we have a second ♦️๐๐ก๐ก๐๐ฉ๐๐ฅ๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ♦️ to celebrate: On October 7th 2016 Placebo did not only release the retrospective album “A place for us to dream” about which we talked earlier today, but also the limited edition vinyl EP and download ๐ถ“๐๐๐๐'๐ฆ ๐ช๐๐๐ง ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ง"๐ถ.
The record consists of six songs, half of them cover versions. It was produced by Adam Noble and Placebo. Stefan Olsdal, Bill Lloyd and Adam Noble engineered the tracks.
In an interview with NME in October 2017 Brian stated that two songs on the EP, the Talk Talk cover “Life's what you make it” and the Placebo single “Jesus' son”, are “possibly two of the most commercial tracks that we've ever done. We have a tendency to react allergically against what we’ve just done, so it's highly likely that the next thing we do will be something akin to career suicide. ” Well, it wasn't, as we know by now. ;-)
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| Photo credit: Unknown, cover of the EP / edit by Silke |
๐ ๐๐๐๐'๐ฆ ๐ช๐๐๐ง ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ง (๐๐ฃ)
๐ต https://spoti.fi/3pZHBpy ๐ต
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1. Life's what you make it (Talk Talk cover)
2. Jesus' son
3. Twenty years (live at Europavox Festival 2015)
4. Autoluminescent (Rowland S. Howard cover)
5. Twenty years (piano version live at Evening Urgant, Moscow 2016)
6. Song #6 (Freak Power cover)
In June 2017 a video for the EP's title song was released. It was directed by Sasha Rainbow and filmed at Agbogbloshie in Accra, Ghana, the site of one of the world's largest electronic waste dumps. The video concept by Brian was loosely based around the original 1986 Talk Talk clip in which frontman Mark Hollis and company are surrounded by nature and “little beasties crawling over leaves”. What he had in mind was an updated version wherein Placebo “would be robots playing instruments and that e-waste would replace nature, as it appears to be doing only a few decades after the song’s original release” (Xs Noise, June 5th 2017) . But Brian also said that the video is not anti-technology. ”It is about the triumph of the human spirit in the face of adversity that has not been chosen” (Gigwise, June 15th 2017). He added that he hopes it will make the viewer think about the repercussions of just throwing away tech that doesn't work anymore. ”There are several new and ingenious ways to recycle them these days. Some companies will even give you money for it. All it takes is a little more effort.”
๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐'๐ฆ ๐ช๐๐๐ง ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ง (๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ข)
๐ต https://bit.ly/3r1yPW6 ๐ต
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| Photo credit: Unknown, screenshots from the video / edit by Silke |
๐ข “Life’s what you make it” is kind of a slogan to wake up to each day, you know? Sometimes I wake up with panic attacks and I just have to tell myself that this will pass and that there are a lot of good things to live for. There are a lot of things that I appreciate and I am thankful for everything that I have.“
(Fourculture, October 3rd 2016)
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๐ข "We covered Talk Talk's 'Life's what you make it' because it is a song from the 80s that we still liked and we wondered if we could replicate Gwen Stefani's global smash hit with her band's cover of [Talk Talk's] 'It's My Life'. That remains to be seen...”
(The Independent, June 2nd 2017)
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