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⚡𝐇𝐢 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬,⚡
let's take a little break in our lullaby series. Today is another important anniversary that we cannot miss
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🎵𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨
https://bit.ly/3SoBIhB

Photo credit: Trip Fontaine, screenshots from video, album cover / Edit: by Marti

🔹𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐘 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓🔹, the third official single from Placebo's sixth studio album,
𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐧, was released exactly 𝟏𝟑 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨, 𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟏𝐬𝐭, 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟗.

It was out in all of Europe, except for the United Kingdom and Norway, with The Never-Ending Why being released in these two countries a week prior, on September 14th, 2009, as a second single.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 2008, 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘋𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘥 𝘉𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘭, 𝘮𝘪𝘹𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘈𝘭𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘵 𝘈𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘶𝘭𝘥 & 𝘉𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰, 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯 𝘋𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘴 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘴, 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯.

Photo credit: Laetitia Forget

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝟑 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐁-𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬:
🔹"𝐅𝐔𝐂𝐊 𝐔", a cover of a song by electro/alternative rock band 𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐕𝐄.

We wrote about this cover here:
📌 https://bit.ly/3faTZAE
🔹"𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐋𝐘 𝐖𝐀𝐈𝐓" is originally by 𝐏𝐉 𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐕𝐄𝐘.

You can read more about this cover here:
📌 https://bit.ly/3DDDwPX

🔹The remix of "𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐈𝐓'𝐒 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐇" was done by Placebo’s friends, a British band 𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐒:
🎵 https://bit.ly/3dtQ7ub

These are available on a CD single while iTunes digital download also includes a video.

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𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎 for 𝐀𝐬𝐡𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐲 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 was directed by 🔹𝐑𝐎𝐁 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐋𝐄𝐑🔹 and included a lot of impressive post-production in it.
𝘐 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴?

🔹🎬 𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐘 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨
https://bit.ly/3BxlX1k

Photo credit: Jean-Baptiste Quentin

🔹🎬 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 - "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐬𝐡𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐲 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭"
https://bit.ly/3qSrx9s

This song has an interesting history.
For the first time, Stefan was not involved in its creation and it was not written for Placebo at all.
The co-writers of this specific one were two friends of Brian, namely 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫-𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐉𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐋𝐮𝐝𝐰𝐢𝐧, 𝐚 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐤 𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫.


Many fans associate the title of the song with a reference to the band's original name – Ashtray Heart.
𝘏𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳, 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘸:

🔹💬 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 „𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐘 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓“:
𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐠: 𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯, 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘴𝘩𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘺 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘱𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰, 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 "𝘉𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦..." 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦...
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: "Not really. There are many people who have made this rapprochement, but it's not really the case here. I have composed this song with two friends during my vacations in Nicaragua. It came to me because I was always asking for an ashtray (laughs). We began to sing the word in Spanish, which gave the title to the song. Initially, it was not intended for Placebo, but I was so pleased with the result that I decided to include it."
(𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔 𝙾𝚗𝚎 𝙼𝚊𝚐, 𝙼𝚊𝚢 𝟸00𝟿)

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𝐍𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐲: 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰'𝘴 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘴𝘩𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘺 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨:
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Yeah, it was a song by Captain Beefheart, and we’ve got our inspiration from it for two weeks, the band was called Ashtray Heart for two or three weeks and then it became Placebo after that.
But this song is .... It was never intended to be used for Placebo, I wrote it with two friends of mine, we write songs together for fun and this one ...
𝐍𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐲: 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘵?
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Because… because of this connection to Ashtray Heart etc., we wrote it to sell it to someone. And we wrote it in Nicaragua, so there is Spanish in it ‘Cenicero cenicero mi corazon’. I was the only smoker, and when I was on vacation in Nicaragua I was always asking in every restaurant, in every coffee for ‘cenicero, cenicero’. We had the demo for this song, we listened to it while driving across Nicaragua and that's how the song was written. And this is the first song which is on Placebo album that I didn't write with Stefan.
(𝙵𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚑 𝚃𝚟 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚊 №𝟹𝟷𝟾, 𝚏𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝟸00𝟿)
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𝙒𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙬𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙚 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙫𝙚 𝙇𝙪𝙙𝙬𝙞𝙣 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙣 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨, 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧?
Mr. Molko, Page and Ludwin also worked together on another song called “𝙃𝙮𝙥𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙅𝙖𝙣𝙚” for the German glam rock band 𝘾𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙢𝙖 𝘽𝙞𝙯𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙚. It was released on the album “ToyZ” in August 2009.
🔹🎵 https://bit.ly/3BVbUVc

And to make the information complete, we must not forget 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐱 𝐛𝐲 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐃𝐉 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐚𝐬:
🔹🎵 https://bit.ly/3UuWUVl

The end of this post should belong to live music. I really love this live 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟗 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥, so enjoy an evening with 𝐀𝐬𝐡𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐲 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭, it really is worth seeing.
🔹🎬 https://bit.ly/3BvEoTT

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