You Look So Fine (5:23)

“You Look So Fine” is a single released in 1999, and was the final single taken from Garbage’s second album Version 2.0, where it was also the closing track. “You Look So Fine” became a fan favourite, closing either the main set or encore at every headlining show Garbage performed on the two year long Version 2.0 world tour.
“You Look so Fine” was not played during the ‘beautifulgarbage’ tour, but Shirley performed a verse and a chorus of the song a cappella at some concerts.

On the ‘Bleed Like Me’ tour, “You Look so Fine” was performed properly once on the 15th June 2005 in Spain as an encore. An incomplete rendition was performed in Toronto in April 2005.

The release of the single was promoted by a lounge version of the song arranged by Fun Lovin’ Criminals, on which singer Shirley Manson performed a new vocal. The new version was part of a remix trade between both bands, where Garbage remixed Fun Lovin’ Criminals single “Korean Bodega” in reciprocation.

In 2007, “You Look So Fine” was remastered and included on Garbage’s greatest hits album Absolute Garbage.

“You Look So Fine” was written, recorded and mixed at Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin. One of the very final songs written during the recording of Version 2.0, “You Look So Fine” was created from a scrapped track titled “King of Crime” which had been abandoned very late in 1997. “You Look So Fine” was completed just as mixing for the album began in January 1998.