Brian Molko, Stefan Olsdal and Steve Hewitt. Placebo. An
American, a swede and an englishman. A bisexual, a
homosexual and a heterosexual. These three men crashed into
the world of rock and haven't looked back since...
Meeting by chance in a London tube station, old classmates
Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal got talking and Brian,
noticing that Stefan had a guitar strapped to his back,
invited him to come and watch him sing and play guitar...
The two guys hadn't been friends at the school they went to
in luxembourg, Brian had been unpopular- preferring drama
to sport- and Stefan was a star player on the basketball
team... But by the end of that evening stefan came up to
brian and said 'lets start a band'. This is quite
incredible as brian says that in the space of 7 More...
i dont know if anybody is goint to read this, but i have listen to this song for hours today and yesterday. I Broke up with mi gfriend, i love her very much, but i ve cheating myself for hope, tha someday everything would change. Im a very difficult person, i tend to get depressed, she understand me a lot, but i realized though i love her very much, she is no te love of my life, i was so selfish because i know this from very much... we´ve been dating for almost two years... but in the end... i beg God for forgiveness, beacuse she such a kind and beautiful person...
Im afraid, now that im alone again..
i heard somewhere that Brian wrote this song to himself, and when you hear it that way it gets a lot of sense. It's a song to the self, to the inner child and to the lost of the innocence. and that makes it my favorite song on the etire album!
pd. sorry for my poor english :p
Revolution! | Reviewer: Derek !
------ About the song Spite & Malice performed by Placebo
Old school Placebo when they actually used to be a cold grungy band with meaning. This song is different from any of the placebo songs you will hear. Dope ass drum track with a rap chorus and Mr. Molko's eerie soothing vocals. one of the only song you will hear from these guys with any hip hop influence. Their new album battle for the sun minus 2 songs can be thrown in the emo garbage can forever. Listen to the song Bulletproof cupid and listen to them now. Thats what i used to love
had to put a title | Reviewer: syst3mk1ll3r
------ About the song Because I Want You performed by Placebo
i think this song is about drinking as anonymous well-wrote. but theres just the chorus. i think Brian's trying to show a relationship originally built on love and is folding up because of the drinking. but the lyrics in the chorus and first strain show thathe still loves her, and maybe enough to break his addiction. She can't take the driking and coming home half drunk looking for comfort, and she ants to leave. In overall effect, i think Brian is trying to "jump into the shoes" of the man in the relationship. Like he's singing to the girl about how he loves her and doesn't want her to give up on him. Maybe it's a relationship he's has before as well. He does a good job <3 i can really relate with him the guy in this song =/
see first i thought it was just a friend (the child, will refer to him as figure 1) who is helping the man (figure 2) a drug addict. (im thinking heroine it speaks of a needle)
figure 1 no longer likes figure b as drugs have changed him, its not the same person, he wants his friend back but realises hes lost forever and helps him then gets him help.
but then realsied the song sounds as if figure a has been through the same problem,(read first verse) and figure b helped them out and knew what happened, so now figure a is furious figure b is doing it and wont let him help. but i thought figure a is played by a hcild to portray innocence? so howd that work?
NOW I THINK...figure a DIED. 'Cause if I don't we'll both end up with just your songs that say goodbye. '...he died of it, child=ghost, furious with figure b who saw what happened to him but yet has chosen same path and wont snap out of it?
Haunting... I can't get it out of my head. Would love to know what CD this is on, and if the rest of the songs are in a similar vein. (Have often bought a CD for just one song only to find it was the only thing on it I liked.)
this is not a placebo song! | Reviewer: nikki
------ About the song Voting Doesn't Work performed by Placebo
For all those who are wondering, this isn't a song that Placebo did. This song was done by a band called Corporate Avenger. I don't know who first said that it was by Placebo but they were very wrong.
pain through the last 4 years... | Reviewer: Remi
------ About the song Song To Say Goodbye performed by Placebo
this song means alot 2 me..it's a song i hear when am down 2 remember the pain i lived for a long time..am a beautiful girl who has a unique personality...i have been in love with my best friend since 4 years..we shared the gd & hard days..i helped him in every step...he loved a close friend of mine & i was there for him 2 help him..& try my best 2 c him with her although i was dying deep inside..suddenly everything changed they broke up,seperated & i was still faithful for both..through those days we became closer & closer until he fell in love with me..it was the happiest day ever but i was afriad 2 loose him again..he gave me hope...!!hi problem is that he gets angry easily & he is always mad..this put us apart again few days ago...& each went in his way but this time i lost my love & my friend...we're not 2gether in anything...each is in a world...& am suffering alot !!i dont want 2 loose him..at least i want him my best friend again...!!!what shall i do except wish u the best life ever....& always remember that am still here 2 help u when u call my name..& be ur other part all through this life...
Holocaust. | Reviewer: Kristin.
------ About the song Holocaust performed by Placebo
This song is so beautiful. It tears me apart nearly every time I hear it. <3 The band is amazing in that they evoke the strongest emotions in every way possible. The lyrics, Brian's voice, the melodies...it's perfect.
what does it means?????? | Reviewer: james
------ About the song Twenty Years performed by Placebo
i think that all of us have twenty best years to become what ever we want and then its over its to late, as you can see in the video.
i wish i knew if this is what they meant........
one of the best songs not only from Placebo.
thank you!!!!!!!!!
sorry if i will write something wrong but i know that i love this song.no one could sing better that placebo and i think this is the best cover from all the ones that tried to do something like this.this is the best cover from all and placebo its a great band.
Unique! | Reviewer: Anonymous
------ About the song Sleeping With Ghosts performed by Placebo
I guess, Placebo are unique...they have such calm and relaxing songs. I've never heard such songs before.Sleeping with ghosts is one of my favourite songs..It's true, that soulmates never die..it's true..
sick of drugs and dancing feet i know exactly what he means. Im sick of my mates doing drugs and going raving,. - but when you speak to them you speak to ghosts skinny ghosts who dont know this world - who are so quick to tell me to be quiet for talking about someting that isnt drugs and has a hint of education within it
Best Cover | Reviewer: Anonymous
------ About the song Running Up That Hill performed by Placebo
Well, there seems to have been some debate regarding Placebo covering this song, so I figured I'd put in my two cents. I've heard it covered by a number of artists, but out of them all I'd have to say that Placebo did the best job of it. That's not to say the others aren't any good, I just found their cover was most appropriate when considering the meaning of the lyrics.
What I thought | Reviewer: Anonymous
------ About the song Special Needs performed by Placebo
I really thougt it talked about a car accident... I mean, someone was driving and the one by his side is the singer telling the driver to remember him and what has he done....I don't know, it really seemed to me! LOL
Battle For The Sun | Reviewer: Courtney
------ About the song Happy You're Gone performed by Placebo
At first I didn't think it would be much like the Placebo I know and love at all, but I must say this album made me fall in love all over again. Can't wait for the Glasgow gig. Favourite song on the album too, its beautiful.
maybe you are aleksandra silka from poland (katowice)??? if so, i am sorry for you. if not - i am also sorry for you and forget about it.
but if you are the one I suppose to know (my ex-girlfriend) then I have a special message for you: maybe you have also broken someone else heart? love is cruel, you know - and it is a disease... abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is... nothing happens without a reason.
yahh | Reviewer: Anonymous
------ About the song Because I Want You performed by Placebo
This is about a drinking problem within a relationship problem, 'all i ever do is stumble into you, my memorys hazy and i'm scared to be alone' suggests one half of the relationship comes home pissed all the time, stumbling into the other half - looking for comfort and companionship when all they're doing is tearing them apart by drinking.
:)
... | Reviewer: dulle
------ About the song Song To Say Goodbye performed by Placebo
alejandra, i know what are you going through. Same thing happend to me. My gf became so selfish... and so mean (to me especialy)... for no reason at all... we got back together... and it was even worst... now we broke up again. She was the voice that made me cry... But no anymore coz that's not her. My love would never make me feel bad. She's just self centered bitch now...
A catastrophic scenario is going on, planet collapse; a waterfall of sound, weep of high pitches and tensed wires screeching. A grudge that is not going to stop, not even in front of the apocalypse.
Right before the point of no return, a promise: I'll be coming after you!
Hollywood-style treath for a revenge apparently relying on technology in a future where everything has changed, transformed and annihilated… everything but man’s wild and unforgiving inner nature.
And behind all that, the pressing sound seems to chase you with no mercy.
The 3d single extracted from their cd “Meds” makes it very clear, music hasn’t changed: night hasn’t come to a down for the band and his captain/author Brian Molko.
Teen-agerish pessimism (if the word didn’t exist I'll take credit for inventing it) and well calculated bohemian style, one might object. Maybe. Sure enough there’s not too many contemporary musicians out there able to depict a well articulated epic scene with such a synergy of music and lyrics.
Lords Zeppelin could have been proud of them.
Nor many are the ones still able to make you feel that small stupid shiver raising up your back.
Above all: getting on their young shoulders an old tradition coming from Morrison, Bowie, Lou Reed, Morrissey and the Cure, the Placebo owe their success to the ability to express, through unique images and sounds, the discomfort and the inadequacy of those who suffer from a inner illness that can’t be overcome (or only with great difficulties). A kind of pain sometimes unleashed by the world around, sometimes evocated by someone special ("You are slipping slowly from my reach, you’ve never seen the lonley me at all" – Without you I’m nothing), quite often easyed by the use and abuse of various substances.
A pain you never push away for good, seems to stress Brian, not even buried under millions of dollars.
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