If their debut was the sound of a no-holds-barred sexual drug frenzy
lasting way into the next day, then Without You I’m Nothing is the resultant rumpled,
libidinous comedown. As such, it’s much classier, cerebral and great to listen to when hung-over.
“I’m unclean / A libertine / And every time you vent your spleen / I seem to lose my power of speech,” Molko breathes
on the awesomely overcharged title track. In a year when Marilyn Manson and Bauhaus continue to revitalize the goth movement across America, Placebo’s moment may well have arrived.
Let's celebrate the Anniversary of 𝑳𝒐𝒖𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 .
A psychedelic cover, a first song with the same name, 𝑳𝒐𝒖𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆, full of promise, rhythmic, high in color which promises to this album of Placebo, joy and happiness..the song of a siren to bait you in the abyssal and dark depths of the melancholy ocean. Indeed, this album had taken the total counterpart of what was expected of Placebo by returning to a melancholy close to the beginning and its content proved to be quite successful.
If Molko's guitar is clearly less present, we note however that Stefan Olsdal's bass is now in a prominent place, providing captivating lines (Purify). Forrest seemed both capable of rhythm speed (Loud Like Love) and sad delicacy (A Million Little Pieces). But the unexpected was revealed especially with the lyrics. Brian's writing now knew how to be scathing and critical about the world around him, like Too Many Friends or Rob The Bank or being even more melancholic like Bosco or Begin The End, which evokes a breakup sent directly to the listener's face.
I like this bitter sweet side that emerges from this seventh album, as an impression of hope pulled down by melancholy. Each song brings a lot of emotions and discoveries as the music is worked, and I am overwhelmed by tears listening to the album. "It's the most emotionally vulnerable record we've made and the most direct. We didn't want to be intellectual and veer off into a cooler, hipper direction." Brian Molko - TSMH 2013
Finally, I wonder if 𝑳𝒐𝒖𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 should not be placed on the top of the stack of albums created by Placebo.
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● 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 ● "I have worked on this song at the time of Without You I'm Nothing. It was hanging somewhere in the air but it came out only last year. It was not ready, that's all … I find it very interesting to be able to do a song in a few minutes and having to wait six years to write another." 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰, BM, Les Inrockuptibles 2003 "The idea behind it (the Official Video) is kind of the idea of people making love to a memory. Two people making love whilst not being in the same room. Making love to a memory is something you do quite a bit by yourself after you break up with someone. So we wanted to illustrate that. It involved getting people in there dressed completely in blue and taking them out afterwards at the editing suite." 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰, BM, Once More With Feeling 2004
Musically, 𝑺𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑮𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒔, SWG, stood out from previous albums. Our favorite band became more interested in new technologies and proved it was possible to provide a very good album with electronic sounds while keeping intact the musical identity of the band.
Placebo offered us a very rigorous work on the melodies like on 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀, which we continue to celebrate the birthday today.
The Official Video was directed by Paul Gore. A video in very blue tones, recalling the colors of 𝑺𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑮𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒔, SWG. The filming lasted 6 hours in the Bushy Campus, on a Sunday. Once again, Placebo played in a pool while two people in the locker room made love with each other's ghosts, with a memory. This very aesthetic video like the song speaks about the ghost of past love relationships, of what is kept in the depths of the soul.
🎞 𝐏𝐇𝐎𝐓𝐎 : Screenshots i did + editing from Placebo - Special Needs Official Video
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𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀' Anniversary.
In 𝑺𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑮𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒔, SWG, there are some tracks very intimate, very 'rich' musically and very interesting. Brian Molko didn't hesitate to confide. This is the case with the ballad with arpegios, 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀. With its repetitive chorus, this song stands out in the album with its limpid, light and omnipresent piano, its beautiful main theme and especially its soul which reminds me a lot Without You I'M Nothing. "I’m not the person you walk over when you’re leaving the showbiz party anymore, passed out on the front doorstep,” he concedes. “When you’re releasing your first couple of records you do think that you’re invincible. As a young artist there’s always this voice in the back of your head telling you you’re shit, that you’re not as good as the next guy. By the time you get to your fourth album that voice has changed. You know you can’t be shit because you’ve just sold X amount of records, but now it’s telling you you’re a has-been. As an artist that’s been on my mind and that’s why it’s crept into songs like ‘Centrefolds’ and ‘Special Needs’, this idea of washed-up celebrity."
𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰, BM, Rock Sound 2003
With 𝑺𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑮𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒔, SWG, Placebo fully assumed its evolution. Sexy, 'nervous' and melancholic, this album offered introspective songs like 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀. For me it's a very beautiful song full of sensitivity.
📼 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎 : Placebo - Special Needs (Soulmates Never Die Tour, Paris 2003)
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Placebo covered Robert Palmer's 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻𝗻𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘆 releasing it originally with Taste In Men Single (CD 2) the 17 July 2000, after with the bonus disc of their 2003 album Sleeping with Ghosts, featuring the band's cover versions of tracks and later with Covers. "...I always wanted to make a punk version of Johnny and Mary.. People think it's a pretty "up" song, but if you listen to the lyrics it's pretty depressing. It's about a couple who no longer speaks each other, who prefers to look at the walls than talk to each other, who are together in silence. And it's pretty sad. And ... it's often like that with the duality which exists in Placebo's music it's, we seduce you with something sonic, with a "up"
sound, and then we give you lyrics that may be heavier."
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐, BM, Interview radio France Inter C'est Lenoir, 5 septembre 2000
Soul Music lover, the British Robert Palmer is a singer who became famous through the song Every Kinda People.
For more than thirty years, he diversified his influences, surprising his audience with each new album. He even proposed pop albums towards the end of his career. He also collaborated with artists such as Duran Duran.
At the time, I was rather surprised by Placebo's choice to cover this track, it's a song however I heard during my youth. For me, their interpretation is very successful.
📸 𝐏𝐇𝐎𝐓𝐎 : Credit Unknown
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𝖯𝗅𝖺𝖼𝖾𝖻𝗈 offered us dark and melancholic songs too like 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗼 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗜𝗤. The band calmed the atmosphere with this bittersweet ballad. From the first chords, we find this innate sense of melody. A quiet drums and guitars which speak behind Brian's voice who knew how to be very sweet. The lyrics are more than disturbing : " In her pocket
Two rubbers two lubes, and a silver rocket " " I gotta get high, before I go outside "
𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗼 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗜𝗤 lyrics seem to tell the story of a man who has complexes. The message simply says everyone must accept themselves. "I'm not actually describing my own anatomy, that's just the state of the character in that song. He's at a point of such low self-esteem that that's the most self-deprecating thing that he can say about himself at that point." 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐, BM, Vox 1997
In the end with this album, 𝖯𝗅𝖺𝖼𝖾𝖻𝗈 let think they had everything to become rock phenomenon. I really love 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗼 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗜𝗤, it's a very moving song with a particular message. In 2001, Placebo played a slow version of the song during a few concerts including the one for MCM in Paris, it's this one i wanted to share with you today. 📼 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎 : Placebo - Hang On To Your IQ (Live At MCM Café, Paris 2001)
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𝖯𝗅𝖺𝖼𝖾𝖻𝗈 offered us dark and melancholic songs too like 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗼 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗜𝗤. The band calmed the atmosphere with this bittersweet ballad. From the first chords, we find this innate sense of melody. A quiet drums and guitars which speak behind Brian's voice who knew how to be very sweet. The lyrics are more than disturbing : " In her pocket
Two rubbers two lubes, and a silver rocket " " I gotta get high, before I go outside "
𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗼 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗜𝗤 lyrics seem to tell the story of a man who has complexes. The message simply says everyone must accept themselves. "I'm not actually describing my own anatomy, that's just the state of the character in that song. He's at a point of such low self-esteem that that's the most self-deprecating thing that he can say about himself at that point." 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐, BM, Vox 1997
In the end with this album, 𝖯𝗅𝖺𝖼𝖾𝖻𝗈 let think they had everything to become rock phenomenon. I really love 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗼 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗜𝗤, it's a very moving song with a particular message. In 2001, Placebo played a slow version of the song during a few concerts including the one for MCM in Paris, it's this one i wanted to share with you today. 📼 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎 : Placebo - Hang On To Your IQ (Live At MCM Café, Paris 2001)
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● 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 ● " In Passive Agressive of the new album, you sing " God's in crisis. He's over. " If you don't believe in God, do you have a superior power to whom do you call when you are exhausted?
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐, BM : Yeah, my big brother. [Laughs] I was raised in evangelical religion. I gave my life to Jesus when I was 11, I took it back when I was 14 years old. But it stays with you for a long time. I remember my mother saying to me, "When Jesus knocks at your door, it's your choice to open the door or let it close, and Jesus will strike for a moment, but then your heart will harden and he will leave." And the song can talk about that, or it can be about not letting someone else enter your heart." Alternative Press, 2001
𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒕 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄, BBM, showed in several ways that Placebo's music had improved even further for the delight of the listeners, Brian Molko's voice adapting more to music too.This album has quieter, slow and painful songs. 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 is a sad and violent song at once, between quiet passages ("Passive") and guitar crescendo ("Agressive"). It's a wonder and during the live, the second guitar provided by Bill Lloyd accentuated the beauty of the song. 🎞 𝐏𝐇𝐎𝐓𝐎 : Brian Molko by Liam Duke 2000 + Editing by me
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Described by Brian Molko as "being the first moment of transgression", 𝗦𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗲 𝗢𝗳 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲 and its arrangements are reminiscent of English Summer Rain.
However, this song revealed a new aspect, between an old melancholy and some aspects lately known (the voices in particular). We have an almost chill-wave synth on this song and a chorus like an explosion. A beautiful song with a convincing text, the first wink at Disintegration of The Cure with the end piano. "Scene of the Crime had actually been part of one I’d been recording myself already, which we used, and same with Hold On to Me. I didn’t have a fixed goal to release a record. It was more a personal challenge." 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐, BM, Pure Volume 2013
The contents of 𝑳𝒐𝒖𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆, LLL, proved to be quite successful. There is an atmosphere which is above all nostalgic.
𝗦𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗲 𝗢𝗳 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲 is a song I love a lot, there is a sensitivity and an omnipresent fragility, like the one wrapping the entire album. 📼 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎 : Placebo - Scene Of The Crime (Canal+, Album de la Semaine 2013)
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• Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself • 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰, BM 📸 Scarlet Page, 1998
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Get through this night. There are no second chances. This time I might.
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To ask the sea for answers 💜🖤
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All alone in space and time, there's nothing here but what here's mine. 'Cause there's nothing else to do.
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Every me and every you 🖤🖤
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All alone in space and time, there's nothing here but what here's mine. 'Cause there's nothing else to do.
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Every me and every you 🖤🖤
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