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.
"I think people who get into the music business because they want to be famous are doomed, and quite rightly so. I understand that it's every teenage boy's dream to strap on a guitar and go on stage, but you have to have something unique or honest to say. Something to communicate to people. Or even a very, very amazingly joyful way of making people escape from their everyday lives."
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I don't know how I feel about this hairstyle... 🙄
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● 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻 ● " We have spent our life exploring every possible aspect of rock and roll debauchery. And finally, we always ask ourselves the same questions, without having the beginning of an answer. After a certain age, one must make difficult decisions to preserve one's mental, physical and creative health [...] The drug inhibits creativity. For a while, you can walk narcotics and continue to be creative, but in the end, it will steal everything. All. Your creativity, but also your soul, your faculty of compassion, your critical look at your work. Me, i wrote for the first time without drugs, it was a challenge. And I am proud of the result. " 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰, BM, Le JDD 2009
Battle For The Sun is a very rock and powerful album, it's true, but which remains above all melodic. It was the voice of Brian Molko who directed the songs, the instruments. Something Brian did with a vocal intensity that we didn't know yet at such level.
This album is brighter, but without ignoring the dark side of Placebo.
Among my favorites of the album, there is the electro-rock 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻 and its double intro electro then bass, its anxious chorus, its dark end, epic and its violins arrangements. These luminous symphonic strings gave a beautiful emotional force to the song.
𝗝𝘂𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻 is an incredible crescendo of 4 minutes and 43 seconds in which we find the particular Placebo style, who transforms the sound of guitars into exacerbated feelings and the voice of Brian into enchanted incantation.
What do you think of 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻 ?
Enjoy your Sunday !! •°°• Katy •°°• 🎞 𝐏𝐇𝐎𝐓𝐎 : Brian Molko by Joseph Llanes, 2008 / Editing by me
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Melancholic ballad,slower and rising in intensity over the minutes,𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗼 𝗠𝗲 is a formidable effective song, as shown by the guitar notes loop.With its strings,its acoustic guitar,with its moving, slow,dreamy and ethereal end, this song is a key point in 𝑳𝒐𝒖𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆, LLL.The captivating melody is dark and repetitive all along. "We didn’t have a whole bunch of songs, so some of [the solo songs] ended up on
the album (“Too Many Friends,” ”Hold On to Me,” “Scene of the Crime,” and I had “Rob the Bank” in my back pocket). “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 second part of the song is amazing,Placebo renewed with the dramatic spoken-words.Brian recited a long "philosophical" poem, which allows you to appreciate the low side of his voice,to which was added an atmospheric music.The spoken part of the song comes from An Introduction from a book by Solara about 11:11.Numerologists and other esotericists see a whole set of signs in it.They all evoked the importance, according to them, of the "synchronicity" of 11/11/11,including the American Solara, "expert in numerology".For her, the 11 represents the duality of good and evil in humanity.
𝑳𝒐𝒖𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆, LLL, is a subtle album full of qualities.Placebo's inspiration was amazing to find melodies of such efficiency.𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗼 𝗠𝗲 made its entrance among their great songs.A moving ballad, a true masterpiece which moves me immensely.
📼 Placebo-Hold On To Me(Alternate Director Version)
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"We started with broken keyboards and old guitars, writing arty punk- rock songs in the front room of Brian's council flat in Deptford. We practised between cheap pints of lager at the pub round the corner. The basic premise was just to play live."
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The Independent "Accept No Substitute", Oct'04
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È la prima volta che leggo della zona... Vicino a Greenwich e Isola dei Cani . Beh ha portato fortuna il suo soggiorno lì, ironia della sorte proprio qualche anno dopo edificano la principale @theo2london dove si esibiscono i più grandi della scena !
Mi chiedo sempre come fosse questo appartamento anzi stanza in casa popolare condivisa.... Per 600 pounds se cerchi tra zona 1 e 2 ti rifilano stalle ricoperte di zozzura dove anche i maiali 🐖 avrebbero ribrezzo a rotolarsi e così anche per 850-900 spese escluse (provare per credere) zona Kings Cross. Oppure se pulito per box room con cucina e bagno tuo per 850 sterline (più spese) giusto perché seminterrato. Io avevo una paga da 8,30 che netta diventa 7,20 più o meno. Togli council tax, internet, spese non incluse, abbonamento mezzi, mangiare, biancheria, imprevisti, uscite, vestiti, parrucchiere, altro... Dici beh a tal punto per stare peggio e i risvolti negativi sono più dei positivi, più il vento, il freddo, il buio, allora sopporto ancora un po’ qui e mi pagano pure di più ma con 800 euro mi prendo una reggia di appartamento con 2 bagni altro che uno condiviso in 4 o più. Andando su è più bello e più umano con più possibilità di fare amicizia con gente del posto, quindi imparare un buon vero inglese, parchi per camminare (a me quelli cittadini non dicono nulla) puoi avere belle case a prezzi fino a 5 volte più bassi a costo però di ancora più buio, pioggia, freddo, neve... Allora alla fine me ne sono rientrata. Se cerchi una qualità della vita più alta non è lì che la trovi ma in Francia. Per ora (devo ancora testare Spagna e Germania) è l’unico posto dove ho testato che il sociale ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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● 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗜'𝗺 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 Anniversary ●
Let's celebrate the anniversary of the album Without You I'm Nothing. Placebo spared no effort in this year 98 and released a second album very worked, researched and better produced. It gave to the band an international career.
Without You I'm Nothing is a high quality album both enjoyable and powerful.
Indeed, Placebo offered us a noisy rock, dark but effective and very melodic album. It's a mature and calm album with songs full of emotions, whose spleen made me cry many times. There is also a bit of rage, similar to the first album.
Placebo gave us an excellent second album. Without You I'm Nothing will be forever the best record of the band for many fans. This album became a rock jewel of late-century.
That's what Brian Molko said about it in
1998: " When I started writing lyrics, my professional life had never been so flourishing. On the other hand, my private life had never been so catastrophic. I hated myself for getting there, for letting my heart break into small pieces, to have abused so many dear people ...
I was at the lowest before we went to isolate ourselves in the countryside, where we recorded the album. Before we started, we knew that the album was going to be called Without You I'm Nothing. Because it summed up perfectly our state of mind, which went through a few weeks of recording from romanticism to melancholy. In all songs, love stories end badly." Brian Molko - Les Inrockuptibles 1998
Placebo's second album is an absolute masterpiece. I keep a lot of tenderness towards this album. I have so many memories with this album, a very important attachment. When it released, I had a real passion. For me, it kept after all these years a timeless youthful aspect. Deceptively naive and simple, he didn't forget to be really effective and proposed a real depth, I'm sure, which moved a lot of people. Without You I'M Nothing left an indelible mark in the Modern Music history.
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Can you imagine a love that is so proud
It never has to question why or how?
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I can't be alone
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This setlist was longer than I thought. Sad that I can't find the rest of this beautiful show on YouTube, they look and sound amazing here, definitely one of my favorite performances of Placebo years. I really wanna watch an early performance of The Crawl!
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"So there was a mood of celebration in the air as the London- based trio not only reached home turf but also the home straight. Singer Brian Molko wished the audience love and respect. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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With his jet-black hair teased into a futuristic mullet and his eyelids plastered with kohl, Molko had an otherworldly androgyny pitched somewhere between goth and glam. His high, slightly querulous voice rang out with a lascivious urgency as he sang his tales of pleasure, pain and deviant sex -although not always experienced at the same time.
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Concentrating for the most part on the singles, the band navigated a set that ricocheted from the speedy art-rock of Every You Every Me to the electronica of a new song, I Do, and a startlingly slowed-down rearrangement of their first single, 36 Degrees, with a power and passion that was spectacular to behold."
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Late celebration to the 19th year of the release of Black Market Music! Here's my favorite song from this album. When things around me start to get bad, I listen to this song and it just feels right, I get hopeful again and try to do better.
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