𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬: 𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦

“𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦” was first put out as a bonus disc on the Special edition of “Sleeping with ghosts” in September 2003.

But ecactly 11 years ago today, on May 3rd 2010, a repackaged version of the record was re-released through Placebo's former label EMI.
Most of the songs on this album were originally used as b-sides for the band's singles. The only exception is the cover version of “Running up that hill”, which was recorded especially for the “Sleeping with ghosts” Special edition.

📀 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗧 📀
01. Running up that hill (Kate Bush)
👉 http://bit.ly/2ISNLlz
02. Where is my mind? (Pixies)
👉 https://bit.ly/2Nf1WHt
03. Bigmouth strikes again (The Smiths)
👉 https://bit.ly/3beqGsA
04. Johnny and Mary (Robert Palmer)
👉 https://bit.ly/3blc7Ut
05. 20th Century Boy (T. Rex)
👉 http://bit.ly/39n6geh
06. The ballad of Melody Nelson (Serge Gainsbourg)
👉 http://bit.ly/2DW16rB
07. Holocaust (Big Star)
👉 https://bit.ly/3c0bcrA
08. I feel you (Depeche Mode)
👉 https://bit.ly/3uWe5Co
09. Daddy Cool (Boney M.)
👉 https://bit.ly/2MQH8Gi
10. Jackie (Sinèad O'Connor)
👉 https://bit.ly/3rj5OGq

📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 📌
📢 ”It's important to stress that the "Covers" album is a collection of B-sides and tracks we've done for films and tribute compilations. We do covers in the studio to take a break from the psychological pressure of opposites: we still want to work, but we need to give our brains a break. So we do covers for fun. We grew up in the 80s so a lot of them are from that decade. It's a way of keeping the momentum going in the studio whilst taking a break from being very precious over what we've written and obsessed with getting it right.”
(“Rank your records“, Noisy, October 13th 2016)

📢 ”We're children of the 80s. So when we cover songs, we have a tendency to go back to the 80s and cover songs which got us interested in pop music. That's why you've got "Johnny and Mary" by Robert Palmer, that's why you've got "Daddy Cool" by Boney M -- or "Running up that hill", for that matter. These are songs which remind us of our childhood and make us feel nostalgic, which is why we try to do something modern with them.”
(Suicide Girls, September 11th 2007)

📢 ”Covers are done for fun, and so if you start working on them and they don’t work, you just kind of give it up… you know. Some you stay quite faithful to the original blueprint, ‘cos that’s like the only way that you can do it.”
(Triple J, March 19th 2004)

𝘈𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳?
📢 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻: “Yeah, Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler!“
𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺?
📢 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻: “Oh, yeah!”
📢 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝘄𝗶𝘁𝘁: “Unfortunately, he’s serious!” (laugh)
(MTV Supersonic 2004)

📌 𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗙𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 📌
📢 " ...I know Johnny Marr liked our version of “Bigmouth strikes again” but Robert Palmer thought our version of “Johnny and Mary” was a bit too rock for him. Kate Bush, Brian and I actually got to meet, hands trembling. She was really sweet and really liked our version of “Running up that hill. ..."
(Totally Dublin, January 2010)

Photo credit: Ashley Maile

📌 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢 📌
🎶 𝘙𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘭
Original by: Kate Bush
Composer: Kate Bush
Lyrics by: Kate Bush
Recorded especially for “Covers”

🎶 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘺 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥?
Original by: Pixies
Composer: Black Francis (= Charles Thompson), frontman of Pixies
Lyrics by: Black Francis
First released as B-side of “This Picture” (CD 1)

🎶 𝘉𝘪𝘨𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯
Original by: The Smiths
Composer: Johnny Maar (founding member of The Smiths)
Lyrics by: Morrissey (frontman of The Smiths)
First released as B-side of “Nancy Boy” (CD 1)

🎶 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯𝘯𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘺
Original by: Robert Palmer
Composer: Robert Palmer
Lyrics by: Robert Palmer
B-side of Taste in men (CD 2)
Producer: Paul Corkett
First released as B-side of “Special K”

🎶 20𝘵𝘩 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘺 𝘉𝘰𝘺
Original by: T. Rex
Composer: Marc Bolan (frontman of T. Rex)
Lyrics by: Marc Bolan
Producer: Phil Vinall
First released as B-side of “You don't care about us” (CD 1)
and also released on the soundtrack of “Velvet Goldmine”

🎶 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘕𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘰𝘯
Original by: Serge Gainsbourg
Composer: Serge Gainsbourg and Jean-Claude Vannier
Lyrics by: Serge Gainsbourg and Jean-Claude Vannier
First released on the compilation “Monsieur Gainsbourg revisited”
Producer: Dimitri Tikovoi
Mixed by: James Brown

🎶 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘵
Original by: Big Star
Composer: Alex Chilton (frontman of Big Star)
Lyrics by: Alex Chilton
First released as B-side of “Slave to the wage” (CD 2)

🎶 𝘐 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶
Original by: Depeche Mode
Composer: Martin Gore (founding member of DM)
Lyrics by: Martin Gore
First released on a Fan Club-only Cassette (1999)
and also released as a bonus track on the American edition of “Black market musuc”

🎶 𝘋𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘺 𝘊𝘰𝘰𝘭
Original by: Boney M.
Composer: Frank Farian (music producer and founder of Boney M.)
Lyrics by: George Rayam
Producer: Dimitri Tikovoi
First released as B-side of “The bitter end” (Enhanced CD 1)

🎶 𝘑𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘦
Original by: Sinèad O' Connor
Composer: Sinèad O' Connor
Lyrics by: Sinèad O' Connor
First released as B-side of “This Picture” (Single DVD)

Photo credits pic 1 - starting top left: Patrick Ford, unknown (2), Paul, Jenny Lewis, Jean Paul Guilloteau, Jenny Lewis, Travis Shinn, Pat Pope, REX, unknown, Nathan Callahan, Mick Hutson, Keith Morris, Tim Roney, Donal Moloney

Post by Silke

✨ 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗤𝘂𝗶𝘇 🔍✨

Soulmates let's end  🥳🎉𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝑫𝒂𝒚🎊 with a 𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝑸𝒖𝒊𝒛 that we have prepared for you.


📍𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒📍

All you have to do is look for the 𝟏𝟎 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 in the following text. Pay close attention 🧐 and 🚫𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐠𝐥𝐞!🚫

Photo credits down below

𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺? 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘨𝘰! 🏁

♦️𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲♦️

Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal met while both were studying at Goldsmiths College in Luxembourg. In 1994, they met again by chance at South Kensington tube station in London, England. Brian saw a tall boy with a guitar strapped to his back and realized it was Stefan. Brian invited Stefan to see his next gig. Stefan attended and, after the gig, proposed to Brian to form a band together. In October 1995 they released their first single "36 Degrees" and a year later released their debut album "Placebo".

In autumn 1996, Robert Schultzberg, the first drummer, left the band and Steve Forrest accepted the invitation to join Placebo. Together with him they recorded four albums: Without you I'm Nothing (1998), Black Market Blood (2000), Sleeping With Ghosts (2003) and Meds (2005). In October 2007, due to musical differences, Steve Forrest left the band and Steve Hewitt joined. We can hear him on the albums Battle for the sun (2008) and Loud Like Love (2013). Once again, in February 2015, the drummer left the band and Matt Lloyd joined this time. Placebo celebrated their 20th anniversary in 2016 with a compilation album and tour called "A Place For Us To Dream". Currently we are awaiting the release of their ninth studio album.

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📸 Photo Credits: Main Picture - Alfred Steffen / Joseph Llanes / Kevin Westenberg (2) / Stefan Olsdal IG / Alex Weston / Jenn Five / Screenshots (4) / Rest of the pics (7) - Unknown / Edit made by Rita.

Post by Susie Bosco & Rita.

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗜𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗘𝗡𝗗 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗘𝗗 𝗢𝗡 𝟮𝗡𝗗 𝗢𝗙 𝗠𝗔𝗬

PLACEBO "The Bitter End" Lisbon 2017 ⭐⭐𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 𝐃𝐀𝐘 ⭐⭐-
- 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭... 𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐞𝐭?

Dear friends, I also want to welcome you to my post on this important Placebo day and I hope you all have a good time, because I definitely do!

We all already know that this holiday was set by the fans themselves based on the lyrics of one of Placebo's most famous songs -
"𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐧𝐝".

Why are these lyrics so popular? What led Brian to writing this song?
𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐞, 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐏𝐀 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲.

And my goal was to search in detail the archive of all Placebo concerts and find the exact dates when the fans were lucky enough to experience the song "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐧𝐝" 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐃𝐚𝐲.

And to make your information complete, let's also see why writer George Orwell wrote this dystopian novel, and what Brian said about the origin of this song. And for fun, I'll give you a few reviews of how music critics received this great rock work.

 In writing the lyrics to The Bitter End, Brian was inspired by 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐎𝐫𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥'𝐬 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥, "𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟒," which fits perfectly into the time and society we live in.
Thematically, „1984“ centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, a democratic socialist himself, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated.
“1984” ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑎 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒. 𝐴𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑖𝑔 𝐵𝑟𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟, 𝑅𝑜𝑜𝑚 101, 𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑒, 𝐷𝑜𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑁𝑒𝑤𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑛 𝑝ℎ𝑟𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑠.𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ "-𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘" (𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘) 𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑤𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑙. “𝑁𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝐸𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑦-𝐹𝑜𝑢𝑟” ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑑𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑚𝑎, 𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑜, 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎, 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎.

⭐🔸Quite simply - this book must have influenced the soul of every reader, including Brian.🔸⭐

And is it clearer to you now? Throughout its existence in rock music, Placebo proclaims freedom of speech and any religion in society and the right to the uniqueness of every person on earth.
In any case, Brian elevated his lyrics about the ending relationship in this song above all others precisely by using such a prized and perfect dystopian work of an English writer.

Placebo live in Lisbon on May 2nd 2017, screenshot

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑬𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒚 𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒔, 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒔:

📌 BBC.uk.co: "The Bitter End" is "a good pop tune", having "just the right amount of dark, gothic atmosphere to please their fans and enough radio friendly guitars to please the new generation of indie kids."
📌 The Times: the song "ramped up the energy level to devastating effect."
📌 Rock Sound: the track's "kick ass romp" reinforces "their status as purveyors of pure indie pop in the vein of The Smiths."
📌 NME: "The Bitter End" "sees Placebo powering along with a relentless U2- chasing-after-The Cure melody that's as infectious as 24."
📌 Summarising Placebo's 2004 singles collection, Once More With Feeling, BBC.uk.co's Nottingham music reviewer Jaime Gill stated that "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."

⭐Orwell's 1984 novel was an inspiration for many other rock artists as well - Black Sabbath, Dead Kennedys, John Lennon, David Bowie, Eurythmics, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Muse, Marilyn Manson, Coldplay to name a few ...⭐

 Placebo live in Lisbon on May 2nd 2017, screenshot.

⭐🔸 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠?🔸⭐

📌"It was written and recorded very quickly. As we had spent a lot of time playing with the technology and synths, we wanted to do something lively, exuberant, punk. The idea had started from two guitar chords found by Stefan and bang! Two days later, it was finished."
(𝐿𝑒𝑠 𝐼𝑛𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑁°382, 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ-𝐴𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑙 2003)

"It's about a relationship. Two people fighting, they both want to be the stronger one. A classic Fuck-you song."
(𝐷𝑁𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑥, 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 2003)

"'The bitter end' was written and recorded in two days, when we were finishing the album. “The bitter end“ is about couples who are breaking up, the anger that take hold of them at this time, the desire that arises from this injury."
(𝑀6 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐, 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 2004)

“𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐧𝐝” is one of the fans all-time favourites and became an inherent part of most Placebo shows. Up to now it was performed 679 times which makes it the third most often played song at live concerts after “𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐞” 𝐚𝐧𝐝 “𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐊”.

Placebo live in Lisbon on May 2nd 2017, screenshot.

⭐ And at the end of this festive moment today - here's the promised concert.

𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒚 𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚 𝒂 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝑫𝒂𝒚?

This has happened only twice in the history of the band:
For the first time, in Nantes, France in 2003, but no videos can be found on YT from that day.
𝐇𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫, 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐛𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟕, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐢𝐠 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲.
In addition to the shared amazing video of the song „The Bitter End“, there are a few other beautiful videos from this exceptional performance, so that we can really enjoy this evening properly.

🎶 "Jesus Son"
https://bit.ly/3t98JS6
🎶 "Special Needs"
https://bit.ly/3xExsB9
🎶 "Too Many Friends"
https://bit.ly/3e6wt4Y
🎶 "Twenty Years"
https://bit.ly/2RdnGFB
🎶 "Without You I'm Nothing"
https://bit.ly/3xExIjB
🎶 "Slave To The Wage"
https://bit.ly/3t97wdw
🎶 "Song To Say Goodbye" and "The Bitter End"
https://bit.ly/3vztZC0
🎶 "Teenage Angst" and "Nancy Boy"
https://bit.ly/3e4rfqp
🎶 "Running Up That Hill" and for Placebo a bit unusual ending of the concert
https://bit.ly/3vqjoJI

Post by Marti

𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗜𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗘𝗡𝗗 𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗢

Now let's have a closer look at the official “The bitter end” video. It was directed by 𝘏𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘨𝘩 and shows the band playing in the dish of the 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘛𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘦, one of the largest radio telescopes in the world (see location info below). Halfway through the music clip you can see infrared images of a couple chasing each other. Finally they catch each other up and kiss. According to Greenhalgh the video tells the story about two people who found love and this love blows up their world.

Screenshots from the official video, edit by Sukje

🎬 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗜𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗘𝗡𝗗 – 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗢
🎵 http://bit.ly/2YsP0yn 🎵

The Lovell Telescope or Jodrell Bank radar is located in Cheshire, near the place where ex-drummer Steve Hewitt grew up. In the “Once more with feeling” DVD he said that he used to hang out near this huge dish when he was a kid and “I never thought I’d be with the band, playing on top of it. It’s kind of a huge thing to achieve.“ But Brian immediately destroyed this narrative by revealing that they never really played on the satellite dish: “I hate to break the mystery, but the band isn’t playing on the telescope itself. Thanks to technology we did it in the studio. This video was filmed in January. So it would have been too cold for us to be comfortable up there.“

Stefan explained that after some videos which were a lot like short movies (like for example “Special K” or “Slave to the wage”) Placebo wanted to do a clip in which they could perform as band again.

Howard Greenhalgh had the idea for the location but was first convinced he would not be able to film it (see his statement below) but luckily he was wrong. Steve explained Howard's approach to the clip like this: “He tries to retain a modernist attitude towards most videos and tries to keep it futuristic, which I think you get from this.“ Brian thought about the idea for the video that it was visually arresting and would show the band in the best light possible.

For parts of the music clip Howard used heat-seeking cameras on night-time shots. In an interview the band said that this was very interesting and felt gorgeous because it was the first time they had seen something like this.

“There is a great energy on ‘The bitter end’. It just builds and builds. It does the song justice“, Steve Hewitt stated in an interview.

Screenshot from the official video

Brian said about Howard Greenhalgh that “the great thing about him is that we just show up and go: ‘Do what you want’, because we trust him. It’s really easy.“ And Steve explained that this helps them to relax and be themselves on the set. Brian added about the shooting of “The bitter end” that they had known Greenhalgh for more than five years then and after all this time it got very easy for him and the other band members to work with Howard as their video director.


📌 𝗛𝗢𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗗 𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗡𝗛𝗔𝗟𝗚𝗛 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗢 📌

“One of my favourites was 'The bitter end' because I couldn't believe we were able to film it. We thought: let's make the end of the world, the end of the world according to the script, so let's make a video about two people who found love, and this blows up the world, but before that, the band needs to play somewhere. Let's put them on a satellite dish. When we arrived at the filming location, we were not allowed to film the group inside the plate. It was very dangerous so they only allowed us to film it from different angles. And we shot everything inside the telescope. And we filmed it outside. And then, in the studio, we overlaid the band's footage on a satellite dish. And we filmed around the saucer, flying in a helicopter. I couldn't believe they would let us do this. It was a telescope. "Wow!" We thought that we would not be allowed to fly in a helicopter, to shoot a satellite dish from the inside. We thought we could only remove the plate from the side. It's incredible. I also liked shooting with an infrared camera, because it was part of the story - the story of lost souls, they meet, and everything falls apart. We had special installations, lightning struck everywhere in the frame. And I think in this video Stefan looked like a "God of Rock" with his bass. I think that all the shots with them were good. I think, that it was one of their most comprehensible tracks. It was like a song with a good chorus. It brought them a lot of success. I remember how I came to the record company. The guys and I were there to talk about filming 'The bitter end'. And the first question Brian asked me was, "What do you think of this track?" He had never asked me that before. And I think he really, really liked this track. Maybe I could be wrong that he doubted the song, but I got the impression that he really liked the track and they wanted to know what I thought of it. I liked the track. I'll tell you one thing: I have Placebo records in my car and I need to be very careful when I play their music. Speeding is something that happens all the time when I listen to them. Damn it, I'm speeding.”
(Placebo Story Project, 2016)

Screenshot from the official video

📌 𝗟𝗢𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢 📌

The Lovell Telescope is a radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory near Goostrey, Cheshire in the north-west of England. When the construction was finished in 1957 the telescope was the largest steerable dish radio telescope in the world. It is now the third-largest. t was originally known as the "250 ft telescope" or the Radio Telescope at Jodrell Bank, before becoming the Mark I telescope around 1961. It was renamed to Lovell Telescope in 1987 after Sir Bernard Lovell and became a Grade I listed building in 1988. The telescope forms part of the MERLIN and European VLBI Network arrays of radio telescopes.

Screenshot from the official video

📌 𝗛𝗢𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗗 𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗡𝗛𝗔𝗟𝗚𝗛 📌

Howard Douglas Greenhalgh was born in Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire on February 19th 1963. Apart from “The bitter end” in 2003 he directed six other videos for Placebo: “Nancy Boy”, “Bruise Pristine” (both 1997), “Slave to the wage” (2000), “Special K” (2001), “This Picture” (also 2003) and “For what it's worth” (2009). The British director of music videos and advertising also worked with bands like Pet Shop Boys, The Jesus and Mary Chain, A-ha, Sting, Elton John, George Michael, Snap!, Spice Girls, Genesis, Sneaker Pimps, Muse, Iron Maiden, Billy Talent, INXS and OMD. One of his most famous music clips is probably “Black hole sun” by Soundgarden. Describing his approach to music video direction Howard Greenhalgh said in a 2010 interview that "With anything, it’s the lyrics that are everything. You pray that there are good lyrics in a track because that leads you immediately to what you’re going to do."
Greenhalgh owns Soft Target, a creative hub for commercials, digital content, photography and music videos based in London.

Post by Silke

🔹🔹𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐄𝐍𝐃 - 𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐗𝐄𝐒🔹🔹

To continue this wonderful day there is no doubt we have listened to "The Bitter End" a lot of times, but today it's a perfect occasion to listen to this song in different versions.

Check out our playlist! 🔊🎶🎵🎶

Photo credit: Jean Baptiste Mondino

🎸 Placebo - The Bitter End • (Never Lost Remix)
🎧 https://youtu.be/FvFk2D9p9Qw



🎸 Placebo - The Bitter End • (Fuzz Vegas Remix)
🎧 https://youtu.be/9btKrgRQjMo



🎸 Placebo - The Bitter End • (Rui Lourenço Remix)
🎧 https://youtu.be/Al_HR4o4gQA



🎸 Placebo - The Bitter End • (Junior Sanchez Remix)
🎧 https://youtu.be/f6VHqQHuiOw

Photo credit: Jean Baptiste Mondino

🎸 Placebo - The Bitter End VS. Kosheen • ("Hide The Bitter" Remix)
🎧 https://youtu.be/hu_CfFeHK5w



🎸 Placebo - The Bitter End • (SSX 3 - Soundtrack for the game)
🎧 https://youtu.be/09zkuMZFVeo



🎸 Placebo - The Bitter End • (Iöm Remix)
🎧 https://youtu.be/h0fxGpAU9zQ



🎸 Placebo - The Bitter End • (Jay Thomas Remix)
🎧 https://youtu.be/_Gu8c_2KwRE

Photo credit: Jean Baptiste Mondino

🎸 Placebo - The Bitter End • (Random Sign Guy - Instrumental HQ)
🎧 https://youtu.be/ZuXp_FwmJVk



🎸 Placebo - The Bitter End • (Guitar backing track by riddler_machine)
🎧 https://youtu.be/etEeh_Gnk-g



🎸 Placebo - The Bitter End • (OIBAF & WALLEN Edit)
🎧 https://youtu.be/7PiexWZIhQw



🎸 Placebo - The Bitter End • (Wright Drum School - Relly Kinzett - Drum Cover)
🎧 https://youtu.be/XsW7onUNfX4

Photo credit: Jean Baptiste Mondino

🎸 Placebo - The Bitter End • (HLC Orchestral Mix)
🎧 https://youtu.be/dGXwddrttMk



🎸 Placebo - The Bitter End • (Syte mix - Placebo vs Nu:Tone)
🎧 https://youtu.be/raTMikzfi70



🎸 Placebo - The Bitter End • (Max Grassi Remix mashup feat. Hemanifezt)
🎧 https://youtu.be/t248aInpFb4



🎸 Placebo - The Bitter End • (Funny Remix by vigo)
🎧 https://youtu.be/gji9nmWeO80


Post by Susie Bosco and Rita

⭐𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐄𝐍𝐃⭐

Dear soulmates,

of course I’m also coming to wish you a very happy 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝑫𝒂𝒚🎉🎉🎉

As soon as it’s all about the legendary hit 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐄𝐍𝐃 today, I decided to tell you about the very first performance of this song. So, it was played at 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒏 𝑺𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒐𝒔 for the British TV programme 𝐂𝐃:𝐔𝐊 on 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟓𝐭𝐡, 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟑. Five days later, on March 10th, The Bitter End was released as the lead single from Placebo’s fourth studio album 𝐒𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬.

✨𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐌𝐄 𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘✨

𝐂𝐃:𝐔𝐊 (𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧:𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐝𝐨𝐦) was a music television programme which ran in the United Kingdom from 29 August 1998 until 1 April 2006 It was aired on ITV as a rival to the BBC's Live & Kicking. In contrast to its predecessor, The Chart Show, which only showed promo videos, CD:UK was broadcast on Saturday mornings with a studio audience and featured live performances, as well as star interviews and competitions.

A spin-off programme entitled 𝐂𝐃:𝐔𝐊 𝐇𝐨𝐭𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐬, featuring music videos which could be considered unsuitable for daytime viewing, was launched in January 2003 and broadcast overnight. Back in 2003, the program was fronted by 𝑪𝒂𝒕 𝑫𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒚 as solo presenter.


On March 5th, 2003, 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 was one of three guests at the studio to discuss the artists featured in that week’s CD:UK Hotshots chart.

Screenshot from the performance

𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐃:𝐔𝐊, 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟑

➡️ https://bit.ly/3uIQhRC


The sound is pretty bad but I think such rarities got their value anyway.

Brian’s answers were all smart and meaningful but I’d like to pick up one of them specifically because it’s not about one particular song or artist (they talked about Beyonce and an American rapper 50 Cent) but such a general open-minded point of view.

📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨: “It’s controversial in my opinion. If it’s musical ‘black collagen’ - black music originated in America, it was brought over here so that’s where it really originated - so don’t we should be so nationalistic about it, 𝒘𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒖𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒏𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎. I think it’s a little bit of a shame with this. I’m a big hip-hop fan but I’ve always been a fan of hip-hop of the message that public enemy will be down productions, and such are the origins of hip-hop. I think it’s just a shame, the business twist towards real negativity in hip-hop and violence in hip-hop and a kind of this gangster lifestyle because 𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒊𝒕’𝒔 𝒂 𝒉𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒊𝒕.”

Screenshot from the performance

🎶Back to 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐧𝐝, please enjoy the first of 679 performances of this song. The latest one, by the way, at Plaine de Tourbillon, Sion, Switzerland, is dated July 13th, 2018. After Every You Every Me and Special K, it’s considered to be the third most often played song in Placebo’s live history.

Have a perfect day together with us on the page!🤩

Post by Olga

🎸 💽 THE BITTER END - SINGLE EDITIONS 💽 🎸

Which edition we can find at your home dear soulmates?

1️⃣

💽 Placebo - The Bitter End

🔹 Elevator Music (4) – FLOORCD16, Hut Recordings – Virgin –

📀 CD, Single, Enhanced, CD1

🌏 Europe

🔹10th March 2003

💽🎧 ibit.ly/pWH6



2️⃣

💽 Placebo – Bitter End

🔹 Hut Recordings

📀 Format unknown

🌏 UK

🔹 4th oMarch 2003

💽🎧 ibit.ly/81R1



3️⃣

💽 Placebo – The Bitter End

🔹 Elevator Music – FLOORTP16, Hut Recordings – FLOORTP16

📀 Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, Single, Promo

🌏 UK

🔹 2003

💽🎧ibit.ly/MZfP



4️⃣

💽 Placebo – The Bitter End

🔹 Elevator Music – FLOORTP16, Hut Recordings – FLOORTP16

📀 Vinyl, 7",Single

🌏 UK

🔹 2003

💽🎧ibit.ly/MZfP



5️⃣

💽 Placebo - The Bitter End

🔹 Virgin Records

📀 CD, Enhanced, Promo, CD1

🌏 Spain

🔹 2003

💽🎧 ibit.ly/uqvC

6️⃣

💽 Placebo – The Bitter End

🔹 Virgin

📀 CD, Single

🌏 Australia

🔹 2003

💽🎧 ibit.ly/uEav



7️⃣

💽 Placebo – The Bitter End

🔹 Elevator Music – FLOORDX16, Hut Recordings – Virgin –

📀 CD, Single, CD2

🌏 Europe

🔹 10th March 2003

💽🎧 ibit.ly/PrBR



8️⃣

💽 Placebo – The Bitter End

🔹 Virgin – Delabel –

📀 CD, Single, Copy Protected, Cardboard Sleeve

🌏 France

🔹 2003

💽🎧 ibit.ly/ZXvr



9️⃣

💽 Placebo – The Bitter End

🔹 Elevator Music – FLOORCDP16

📀 CD, Single, Copy Protected, Promo

🌏 UK & Europe

🔹 2003

💽🎧 ibit.ly/9ZQ3



🔟

💽 Placebo – The Bitter End

🔹 Elevator Music – FLOORCDP16

📀 CDr, Single, Promo

🌏 UK

🔹 2003

💽🎧 ibit.ly/sII4



1️⃣1️⃣

💽 Placebo – The Bitter End (MTV Unplugged)

🔹 Vertigo/Capitol – none

📀 CD, Single, Promo, Special Edition

🌏 Germany

🔹 2015

💽🎧 ibit.ly/ZFoq



🥂Happy Placebo Day everyone 🥂

Post by Susie & Rita 

♦️𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌♦️

🔹(𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐈𝐃𝐃𝐄𝐍 𝐌𝐄𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒 𝐈𝐍 “𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐄𝐍𝐃”)🔹


“... 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑖𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒'𝑠 𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑛. 𝐼𝑇 𝑊𝐴𝑆 𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝑆𝐸𝐶𝑂𝑁𝐷 𝑂𝐹 𝑀𝐴𝑌. 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑠. ...“
(George Orwell, “1984“)

Photo credit: Book cover, Screenshots from the movie, screenshot from the music clip, edit by Silke

These lines are the literary origin of what we celebrate today. The beginning of “International Placebo Day“ dates back to 8th of June 1949, the release date of 𝘎𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘖𝘳𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭 “1984“ (also known as “Nineteen Eighty-Four“).
If you want to know more about what exactly happened on the 2nd of May and where this lead to please continue reading this post.

As most of you know the Placebo song “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘯𝘥“ 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 in its lyrics. Now we will have a closer look at them and reveal all the hidden meanings in the text.
When you think of the song, can you name some of those references? (Obviously “The 2nd of May“ is out of competition.) Quite difficult, isn't it?
Except you know the storyline of “1984“. This is necessary to find and understand the clues in the lyrics. Those of you who aren't familiar with it can click the link below and read the summary. It leads to a page where you cannot only find a plot overview, but also summaries and analyses of every chapter, a list and description of the characters, quotes, key facts and much more. To understand the references in “The bitter end“ you only need to read the plot overview.
Or, if you're not a fan of reading, just watch the movie.

𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘆:
👉 https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/1984/summary/

Photo credit: Scarlet Page

Ok, soulmates, now that the basic work is done it's time to get serious. Important questions will be anwered. 😉

Where or what is the “comfort zone“?
Who's “running out of alibis“ and why?
And what happened on that “fateful day“?
Let's get started and discover those secrets!

📜 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗜𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗘𝗡𝗗
𝙎𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙬𝙚'𝙧𝙚 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙤 𝙖𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙙
𝙄𝙣 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙩 𝙯𝙤𝙣𝙚
➡ In “1984“ most people are kept sedated with alcohol, lottery and pornography (feeling so anesthetized) but they are also brainwashed and so used to it, that they are satisfied with this state (the comfort zone).

𝙍𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙢𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚
𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄 𝙛𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙝𝙤𝙢𝙚
➡ Julia follows Winston home twice. The second time he almost kills her, because he thinks she is a spy of the Thought Police.

𝙒𝙚'𝙧𝙚 𝙧𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙗𝙞𝙨
𝙊𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙈𝙖𝙮
➡ It's the day Julia and Winston have their first secret date.They fall in love with each other and have sex for the first time. Relationships or sex between Party Members are strictly forbidden by Big Brother. Winston and Julia are aware from the start (from the 2nd of May) that they will be captured and that there's no justification for their love affair (they are running out of alibis).

𝙍𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙢𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚
𝙊𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧'𝙨 𝙙𝙖𝙮
➡ This refers to the final chapter where Winston and Julia accidentally meet one last time on a cold day in March. “Summer time“ stands for the affair they had the year before.

𝙎𝙚𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙚𝙣𝙙
𝙎𝙚𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙚𝙣𝙙
➡ “The bitter end“ means the last time Julia and Winston meet after the tortures had killed their feelings for one another.

𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙥 𝙬𝙚 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩'𝙨 𝙨𝙮𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙙
𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙗𝙧𝙤𝙠𝙚𝙣 𝙗𝙤𝙣𝙚
➡ No one dares to be individual or different from the rest in “1984“ (they all “take synchronized steps“).
“Every broken bone“ is a reference to the tortures both Julia and Winston go through at the Ministry of Love before they betray each other.

𝙍𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙢𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚
𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄 𝙛𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙝𝙤𝙢𝙚

𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙢𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙡𝙪𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙚𝙨
𝘼𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪'𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙮
➡ A lullaby titled “Oranges and Lemons“ is a frequently used motif throughout the novel until the point where Julia and Winston are captured by the Thought Police.

𝙍𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚
𝙊𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙛𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙙𝙖𝙮
➡ The fateful day is 2nd of May again. From that moment on Julia and Winston know that they will be killed or their spirits will be broken by the Party (it's killing time).

𝙎𝙚𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙚𝙣𝙙
𝙎𝙚𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙚𝙣𝙙

Screenshot from the official video

Some of you may wonder why the text stops here. Here's a quote by Brian that helps to understand:

“... That does happen at the very end of "The bitter end" as well. The backing vocal that comes in at the very, very end which starts out with a line that says "every time we're intersected/it feels love like suicide" and then the last line is "to miss your eyes and lips" and in between I don't know what I am saying“ (The Sentimentalist 2003).

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