๐ฐ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ "๐บ๐๐๐๐ ๐ป๐ ๐ป๐๐ ๐พ๐๐๐" ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฝ๐ฌ๐น๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ฐ๐น ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฑ๐๐๐๐, which was subsequently released on the single "Special K" in 2001.
๐ธ๐ถDo you know this remix?
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| Screenshot from Slave to the wage video. |
In 1999, the Placebo tour with the WYIN album included a spring stop in Australia. And on that occasion, the guys received a suggestion that they could be support for the Australian rock band Silverchair in August.
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Silverchair is one of Australia's most famous alternative bands.
All three of its members were born in 1979. So they were much younger than our Placebo guys. But imagine that:
โSinger/guitarist Daniel Johns, bassist Chris Joannou, and drummer Ben Gillies were all 12 when they started their band, originally named Innocent Criminals, and were 15 when they wrote โTomorrow,โ the anthemic song that kickstarted their career. While many legendary bands formed as adolescent school chums, from U2 to Radiohead, Silverchair got a record deal and stormed the charts while they were still kids, a rarity for a rock band that wrote and played their own songs.โ
(๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ: ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ช๐ณ, ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ, ๐๐ค๐ต.2021)
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| Silverchair. Photo credit: Mick Hutson / Redferns, Getty Images |
Their sound, of course, copied the grunge musical style, thanks to which the record companies were looking for bands with a similar sound to Nirvana or Pearl Jam. And Silverchair's initial work was reminiscent of exactly these bands.
Here it is necessary to realize that the youngsters from Silverchair completed their high school studies during the first two tours.
Their fame rose sharply. This stress was then gradually attributed to the singer Daniel Johns, who began to suffer from depression, eating disorders and subsequently severe reactive arthritis.
These health problems prevented him from touring in support of their fourth album, Diorama, which was released in 2001.
According to Rolling Stone magazine in its four and a half star review, the album was โone of the boldest musical statements ever made by an Australian rock bandโ.
I dare say that the culmination of their rock career was a performance at Rock in Rio in 2001, where they played for 250,000 people!
The next fifth album also had very good reviews, and again, like all previous albums, ranked number one in the Australian charts. However, apart from a few always sold-out concerts in different parts of the world, no other tour took place. In 2011, Silverchair announced the introduction of their band into "indefinite hibernation".
Daniel Johns continues to work on his music projects.
But let's go back to the remix.
๐๐ก๐ ๐จ๐๐๐ข๐๐ข๐๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐๐ก๐๐ข๐ซ ๐ฐ๐๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ญ๐๐ฌ:
๐ธโญโ "๐ ๐๐๐ง'๐ญ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐๐ค" ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐จ ๐๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ฑโญ๐ธ
Daniel Johns' "accidental" side project with Paul Mac has already yielded a five song EP of original material called "I Can't Believe It's Not Rock". We can now exclusively reveal that the duo has just completed another studio collaboration, remixing "Slave To The Wage" by UK band, Placebo.
It is not the first time that Daniel Johns and Placebo have crossed paths. silverchair has shared stages with the UK outfit at numerous European festivals and in August 1999 they brought them out to Australia as special guests on their Neon Ballroom tour.
Daniel and Paul created the remix in their home studios - the same locations used for the I Can't Believe It's Not Rock EP. While the original version of the track was very upbeat, the Johns/Mac version twists the tune into a dark, gothic hymn. It's called "Slave To The Wage (I Can't Believe It's A Remix)" and it will appear as a bonus track on a new Placebo CD single which is to be released in Australia in January.
โฆ/.../ However, this is the first time that Daniel Johns has ever been involved in remixing another artist's music. While he doesn't plan to make a habit of such work he reportedly enjoyed this unusual challenge.โ
(๐ถโ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐ท๐๐. 2000)
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| Screenshot from Slave to the wage video. |
โAmidst a wall of recorded music, Placebo took the stage and delivered a full length set that would end up going as long if not longer than silverchair's own set. If you are a fan of Placebo, you would have liked the set, it's as simple as that. They came across as more of a hard rocking band than the massively aired singles would have you believe. The mix didn't quite allow the expression in the vocals to shine through, but it was a competent set, and they were playing to more than the odd person that was at the concert specifically to see them."
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However, according to Brian, no special friendship developed between the two bands:
๐ข๐ฌ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐จ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ฐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ข
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โญIf you would like to feel the atmosphere of the Silverchair music experience in Rock In Rio, then here is one of the biggest hits:
๐ข๐ถ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐๐ก๐๐ข๐ซ โ๐ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐โ๐ข
https://bit.ly/3JQJOeD
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