Today, we're going to continue discussing ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ท, so I prepered some quotes by ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐ regarding three latest Placebo studio records.
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| Photo credit: Trip Fontaine, 2009, album covers; edit by Olga |
๐ข๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง: “I don’t know, it was the best album title that we can come up with. You always look for an album title which isn’t the name of one of the songs but we couldn’t really come up with one that we thought was strong enough in a way. So we went for Meds because it kind of seemed to represent the anesthesia that exists on this record. But I think as well we wanted to have an album title which was short because the other album titles have always been very long: Without You I’m Nothing, Sleeping With Ghosts, Once More With Feeling, you know… We just wanted something short, snappy – Meds – and something that anybody could say in any language.”
(๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐ก๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ค ๐๐ก ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ก๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐๐๐๐ก, ๐๐๐ด ๐ถ๐๐๐๐+, 27.02.2006)
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| Photo credit: Nadav Kander |
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๐ข๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: There have been a few track in Battle of the Sun. There were more songs in this album that we did, that ended up in the album. And for the first time, we had the title of the record very early on. Usually with Placebo, it’ll be like: “the album is going to be pressed tomorrow, we need a title for the record now”! And it’s like “sh*t, what are we going to do”? And then we panic! But for this album we already had the title quite early on which allowed the theme to evolved and to be looked at in more perspective throughout the recording process and that was different for us. It also helped with the artwork and the whole idea on what this whole album was about.
(๐ป๐๐๐๐๐ "๐ผ๐๐๐: ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐'๐ ๐ฟ๐๐ข๐ ๐ฟ๐๐๐ ๐ฟ๐๐ฃ๐", ๐๐๐'13)
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| Photo credit: Scarlet Page |
๐ข๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง: “I wanted to call our last album "Speed of Sound" before Coldplay beat us to it with their single. So this time I scoured the internet to check that "Loud Like Love" had not already been used in a musical context which, to the best of my knowledge, it hasn't. I can't remember exactly when and where and why it came to me, but it was sometime during our first phase of writing. It occurred to me that an underlying theme was emerging. We stood at a turning point: were we to follow our instincts and recognize that this theme was a manifestation of our collective sub-conscience and have the courage to explore, in our own singular manner, the subject that remains the most explored in popular song? Or were we to embrace the intellectual and steer the album’s subject matter away from its natural course out of fear of appearing cliched? Thankfully we chose the former and never once questioned that choice. And the results have exceeded our own expectations.”
(๐ต๐พ "๐ผ๐๐ก๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ค ๐ค๐๐กโ ๐ต๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐", ๐ด๐ข๐'13)
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| Photo credit: Joseph Llanes |
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