𝗕𝗘𝗖𝗔𝗨𝗦𝗘 𝗜 𝗪𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨 & 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗢 𝗦𝗔𝗬 𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗗𝗕𝗬𝗘 – 𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦

Today we have two ♦️𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦♦️ to celebrate, as there were two different lead singles for “Meds” released on March 6th 2006. In the UK the first single from the album was “𝘽𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪”, in territories outside UK it was “𝙎𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙖𝙮 𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙙𝙗𝙮𝙚”. Both singles were produced by Dimitri Tikovoi who was also the producer of the album.

Photo credit: Mick Hutson, covers of the singles / edit by Silke

“Because I want you” reached number 13 in the UK Singles Chart and was the first Placebo record to be given a download release with a track unavailable on the various physical releases.

🎬 𝗕𝗘𝗖𝗔𝗨𝗦𝗘 𝗜 𝗪𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨
🎵 http://bit.ly/2LBXVsC 🎵

🎬 𝗧𝗢 𝗦𝗔𝗬 𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗗𝗕𝗬𝗘
🎵 http://bit.ly/2Y2vWqQ 🎵

The live histories of both songs are very unalike. “Because I want you” was played during the “Meds” tour, at the famous concert at Angor Wat temple complex in Cambodia and the early legs of the “Battle for the sun” tour. Altogether it was performed live 189 times.
“Song to say goodbye” on the other hand made it on the setlist of all tours and was staged 562 times up to now. The only year it wasn't played live was 2008 but there was only one gig at all in 2008, namely the one at Angkor Wat that I mentioned above.

Photo credit: Juliette Robert

📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗪𝗢 𝗗𝗜𝗙𝗙𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗗 𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗟𝗘𝗦 📌
📢 ”Placebo has always been a rock band. We’re not marketing champions. As a good band, we’re entitled to a good label. Everyone’s got their own part of the job to do. Their job is to decide which single will fit in with the audience it’s for. It’s their bitch of a job to choose which track will be released on this or that market. If doing their job well is to release a different single when only a few kilometres separate the countries it’s because they have their reasons. And if they change their mind, it’s because they’ve changed their minds in between times.”
(Rock Sound, March 2006)

📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝗕𝗘𝗖𝗔𝗨𝗦𝗘 𝗜 𝗪𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨” 📌
📢 "This will be our 1st single in the United Kingdom. I’d rather not say anything about it, just listen to the lyrics, everything is explained in it!”
(Rock Mag, April 2006)

📢 "When I went into the studio I wanted to out do the Foo Fighters and write a great American rock song."
(BXFM, March 2006)

Photo credit: Thomas Rabsch

📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗢 𝗦𝗔𝗬 𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗗𝗕𝗬𝗘” 📌

📢 ”It's a letter to myself, about myself. I was doing so bad then... I was in a vicious circle, I only felt sadness and anger and frustration and permanent insatisfaction. I was just never happy, never. And if there doesn't come an end to that, or if you don't even want to realise there's something seriously wrong... I had to do something to change my lifestyle, and that's why I went to India. That's where I wrote that song, it's the starting point for the record, the oldest song that's on it. Can you imagine anything worse than your best friend shouting "You are one of God's mistakes, you crying, tragic waste of skin" at you? Well, I need to tell myself that.”
(Humo, March 2006)

📢 "The theme of "Song to say goodbye" is keeping only the best aspects of your life. It's the first track I wrote in India. I went there for a lot of reasons, one of them being to try and change my lifestyle. I wanted to make me understand that I should not become a rock'n'roll cliché and that the world doesn't need another dead rock star. I've written it as a letter to myself."
(Rock Mag, April 2006)

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