๐Exactly 18 years ago today, on ๐๐๐ญ๐จ๐๐๐ซ ๐๐๐ญ๐ก, ๐๐๐๐, the compilation album ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ - ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐-๐๐๐๐ and DVD ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ - ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐-๐๐๐๐ were released.
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| Photo credit: Scarlet Page; CD and DVD covers / edit by Olga |
๐ถ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐
๐๐๐๐๐๐ - ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ถ
The CD includes 17 singles (the omissions are the band's debut single ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ and ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐๐ซ ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ง ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ง๐๐๐ข๐ฌ which was a French release only) and two new songs, ๐๐ฐ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ and ๐ ๐๐จ. Limited edition bonus disc contains ten remixes by artists such as Timo Maas, UNKLE, and M83. There is also a limited edition bonus disc exclusive to the Mexican market which features remixes by Mexican artists.
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| Photo credit: Sebastien Dolidon |
๐ข๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง: There is no great mystery, after almost ten years of career, that's what the bands that are still there do. Many fellow artists who started at the same time as us, today no longer exist. People are looking for some deep meaning in this compilation, but there is none. It's not a record deal issue, because it doesn't count as an album for the record company. It's not a matter of ideas, because we've already written the new album. Maybe it was just about giving us a little time to do something else. We've been on tour for two years and we need to take a break, to distance ourselves from things a bit.
๐พ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ (๐ป๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฐ ๐ซ๐)?
๐ข๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง: We put two previously unreleased songs on the compilation to tame the voracious appetite of our fans. We tried to impose Brian Eno rules on ourselves. The songs should not be longer than two and a half minutes and there should be no guitar. First, because we have never done it before. And also, because people think Placebo is a guitar band, and we don't like that label. Looking back, I think Twenty Years is probably one of our greatest songs. It's our closest track to U2's With or Without You, the ultimate song.
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๐พ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐?
๐ข๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง: It's not a ‘greatest hits’ compilation, it's not a ‘best of’, it's a kind of historical document, a chronological retrospective of the band, through its most accessible pieces. Choosing singles was a way of presenting the old repertoire. We are aware that there are 40% of fans today who got to know the band through Sleeping With Ghosts and specifically, The Bitter End. We see them at the concerts, they are 14-15 years old... At the time of the first album, they were still watching TV. Teenagers don't have a lot of money and if they want to listen to more Placebo, they shouldn’t necessarily buy all four albums.
(๐ฟ๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐๐๐๐๐ข๐๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ , ๐๐๐ฃ'04)
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| Photo credit: Alvaro Villarrubia |
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๐๐๐๐๐๐ - ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ถ
Once more with feeling DVD consists of all videos that Placebo released from 1996 to 2004, except for ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ again. There are also several live videos, a documentary entitled ๐๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ง ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ and an exclusive ๐๐ฎ๐๐ข๐จ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฒ on all tracks by the band.
๐ถ๐น๐ฌ๐ฝ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐พ ๐๐ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ช๐ถ
There are many different versions of the Placebo story. […] But my favourite of all is the one about this perverse trio who wrote these extraordinary songs...
It's about a band who became famous for a song so sexually brave and confrontational that coy odes to boys called "Michael" sound feeble in comparison. A song about being a "Nancy Boy", about lube and rubbers and how "We're a couple / When our bodies double." And about how Molko, an actual functioning bisexual, has been unpleasantly dismissed as a sexual dilettante while the charlatan bisexuals reap plaudits.
Once More With Feeling is all about a band who wrote a song called "You Don't Care About Us". A track that's propelled by an unstoppable, elastic bass line and that flips manically between wise, sighing despair and spitting adolescent rage. A song which feels like it had no choice but to be written and which is one of the rawest, most brilliant singles of the last decade.
It's a story about the shuddering electronica of "Pure Morning", the sleazy sneer of "Every You, Every Me" and the searing riff of "Bruise Pristine". It's about a band constrained by their musical limitations but who thrashed happily within them. It's about the way that "Special K" climbs frantically towards its chorus before collapsing sadly under its own weight.
This is a singles collection which reveals to the listener the most seductively bruising rock band of recent years. Each song stems from a songwriter so instinctive and precise that when he writes a song called "The Bitter End", that's exactly what it sounds like.
And yes, it's a tale about an imperfect band, a band prone to sloppy sloganeering like "Slave To The Wage" or clumsy posturing like "Black Eyed". But the band remain electrifying, alive and enthralling in all those imperfections.
This is a story about a band who have remained fiercely independent in a bland pop landscape. Read it.
(๐ต๐ต๐ถ, 2004, ๐ ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ค ๐๐ฆ ๐ฝ๐๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐)
๐ถ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ถ
▪36 Degrees
▪Teenage Angst
▪Nancy Boy
▪Bruise Pristine
▪Pure Morning
▪You Don't Care About Us
▪Every You Every Me
▪Without You I’m Nothing (ft. David Bowie)
▪Taste In Men
▪Slave To The Wage
▪Special K
▪Black-Eyed
▪The Bitter End
▪This Picture
▪Special Needs
▪English Summer Rain
▪Protรจge-Moi
▪I Do
▪Twenty Years
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| Photo credit: Jenny Lewis |
๐ถ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ถ
▪Special K (Timo Maas remix)
▪Without You I'm Nothing (Unkle remix)
▪Every You Every Me (Infected by the scourge of the earth mix)
▪Protรจge-Moi (M83 remix)
▪Slave To The Wage (I can't believe it's a remix)
▪Pure Morning (Les Rhythms Digitales remix)
▪Taste In Men (Alpinestars Kamikaze Skimix)
▪Black-Eyed (Placebo vs. Le Vibrator mix)
▪English Summer Rain (Freelance Hellraiser remix)
▪This Picture (Junior Sanchez remix)
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▪36 Degrees
▪Teenage Angst
▪Nancy Boy
▪Bruise Pristine
▪Pure Morning
▪You Don't Care About Us
▪Every You Every Me
▪Without You I’m Nothing (ft. David Bowie)
▪Taste In Men
▪Slave To The Wage
▪Special K
▪Black-Eyed
▪The Bitter End
▪This Picture
▪Special Needs
▪English Summer Rain
▪Protรจge-Moi (live)
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