𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘: 𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐍𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐒𝐓

💥“...𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒊𝒆... "💥

Screenshots from the video, edit by Marti

...One of the most beautiful Placebo songs...
...A song whose playing never bored the band and until their last tour was part of the setlist...
...A song loved by muse... because guys enjoy inventing other versions of its performance...
...A song whose lyrics have not lost their importance over many years...


🔸"Well, that was something my mother said to me: She was talking about ageing, wrinkling, skin drying up and stuff. This was when I was about 14. She said that as soon as you pop out of the womb you start to deteriorate. I actually found her words quite disturbing but, y'know, she's a religious kind of person."🔸
(𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜, 𝑉𝑜𝑥, 𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑦 1996)
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🔸𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐍𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐒𝐓 was released exactly 25 years ago, on September 16, 1996 as the third single of the band Placebo.
Some sources state that this is the fourth single in a row. Here, however, it depends on whether we include the single "Bruise Pristine" in the total number, because in the original version it was released before the debut album, in 1995, basically as the first Placebo single.
Single „Teenage Angst“ was released in two versions and reached number 30 in the UK Singles Chart.
It was recorded at Westland Studios in Dublin and produced by Brad Wood.
In addition to the lead song, the CD version also contains "Been Smoking Too Long" and "Hug Bubble".
Besides „Teenage Angst (Amsterdam V.P.R.O. Session)“, the 7“ vinyl version also includes a demo version „Flesh Mechanic“ and „H.K. Farewell“.


🔸𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐍𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐒𝐓 is one of the first tracks that Brian ever wrote for the band.
It was played live 409 times over the years, and between 1995 and 2017 there was not one single year when it wasn't brought on stage at least once.
The first confirmed performance of “Teenage Angst” was on September 5th 1995 at Holy City Zoo in Manchester, UK.

Photo credit: Renaud Monfourny, screenshots from the video, edit by Silke

🔸A great and very imaginative video for the song was shot by the director Trevor Robinson.
📌Brian said about the shoot:
"This video was directed by Trevor Robinson. I think it is the only video he made. Maybe because the experience of working with us must be so traumatic, he’s never made one again."
(𝐷𝑉𝐷 “𝑂𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔”, 2004)


🔸𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎🔸
https://bit.ly/3tJswt4


🔸Another interesting feature of "Teenage Angst" is that in the demo version, part of the lyrics was different from the released version. The line „Well I was suicidal once / But now honestly I'm fine“ was replaced by „Airs and social graces / Elocution so divine“.
It is quite possible that the record company was not very happy with the lyrics dealing with suicide, so the lyrics had to be changed.


Dear soulmates, do you also enjoy watching different live versions of this song over the years?

🔸"Teenage Angst" was played in the original version until the year 2000.
🔸The piano version was played during the tours "Black Market Music", "Meds" and "Battle For The Sun".
🔸A great and playful hip-hop version sounded during the "Sleeping With Ghosts" tour.
🔸In 2010, at the end of the "Battle For The Sun" tour, a new version of "Teenage Angst" appeared on the stage and an absolutely amazing version of this song complemented the "Loud Like Love" tour setlist.


📌And Brian said about this:
“I’ve often found that if you can take one of your band’s songs and strip it all the way back to just a vocal and an acoustic guitar, or a vocal and a piano, then it’s the sign of a really, really good song. Similarly, if you can rewrite it four times — like we have with “Teenage Angst.” That’s a song that refuses to die. That’s a classic, because if you cover it in three different ways, then it has to be a classic [laughs].“
(𝑉𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑, 10/18/2013)
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So, dear friends, now you can remember the different versions of "Teenage Angst" in the videos I share with you. I will be very grateful for your feelings and confession which version is your favorite.

Photo credit: Scarlet Page

"𝐓𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐭" - 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟔
https://bit.ly/2XkR9AR


"𝐓𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐭" - 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐱𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟖
https://bit.ly/2XjvGrE


"𝐓𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐭" - 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐀𝐦 𝐑𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟑
https://bit.ly/3z8F9z6


"𝐓𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐭" - 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐤𝐨𝐫 𝐖𝐚𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟖
https://bit.ly/3tRlqmE


"𝐓𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐭" - 𝐋𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟎
https://bit.ly/2Xvq2TF


"𝐓𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐭" - 𝐒𝐳𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
https://bit.ly/3AgHPvR


"𝐓𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐭" - 𝐋𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐓𝐕 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟑
https://bit.ly/2XvoBEL
🔸⭐🔸


📌𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 "𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐍𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐒𝐓":
"I've always been a loner. The three of us are like that, we have gone through adolescence locked in our room, playing music. And like many boys this age, I was dreaming to become a star. A city like Luxembourg can be stifling when you try to forge your identity. I couldn't be myself there. I felt secluded there, far from the places where I wanted to be. There was no place where I could have expressed myself, found a feedback. From this isolation, I made songs, Teenage Angst or Burger Queen, because fatally that made me a voyeur. It's not the best place to observe the world."
(𝐿𝑒𝑠 𝐼𝑛𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠, 𝐴𝑢𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑡 1998)


"It's about the intense emotions you feel as a teenager the way you have a tendency to close yourself a bit, create your own little world. You’re an adult trapped in a kid’s body - you want to break out but everyone still treats you as a kid.”
(𝑀𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑀𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑟, 𝑆𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 1996)


“We kind of keep re-writing a lot of songs in order for them to become playable for us so that we can connect with them. Most recently, we’re on our fourth version of “Teenage Angst” from the first album. We have a brand new version of that, which is actually my favorite of the four. It took 20 years since I wrote that song for us to settle on what I think is the definitive version, but that’s okay.“
(𝑃𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑉𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑒, 𝑆𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 2013)


📌𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐅𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 "𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐍𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐒𝐓":
"What we tend to do is cover ourselves with quite a few versions of our songs that we've released. One of our first singles, 'Teenage Angst', has been done in piano format, it's been done in the rock format, and it has this stadium rock format. Then we went back to an electric bass led version. So in order for us to remain interested in our back catalogue we often change them and adopt them to how we feel. Sometimes a song when we record it, it's in an embryonic form it tells you ‘Listen, I'm supposed to be played this way.”
(𝐺𝑖𝑔𝑤𝑖𝑠𝑒, 𝑆𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 2016)
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Post by Marti