rankin](/source/Rankin_(photographer)), [Autumn de Wilde](/source/Autumn_de_Wilde), [Warwick Saint](/source/Warwick_Saint) and [Joseph Cultice](/source/Joseph_Cultice). ==Track listing== {{track listing |headline=''The Absolute Collection'' track listing | all_writing =Garbage, except where noted | title1=[Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)](/source/Cherry_Lips)|length1=3:13|note1=from ''[Beautiful Garbage](/source/Beautiful_Garbage)'' | title2=[Stupid Girl](/source/Stupid_Girl_(Garbage_song))|length2=4:18|note2=from ''[Garbage](/source/Garbage_(album))'' | title3=[Androgyny](/source/Androgyny_(song))|length3=3:11|note3=from ''Beautiful Garbage'' | title4=[I Think I'm Paranoid](/source/I_Think_I'm_Paranoid)|length4=3:39|note4=from ''[Version 2.0](/source/Version_2.0)'' | title5=[Vow](/source/Vow_(Garbage_song))| length5=4:32|note5=from ''Garbage'' | title6=[Bleed Like Me](/source/Bleed_Like_Me_(song))|length6=4:01|note6=from ''[Bleed Like Me](/source/Bleed_Like_Me)'' | title7=[Supervixen](/source/Supervixen)|length7= 3:56|note7=from ''Garbage'' | title8=[Blood for Poppies](/source/Blood_for_Poppies)|length8= 3:24|note8=from ''[Not Your Kind of People](/source/Not_Your_Kind_of_People)'' | title9=[When I Grow Up](/source/When_I_Grow_Up_(Garbage_song))|length9= 3:24|note9=from ''Version 2.0'' | title10=[Why Do You Love Me](/source/Why_Do_You_Love_Me)|length10=3:53|note10=from ''Bleed Like Me'' | title11=[Big Bright World](/source/Big_Bright_World)|length11= 3:24|note11=from ''Not Your Kind of People'' | title12=[Special](/source/Special_(Garbage_song))|length12= 3:47|note12=from ''Version 2.0'' | title13=[Only Happy When It Rains](/source/Only_Happy_When_It_Rains)|length13=3:47|note13=from ''Garbage'' | title14=[Shut Your Mouth](/source/Shut_Your_Mouth_(Garbage_song))|length14=3:27|note14=from ''Beautiful Garbage'' | title15=[Queer](/source/Queer_(Garbage_song))|length15=4:37|note15=from ''Garbage'' | title16=[Tell Me Where It Hurts](/source/Tell_Me_Where_It_Hurts_(Garbage_song))|length16=4:10|note16=from ''[Absolute Garbage](/source/Absolute_Garbage)'' | title17=[Breaking Up the Girl](/source/Breaking_Up_the_Girl)|length17=3:33|note17=from ''Beautiful Garbage'' | title18=[Milk](/source/Milk_(Garbage_song))|length18=3:50|note18=from ''Garbage'' | title19=[Push It](/source/Push_It_(Garbage_song))|length19= 4:03|note19=from ''Version 2.0'' |title20=[#1 Crush](/source/Number_One_Crush)|length20=4:45|note20=from the ''[Romeo + Juliet](/source/Romeo_%2B_Juliet_(soundtrack))'' soundtrack}} ==Release history== {| class="wikitable" |+Release formats for ''The Absolute Collection'' |- !scope="col"| Date !scope="col"| Territory ! scope="col"| Label ! scope="col"|Format(s) |- | rowspan="2"|November 2, 2012 | Australia{{cite web|url=https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/the-absolute-collection/id567429343|title=The Absolute Collection| publisher=iTunes (Australian store)|accessdate=2012-12-03}}{{dead link|date=March 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} | ROWSPAN="3"|{{flatlist| * [Liberation Music](/source/Liberation_Music) * Stunvolume }} | ROWSPAN="2"|{{flatlist| * [CD](/source/Compact_disc) * [digital download](/source/music_download) }} |- | New Zealand{{cite web|url=https://itunes.apple.com/nz/album/the-absolute-collection/id567429343|title=The Absolute Collection| publisher=iTunes (New Zealand store)|accessdate=2012-12-03}}{{dead link|date=March 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} |- |October 2, 2015 |Australia and New Zealand |Digital download (remastered){{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/au/album/absolute-collection-remastered/1041857769|title=The Absolute Collection (Remastered)| publisher=iTunes (Australian store)|access-date=2015-10-18}} |} ==Charts== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |+Weekly chart performance for ''The Absolute Collection'' ! scope="col"| Chart (2012) ! scope="col"| Peak
position |- ! scope="row"| Australian Albums ([ARIA](/source/ARIA_Charts)){{cite web|url=http://www.aria.com.au/Issue1185.pdf|archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20121113051100/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20121113-1611/Issue1185.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-11-13|title=The ARIA Report (Nov 12, 2012)|publisher=ARIA|accessdate=2012-11-17}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} | align="center"| 88 |} ==References== {{Reflist|30em}} ==External links== *[http://www.garbage.com Garbage official website] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20131015102107/http://www.garbage-discography.co.uk/miscellaneous-releases/not-your-kind-of-people/australia-new-zealand-lib145cd-commercial-cd-absolute-collection/ ''The Absolute Collection''] at Garbage-Discography.co.uk {{Garbage}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Absolute Collection}} Category:2012 greatest hits albums Category:Liberation Music compilation albums Category:Garbage (band) compilation albums --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [The Absolute Collection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Absolute_Collection) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Absolute_Collection?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.