Five singles were released from the record: “Come home“, “36 degrees“, “Teenage Angst“, “Nancy Boy“ and “Bruise Pristine“. All songs on “Placebo“ were produced by Brad Wood, except for “Nancy Boy”, which was produced and mixed by Phil Vinall. The album was remastered and reissued in 2006 for its 10th anniversary, including demos and a DVD featuring live performances and music videos.
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| Covers of the album and the singles, edit by Silke |
The famous album cover with the boy in the red hoodie was taken by Saul Fletcher. The young guy is his cousin David Fox. In 2012 Fox sued the band because allegedly the photo was used without consent.
Read the whole story here:
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๐ข "The album carries through the urgency and immediacy of what we are."
(Cambs E News, January 1997)
๐ข "There's a lot of characters in there, and a lot of the lyrics are telling stories too. But if it makes you feel that it's an emotional record then I'm happy about that. I'm happy to walk the line. To make things dangerous, hopefully. People could really hate the record, it could really annoy them - which would be cool. Indifference about it would piss me off more."
(Air & Style, 1998)
๐ข "It's an exploration into somebody's misogyny yet heartfelt. It's angry, nasty, insulting and completely politically incorrect."
(Backbeat, March 1997)
๐ข "The first album's very youthful, full of lustful energy basically. We didn't spend that much time on that album. We wrote it in the studio and we hadn't been a band for very long. It's a bit more schizophrenic as well."
(Recovery Magazine, March 1999)
๐ข "You run the risk on the first album of making a record that has one particular sound, that runs the whole way through it. And we wanted ours to be like a collection of short stories, approach every single song individually with the orchestration and vocal styles. We wanted to take you on a journey, an emotional rollercoaster, with little surprises here and there, instead of just having a blanket sound."
(Cambs E News, January 1997)
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(MTV Supersonic, 2004)
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๐ข “What I remember, we were in Dublin in Ireland, so I remember drinking a lot of Guinness, a lot of fine Guinness, and putting on some weight because we drank so much Guinness but it was fun, it was good, yeah. Dublin is like the pub that stay open all day every day so a lot of black stuff was consumed. Oh, that’d be nice if I can get a pint of Guinness right now!“
(MTV Supersonic, 2004)
๐ข "There's a lot of me in there. They're people I've been at one point in my life or emotion that I've felt. A combination of me and other people or me and a little spice. But I don't talk about anything which I haven't personally felt or experienced myself. I have great affection for the characters in the songs, because to varying degrees they do have bits of me in them, and I think that the author's attitude towards his characters is not a judgmental one in any way. It's very affectionate, and it's filled with pathos. I think the album is like ten short stories, about the same thing, but from ten different points of view."
(Vox, February 1997)
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01. Come home
02. Teenage Angst
03. Bionic
04. 36 degrees
05. Hang on to your IQ
06. Nancy Boy
07. I know
08. Bruise Pristine
09. Lady of the flowers
10. Swallow
11. H.K. Farewell (hidden track)
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