🔶⭐𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬: 𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆⭐🔶

⭐✨“𝟏𝟕 𝒔𝒏𝒂𝒑𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐'𝒔 𝒈𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒆, 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒅𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒅, 𝒂 𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒈𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑶𝑵𝑪𝑬 𝑴𝑶𝑹𝑬 𝑾𝑰𝑻𝑯 𝑭𝑬𝑬𝑳𝑰𝑵𝑮.” (𝐷𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑒𝑙, 𝑆𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 2004)✨⭐

🎊Exactly 18 years ago today, on 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟓𝐭𝐡, 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒, the compilation album 𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 - 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐄𝐒 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟔-𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒 and DVD 𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 - 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎𝐒 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟔-𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒 were released.

Photo credit: Scarlet Page; CD and DVD covers / edit by Olga

⭐As one of the reviews read back in the day, “now with four acclaimed albums under their belts [by 2004] Placebo have undertaken the release of a their singles collection, Once More With Feeling: Singles 1996 – 2004 retrospective which 𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚.” (𝐹𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑟, 𝑂𝑐𝑡'04)

🔶𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 - 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐄𝐒🔶

➡️ https://bit.ly/3CM2I37

The CD includes 17 singles (the omissions are the band's debut single 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞 and 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐚𝐢𝐬 which was a French release only) and two new songs, 𝐓𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 and 𝐈 𝐃𝐨. 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.

Photo credit:  Sebastien Dolidon 

𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒏𝒐𝒘?
📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: 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.

𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 (𝑻𝒘𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒚 𝒀𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝑫𝒐)?
📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: 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.
[…]
𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏?
📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: 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.
(𝐿𝑒𝑠 𝐼𝑛𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠, 𝑁𝑜𝑣'04)

Photo credit: Alvaro Villarrubia 

🔶𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 - 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎𝐒🔶

➡️ https://bit.ly/3o7NRvP

Once more with feeling DVD consists of all videos that Placebo released from 1996 to 2004, except for 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞 again. There are also several live videos, a documentary entitled 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐈𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 and an exclusive 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 on all tracks by the band.

🔶𝑹𝑬𝑽𝑰𝑬𝑾 𝒃𝒚 𝑩𝑩𝑪🔶
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.
(𝐵𝐵𝐶, 2004, 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑏𝑦 𝐽𝑎𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝐺𝑖𝑙𝑙)


🔶𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐂𝐃🔶
▪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
▪Protège-Moi
▪I Do
▪Twenty Years

Photo credit:  Jenny Lewis 

🔶𝐋𝐈𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐁𝐎𝐍𝐔𝐒 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂🔶
▪Special K (Timo Maas remix)
▪Without You I'm Nothing (Unkle remix)
▪Every You Every Me (Infected by the scourge of the earth mix)
▪Protège-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)


🔶𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐃𝐕𝐃🔶
▪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
▪Protège-Moi (live)

Post by Olga

🎶𝐓𝐖𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐘 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒🎶

🎶 𝑾𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆
𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒎𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒚𝒆 🎶

The story how ”𝐓𝐖𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐘 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒” came into being is quite interesting. Actually the song is kind of a collaboration of Brian and Paul Campion who was the singer of Glasgow indie rock band AC Acoustics . Both were friends and had already released the song “Crush” with Paul's band in 2000.
Before that he had helped Brian with the lyrics of ”Every you Every me” when “Molks” had a writer's block. And whenever they worked on it together Campion played a specific guitar riff and sang the line ”There are twenty years to go.”
Brian once said that he had always thought it would be an amazing AC Acoustic song but Paul never wrote more than the mentioned part of the music and text. “We all grew to fall in love with that record and always said that one day we were gonna flesh this out in to, you know, a proper song”, he explained in an interview and added that he often played this riff when he picked up a guitar.
In the beginning of 2004 the band seriously started thinking about recording the song and around July the work was finished.

“Twenty years” was finally released on October 18th 2004 and reached no. 18 in the UK Singles Chart. The song was produced and mixed by Phil Vinall who had already worked on some other of Placebo's early chart successes like “Nancy Boy”. The programming was done by Phelan Kane who had also worked with the band before, namely on “Pure morning”. Apart from the release as single “Twenty years“ also appears on the best-of compilation “Once more with feeling”.

Screenshot from the official "Twenty years" video.

According to Brian ”Twenty years” is ”pure epic melancholy, a reflection on the passage of time and mortality. But it's not necessarily a sad song" (Delabel, 2004).
When it came out he was very proud of it. In an interview that took place one day after the release he said that it’s "possibly our best work so far! Y’know it’s really, really cool in that way…" (see quotes below).


The 🔸𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗛𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗬🔸 of the “Twenty years“ started on September 29th 2004 at MTV Designerama show in Berlin, Germany. It became one of the fans favourites at Placebo concerts and was part of the setlist until 2009, then reappeared on stage during the “Loud like love“ tour in 2013. From that point on it was played live every year without pause until 2018. The last performance took place at Sion Sous Les Ètoiles festival in Switzerland on July 13th that year.
When played live the song often has an extra middle eight section added on, complete with heavy experimental guitar. Since 2009 live shows feature an arrangement of the song that was first performed during the Angkor Wat concert in Cambodia.

Up to now “Twenty years“ was played live 361 times. The shared version was recorded at Vieilles Charrues festival in France on July 21st 2006. The setlist consisted of 18 songs, and “Twenty years” was the last encore.

Screenshot from the official "Twenty years" video.

📌 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 “𝐓𝐖𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐘 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒“ 📌
📢 “It’s kind of… I’d say it’s a meditation on the passing of time, and it’s about recognizing the value of the present and the kind of the riches that you have in front of you, the gifts that you have in front of you, the love that surrounds you today. Like ‘don’t go home and listen to the Stryper record, you know, because it’s kind of a waste of time.’ (laugh) Enjoy what you have in front of you.”
(MTV Supersonic, 2004)

📢 “‘Twenty Years’ is classic Placebo melancholy, it’s quite epic, all about the passing of time.”
(XFM.co.uk, September 2004)

📢 ”In hindsight, I think 'Twenty years' is perhaps one of our greatest tracks. It's our closest track to 'With or without you' by U2, the ultimate song.”
(Les Inrockuptibles, November 2004)

Screenshot from the official "Twenty years" video.

📢 "One of my best friends in the world is Paul Campion who was the singer of AC Acoustics and who helped me out on the lyrics when I had writers block for 'Every you Every' me on the second album. And whenever we’d sound check he’d always be playing this little guitar riff and singing the line ‘There are twenty years to go”. I always thought it would be an amazing AC Acoustic song but he never wrote it, and since he was such a good friend of mine, often when I’d pick up a guitar, to remind myself of him I’d play that riff and we all grew to fall in love with that record and always said that one day we were gonna flesh this out in to, you know, a proper song. It wasn’t until about six months ago that we actually started thinking about doing that, and three months ago since we actually did it… and it’s possibly our best work so far! [laughs] Y’know it’s really, really cool in that way…"
(Session at AOL, October 19th 2004)

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✨𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬: 𝗢𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚✨

Today we have another 𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬 to celebrate: 17 years ago, on October 25th 2004, the compilation album “Once more with feeling – Singles 1996-2004” and the DVD “Once more with feeling – Videos 1996-2004” were released.

💿 𝗢𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 – 𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗟𝗘𝗦
🎵 https://bit.ly/3CM2I37 🎵

Brian said about the compilation that it's not a 'Best of' album but a simple single collection in chronological order and the main reason for the release was that the record label wanted them to do it (see quotes below).
The CD contained 17 singles and two new songs, “I do” and “Twenty years”. It only lacks Placebo's debut single “Come home” and “Burger Queen Francais”, which was a French release only.
There's also a limited edition of the album which includes a bonus disc with ten remixes.

📹 𝗢𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 – 𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗢𝗦
🎵 https://bit.ly/3o7NRvP 🎵

Photo credit: Cover of the DVD, screenshots from the videos / edit by Silke

The “Once more with feeling” DVD consists of all videos that Placebo have released from 1996 to 2004, except for “Come home” again. Additional there are some live videos and a band interview with the title “Care in the community”. The DVD also includes an exclusive audio commentary on all tracks by the band.

📜 𝗔𝗟𝗕𝗨𝗠 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪
Career spanning compilation: While Placebo still retained underground status in the US, their albums have gone on to sell millions worldwide.
Clearly, the band's androgynous presence mixed with blistering guitar sounds akin to the Pixies' heaviest work have made a global impact. For those who have never heard Placebo before, this is the best place to start. Spanning an eight-year career, Once More With Feeling is an excellent introduction to this stylish and articulate band.
Here we find songs that play with sexuality ("Nancy Boy"), drug imagery ("Pure Morning", "Special K"), youth ("Teenage Angst") and love gone awry ("Without You I'm Nothing") in a clever fashion. The voice of Brian Molko is always on the edge of a breakdown against the furious drums, a guitar flurry, and keyboards--a sound that preceded the current crop of new wave influenced rock bands by years.
For those already converted to the cult of Placebo, there are two new tracks. With "I Do", the band goes against its own catalog by writing a happy song --this is a pure, simple love song that still has the Placebo stamp upon it. In contrast, "Twenty Years" is a somber guitar piece that's more typical Placebo, a bit reminiscent of the work on Without You I'm Nothing, and a nice way to round out this collection.
(Outburn #28, 2005)

📍 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝗢𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚” 📍 
📢 “I must point out that this this is not our Best of. It’s just a simple singles collection, and, if anyone had asked me wether we wanted to do it, I would say no. We haven’t decided the tracklist on the base of our wish or our favourite songs. We only followed a chronological order.“
(All Music, October 2004)

📢 “Since we released 'Black Market Music' the record label wanted to release a 'singles' CD. Fortunately the label was very kind to us and postponed its release. We had many things to explore with Placebo yet and we feared that releasing a compilation album would get the wrong message. Unless there is something new in it, a 'best of' feels like a way to get money from the fans and I've always been against that. So when the 'Soulmates never die' tour ended, we decided to release the compilation with a couple of new songs and a CD with remixes of some of our songs.“
(Scars, 2006)

Cover of the album

💿  𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗧
01. 36 Degrees
02. Teenage Angst
03. Nancy Boy
04. Bruise Pristine
05. Pure Morning
06. You don't care about us
07. Every you Every me
08. Without you I’m nothing (ft David Bowie)
09. Taste in men
10. Slave to the wage
11. Special K
12. Black-Eyed
13. The bitter end
14. This Picture
15. Special needs
16. English Summer Rain
17. Protège-moi
18. I do
19. Twenty years

💿  𝗟𝗜𝗠𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗕𝗢𝗡𝗨𝗦 𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗖
01. Special K (Timo Maas remix)
02. Without you I'm nothing (Unkle remix)
03. Every you Every me (Infected by the scourge of the earth mix)
04. Protège-moi (M83 remix)
05. Slave to the wage (I can't believe it's a remix)
06. Pure Morning (Les Rhythms Digitales remix)
07. Taste in men (Alpinestars Kamikaze Skimix)
08. Black-Eyed (Placebo vs. Le Vibrator mix)
09. English Summer Rain (Freelance Hellraiser remix)
10. This Picture (Junior Sanchez remix)

📹  𝗢𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗗𝗩𝗗
01. 36 Degrees
02. Teenage Angst
03. Nancy Boy
04. Bruise Pristine
05. Pure Morning
06. You don't care about us
07. Every you Every me
08. Without you I’m nothing (ft David Bowie)
09. Taste in men
10. Slave to the wage
11. Special K
12. Black-Eyed
13. The bitter end
14. This Picture
15. Special needs
16. English Summer Rain
17. Protège-moi (live)

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⭐ 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐋𝐊𝐎 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 𝐎𝐍 "𝐋𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐄́ - 𝐄𝐆𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐄́ - 𝐌.𝐀.𝐔.𝐑.𝐀.𝐃" 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒 ⭐

𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔!

This afternoon I'm sure we are going to have a great time together because we're going to enjoy one of the funniest interviews you can find of 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐. It was made on October 28, 2004 on the French radio show "𝑳𝒊𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒆́ - 𝑬𝒈𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒆́ - 𝑴.𝑨.𝑼.𝑹.𝑨.𝑫" on 𝑬𝒖𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝟐.

Between questions from the fans, weird questions from the hosts and some jokes, I have chosen some fragments since the interview is pretty long. At the end I shared the link so you can listen to it in full and not miss all the atmosphere that was created in the program because there lies much of the magic of this interview.


🔸𝑩𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕, 𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝑳𝒂𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒂 𝑬𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒂 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒙𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒖𝒔. 🙏💖💕

Photo credit: Scarlet Page

✨⭐ 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐋𝐊𝐎 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 𝐎𝐍 "𝐋𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐄́ - 𝐄𝐆𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐄́ - 𝐌.𝐀.𝐔.𝐑.𝐀.𝐃" 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒 ⭐✨

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Brian Molko is with us in the studio. It's great. My niece loves you, my brother loves you. My name is Maurad. Can you say: 'I am with Maurad'?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I am with Maurad.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Do you hear my niece? Brian Molko is with us! Brian Molko, you speak French very well, you were born in Luxembourg, right?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No, no, I was born in Belgium.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: You lived in Luxembourg. You lived in Lebanon and now you live in London. Was the GPS invented for you?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No, not at all. They've invented the Rizzla for me, perhaps.
🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: Rizzla is cigarette rolling paper.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: How does feel it do...? There are a lot of people in the street…
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: How does it feel to be in the studio with you, right?

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Yes, how does it feel?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I'm completely overwhelmed.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: There are a lot of people who want to ask you questions. You've sold over 5 million albums worldwide, 700,000 of the best-of which will be released soon. That's impressive. Laura is with us. How are you?
📞 𝑳𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂: Yes, I'm fine. My heart is beating a mile a minute.
🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: You have a question for Brian Molko?
📞 𝑳𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂: Yes. Hi Brian, I wanted to know when your next album will be released?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: In 2006. In 2005, we will produce it. We've been touring for two years now so we still need to take some time off and then we're going to do the new album in 2005 and it's going to be out in 2006.

Photo credit: Renaud Monfourny, HD edit by molko_remastered

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Let's talk about your outfit. Why do you always wear black?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I dress in black because it's easier to travel with and it makes you look slimmer.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Slimmer?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Yes.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Celine's here and wants to ask Brian a question. Ask your question, Celine.
📞 𝑪𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆: Hi, Brian.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Hi.
📞 𝑪𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆: I wanted to know why you like the French public so much?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: It's the French public that loves us. It's been a love story with the French public since the first single. There was a connection. I think it's because there's a long culture of literary romance in France. When I was at school, I studied Baudelaire…

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Do rock stars go to school?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I even went to university.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: I thought rock stars didn't go to school, that they were rebels and stuff. You went to university and what did you study?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Drama.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Computer science, right.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No... Drama.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: So you went to Star Academy?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No, I didn't.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Celine, do you have another question for Brian?
📞 𝑪𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆: Yes. Last year, at the concert in Geneva, you fell and hurt your thumb. Did it bother you at the concert?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I remember I fell off the stage. It was the first time I fell. I think it's a rock cliché. You have to go through the rock clichés and then I fell off the stage. These things happen. It made me laugh a lot. I didn't get hurt too much. I could have been hurt but it was okay.

Photo credit: Scarlet Page

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: We're with Brian Molko. We're going to make him do a 'Courthouse'. We'll talk about everything that's going on with him in total freedom. Placebo's releasing a best-of album.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: It's not a best-of.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅 : What is it then?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: It's a historical document.

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🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Honestly, among the famous people, who do you find pretty?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I like Angelina Joly. She's pretty. Although he's dead, I've always liked River Phoenix.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: River Phoenix. What does she look like, Boudine?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: It's a boy.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: A boy? What does he look like?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: He's dead.

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🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Look what it says on the paper, it's written 'sex' on it. We're going to talk about sex with Brian Molko. But before we do, Sarah's here to ask Brian a question.
📞 𝑺𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒉: Hi, Brian!
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Hi Sarah.
📞 𝑺𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒉: Since your beginning of your career, you've always been seen as an outsider. But with the success of the last album, do you still define yourself as an outsider?
🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: What a serious question!
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I don't feel comfortable .... even with the idea of being Brian Molko and being the singer of Placebo. I still feel a bit of an outsider. I hope success hasn't changed me too much.

🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: I get the impression that you don't like compliments, that you're not comfortable with compliments?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No, not really.

🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: Does it shock you? Does it upset you?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No, because I don't really believe it.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Stop fussing Boudine! My 'little' Brian, we're about to go into a place…
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I am not your 'little' Brian Molko.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: What are you to me then?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I'm your 'big' Brian Molko.

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🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Ask your question, we'll see later.
📞 𝑨𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆: Hi, Brian.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Hi.

📞 𝑨𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆: You okay?
🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: [...] Ask your question Adeline.

📞 𝑨𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆: I saw you live in Vienna and you kissed Stefan on the mouth.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: So what!

📞 𝑨𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆: This is a bit of a personal question, but I would have liked to know if it had gone further with him.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: If I'm friend with him?

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: No. Further physically.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Ah! Further... No. A little bit further but not too far. We have a band together, we see each other every day.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: It's a bit complicated. Not at work.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Don't sh*t where you live.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅 : Exactly. Good one! That's a great metaphor. Have you ever dated guys from other bands?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Yeah, well…

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: You don't want to tell us?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No, I don't.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: It's only the singer from U2, you can say it!
🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: Or Etienne Daho.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No, stop it. Never.

Photo credit: Alex Vanhee  

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Do you have a question for Brian Molko?
📞 𝑺𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒚: I'd like to know who's the crookest person you've ever met in showbusiness?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: The crookest person.. Sting.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Sting is an a**hole?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Yeah, yeah. He's awful.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Why?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I can't really explain what happened, but.. trust me, he's an a**hole.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: We're going to enter 'The Courthouse' with Brian Molko. This time you can't escape. You had the time to think about your story. It 11 pm, we're going to listen to you about a sex strory you experienced.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I don't know what you want me to tell. Explain to me, be more specific.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: A story you experienced in real life, a story during a tour…
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I'm in a rock band so, lots of things happened.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: One story which ended…
🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: Your last orgy.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Yeah, why not. For example…


🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Your last orgy
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: My last orgy…
🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: When was it?
🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: With Etienne Daho.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Stop, stop with Etienne. He's my friend. Stop.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Tell us your last orgy.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: The last orgy... It was a long time ago, because now I'm a very religious person these days - and I believe in Jesus and, after the broadcast, I'd like to talk about Jesus to you.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Alright.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I notice you're lacking of ethical fiber.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: That's not true.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: And I'd like to talk about Jesus a bit.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Now? You're kidding me. He's kidding me! You will tell your story for sure.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I've tried something (...) like politicians. They never answer the question, that's cool.

Photo credit: Scarlet Page

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: [...] Aurore, are you all right? Do you have a question for Brian?
📞 𝑨𝒖𝒓𝒐𝒓𝒆: Hey, everybody, hi Brian. First of all,.... I know you don't like to talk about your past, but I wanted to know if some of your songs were a reflection of a rather difficult past life?


🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: You all ask very serious questions! Have you ever been asked such questions?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Yeah, but it's not a bad question.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: What the kind of questions you've never been asked?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Which question should I answer then?

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Answer Aurore's.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Can you repeat please?
📞 𝑨𝒖𝒓𝒐𝒓𝒆: I wanted to know if your songs reflect a difficult past life?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Yes, yes, of course. You don't publish your diary on a record. It's a mixture of truth and fantasy. It's art, it's not a documentary. And it needs work. It's inspired by your emotions but also by the emotions of your friends, your parents, your relatives or even by TV or what you read, the cinema.
📞 𝑨𝒖𝒓𝒐𝒓𝒆: Thank you.

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🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: After Wembley, what are you going to do?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I'm going to India.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: India? What's in india?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I want to go somewhere as far away from the music business as possible.

🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: To write?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No, to live.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: For how long?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: About three or four months. You guys are cool but I get asked questions all the time. We've been working for two years and I'm really tired of being Brian Molko. I wanna go somewhere to be Brian.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Okay. What's the one question you've never been asked that you wish you'd been asked?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: "How did you get to be so hot?"

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: But a believable question... So tell us how you got so hot. Tell us.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: It's my parents' fault. I like to discuss religion.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Are you religious?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No, I'm not.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Were you brought up Catholic?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Not Catholic, but very religious. I find it fascinating and it has given me a lot of metaphors that I use in my songs. The Bible is a fascinating book. It has nothing to do with real life. It was written by frustrated people who wanted to control people. It's full of metaphors, full of violence, full of sex, full of incest and so on.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: That's life.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: You can use these people as metaphors.

Photo credit: Tony Barson Archive 

🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Please let me go!
🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: We'll let you go but there are still a few questions. Do you get your clothes or do you buy them ?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I buy a lot of clothes and some are given to me too. I know people in the fashion business. It's really cool to be a musician because you get clothes to wear on TV and at the same time you have to buy stuffs. You don't wear Dior every day and at home you have to wear something.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Have you ever been offered to do modelling?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I did it once and I didn't like it at all. I'm short.

🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: There are no more criteria in modelling, when you have a look, a face, that's enough.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: It was for a friend of mine who is a designer. I did it once. I met a lot of models and I found them quite vicious.

🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: Another question: what's your best proof of your love you did for someone? Something incredible.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Oh sh*t…

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: In the bathroom! That's disgusting! It's scatophiliac!
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Not my thing. Not at all.

🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: A mind-blowing thing?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I find that you can make strong actions, symbolic things like that but if you listen when she/he talks, it's much more important. That's it.

🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: It could be a song too, writing a song for someone. For love.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I have written a lot of songs for many people. The people who are in my songs are a composite of several people and often it's me. When I say "You", I am talking to myself.


⭐𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞:

https://youtu.be/BWrnDyQKgX4


✒️𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 & 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝑳𝒂𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒂 𝑬𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒂.

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