🌛▪️ℙ𝕃𝔸ℂ𝔼𝔹𝕆 𝕃𝕌𝕃𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕀𝔼𝕊 ℙ𝔸ℝ𝕋 𝕀𝕀.▪️🌜

🔹✨"𝙄 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙙𝙧𝙪𝙜𝙨 - 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙𝙣’𝙩 𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢, 𝙇𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚, 𝙄’𝙫𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙗𝙖𝙙 𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙥𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙀𝙘𝙩𝙖𝙨𝙮, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙞𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨𝙣’𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙥 𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨."✨🔹
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝚈𝚘𝚛𝚔 𝙳𝚘𝚕𝚕, 𝙺𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚐 𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟽)

🔹✨"𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘵. 𝘈 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘦. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯'𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘵 𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧. 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴, 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳'𝘴 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘫𝘶𝘥𝘨𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘺. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴. 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸."✨🔹
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 𝚘𝚗 𝚍𝚎𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚊𝚕𝚋𝚞𝚖, 𝚅𝚘𝚡, 𝙵𝚎𝚋𝚛𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟽)

Dear soulmates,
last week we opened the topic of songs that are a little different from the usual catalog of such a rebellious alternative rock band as Placebo undoubtedly is.
These are the songs we play when we go to sleep and need an escape from reality. Brian, as the narrator of his stories in slow songs, evokes in his voice not only love, passion, sensuality, but also a certain urgent restlessness... Don't you think?

~*~*~~~~~~~~\...***.../~~~~~~~~*~*~
🌛▪️ℙ𝕃𝔸ℂ𝔼𝔹𝕆 𝕃𝕌𝕃𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕀𝔼𝕊 ℙ𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕀𝕀.▪️🌜
~*~*~~~~~~~~\...***.../~~~~~~~~*~*~

Let's go to three songs today that still keep us within the bounds of the first album, and that's only because Placebo guys just know how to turn some of their fast songs into slow gems.
Last week, there was a wish among fans here to have the not-quite-final song from the "Placebo" album on this list of lullabies.

🎶💥𝔸𝕟𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕒𝕔𝕚𝕕𝕖 𝕝𝕦𝕝𝕝𝕒𝕓𝕪: „𝕊𝕎𝔸𝕃𝕃𝕆𝕎“💥🎶

🔹𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨:🔹
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The song 𝐒𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐖 doesn't really end this album, although it seems so at first glance. After ten minutes, when Swallow ends,
🎶💥𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 "𝐇𝐊 𝐅𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐋"💥🎶 starts playing in the silence.

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𝘓𝘦𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘴.

🎶💥𝐋𝐘𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐒💥🎶
~~~🔹Confiscate... razor blade... confiscate... hey marilyn it kinda went like this stay with me stay with me stop stop stammering I uh I uh I I stop I forgot where I put it I can't remember where I put it swallow swallow hey hey what marilyn yeah I I well I kind of it kinda went like this kinda stay with me stay with me stop stammering stop stammering I uh I uh I I I forgot I forgot I uh I forgot where I put it I can't remember where I put it I put it swallow swallow marilyn marilyn I well I stop it kinda went like this stay with me stay with me stay with me stop stammering stop stammering I uh I uh I I stop stop I uh forgot where I put it I can't remember where I put it swallow marilyn where I put it yeah I well well I it kinda kinda went like this it went like this it stay with me stay stay with me stop stammering stop stammering I uh I uh I [echo] 🔹~~~

A very strange, chilling, almost a bit scary sounding song. To a very interesting musical composition, Brian's voice sounds like part of a phone call, when it is very difficult to understand the whole lyrics perfectly.
And honestly, even if you understand the lyrics, you still don't know what the author is trying to convey, and it's up to each of us to invent a story for the lyrics... What is the song about?

🔹For example, tt could be about Marilyn Monroe… Information that she suffered from stammering in her youth as a result of very traumatic abuse is known.
🔹Or about Marylin Manson... (I'll leave it to your imagination here...)
🔹Or maybe about a dialogue... With someone who wants to commit suicide...
🔹Or about all these things together...

The song Swallow has never been performed live. You can read more about it below in the quote from
💥𝐑𝐎𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐓 𝐒𝐂𝐇𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐙𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐆💥
🔹💬“My favourite song has always been Swallow. The first version of this Brian and Stefan recorded on acid when I was in Germany for a month in September ’94 visiting an ex-girlfriend of mine. When I heard it, I thought it was amazing: it really did something for me. The vocal sounding genuinely fucked up repeated over that eery bass motif and cool harmonics on the guitar (there were no drums on it). I believe Brian played bass on that, and Stefan the guitar. We never played it live because we could never really replicate the vibe of the original recording, even though I’m happy with the album version.
(𝙿𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚋𝚘 𝙲𝚒𝚝𝚢, 𝙽𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸00𝟽)


💥𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝐒𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐖💥
🔹💬 "'Swallow' is what happened the last time Stefan and I took acid. It could mean many things, I guess at first you might think it's about losing all your drugs, or maybe it's someone who's so wasted during sex they forget not to swallow. I don't know, it was never really written in a state of reality."
(„𝙿𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚋𝚘 𝚋𝚒𝚘𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚙𝚑𝚢“, 𝙰𝚒𝚛 & 𝚂𝚝𝚢𝚕𝚎, 𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟾)

Photo credit: Corinne Mariaud 

The interesting thing is that if according to Brian's opening quote, every song on this album is a story, then the song Swallow would end this whole album story quite possibly depressingly, even fatally... But when you let it flow smoothly into 💥"𝐇𝐊 𝐅𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐋"💥, you will feel the gentle piano waft of love and hope...
💥𝘛𝘰 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘶𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰 𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵.
𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘶𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘺 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬.💥

So what do you guys think about this strange lullaby?
Maybe there are more people who don't find it very popular.
And that's why I want to improve your appetite for falling asleep with Placebo music.
✨𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭:✨

💥🌛▪️𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 "𝟑𝟔 𝐃𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐬"▪️🌜💥

💥𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝟯𝟲 𝗗𝗘𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗦“ 💥
🔹"36 degrees is close to body temperature. The person concerned is a little cold blooded. If someone gets too close, they have to push the person away. This is what the song means to me, but now it's public property, and people can interpret it in their own way."🔹
(𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙸𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚙𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚝, 𝙼𝚊𝚢 𝟹𝟷𝚜𝚝 𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟼)

🔹"It's called that because 36 degrees is close to body temperature," explains Brian. "I guess it's all body metaphors. The sleeve has an arm and a leg wrapped in clingfilm, like they're being preserved. And you can put something in clingfilm and stick it in the refrigerator, or stick it in a microwave and warm it up or cool it down."🔹
(𝙰𝚒𝚛 & 𝚂𝚝𝚢𝚕𝚎, 𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟾)

🔹"About the number (1 7 2 3 9 8 5 I've got to breath to stay alive and 1 4 2 9 7 8 it feels like i'm gonna suffocate 40 50 22 ... etc) ?
It is the phone number of our favorite Indian restaurant. It's in London, in the east part"🔹
(𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙼𝟼, 𝚂𝚎𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟷𝟽𝚝𝚑 𝟸00𝟹)

Photo credit: Adrian Green

💥The original fast punky version of this song was first changed for the Wembley Arena concert in 2004 into a brilliant slow painful love song about a broken relationship.💥
Brian then introduced this version on stage saying:

🔹💬"𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘨𝘰 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘳𝘦-𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢 '𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘹' 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘢 '𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦', 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘢, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳...
𝘈𝘯𝘺𝘸𝘢𝘺, 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘰. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘪𝘵..."🔹

Thanks to this change, a masterpiece was created, which allows us to feel even more the emotions that take over us when we listen.

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♦️𝟮𝟲𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬 of “𝟑𝟔 𝐃𝐄𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐒”♦️

Placebo's second single 🔹“𝟑𝟔 𝐃𝐄𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐒”🔹 was released on June 3rd 1996, so today we celebrate its ♦️𝟮𝟲𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬!♦️

The song was recorded at Westland Studios in Dublin and produced by Brad Wood, who worked on the entire debut album of the band. “36 degrees” reached no. 80 in the UK Singles Chart.

🎬 𝟯𝟲 𝗗𝗘𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗦 – 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗢
🎵 https://bit.ly/39hRV4o 🎵

Photo credit: Screenshots from the video, edit by Silke

Different live versions of “36 degrees” appear on the albums “MTV Unplugged” and “A place for us to dream“ and on the b-side of the singles “Song to say goodbye” respectively “Because I want you”.
There's also an early demo version of the song with slightly different lyrics.


📀 𝟯𝟲 𝗗𝗘𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗦 – 𝗗𝗘𝗠𝗢
🎵 https://bit.ly/3waszkG 🎵


As the average body temperature is about 37 degrees, some people think that “36 degrees” has to do with dying or refers to the fact that the narrator is losing his will to live after being dumped by an ex-lover. Brian explained it like this: “The person concerned is a little cold blooded. If someone gets too close, they have to push that person away”. In one interview he mentioned that the numbers in the song (1 7 2 3 9 8 5 I've got to breath to stay alive / 1 4 2 9 7 8 it feels like i'm gonna suffocate / 14 16 22 this skin that turns to blister blue) are the telephone number of his favorite Indian restaurant, but that was just a joke (see quotes below).


🎬 𝟯𝟲 𝗗𝗘𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗦 (𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗪𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟲)
🎵 https://bit.ly/3wpUdcd 🎵


The music video, directed by Chris Cunningham, was primarily shot in a scuba diving pool and shows the band members performing the song underwater. In some scenes you can see Brian in a swamp where he is singing with just his head out of the water. He later revealed that this clip was very difficult to shoot and they would “never make one underwater again”, a promise that they didn't keep. Only two years later the band recorded the video for “You don't care about us” at (and in) the London Aquarium.


The confirmed live history of “36 degrees” begins with a performance in Milan, Italy, on February 8th 1996. Starting with their first international tour the song was a regular part of the setlist until the 2003 “Sleeping with ghosts” tour. A much slower rework of “36 degrees” was first played at Wembley Arena in 2004. This interpretation was also played during the band's short “Once more with feeling” South America tour in 2005 and the early legs of the “Meds” tour in 2006. The regular version was performed for the rest of this tour. Then “36 degrees” wasn't brought on stage in almost ten years until the “MTV Unplugged“ show in 2015. After that it was played at the “20 years” anniversary tour in 2016/2017 again. Altogether there were 276 performances of the song.

🎬 𝟯𝟲 𝗗𝗘𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗦 (𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗺, 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟲)
🎵 https://bit.ly/3lbSgLo 🎵

Photo credit: Screenshot from the video

📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝟯𝟲 𝗗𝗘𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗦“ 📌
📢 "It is the phone number of our favorite Indian restaurant. It's in London, in the east part."
(Chat M6, September 17th 2003)


📢 "It's called that because 36 degrees is close to body temperature. I guess it's all body metaphors. The sleeve has an arm and a leg wrapped in clingfilm, like they're being preserved. And you can put something in clingfilm and stick it in the refrigerator, or stick it in a microwave and warm it up or cool it down."
(Air & Style,1998)


📢 "36 degrees is close to body temperature. The person concerned is a little cold blooded. If someone gets too close, they have to push the person away. This is what the song means to me, but now it's public property, and people can interpret it in their own way."
(The Independent, May 31st 1996)


🎬 𝟯𝟲 𝗗𝗘𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗦 (𝗚𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗯𝘂𝗿𝘆 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟴)
🎵 http://bit.ly/37RIK7b 🎵

Photo credit: Screenshot from the video

📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗙𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗢 📌
📢 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯: ”This is quite shocking, really. I look like... Marilyn Manson's younger sister. Quite ill.”
📢 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯: ”This all done in postproduction.”
📢 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯: ”No, this was for real. It was the beginning of our relationship with water and videos, which we'll explore further. This was directed by Chris Cunningham, who went on to make videos for Aphex Twin and Madonna, including two favourites ‘Come to daddy' by Madonna and 'Windowlicker' by Aphex Twin. It was done in two days, one of which entailed us spending about 10 hours under water in this scuba pool. This is actually a man-made lake, a pond sort of thing. They had to do bacterial tests on the day to make sure we won't going to catch any weird diseases. In this pool with divers swimming around us we'd film for about 30 seconds - as long as we could hold our breaths. And I remember having extremely bloodshot eyes at the end of the day from the heavy-chlorinated pool.”
📢 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯: ”Yeah, we were all weighted down. We had about ten feet to swim up for air. If we didn't get the air from divers with oxygen tubes, we'd panic, because you had to swim up weight on your back.”
📢 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯: ”They'd feed us air between takes. It was hard to communicate with Chris, the director, underwater. This bit here, it wasn't 36 degrees that day, it was completely freezing. They had a bath of hot water in the dressing room, which I jumped in and out of so as not to catch a cold.”
📢 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯: ”And this guy was freezing his nuts off.”
📢 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯: ”That's Nick, who I went to college with.
I remember getting lockjaw during this video shoot. There was tension in my jaw from biting on the air the nozzle thing that they give you to keep you alive under there. There was so much tension, being underwater, that my jaw locked. I got pissed off with the cameramen for taking the piss out of me.”
📢 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯: ”Those hired instruments were never used after this performance.”
📢 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯: ”After this we swore we'd never make another video underwater. We actually did, a couple of years later.”
(“Once more with feeling“ DVD, 2004)

Post by Silke

𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬: 36 DEGREES

Today we celebrate the ♦️𝟮𝟱 𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬♦️ of Placebo's second single “36 DEGREES”. It was released on June 3rd 1996 and reached no. 80 in the UK Singles Chart.

🎬 𝟯𝟲 𝗗𝗘𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗦 – 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗢

🎵 https://bit.ly/39hRV4o 🎵

Screenshots from the video, edit by Silke

The music video, directed by Chris Cunningham, was primarily shot in a scuba diving pool and shows the band members performing the song underwater. In some scenes you can see Brian in a swamp where he is singing with just his head out of the water. He later revealed that this clip was very difficult to shoot and they would “never make one underwater again”, a promise that they didn't keep. Only two years later the band recorded the video for “You don't care about us” at (and in) the London Aquarium.
“36 degrees” was produced by Brad Wood and recorded at Westland Studios in Dublin.
Different versions of the song appear on the albums “Placebo”, “Once more with feeling”, “MTV Unplugged” and on the b-side of the singles “Song to say goodbye” and “Because I want you”.


📌 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢 📌
Starting with their first international tour in 1996 “36 degrees” was part of Placebo's repertoire. It stayed on the setlist until the “Sleeping with ghosts” tour in 2003. A much slower reworked version of the song was first played at Wembley Arena in 2004. This version was also played during the band's 2005 South American tour and the early legs of the “Meds” tour in 2006. Then it wasn't brought on stage until the MTV Unplugged show in 2015. After that the song was part of the following “20 years“ tour again. “36 degrees“ was played live 275 confirmed times by the band throughout their carrer.

📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝟯𝟲 𝗗𝗘𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗦“ 📌
📢 "36 degrees is close to body temperature. The person concerned is a little cold blooded. If someone gets too close, they have to push the person away. This is what the song means to me, but now it's public property, and people can interpret it in their own way."
(The Independent, May 31st 1996)

Screenshot from the video

📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗙𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗢 📌
📢 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯: ”This is quite shocking, really. I look like... Marilyn Manson's younger sister. Quite ill.”
📢 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯: ”This all done in postproduction.”
📢 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯: ”No, this was for real. It was the beginning of our relationship with water and videos, which we'll explore further. This was directed by Chris Cunningham, who went on to make videos for Aphex Twin and Madonna, including two favourites ‘Come to daddy' by Madonna and 'Windowlicker' by Aphex Twin. It was done in two days, one of which entailed us spending about 10 hours under water in this scuba pool. This is actually a man-made lake, a pond sort of thing. They had to do bacterial tests on the day to make sure we won't going to catch any weird diseases. In this pool with divers swimming around us we'd film for about 30 seconds - as long as we could hold our breaths. And I remember having extremely bloodshot eyes at the end of the day from the heavy-chlorinated pool.”
📢 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯: ”Yeah, we were all weighted down. We had about ten feet to swim up for air. If we didn't get the air from divers with oxygen tubes, we'd panic, because you had to swim up weight on your back.”
📢 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯: ”They'd feed us air between takes. It was hard to communicate with Chris, the director, underwater. This bit here, it wasn't 36 degrees that day, it was completely freezing. They had a bath of hot water in the dressing room, which I jumped in and out of so as not to catch a cold.”
📢 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯: ”And this guy was freezing his nuts off.”
📢 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯: ”That's Nick, who I went to college with.
I remember getting lockjaw during this video shoot. There was tension in my jaw from biting on the air the nozzle thing that they give you to keep you alive under there. There was so much tension, being underwater, that my jaw locked. I got pissed off with the cameramen for taking the piss out of me.”
📢 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯: ”Those hired instruments were never used after this performance.”
📢 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯: ”After this we swore we'd never make another video underwater. We actually did, a couple of years later.”
(“Once more with feeling“ DVD, 2004)

Post by Silke

𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐀𝐓 𝐖𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐋𝐄𝐘 𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐀 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒

On 5th November 2004, 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 performed a very special and unforgettable concert at 𝑾𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒚 𝑨𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒂 in London. After eight-years of career and a rising success with each one of their four albums - up to then -, this was the biggest gig they had made in the UK and the last they would play there until 2006. 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 had stated that they would never play at Wembley, in the quotes below he explains why they changed their minds:

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐖𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐲. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤. 𝐖𝐡𝐲 ?
I could answer with a line like, "It's just fools who don't change their minds", but no. The truth is, myself, at a time when I was more snobbish than today, I refused to go see my favorite band - The Velvelt Underground- at Wembley because I didn't like the room, that the sound was abominable. But on our tours we played in venues where the sound was much worse, and our sound engineer - we call him the "doctor" - managed to give us decent sound. So we can do it. And then symbolically it's an important passage. We live in London. British musical weekly NME thought we would be dead five years ago. We're going to do Wembley".
𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙻𝚎𝚜 𝙸𝚗𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚞𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜, 2004.

“Of course we never wanted to go there”, Molko jokes. “Only people who are at the top, who are mainstream, play there. We’re not one of them. We’re not Blur or Oasis. We were always on the outside, we were an alternative. We were unfashionable with our sound. We always were - only it happened to become fashionable at one point. That’s why it amused us to give everyone the finger for once and say: ‘Nyah, us, too!’ Somehow we stayed that way until today - we’ve never been hip or trendy. It just appeals to us not to fit into the clichee or the current pattern.”
𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝚅𝚒𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜, 2006

Photo credit: Jo Stelmach

“It's something we said we would never do,” Brian explains sheepishly, “but it's partly to annoy and partly to say we've done it. It's going to be a bit like a party. It will be the last concert until 2006. It will be a fun night ”.
𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝚄𝚕𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚊.𝚒𝚗𝚏𝚘.

It really was a great party, with sold out tickets and in which they also celebrated the release of their singles collection "𝑶𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑭𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈"(2004), so the show was based on the songs featured on the album. One of the highlights of this concert was when the special guest, 𝑹𝒐𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒕 𝑺𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒉 from 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒖𝒓𝒆 appeared on stage. 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 welcomed him by saying:
"𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒂 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐, 𝒂 𝒇*** 𝑯𝑼𝑮𝑬 𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒐'𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆-𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒎𝒆. 𝑨 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒍𝒚, 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒍𝒚 𝒈𝒊𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒅, 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒏 𝑰'𝒗𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒆𝒕. 𝑷𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒑𝒖𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑴𝒓. 𝑹𝒐𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒕 𝑺𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒉!"
And after a deafening applause from the audience they sang together "𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝑰'𝒎 𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈" and 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒖𝒓𝒆's classic, "𝑩𝒐𝒚𝒔 𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝑪𝒓𝒚". 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 and 𝑹𝒐𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒕 ended this epic performance by giving each other a big hug.

Brian Molko and Robert Smith. Photo credit unknown

Another very emotional moment was when 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 played for the first time a slow version of "36 𝑫𝒆𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒔", this is the video I share with you today and which was included on the 10𝒕𝒉 𝑨𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝑬𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑫𝑽𝑫 of their first album, "𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐"(1996). To introduce this new version 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 said:
"𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒘𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒈𝒐 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒓𝒆-𝒘𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒌. 𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒂 '𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒙' 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒂 '𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆', 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒖𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒎𝒂, 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓…"

Then, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 was interrupted by a fan who shouted from the audience:
𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞: F**k me!
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Excuse me?
𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞: F**k me!
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Later honey, I'm working right now, you know what I'm saying?
(LOL!)
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 continued:
"𝑨𝒏𝒚𝒘𝒂𝒚, 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒆 𝒅𝒐. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒛𝒆 𝒊𝒕…"

Photo credit: Jo Stelmach

 If you want to watch the full concert you can do it here: https://youtu.be/1mhxQO0VmpM
The quality is not the best, but you can see that the band was very happy and grateful for the affection that the audience showed them that night.

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