🔻 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐖𝐇𝐘 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐄 𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬 🔻

♦️ Another 𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬! 😊 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 "𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈" 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏.

♦️ 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙀𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙒𝙝𝙮 was released exactly 13 years ago, on Spetember 7, 2010. The physical release, as the digital releases took place one week later exclusively for the UK, on September 13, 2009, and an additional one on February 7, 2010.

Photo credit: Torsten Roman (band), Laetitia Evalia (record) / Edit by Laetitia

🎸 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼 - 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿-𝗘𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗵𝘆 (𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼)
🎶 https://bit.ly/3QPCrIt 🎶

♦️ Indeed, on September 7, 2009, it was in the form of a 45 rpm that this song was distributed to fans. A 𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄 𝒑𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 500 𝒄𝒐𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒔 only to the delight of fans but especially of collectors !

♦️ 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒚 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝑩𝒖𝒅𝒅𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒚𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝑴𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒍 𝑯𝒐𝒖𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒒'𝒔 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌 '𝑨𝒕𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒅' (𝐿𝑒𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑒́𝑙𝑒́𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝐹𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐ℎ), published in 1998. "𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘢 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦", Stefan said as the novel is rather a concentrate of cynicism and despair through characters who contrast with each other due to their way of life.

The B-side contains the excellent cover 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗹𝘆 𝗪𝗮𝗶𝘁 , originally by PJ Harvey.

🎸 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼 - 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗹𝘆 𝗪𝗮𝗶𝘁
🎶 https://bit.ly/3wCbpft 🎶

🎸 𝗣𝗝 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘆 - 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗹𝘆 𝗪𝗮𝗶𝘁
🎶 https://bit.ly/3wzE5pm 🎶

Photo credit:  Trip Fontaine

♦️ Chasing answers is what is most important, not the answer itself. It is what fills our life. If we dig a little deeper, we could even say that it is what allows us to know ourselves better too, even if some questions will remain forever unanswered. Brian and Stefan shared their views on the meaning of the song in several interviews.

🔸 𝐼𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒-𝑢𝑝 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑎 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑜𝑛 𝐵𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑢𝑛?
💬 No, not only. For example The Never Ending Why is a Brian composition for which I wrote the lyrics. But basically the music was created as before. That is, some of the songs were written separately by me and Brian, and the others were improvised together. During the Meds tour Brian and I did a lot of writing, but we didn't think of these lyrics as proposals for a new Placebo album. Because we didn't know if Placebo still had a future. About half of the album was born on the tour. About three or four songs. But the biggest songs, like Battle For The Sun or Speak in Tongues, were already born in the band with Steve Forrest.
✔️ 𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚏𝚊𝚗 𝙾𝚕𝚜𝚍𝚊𝚕 - 𝚃𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚣 𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔 - 𝙹𝚞𝚗𝚎 𝟸00𝟿


🔸 𝐼 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑒 "𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝐸𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑊ℎ𝑦". 𝑊ℎ𝑜 𝑤𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒 𝑖𝑡 ?
𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣: It's one of Stefan's babies.
𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙛𝙖𝙣: The idea is that you can't change the world you live in. Even in a democracy, you can't do anything, shit is going to happen around you, time passes and you can't do anything about it, nothing can stop it. So it's about finding a glimmer of hope in all this shit, finding the bright side.

🔸 𝐴𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛, 𝑎 𝑟𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑐ℎ...
𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙛𝙖𝙣: It's true, it's a bit inspired by Michel Houellebecq's book "Atomised. My lyrics were inspired by that at the beginning, and then Brian helped me to give them a meaning and a touch of hope. Basically, yes it's shit, but you can choose to move on and live your life anyway. You have a choice.
✔️ 𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚏𝚊𝚗 𝙾𝚕𝚜𝚍𝚊𝚕 - 𝙴𝚕𝚎𝚐𝚢 - 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 /𝙹𝚞𝚗𝚎 𝟸00𝟿

Photo credit: Trip Fontaine

💬 It's a very spiritual song, It's kind of Eastern in its philososphy. It's about the questions that will never be answered. Anyone who has an interest in the meaning of life will come up against a brick wall, but you must accept the fact that there will be no answers and try and get the best out of now.
✔️ 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 - 𝚡𝚏𝚖.𝚌𝚘.𝚞𝚔 - 𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝟷𝟺, 𝟸00𝟿


𝙉𝙖𝙜𝙪𝙞: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝐸𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑊ℎ𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑢𝑝 𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦. 𝑆𝑜 𝑜𝑏𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒'𝑠 𝑎 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑡, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒, 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒.
💬 I would say that maybe the battle is the most important thing and having the desire to fight.
𝙉𝙖𝙜𝙪𝙞: 𝑆𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 ? 𝐴 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑜𝑠 ? 𝐴 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑘𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑢ℎ...
💬 No, I think this song is about... we're all looking for answers, but if we spend our whole life looking for answers, we're not living our life and maybe it's better not to look for all the answers, because there are questions that will never be answered.
𝙉𝙖𝙜𝙪𝙞: 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑜𝑏𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑜𝑏𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑠 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 ?
💬 It's the journey, it's the experience, it's the journey itself that's the most important, because that's where you learn the most, as soon as you get there, well poof we've arrived, I don't know, we're going to the bar (𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘴) but it's the journey that is...
𝙉𝙖𝙜𝙪𝙞: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑟𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠, 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑡 ?
💬 I hope so.
✔️ 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 - 𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚊 - 𝙹𝚞𝚗𝚎 𝟻, 𝟸00𝟿

Photo credit: Trip Fontaine

📜 LYRICS 📜

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘮 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘥𝘦
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘥
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘢 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘬𝘦
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘢 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘬𝘦

𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘣𝘦𝘭
𝘋𝘢𝘮𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭
𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴

𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩
𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦
𝘛𝘰 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳-𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘩𝘺

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘴
𝘈𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳'𝘴 𝘬𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘥
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘶𝘮𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘯
𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘬𝘪𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦

𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘣𝘦𝘭
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭
𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴

𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩
𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦
𝘛𝘰 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳-𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘩𝘺

𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩
𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦
𝘛𝘰 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳-𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘩𝘺

𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩
𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦
𝘛𝘰 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳-𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘩𝘺

𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩
𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦
𝘛𝘰 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳-𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘩𝘺

𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩
𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦
𝘛𝘰 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳-𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘩𝘺

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♦️ I'd like to share the very fisrt time I heard the song live which amazed me due to its enegic vibes !

🎸 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗘𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗻 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟰, 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟵
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♦️ The 𝗮𝗰𝗼𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 is also a pure enjoyment for the ears and even reduced to the minimum instruments, the song does not lose any of its strength.
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