• 1) Temptation Waits - A trigger-happy pop song with deconstructed guitar designed to bring listeners into the Garbage way of thinking with one of the opening lines: "I'm a wolf in sheep's clothing." Vig: "That's our Donna Summer/ Isaac Hayes number. Kind of predatory."



• 2) I Think I'm Paranoid - A swaggering and rocky elastica-guitar number - which Manson refers to as a demented Michael Jackson track - with a very fractured breakdown. Vig: "It's about the music business. There's a line: 'If I feel down, prop me up with another pill' which came from a bad day on the road when an associate told Shirley to take a pill to settle down. It didn't work."



• 3) When I Grow Up - Pure pop in a Strawberry Switchblade vein which reveals darker elements on further listens. Manson: "It's our Trojan horse." Vig: "It's fast - 140bpm - but then a lot of the tracks are. It's about refusing to be normal and having to bow to peer pressure."



• 4) Medication - Orchestral guitars and one of Manson's stand-out vocal performances which she wrote from her bed when she fell seriously ill after the tour last March. Vig: "To me it sounds like therapy. About being on the road and having to deal with relationships; long distance coping."



• 5) Special - A very Pretenders and Beatles/Debbie Harry pop track. Vig: "There's a line at the end where Shirley is quoting Talk Of The Town. Shirley called Chrissie Hynde, who said she was a fan and said we could 'sample her voice, her music or, indeed, her arse'."



• 6) Hammering In My Head - Marker and Vig's favourite track, it's a swirling near-techno number with mad drumming. Strangely, it began as a ska number. Marker: "It's kind of scary to listen to." Manson: "It was done in Japan and has a feeling of movement to it. It's our homage to Patti Smith."



• 7) Push It - About ambition and trying to marry drive and ruthlessness with life, it contains elements of U2's Discotheque, Madonna's Vogue and PJ Harvey's 60ft Queenie. Noisy looping undercurrents as Manson gently intones the title of the Beach Boys 1964 classic Don't Worry Baby. Vig: "It starts off 'everything's going to be fine' and then kicks arse. We tried to sample it and Shirley did try to copy it, but our label's attorney freaked out. So we sent a tape to Brian Wilson and he loved the song."



• 8) The Trick Is To Keep Breathing - Erikson's favourite track. Delightful breathy vocals, strolling bassline and probably one of Manson's most personal efforts to date, directed at a friend. Manson: "It's a song of allegiance. The title's from a Janice Galloway novel about suffering a nervous breakdown."



• 9) Dumb - A spiteful and mocking rock/ industrial techno number. Vig: "It's about someone Shirley had a bit of a run in with. I doubt if he'll ever get it, but that's why the title's called dumb."



• 10) Sleep Together - Again an ambiguous, though this time almost ambient, number. Manson: "It's a song about how people like to reflect themselves in others. And use sex to make themselves feel better." Vig: "It could be interpreted as a sexual dare but it sounds like part of the rave culture in there. I can't explain it."



• 11) Wicked Ways - Unusual tongue-in-cheek swingbeat number about trying your best. Manson: "It's our Tom-Waits-meets-The-Clash-meets-Mae-West number. It's meant to be over the top."



• 12) You Look So Fine - Introspective, eerie fairground/soundtrack music with running and stumbling lyrics. Manson: "We had an idea that we wanted to break down the album and build it back up again." Vig: "We wanted something meditative and calming at the end. It's like The Carpenters, that rush of vocals."