⭐𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐈'𝐌 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘⭐

🔹"𝙄 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙖 𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙖𝙡𝙗𝙪𝙢, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙄 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙖𝙨 𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙡. 𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙢𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙮𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙪𝙥 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚, 𝙗𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮. 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚'𝙨 𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙫𝙞𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙢𝙚 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙙𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙩 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙙𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙩 𝙢𝙚."🔹
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, '𝙽𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚢 𝙱𝚘𝚢' 𝚁𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝙽𝚘𝚟'𝟿𝟾)

Photo credit: Corinne Day, Frank W. Ockenfels III., David Tonge, rest unknown edit by Marti

Hello friends,

Placebo has released 8 studio albums, compilations, covers and many successful singles during its existence. The guys have toured the world several times. They've met a lot of people important to their work and their lives.

Why am I writing all this?
Because every event in the life of this successful and beloved duo deserves our memory and a little celebration.

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨'𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫.

‼⭐𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐈'𝐌 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘⭐‼

🔹🎶𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐔𝐃𝐈𝐎
https://bit.ly/3FDgYxi

It is full of gems in which each of us will find the story of our lives.
Can you admit which song from this album you like the most and what memories connect you to it?
Who among you was already a fan when Placebo released this yellow gem?
And which of you became their devoted soul thanks to this album?
So let's break the series of lullabies again today and immerse ourselves in memories.

Photo credit: Corinne Mariaud 

⭐𝐀𝐋𝐁𝐔𝐌 𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐒
'𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐈'𝐦 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠' 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐛𝐲 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦
- was recorded over three months in 1998 at Real World Studios in Wiltshire (except Pure Morning - see text below).

- 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝟏𝟐𝐭𝐡 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟖 by record labels Hut, Virgin Records and Elevator Music on CD, cassette and vinyl.

- was produced by 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐕𝐄 𝐎𝐒𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐄 (Suede, A-Ha, U2).

- The CD was made in two colors - black and red.

- contains 12 tracks plus the 13th hidden track – Evil Dildo


𝟓 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦:
◾"Pure Morning"
Released: 3 August 1998
◾"You Don't Care About Us"
Released: 28 September 1998
◾"Every You Every Me"
Released: 25 January 1999
◾"Without You I'm Nothing"
Released: 16 August 1999
◾"Burger Queen Français"
Released: 22 November 1999


⭐𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐔𝐂𝐂𝐄𝐒𝐒:
'WYIN' is probably the most admired album by fans and critics to date, peaking at number 7 on the UK Albums Chart and at number 20 on the US Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart. Without You I'm Nothing went platinum in the UK and gold in France and has sold over one million copies to date.

⭐𝐖𝐘𝐈𝐍 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂 𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐒:
Without You I'm Nothing has been generally well received by critics.

I really like this one from James Oldham of NME:
📌Molko's skill lies in his inherent grasp of what makes for an exciting pop record. He might cite Sonic Youth as his prime influence, but they have never made a record that's come close to matching the muscular force of this album. The sheer clarity and power of the sounds here frequently take your breath away: the cranked-out guitar line of 'Pure Morning', the rumbling fuzz of 'Allergic (To Thoughts Of Mother Earth)', the strung-out, mechanical beauty of 'My Sweet Prince', they're all fantastic moments, glossed and fattened by Steve Osbourne's amazing production and strongly reminiscent of both Nirvana's 'Nevermind' and Hole's 'Celebrity Skin'.

That's what Placebo are pushing towards all the time: the perfect radio hit. These aren't songs that need to be studied too carefully. Whatever Molko says about the vulnerability and self-criticism of the lyrics on this record, the overall effect hardly reeks of repentance or fragility, the songs here are too confident for that, too sure of both where they're going and how they're going to get there.
A thrilling record, then, made by freaks, for freaks. Just don't expect to leave with your soul intact.


⭐𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐒:
Twelve songs were originally recorded in the sessions, excluding "Pure Morning" and including another track, "Kitsch Object".
🔹”𝐊𝐈𝐓𝐒𝐂𝐇 𝐎𝐁𝐉𝐄𝐂𝐓”🔹 is an officially unreleased song from 1997 and exists only as demo version. It was planned to be included in the album “Without you I'm nothing”, but after about 15 attempts to record a proper studio version that they were satisfied with the band decided that “Kitsch Object” would solely be played at live concerts.
But apparently the live context didn't work for the song neither, there are only eight confirmed performances of this song to be found., all of them took place in 1997.

🔹🎶 𝐊𝐈𝐓𝐒𝐂𝐇 𝐎𝐁𝐉𝐄𝐂𝐓 𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐎 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍:
https://bit.ly/3CNKZem

🔹🎬 𝐊𝐈𝐓𝐒𝐂𝐇 𝐎𝐁𝐉𝐄𝐂𝐓 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 (Brixton Academy 1997)
https://bit.ly/3VmQMyz

Photo credit: Scarlet Page

⭐𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐏𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐂𝐄𝐒𝐒:
In 2016, Brian took part in a poll organized by Vice magazine called "𝙍𝙖𝙣𝙠 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙍𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨". His memories are still very vivid today:

💬 "I guess we were still learning how to use the studio, and we were looking to flesh out our sound beyond the power trio format. But it was a difficult record to make because we had a very dysfunctional relationship with our producer [Steve Osborne]. By the end of it, we weren't even talking. And it wasn't as if we'd had any major arguments. We started off not talking much anyway, and then as the months went by, it became less until there was no talking. It was such a strange atmosphere. The breakthrough track was "Pure Morning," and we didn't record that until our work with Steve was done. We recorded that during a B-side session with a different producer, Phil Vinall. That was like we were kids in a candy shop. It was borne out of chaos, because the pressure was off. So we just started playing around with all of these different sounds and that song was the result. I hadn't heard it in about ten years until recently, and I was actually surprised at how timeless and modern that song actually sounds. I have no issues whatsoever with the music—I actually really quite like the music—I just don't think the lyrics are my best. That's kind of why we haven't played it in concert for the last decade. Probably nine years to be precise. "Nancy Boy" neither, which is why we decided to resurrect them from the grave for this tour we're embarking on."

🔹𝘑𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸, 𝘪𝘯 2009 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰'𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮.
💬 "Did I? Well there you go. [Laughs] In 2009? How can I respond to that? Only stupid don't change their minds? And Christians? It just goes to show how strange this exercise is for me."
(𝚁𝚊𝚗𝚔 𝚈𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚁𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚜, 𝚅𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝙼𝚊𝚐., 𝙾𝚌𝚝. 𝟸0𝟷𝟼)


⭐𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐋𝐁𝐔𝐌 𝐓𝐈𝐓𝐋𝐄
One of the reasons for choosing the album title was the 🔹𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐚 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦 '𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐈'𝐦 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠' 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟎:🔹


🔹𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮... 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦... 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦, 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘐'𝘮 𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘢 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦. 𝘈𝘮 𝘐 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵?
💬 "You're right. It's also a Sandra Bernhard movie. It came from there. But it was also like the working title of the album because it seemed to reflect and project the scheme. This album is a real exploration of the emotions that we've been through in the last one and a half years. It's been complete heartbreak, really. So it's not surprising that you have a whole album that is practically filled with love songs. And that works on several levels -- there's one person in my past who it is kind of about."
(𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 𝚋𝚢 𝚁𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚍 𝚂𝚖𝚒𝚝𝚑, 𝙶𝚊𝚢 𝚃𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜, 𝙳𝚎𝚌'𝟿𝟾)

You can read more about this interesting film in this review.
https://bit.ly/3Thgra6

Photo credit: Kevin Westenberg

🔹💬 “It's a very romantic title and when we were demoing the album it seemed to sort of emerge as something that... a way of getting the theme of the record across. You know the record's like sort of primarily about an ever-pervading loneliness and heartbreak really and you know there's quite a few relationship songs in there so on one level it's kind of like us... it's a message for us, from us to ourselves, to each other in the band. It's a message to our fans and it's also sort of something that's universal in the way that most people have felt that at least once in their lives.“
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙿𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚋𝚘 𝚒𝚗 𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚂𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚘𝚗, 1998)


🔹𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵?
💬 B."You know, that’s about someone I used to go out with really, and that was like me exorcising the guilt or that failing relationship which I was mainly responsible for."
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙽𝙼𝙴, 𝙳𝚎𝚌' 𝟿𝟾)

~*~*~*~*~
𝐀𝐬 𝐰𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞, 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐫 𝐎𝐬𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐬𝐭. 𝐇𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟏:


🔹𝐍𝐘𝐑𝐎𝐂𝐊: 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘗𝘢𝘶𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦....
💬 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍: "That's true, yes. I don't want to mock Steve [Osborne, producer of the previous album], he's killer when it comes to dance grooves, which is one of the reasons why we wanted to work with him in the first place. We always liked to introduce electronic elements into rock, but it just didn't spark enough. It didn't spark the way we wanted it to spark. I think where our debut was under produced, Without You I'm Nothing was overproduced, not grossly overproduced but still overproduced. None of the albums sounded phat enough for our taste. They were all good albums and we're still proud of them, but they just weren't exactly what we wanted them to be, exactly what we imagined."

🔹𝐍𝐘𝐑𝐎𝐂𝐊: 𝘐 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮𝘴. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘠𝘰𝘶?
💬 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍: "Don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with it. I wanted it to sound really phat but if I look back now, I think Without You has too many slow songs for a second album. But what the hell, that's how we felt during that phase, we were in a slow mood."
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠, 𝙽𝚈𝚁𝙾𝙲𝙺 𝚖𝚊𝚐., 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟷)


⭐𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐋𝐁𝐔𝐌 𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑:
The iconic yellow cover was designed and created by the well-known English photographer Corrine Day, who also photographed the covers for the album's promotional singles.

✨𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐘 (1962 – 2010) was a British photographer whose influence on the style and perception of photography in the early 1990s and onwards has been immense. Self-taught, she became well-known for her raw, intimate and documentary-style images, which defined the 90s and specifically, the times of grunge culture.

The guys had a friendly bond with Corinne, as we know from the few references that can be found:


“𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒃𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑪𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒚.”
With these words Brian Molko introduced Nirvana’s cover 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐀𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬 at the outstanding concert at Brixton Academy in London on September 28th, 2010.
➡️ https://bit.ly/2L2SWDV

A bit earlier, on September 1st, Placebo dedicated 𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐨 𝐒𝐚𝐲 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐛𝐲𝐞 particularly to Corinne while playing at Un Palco In Collina Festival in Noci, Italy.
The video is of a bad quality but you can clearly hear Brian saying: “I’d like to dedicate this next song to Corinne Day. Thank you.”
➡️ https://bit.ly/3lQHnMK

Photo credit: Adrian Green

🔹💬 "Sarah and Sally, the twins on the cover, run a magazine called Blag, which started in the early 90s. So we’ve been in the same kind of circles since we moved to London around the age of 18. Over the years we’ve been meaning to connect and hang out and see how everyone’s doing and it just never happened. So [re-shooting the album cover] was the perfect opportunity to touch base and reminisce about Corinne Day, who shot the cover and is sadly now passed away. Sometimes it feels like you have to take the time to reconnect with events that are important for you, and this certainly was an important point in our lives and a little bit for them as well. […]"
(𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑓𝑎𝑛 𝑂𝑙𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑙, 𝑉𝑖𝑐𝑒, 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 2018)


The album cover features two women, sisters 𝐒𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐄𝐝𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 (who nowadays run the online 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐠 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐞), sitting on a table in front of each other, looking down at the table. The light coming in from the curtains makes a yellow colour on the cover of the album.

📌 𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘖𝘭𝘨𝘢'𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦:
https://bit.ly/3CNKwJ8


⭐𝐖𝐘𝐈𝐍 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐃 𝐁𝐎𝐖𝐈𝐄
When we talk about this album, we also can't forget the mentor and personal friend of the band, David Bowie, who raised the title song to the highest level.

Here I like to use 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟕 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭, where he remembers David after his death:

📌 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘋𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘥 𝘉𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘳𝘦-𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘐’𝘮 𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥’𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘦.

💬 “That song is very misunderstood” says Molko, “it is not a love song, the narrator is suffering from pathological low self-esteem. It’s about co-dependence, feeling like you don’t have an identity without somebody else.”

𝘐𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘧𝘢𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘦’𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘺 2016. 𝘐𝘯 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰’𝘴 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘱 𝘴𝘸𝘪𝘱𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥, 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘉𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘦’𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘶𝘮𝘣 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘢 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴. 𝘈𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘯𝘵, 𝘉𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮, 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱.

💬“We’ve been flashing up images of David whilst playing ‘Without You I’m Nothing’ on this tour and some nights it's been such an emotional experience that I've come very close to breaking down into tears" Molko confides. "There was a point during the summer where I said to Stefan 'I'm not too sure if I can play this anymore, it's tearing me apart'. But I’ve got over that now and instead, it has become a celebration of who David Bowie was and the impact he had on me as a human being, as well as a musician. The best advice he ever gave us was 'whatever you do, never lose your spontaneity'. David was always one for taking left-corners and going off on tangents and I think he infused a courage in us to do exactly that, to constantly re-invent ourselves. So yes the significance has changed, it's become a lot more about David for me, which is ok. He's kind of constantly with me at the moment, which is quite sweet and I reflect on our conversations, on his advice and what it was like to see him play every night for five years when we were touring together; he's like my guardian angel!”

💗🎬𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐮𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞:
Bowie / Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing - Irving Plaza, 29th March 1999
https://bit.ly/3MojHOI

Photo credit unknown

🔹𝐀𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐦, 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐎𝐬𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐘𝐈𝐍 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲.🔹
I'm putting his statement at the end of today's post and now I'm going to say goodbye.

The memory of the release of this yellow treasure is very personal to me today. Thanks to this album, I got to know a band that made its mark on my heart and still holds a vital place in it today.
I will be happy if you share with us the feelings that songs like Pure Morning, Brick Shithouse, You Don't Care About Us, The Crawl or My Sweet Prince left in you..

𝙉𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙄 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙒𝙔𝙄𝙉, 𝙞𝙩 𝙖𝙡𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙝𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙢𝙮 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙧, 𝙙𝙚𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙮. 𝙄𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪'𝙫𝙚 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙚𝙡𝙩 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙧, 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙗𝙪𝙢 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪.


📌𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐮𝐬 𝐎𝐟… 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐈’𝐦 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐲 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨📌

While Placebo’s debut revelled in hedonism, its sequel was all emotional aftermath, and demonstrated more assured songwriting. Producer 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐕𝐄 𝐎𝐒𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐄 tells us more.
…/.../
With its more robust sonics and more complex emotions serving a series of perspectives on relationship breakdown, Without You I’m Nothing would verify Molko and musical partner Stefan Olsdal’s songwriting prowess – and their faculty for crafting bewitching arrangements.
…/.../

Dissatisfied with the ‘thin’ sound of their debut and the frustration of building each track one instrument at a time, the band largely recorded Without You I’m Nothing live. After meeting Happy Mondays and New Order producer Steve Osborne – a big fan of the band’s debut – following a show in Manchester, Placebo agreed to work with him to craft this more direct-sounding album at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios.

“They already had pretty much everything ready to go when it came to making the album,” Osborne tells us. “There was stuff like Brick Shithouse, which needed a little more production in terms of the sound, but overall our approach was to make an old-school band-playing-in-a-room record.”

These idiosyncratic approaches fed into Molko’s magnetism. “What you do is develop your own style through mistakes,” the guitarist told Alternative Press in 1999. “If you don’t know what the rules are, then there are no rules in the first place. You’ll find you’re doing some crazy chord which, if you were taking a course, you wouldn’t attempt until three years into it.”
…/.../

Photo credit: David Tonge

Osborne was hugely impressed by the 26 year-old’s abilities. “Brian totally had his own style, his own way of playing,” he tells Guitar.com. “I mean, I think that’s the thing about Placebo. They’ve got this very unique sound. Stefan too, he would be playing bass chords on the Fender VI. That made it difficult to mix the low end sometimes but, together, their whole ethos and sound was attractive.”

The album’s 12 songs sketched out a multi-hued postmortem of a relationship, digging into suffering via the depressive plod of The Crawl and the thorny swing of Summer’s Gone. But at the album’s core was an optimistic, radiant little gem that motored along with a headstrong chordal thrust and seemed destined for rock radio airplay. The buoyant Every You Every Me was an obvious single and a perfect counterpoint to the anguish that surrounded it. It remains Osborne’s favourite from the record. “I’m a sucker for a good single.”

Released in October 1998, Without You I’m Nothing was immediately recognised as a deeper work than the band’s debut. It drew a wider assortment of listeners into Placebo’s fold too, resonating with those in the alt crowd looking for blistering rock driven by relatable themes like regret and heartbreak.

“Without You I’m Nothing, I mean, that’s a good album.” says Osborne. “It’s something that I’d put up there with one of my favourites. The sound of it comes down to the way they wanted to do it, which was real. It sounds real because it was done real. There’s no tidying up or anything. It was just captured as it was played in the studio. It’s the opposite of the way records are being made now.”(𝙱𝚢 𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚢 𝙿𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝙶𝚞𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚛.𝚌𝚘𝚖, 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝟸0𝟸𝟸)
~*~*~*~*~
Post by Marti