”A place for us to dream” consists of 36 tracks, including songs off albums, single versions, radio edits, live performances and redux editions of previously released tracks. It includes all Placebo songs that have been released as singles, apart from "Burger Queen Franรงais", "Twenty Years" and "The Never-Ending Why".
The compilation's title ”A place for us to dream” comes from the lyrics of the song "Narcoleptic" that can be found on Placebo's third studio album “Black market music”. The album cover is a picture taken during the 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot (explanation below).
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| Photo credit: Cover of the album, unknown, ainesk, Martin Schechler / edit by Silke |
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CD 1 ๐ต https://bit.ly/3cbNaIE ๐ต
CD 2 ๐ต https://bit.ly/3b4AWRN ๐ต
๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ก'๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ช๐ข๐ฅ๐ ๐ง๐ข “๐ ๐ฃ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ข ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ “
Ladies and Gentlemen, and those of you who find yourselves in-between.
There’s a story in here somewhere, though I’m still not sure what it’s about. It’s a long movie that jumps forwards and backwards in time. There are two main characters, a very important supporting role, and guys who hit objects for a living who come and go.
Every now and then there’s a glorious cameo.
I don’t know what it all means, even though I’m the one who edited the film. I still haven’t watched it back all way through. Please have the courage to do what I can’t. Watch it from beginning to end. Take one long deep breath, allowing it all into your body as a whole and recognise the sensation in your soul. I’m still too afraid to do so.
This album is for you, not for me.
Dream of a place where we all belong.
I hope to meet you there one day.
With love,
Brian Molko
Ibiza, June 2016
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| Photo credit: Mondadori Portfolio |
The picture was taken on June 15th 2011 by photojournalist Richard Lam during the Vancouver Stanley Cup riot and became worldwide famous as “๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ผ๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐“. According to Brian it's “๐๐๐๐ข๐ก ๐๐๐๐ข๐ก๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ก ๐โ๐๐๐ . ๐ผ๐ก'๐ ๐๐๐๐ข๐ก ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ก ๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐“.
The Stanley Cup Final 2011 took place between the Vancouver Canucks and Boston Bruins. The Canucks' defeat sent the team's fans into a frenzy and ended in a riot. The police had to intervene to contain the chaos that had settled in the city. Also passers-by who just wanted to go home were stuck in the riot. And among these people was the couple featured on the cover.
This couple, Alex Thomas and her Australian boyfriend Scott Jones, were not participating in the riot. But they were in the street as the police stepped in. Alex was pushed by a police officer, inhaled tear gas and fell to the ground. She began to panic and shake. So Scott leaned over her and tried to calm and comfort her with a kiss. Richard Lam captured this moment in his iconic photograph which was called "the most compelling sports image of the year" by Sports Illustrated. First many viewers suspected the scene had been staged but evidence soon revealed the truth.
In June 2016 it was reported that Alex and Scott have moved to Perth, Australia, where they sleep under a poster of their “Riot Kiss“.
At least 140 people were injured during thus incident, one of them critically. Four people were stabbed and nine police officers were hurt in the riot. Alltogether 101 people were arrested. In 2015, four years after the riot, the police investigation was finished. It led to 887 charges against more than 300 people.
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| Photo credit: Marco Vittur |
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๐ข “The point of the cover is about beauty amongst chaos, it's about love amongst violence and anger and that kind of dichotomy. I mean what's really important to stress is that this is a real photograph, it's an amazing piece of photohournalism and that is the first time that the couple met and they are still together.“
(M2 Petofi, Napi durrana, 2016)
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๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต?
๐ข “We’re stretching the 20th anniversary of Placebo over quite a long time. We started all that in 2014 because that was 20 years since we formed and we’re going until this year because that’s when the first album came out. This feels like a good time to do a proper respective, our last one was all singles and this time we wanted to do a mixture of the songs that have been the most commercially successful and the ones we feel have most artistic merit. It’s not a Greatest Hits.”
๐๐ข๐ด ๐ช๐ต ๐ฅ๐ช๐ง๐ง๐ช๐ค๐ถ๐ญ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฏ’๐ต?
๐ข “It was difficult. Placing songs from 1996 next to songs from 2016 is a big leap when it comes to Placebo, but there is a thread. We wanted to start on a high and end on a high and then it goes up and down in between. It’s a journey with a lot of despair, but a bit of hope.”
๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ถ๐ญ๐ข๐ณ๐ญ๐บ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ณ๐ณ๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง๐ง?
๐ข “We’ve not included ‘Twenty years’, which I think is a classic Placebo track. We had to be a bit cruel this time.”
(hmv London, October 6h 2016)
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