Garbage Video

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Garbage Video, also known as Home Video, is a 1996 short-form video collection by Garbage. It was released on VHS and Video CD and gathers all of the band’s promotional videos made up to that point. The project was directed by Karen Lamond and produced by Luke Copeland for Oil Factory Films.

Filmed between 1995 and 1996 in Glasgow, London, Los Angeles, and Madison, the roughly 30-minute release was issued by Mushroom Records (UK) and Almo Sights & Sounds/Geffen (North America). It served as the last major release promoting the album Garbage and has not been reissued on DVD; it was later superseded by the 2007 DVD Absolute Garbage.

The collection includes the band’s March 21, 1996 headline show at Brixton Academy, as well as outtakes from the videos for “Only Happy When It Rains,” “Queer,” and “Stupid Girl” that are overdubbed with a remix soundtrack by Rabbit in the Moon, Danny Saber, and Red Snapper. Lamond was given hours of the band’s footage to edit. It also features a mini-clip for the B-side “Sleep,” shot at Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin.

Garbage intended the release to showcase a strong visual identity, with a more definitive film piece planned for the following year. The material from Garbage Video was later released on Video CD as an extra in the Hong Kong version of Version 2.0.