๐น"๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ฉ'๐จ ๐ ๐ง๐ค๐ข๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐ก๐๐ช๐ข, ๐๐ช๐ฉ ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ฉ'๐จ ๐ฆ๐ช๐๐ฉ๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐ฉ๐ ๐๐จ ๐ฌ๐๐ก๐ก. ๐๐ฉ'๐จ ๐ข๐ ๐๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ข๐ฎ๐จ๐๐ก๐ ๐ช๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฃ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐ฃ๐จ๐๐๐, ๐๐๐จ๐๐๐๐ก๐ก๐ฎ. ๐๐๐๐ง๐'๐จ ๐ ๐ก๐ค๐ฉ ๐ค๐ ๐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฉ๐ง๐๐ค๐ก ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ค๐ฅ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐จ๐ช๐ข๐ ๐๐ฉ'๐จ ๐๐๐ง๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐ฉ ๐ค๐ฉ๐๐๐ง๐จ, ๐๐ช๐ฉ ๐๐ฉ'๐จ ๐ง๐๐๐ก๐ก๐ฎ ๐๐๐ง๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐ฉ ๐ข๐."๐น
(๐ฑ๐๐๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐๐๐, '๐ฝ๐๐๐๐ข ๐ฑ๐๐ข' ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฝ๐๐'๐ฟ๐พ)
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| 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.
๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐จ๐๐๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ฌ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ฒ ๐๐๐ง๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐๐๐ซ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐จ'๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐๐๐ซ.
‼⭐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐'๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐⭐‼
๐น๐ถ๐๐
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๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐
https://bit.ly/3FDgYxiIt 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.
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| Photo credit: Corinne Mariaud |
⭐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐
๐๐๐๐
'๐๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐'๐ฆ ๐๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ' ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ข๐จ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก ๐๐ฅ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ง๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ค ๐๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐จ.
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ
- was recorded over three months in 1998 at Real World Studios in Wiltshire (except Pure Morning - see text below).
- ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ ๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐๐๐ญ๐ก ๐๐๐ญ๐จ๐๐๐ซ ๐๐๐๐ by record labels Hut, Virgin Records and Elevator Music on CD, cassette and vinyl.
- was produced by ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ (Suede, A-Ha, U2).
- The CD was made in two colors - black and red.
- contains 12 tracks plus the 13th hidden track – Evil Dildo
๐ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ:
◾"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 Franรงais"
Released: 22 November 1999
⭐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐:
'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.
⭐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐:
Without You I'm Nothing has been generally well received by critics.
I really like this one from James Oldham of NME:
๐Molko'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.
⭐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐
๐๐๐๐:
Twelve songs were originally recorded in the sessions, excluding "Pure Morning" and including another track, "Kitsch Object".
๐น”๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐”๐น 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.
๐น๐ถ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐:
https://bit.ly/3CNKZem๐น๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ (Brixton Academy 1997)
https://bit.ly/3VmQMyz |
| Photo credit: Scarlet Page |
⭐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐:
In 2016, Brian took part in a poll organized by Vice magazine called "๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ค๐ช๐ง ๐๐๐๐ค๐ง๐๐จ". His memories are still very vivid today:
๐ฌ "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."
๐น๐๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ด๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ, ๐ช๐ฏ 2009 ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ข๐ช๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ฐ'๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ข๐ญ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ฎ.
๐ฌ "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."
(๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐
๐๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐., ๐พ๐๐. ๐ธ0๐ท๐ผ)
⭐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐
One of the reasons for choosing the album title was the ๐น๐๐๐ง๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ง๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ '๐๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐'๐ฆ ๐๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ' ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐:๐น
๐น๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ฎ... ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ... ๐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ช๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ, ๐๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐'๐ฎ ๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ. ๐๐ต'๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ท๐ข ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข๐ถ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ. ๐๐ฎ ๐ ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต?
๐ฌ "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."
(๐ธ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฑ๐๐๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ข ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐, ๐ถ๐๐ข ๐๐๐๐๐, ๐ณ๐๐'๐ฟ๐พ)
You can read more about this interesting film in this review.
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| Photo credit: Kevin Westenberg |
๐น๐ฌ “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.“
(๐ฑ๐๐๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐๐๐, ๐ฟ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฒ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ข ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, 1998)
๐น๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต?
๐ฌ 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."
(๐ฑ๐๐๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐๐๐, ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ด, ๐ณ๐๐' ๐ฟ๐พ)
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๐๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฏ๐, ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง'๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ซ ๐๐ฌ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ก๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ข๐๐ฌ๐ญ. ๐๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐๐ฌ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ข๐ฅ ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ง ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ฐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ค ๐๐๐ซ๐ค๐๐ญ ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐:
๐น๐๐๐๐๐๐: ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ค๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐ข๐ถ๐ญ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ....
๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐๐: "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."
๐น๐๐๐๐๐๐: ๐ ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ด. ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ค๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ?
๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐๐: "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."
(๐ฑ๐๐๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ , ๐ฝ๐๐๐พ๐ฒ๐บ ๐๐๐., ๐ฐ๐๐๐๐ ๐ธ00๐ท)
⭐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐:
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.
✨๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ (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:
“๐ป๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐
๐. ๐จ๐๐
๐๐๐ ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ซ๐๐.”
With these words Brian Molko introduced Nirvana’s cover ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐ฉ๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ข๐๐ฌ at the outstanding concert at Brixton Academy in London on September 28th, 2010.
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https://bit.ly/2L2SWDVA bit earlier, on September 1st, Placebo dedicated ๐๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐จ ๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐จ๐๐๐ฒ๐ 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.”
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https://bit.ly/3lQHnMK |
| Photo credit: Adrian Green |
๐น๐ฌ "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. […]"
(๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ 2018)
The album cover features two women, sisters ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ก ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐๐ฌ (who nowadays run the online ๐๐ฅ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ง๐), 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.
๐ ๐๐ง ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ช๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ค๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐๐ญ๐จ๐ข'๐ด ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ:
https://bit.ly/3CNKwJ8⭐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐
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 ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง'๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ง๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ง๐๐๐ง๐ญ, where he remembers David after his death:
๐ ๐๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ข๐ญ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐ข๐ท๐ช๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ๐ธ๐ช๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ณ๐ฆ-๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ช๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐’๐ฎ ๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ, ๐ข๐ณ๐จ๐ถ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ’๐ด ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ.
๐ฌ “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.”
๐๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ท๐ช๐ต๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐บ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ข ๐ง๐ข๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฌ๐ฐ ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ธ๐ช๐ฆ’๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ถ๐ข๐ณ๐บ 2016. ๐๐ฏ ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ฐ’๐ด ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ๐ด, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ค๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ด ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ข๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฑ ๐ด๐ธ๐ช๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ, ๐ช๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐๐ฐ๐ธ๐ช๐ฆ’๐ด ๐ฑ๐ข๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐จ๐ข๐ณ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฃ๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ค ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฃ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ข ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด. ๐๐ด ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต, ๐๐ฐ๐ธ๐ช๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ธ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ, ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐จ๐ถ๐ญ๐ข๐ณ ๐ญ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ด ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ, ๐ช๐ฏ๐ท๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ท๐ช๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐ด๐ฉ๐ช๐ฑ.
๐ฌ“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!”
๐๐ฌ๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐๐ง ๐ฌ๐๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ ๐๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐๐ ๐ข๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ญ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ฏ๐ข๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง ๐ก๐๐ซ๐:
Bowie / Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing - Irving Plaza, 29th March 1999
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๐น๐๐ฅ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐๐ข๐ง ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง'๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐จ๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ช๐ฎ๐ ๐ ๐๐ฆ, ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ซ ๐๐ญ๐๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ฌ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฆ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ซ๐๐๐จ๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ.๐น
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..
๐๐ค ๐ข๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐๐ง ๐ฌ๐๐๐ฉ ๐จ๐ค๐ฃ๐ ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ง๐ค๐ข ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐ฉ ๐๐ก๐ฌ๐๐ฎ๐จ ๐๐๐ฉ๐จ ๐ข๐ฎ ๐๐๐จ๐ฅ๐๐๐ง, ๐๐๐ฅ๐ง๐๐จ๐จ๐๐ค๐ฃ ๐ค๐ง ๐ข๐๐ก๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ค๐ก๐ฎ. ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช'๐ซ๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ง ๐๐๐ก๐ฉ ๐ก๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ฃ ๐ค๐ช๐ฉ๐จ๐๐๐๐ง, ๐ฉ๐๐๐จ ๐๐ก๐๐ช๐ข ๐ฌ๐๐จ ๐๐ช๐จ๐ฉ ๐๐ค๐ง ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช.
๐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ข๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐๐… ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐’๐ฆ ๐๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐จ๐
While Placebo’s debut revelled in hedonism, its sequel was all emotional aftermath, and demonstrated more assured songwriting. Producer ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ tells us more.
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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.
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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.”
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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.”(๐ฑ๐ข ๐ฐ๐๐๐ข ๐ฟ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐๐๐.๐๐๐, ๐ผ๐๐๐๐ ๐ธ0๐ธ๐ธ)
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