Today, I’d like to start talking to you about ๐ถ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ถ Do you like all of them? Are you interested in what the guys think of them and how they came up with the ideas? Then here we go!
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| ▪️Photo credits: Corinne Day, album covers; edit by Olga |
๐ข๐๐: ๐ฐ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐'๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐, '๐พ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฐ'๐ ๐ต๐๐๐๐๐๐'?
๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง: It's a very romantic title and when we were demoing the album it seemed to sort of emerge as something that... a way of getting the theme of the record across. You know, the record's like sort of primarily about an ever-pervading loneliness and heartbreak really and you know, there's quite a few relationship songs in there, so on one level it's kind of like us... it's a message for us, from us to ourselves, to each other in the band. It's a message to our fans and it's also sort of something that's universal in the way that most people have felt that at least once in their lives.
๐๐: ๐ป๐๐๐๐'๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ '๐พ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฐ1๐ ๐ต๐๐๐๐๐๐'...๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐?
๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง: No, it just emerged as we were demoing the songs in London before Christmas basically. We're always looking around you know trying to pull things together, you know, at every stage, so at that point we were already talking about what to call the record, you know, because we were going to call it Placebo 2. We couldn't think of anything to call the first one and we couldn't think of anything better to call this one. It would have been nice to call the album something that wasn't a song title but whenever we came up with things it always seemed to be a bit too pretentious.
(๐ผ๐๐ก๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ค "๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ผ๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ ๐๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐๐กโ ๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐ก๐๐๐ก๐ก๐๐", ๐ด๐ข๐'98)
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| Photo credit: Julian Broad |
๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง: "You're right. It's also a Sandra Bernhard movie. It came from there. But it was also like the working title of the album because it seemed to reflect and project the scheme. This album is a real exploration of the emotions that we've been through in the last one and a half years. It's been complete heartbreak, really. So it's not surprising that you have a whole album that is practically filled with love songs. And that works on several levels - there's one person in my past who it is kind of about.
But also it's a message to each other. And it's a message to our fans - which is that old Judy Garland thing."
(๐บ๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐๐ "๐โ๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐ต๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐", ๐ท๐๐'98)
๐ง๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ง
๐ข"'Black Market Music' is a reference to something that's sordid and seedy and kept under the counter, basically something illegal that you shouldn't really have." Begins ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง, his trademark transatlantic brogue having taken on a more hoity-toity upper-crust English twang. "That's where the idea came from, but we were in Japan the other day hanging out with Taylor Hawkins from the Foo Fighters and we told him the name of the album and he was like 'Oh yeah after that music store in LA' - and then it actually occurred to me that it was also the name of the place where we'd bought some of our most expensive guitars in America. We'd never put two and tow together until Taylor had pointed it out to us - so there we were trying to think of a really philosophical answer, but now we can just say it's named after a music store," he reveals.
"Which is also quite apt in the year 2000 with MP3s and all that" continues Steve, masterminding its topical prevalence.
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| Pgoto credit: Matthias Clamer |
๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง considers the ramifications then rolls his eyes theatrically. "Yeah, it'll be auctioned on the internet before we've even heard the final cut."
(๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ข๐๐ "๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ - ๐ถ๐ข๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ด๐๐", ๐๐๐ก'00)
๐ง ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ง
๐ข๐๐๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ฑ: ๐ณ๐๐'๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐. ๐พ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ? ๐ฐ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐? ๐ต๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐? ๐ณ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐?
๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง: Probably. If that shines through a bit then it was by accident. I didn't mean to. Although I do think that musicians age slower than normal people. It's the Peter Pan syndrome. People want to be in a rockband to stay a teenager forever. I'm also not ready for a midlife crisis yet. I've been through to much the last few years for that to happen. I've had many experiences the last few years, and I think it's a bit sad if you're still the same person you were when you were 20 at 30. Then you're not a fully developed human and then you haven't learned from the experiences you had the years before. The memories are certainly there and Sleeping with Ghosts is about how do deal with them. You look back and think about if your memories are accurate. If they're objective or not. And I believe that with me they are subjective. And I also believe we carry the ghosts of past relationships with us till we die.
(๐ท๐๐ด๐ ๐๐ฅ "๐ต๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐", ๐๐๐'03)
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| Photo credit: Perou |
(๐-๐ ๐๐ฆ "๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐กโ, ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐-๐ข๐", ๐ด๐๐'03)
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