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Listening to it now for the first time and they are back. It's Placebo so that is a good thing, will give thoughts when I have heard the whole thing.

― BeeOK (boo radley), Thursday, 19 January 2006 08:36 (twenty years ago)

Heard the whole thing once. To my apparently incompetent ears, the single is the blandest track on there.

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 19 January 2006 08:47 (twenty years ago)

The UK single or the rest-of-the-world single?

― Zora (Zora), Thursday, 19 January 2006 10:25 (twenty years ago)

To clarify (from PlaceboWorld):

UK and Worldwide singles update

'Because I Want You’ will be the first single from the forthcoming album in the UK only is now set for release on March 6th.

The first single Worldwide (excluding UK) we can now exclusively reveal will be the track ‘Song To Say Goodbye’, released on March 6th.

― Zora (Zora), Thursday, 19 January 2006 10:49 (twenty years ago)

Does it sound like the last album, much? (Which I thought was half inspired, half sludgy and dull, but I'll shut up lest I get a lecture from Ned).

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 10:52 (twenty years ago)

A lecture from Ned would be a Fine Thing

― Zora (Zora), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:44 (twenty years ago)

HUZZAH

― gear (gear), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:45 (twenty years ago)

Ah. It appears I find the UK single rather unengaging.

I thought Sleeping With Ghosts was their best one yet, and Meds seems to be very much in that style too, so I'm not complaining. Not much, anyway. Shame they're sticking to what they do well, perhaps, but they're not trying something new and terrible either.

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:45 (twenty years ago)

I guess what I'm saying is: it's Placebo and they sound like Placebo. :-)

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:47 (twenty years ago)

is it like the first album?
or a load of bollocks like the rest?

― the kit! (g-kit), Thursday, 19 January 2006 13:22 (twenty years ago)

HUZZAH

I sense mockery!

I am sure the album is glorious. I AM BIASED AND I AM RIGHT.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 January 2006 13:34 (twenty years ago)

Awful album title, though. Nonetheless, I am _sure_ it will be glorious, as I expect nothing else from The World's Most Magnificent Twat. I know I'm the only idiot who preferred Black Market Music to Sleeping With Ghosts, though.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 13:39 (twenty years ago)

edward I have to say that I somewhat boringly didn't like black market music much! But I haven't heard sleeping with ghosts yet so I can't compare (before you shake yr head Ned, I'm trying to find the double disc version cheap).

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 19 January 2006 13:41 (twenty years ago)

Fret not, Tim, you are doing a fine thing with this search.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 January 2006 13:41 (twenty years ago)

Tim, I never thought I'd say this, but you hate fun :(
It's their most silly record!

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 13:43 (twenty years ago)

It's not fun silly though really. I don't dislike it, I just don't find the songs particularly memorable, or they're memorable for the wrong reasons (nadir point lyrics). I like the song about halfway through with the great dazzling drums though. And the last track obv.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 19 January 2006 13:52 (twenty years ago)

"Passive Aggressive" and "Peeping Tom" make it worth the price alone, but you also get "Days Before You Came" and "Special K" right in a row at the start. I cannot help but LOVE. (Okay, "Blue American" is crap, but still.)

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 13:57 (twenty years ago)

Agreed on "Peeping Tom," definitely. And the singles are all grand.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:08 (twenty years ago)

aren't placebo really rubbish?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:09 (twenty years ago)

No.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:14 (twenty years ago)

think they probably are, actually

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:17 (twenty years ago)

Though I reserve judgement until I have heard "Meds".

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:21 (twenty years ago)

i don't get the love

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:38 (twenty years ago)

~~It's a pale, skinny antisocial boy thing~~It defies rational explanation.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:39 (twenty years ago)

I'm not skinny!

(oh, you mean them)

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:44 (twenty years ago)

No, you've torpedoed my theory. Maybe you're skinny at heart? I'm not pale, but I am pale INSIDE.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:46 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that's probably it. I'm a skinny man trapped in the body of an overweight one.

But anyway!

Placebo (= "fake meds") call their album "Meds" : are they trying to be clever or (Ned forbid) funny?

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:56 (twenty years ago)

That's the spirit. Inside me is a goth boy wanting to get out. I SAY NO! I think the album is named after the first track rather than it being a statement.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Neds.

― Roz (Roz), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:02 (twenty years ago)

i don't get the love

I have been through this before. There was further discussion at that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Mate of mine works for them - Apparently when they play live Brian(?) has to be careful not to stand too close to the electric fans on stage otherwise it'll blow off the stuff he uses as hair (its a bit like Iron filings alledgedly)

― arnoldpalmer, Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Heheheheh. I'm not surprised at all!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:40 (twenty years ago)

It's here:

http://opendir.blogspot.com/

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:45 (twenty years ago)

The Kills guest spot I understand. Michael Stipe I do not.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:46 (twenty years ago)

"It's here:
http://opendir.blogspot.com/
-- paulhw (pppso...), January 19th, 2006."

Not any more, it's not... "complaints received, forbidden to be shared"

― Mugged Outside the Jabberjaw, 1993 (Bent Over at the Arclight), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:50 (twenty years ago)

And here's a link to "A Song To Say Goodbye - Placebo
"

God I wish they were really saying it...

― elgolfo (elgolfo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:12 (twenty years ago)

sleeping with ghosts - french double disc edition (with extra track 'protege-moi') pops up in Fopp from time to time for a mere fiver. tis a grand thing - though i wish they were more careful with the mix.

i seem to recall there is a section during one song where the sound levels just go off the scale .. listening to it now to see if this is based on crap memory - or an actuality ..

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:48 (twenty years ago)

found it - 3.30 minutes into "Something Rotten" .. they wack the volume up on the synth distortion effect way over the soundlevel level of the rest of the album making it somewhat sound fucked up.

whenever i play this album that part always makes my wife go 'thats enough of that ..'

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 19 January 2006 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Post Blue:

It's in the water baby
It's in the pills that pick you up
It's in the water baby
its in the special way we fuck

that's classic Placebo. i'm warming to Because I Want You, although Post Blue would have been a better pick for the first single

― pinder (pinder), Thursday, 19 January 2006 20:12 (twenty years ago)

Complete album:
http://s36.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=30NJML9FWHVFO3L0ZQ68QXUWOV

― silas (silas), Thursday, 19 January 2006 21:59 (twenty years ago)

Didn't there exist a "no full albums" policy here?

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 19 January 2006 22:17 (twenty years ago)

Maby, i dont care. Pretty hypocrite to allow all those YSI files and topics but not full albums.

― silas (silas), Thursday, 19 January 2006 22:27 (twenty years ago)

this is pretty huge

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 20 January 2006 03:44 (twenty years ago)

Great album so far, I can see playing this one over and over again. So far it's better than Sleeping With Ghosts which is the album I played the least by this group.

― BeeOK (boo radley), Friday, 20 January 2006 06:23 (twenty years ago)

The cover:

http://www.placeboworld.co.uk/images/meds_cover_224.jpg

Er...

http://eil.com/newgallery/Placebo-Burger-Queen-Fran-149482.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:56 (twenty years ago)

What once worked for the French can work for everyone else now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:36 (twenty years ago)

huge?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 20 January 2006 14:27 (twenty years ago)

At the least, loud.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 January 2006 14:57 (twenty years ago)

it's huge sounding. loud. grandiose.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:20 (twenty years ago)

Shit, I missed it again. What does the song with VV of the Kills sound like? Is she just doing background vocals?

― Mugged Outside the Jabberjaw, 1993 (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:43 (twenty years ago)

She sings on the chorus. It's quite good. The album is very good. (I am DEEPLY understating.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:45 (twenty years ago)

is it better or worse than elbow's last record?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:49 (twenty years ago)

You would need to ask an Elbow fan that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:58 (twenty years ago)

I Love Elbow as the last album was in my Top 10. They don't sound the same so I don't know how that would help anyways.

― BeeOK (boo radley), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:47 (twenty years ago)

Even if "Pierrot the Clown" was the only good song on the album -- which it isn't, not by a long shot -- it would be more than enough.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 January 2006 07:11 (twenty years ago)

That there person upthread who said it was going to be glorious: OTM.

― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 22 January 2006 10:10 (twenty years ago)

Two tracks in and I'm hooked already, this is great. [bounces around the room]. I can't find it now, but I read somewhere that they wanted to go techno with this album, but the producer wouldn't let them. Kisses for the producer; I'm loving how much like Placebo this sounds. I liked Sleeping With Ghosts well enough, but I do think they lost something in the slickness of the production, and they sure seem to have got it back.

― Zora (Zora), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 12:39 (twenty years ago)

I don't think they're trying to be clever calling their fith album "Meds." In the Past on Without You I'm Nothing CD, the song Allergic had a lyric that comes to mind, "The after life to keep your eyes on bitter pill you take today." The song Meds & the Song Post Blue, I THINK, along with the title of the CD, are kind of like an aftermath of the single Twenty Years, you know, "Enjoy the ride, the medicine show." I think it's just more insight to the whole Twenty Years experience. The song Meds if I may mention a lyric that says, "Did you forget to take your meds, babby?" An Post Blue, "It's in the water babby It's in the pills that bring you down." Yep I'm fairly sure it's more insight to the whole Twenty Years experience. But I could be wrong!

― Brett Connners, Thursday, 26 January 2006 11:05 (twenty years ago)

Leave me bleeding on the bed
See you right back here tomorrow
For the next
Round

― Zora (Zora), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:40 (twenty years ago)

It is good to see that others are picking up on "Pierrot" as being *the* song this time out. It's obviously this album's "My Sweet Prince" in more ways than one.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:10 (twenty years ago)

'Pierrot' is the quintessential Placebo song, I think. It's got the sheer, haunting beauty of 'My Sweet Prince' (something to do with the open spareness of the arrangement?, though it lacks the exquisite build - you can tell me what the other references are, Ned), and the quiet despair of 'Peeping Tom', and lyrical elements from all over that are just pure Placebo, distilled. Gorgeous.

― Zora (Zora), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Maybe this album's My Sweet Prince in a almost simular sound of that songs music & the song Pierrot the Clown. The lyrics are much too different. And that's it. It's not My Sweet Prince in more ways than one. "One of a Kind" is the only simular song to My Sweet Prince. They stil differ. So This 5th Placebo album.... Well it's obviously "My Sweet Prince" in almost more ways than none! Sorry, too much talk of meds & pills. I hope you don't live in the past of "Without You I'm Nothing." Cause that's just too sad. 8 ?

― Space Monkey, Saturday, 28 January 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for missing the point entirely.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 28 January 2006 18:15 (twenty years ago)

What, do you mean? I'm sorry, never meant to be an AIR-HEAD. Am I that stupid, to miss the point entirely? Please tell me the point. It kills me to not get it..... Only Cause Placebo is involved. They're like my bread & butter! I'm dishonoring my sanctuary. I'm not begging, but if you could find it in you.... Please tell me the point. Cause I meant no disrespect, I was mearly thrilled to find this fan site, as I to am too a fan, a bit stupid though. Anyway please tell this point, or don't take pitty. And say I've wasted to much time! By the way, I'm not that old in age.

― Space Monkey, Saturday, 28 January 2006 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Space Monkey I suspect I missed NR's point too, so I won't respond to that part, but I do have to say that there's nothing 'sad' about being attached to WYIN.

Holding up an artist's new work against their older work is hardly 'living in the past'. For one thing, many artists do peak early on, and 'My Sweet Prince' could be considered to be the defining song on Placebo's defining album, if you lean towards the melancholy side. I do think 'Pierrot' stands up next to 'My Sweet Prince' and that's my way of saying I think it's bloody good, actually.

For the other thing, whilst I agree that it would be foolish to be attached to a band's earlier output to the point where you automatically hate on any later stuff that doesn't sound exactly the same, nobody here is doing that. In case you hadn't noticed, it's going down rather well.

PS the lyrics are only different on a superficial level. But since the underlying theme is one that pops up all the time in Molko's writing, I don't think that can have been Ned's point.

― Zora (Zora), Sunday, 29 January 2006 12:59 (twenty years ago)

Zora nails it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 29 January 2006 13:03 (twenty years ago)

\o/

― Zora (Zora), Sunday, 29 January 2006 16:12 (twenty years ago)

Thaks I'm very young of age ya know. Anyway If there was a God, he's Brian Molko. That being said Zora, that would make you all his children! Thanks I'm always game to learn!

― Space Monkey, Tuesday, 31 January 2006 01:12 (twenty years ago)

I'm following placebo's work from the beggining. As I like what Molko does I can say that this last album it's not what I was expecting.But if you listen it more than two times, you'll love it. It's placebo music. The lyrics are great.

― paula acuña, Saturday, 4 February 2006 20:55 (twenty years ago)

"Drag" is definitely another highlight for me -- like it a lot better than both the new singles, though those are growing on me a bit more.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 5 February 2006 05:42 (twenty years ago)

hey does anyone have the lyrics to space monkey?? if ya do can you please send them to me at [email protected]

― johnothan goette, Sunday, 5 February 2006 06:46 (twenty years ago)

lyrics for the whole album are posted here: http://www.last.fm/user/angelikgiraldo/journal/2006/01/17/60840/

― pinder (pinder), Sunday, 5 February 2006 19:41 (twenty years ago)

This is a site of the Meds CD, every songs lyrics...
http://www.hoppipolla.net/placebo/index.html

― Space Monkey, Friday, 10 February 2006 21:37 (twenty years ago)

P.S. This will make up for being an Air-Head!

― Space Monkey, Friday, 10 February 2006 21:39 (twenty years ago)

http://www.hoppipolla.net/placebo/index.html
is for The Meds CD songs lyrics, for everything else click here...
http://www.alwaysontherun.net/placebo.htm

― Space Monkey, Friday, 10 February 2006 21:46 (twenty years ago)

Some new info:

---

US release date for Meds has been moved back to April 4, 2006. This is good news in a way for it allows for the production of a bonus DVD disc. A Cure cover with Robert Smith is well worth it, right?

Limited Edition bonus disc details

From April 4th a Limited Edition CD of Meds will be available for a short time only that comes with a bonus DVD containing the following extras:

1. Documentary - directed by Ewen Bremner
2. Lyrics in 'virtual booklet'
3. Twenty Years - Live From Wembley (video)
4. If Only Tonight We Could Sleep - The Cure and Placebo (video)
5. Backstage at Live 8 (video)
6. Long Division (audio)
7. In The Cold Light Of Morning - demo (audio)
8. I Do - demo (audio)
9. Pierrot The Clown - demo (audio)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 20:50 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure if that Cure collaboration works out very well...

http://www.youtube.com/?v=V_0OklEaVYQ

I've only watched it once, mind.

― Zora (Zora), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 21:48 (twenty years ago)

Lyrics in 'virtual booklet' ?? so on the screen then?

definitely their 2nd best after WITHOUT YOU...

like the BLACK MARKET MUSIC experience bizarro world style. it reminds me of everything i liked about WITHOUT YOU...

― piscesboy, Friday, 24 February 2006 00:55 (twenty years ago)

Who is the responsable for the album cover? Send the answer to [email protected]

Thanks!

― Alberto Caeiro, Friday, 24 February 2006 11:09 (twenty years ago)

if only this one had come straight after WITHOUT YOU... thus saving us all the shame of that 'dope guns fucking in the street..' song from about half a decade back.

i can't help but sing '...trousers' instead of '...houses' on
FOLLOW THE COPS BACK HOME, which is sort of spoiling it.

DRAG isn't the first single! what sort of madnes is this??

― piscesboy, Monday, 27 February 2006 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that's definitely a stronger song than either of the ones chosen for singles. Strange.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 February 2006 16:55 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Out tomorrow, unless I'm wrong. Yay bonus DVD!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 02:59 (twenty years ago)

Nope you are right. I will be buying this along with the Flaming Lips.

― BeeOK (boo radley), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 07:19 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

So, on the bright side, they are finally touring America for this. On the not-so-bright side, they are doing so opening for She Wants Revenge. *SIGH* (This is actually not surprising at all given Justin Warfield's appearance on Black Market Music and all, and if getting Placebo over here properly meant he was returning the favor, well, fair enough. But I'm not paying any money for the privilege.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 August 2006 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

opening for She Wants Revenge
opening for She Wants Revenge
opening for She Wants Revenge
opening for She Wants Revenge
opening for She Wants Revenge
opening for She Wants Revenge
opening for She Wants Revenge
opening for She Wants Revenge
opening for She Wants Revenge
opening for She Wants Revenge
opening for She Wants Revenge

bahahahahaha

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 11 August 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I had never heard of She Wants Revenge before. Aren't they a little late to crash the Joy Division cover band party?

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 11 August 2006 00:34 (nineteen years ago)

Look, this is a warning. I am trying to help you here. I know this is just making you want to go buy the album before I even say who to avoid, but it's for your own good. These people are trolls. Please, for christ's sake, do not respond to SHE WANTS REVENGE.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 11 August 2006 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

I knew Marmot would understand my pain. And make fun of it. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

Hey I like that someone tried to do me ache song.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

That one with the high vocals?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:54 (nineteen years ago)

36 Degrees I believe its called.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 11 August 2006 02:00 (nineteen years ago)

it's...gah with the typos today.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 11 August 2006 02:00 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

So while they're working on a new album and all, an acoustic "Pierrot the Clown" from a couple of years back:

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 September 2008 05:54 (seventeen years ago)

six months pass...

got the free download of the title track of the new lp

i do not dig this at all

― balls by titleist (electricsound), Wednesday, 1 April 2009 06:01 (seventeen years ago)

Separate thread? (And what's it called anyway?)

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 06:02 (seventeen years ago)

'battle for the sun'

it's somewhat of a drier sound for them, which is good in a way, and the chorus part is fairly standard old placebo, but the repetitive words don't work for me

― balls by titleist (electricsound), Wednesday, 1 April 2009 06:03 (seventeen years ago)

Noted. Meantime:

Placebo -- Battle for the Sun

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 06:12 (seventeen years ago)

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