Placebo

[eversonpoe]

Is there anywhere to hear the track? Don't want to judge until I can hear it.

EDIT: Nvm
http://touch.dailymotion.com/video/x...-friends_music

This is terrible

EDIT 2: after 3 listens I have to say I really do enjoy the instrumentation in the song but the lyrics really ruin it for me. I will still buy the CD/DVD as I am still a diehard fan of these guys. And here's hoping for 9 tracks that are better than this one.

i'm going to agree about enjoying the instrumentation and hating the lyrics, but i'm also going to add that i don't even like the way brian is SINGING the song. maybe it's that the words are so horrible, there's no good way to sing it? i don't know. sigh...

[slave2thewage]

Just been announced that the US and Canada (EDIT: according to the Facebook page, Australia too) are getting "Loud Like Love" (the title track) as the lead single. It's released to radio this morning and available from iTunes on the 23rd. Whoever gets this uploaded gets sexual favours for life.

[henryeatscereal]

The track was available in my country 3 hours ago, then they took it off i guess it's because they fucked up and im getting "Loud Like Love" instead...

Is the track worse than "Ashtray heart"? NOTHING can be worse than "Ashtray heart"?

[slave2thewage]

I genuinely don't know. It's about the same as Ashtray Heart.

[icklekitty]

Too Many Friends makes Ashtray Heart sound like Beethoven.

[slave2thewage]

Too Many Friends makes Ashtray Heart sound like Beethoven.

I AM SCREAMING!

Apparently the Aussies will be playing it in 12 hours from now.

EDIT: No airplay reported anywhere yet and the press release was reposted without any mention of a radio debut, just the download release date. It's a bit of a mess, to be honest. I've been reliably told that it was a literal last-minute decision to release this as a single. If you want me to guess why, probably since Europe had a deal of promo for TMF and they saw the response to that song so they decided to release a "stronger" song in these territories. That's just a guess. That band make the weirdest business decisions.

[slave2thewage]

A journalist who heard the album has posted on the official forums. Here's a few points:

- "Hold On to Me" and "Bosco" are the ballads.
- Most of the album is mid-tempo.
- "Begin the End" and "Bosco" are the longest tracks, over six minutes long.
- "Rob The Bank" sounds like "For What It's Worth".
- The album is clunky lyrically, but "Too Many Friends" and the title track are apparently the worst.

Oh dear.

[eversonpoe]

:[ no me gusta

it always sucks when a band you love just...stops being good. same thing happened with my love for incubus.

[frankie teardrop]

it happens more often than not, sadly. there's something to be said about fickle fanbases or growing up and out of a band (i still love the first three records in theory, but not in practice). a lot of times, they just jump the shark.

it's possible to come back though... one of my favorite bands (comsat angels) put out a brilliant 3/4 record run, got caught up in dodgy 80s trappings in the later part of the eighties, but then hit the nineties with one of their best albums, back to form, kicked ass again out of nowhere, etc. i'd be surprised if placebo could achieve this, though... i feel like in this example it was just a response to what was going on musically at the time- "OH! it's cool to embrace guitars again, perfect, that's what we excel at," etc.

as for the lyrics- their lyrics were always sort of questionable. there's a fine line there about trashy goodness vs. sophomoric poetry. my guess is he's still trying to write witty trashy things but plumb out of ideas.

[icklekitty]

The steep incline of this downfall is what's gobsmacking. Ok, a lot of people say that BFTS isn't *as* good as the others, but...this has the potential to hurt me more than The Slip.

[slave2thewage]

Well, that journalist said it was better than BFTS, but it's nothing like the pre-2008 era Placebo.

[Reznor2112]

I think the song would be more tolerable in a stripped down version on the album much like this.

[slave2thewage]

That actually sounds like Steve Forrest's solo stuff. I think it's the other two's problem, there's been this desire lately to throw EVERYTHING they can think of into a song.

[Reznor2112]

That actually sounds like Steve Forrest's solo stuff. I think it's the other two's problem, there's been this desire lately to throw EVERYTHING they can think of into a song.

Your post made me realize i had never checked out his stuff. Just listened to the Planes EP and its pretty fantastic.


Too Many Friends lyric video (for those that haven't heard it)
- I still love the instrumentation in this song

[henryeatscereal]

The single it's plain "OK", i expected worse... yet the Lyrics are AWFUL!

My only complain is that is very "poppish", but i can understand that this song was conceived to be the single... I still think they can do a whole lot better and hope tha album is better than this.

[slave2thewage]

Riverman went on the warpath about the album "spoilers" and deleted them. There's also leaked promo pics doing the rounds and basically they've got this goth look going on now. Brian is very 1997 in them.

[slave2thewage]

So, America and Australia are meant to have their single right now and there's apparently no sign of it anywhere online. This was a bit of a shit plan.

[Deadpool]

Yeah, I just searched iTunes US and saw nothing. Lame.

[slave2thewage]

So, they're late with the video for TMF, LLL hasn't appeared ON ITS RELEASE DATE, the promo images leaked two months early and Riverman are throwing random tantrums online. Great marketing they have going on.

[icklekitty]

I wonder if this album era is just going to be a huge trollfest?

[slave2thewage]

^LOL, Meds is awesome.

Someone found a clip of a verse of Loud Like Love - http://rope.zfmq.fimc.net/afamusic/P...LikeLove56.m3u. Should've just been the international single, really. It's so much better musically and the constant rhyming isn't as annoying as TMF.

[slave2thewage]

It's been released to radio. http://www.savealternative.com/ is playing at the top of the hour, every hour. IT'S AWESOME.

EDIT: if you can't hear it, PM me.

Lyrics:

Love on an atom, love on a cloud
To see the birth of all that isn't now
Can you imagine a love that is so proud
It never has to question why or how

So I'll abandon the love in my dreams (note - I'm not too sure about that line)
When I wake up I'm soaking in my sheets

Breathe (x4)
Believe (x4)

For all of our youth
We have craved them
Their beauty and their truth

Breathe (x4)
Believe (x4)
Breathe (x4)
Believe, believe
That we are loud like...

Love on an atom, love on a cloud
To see the birth of all that isn't now
Can you imagine a love that is so proud
It never has to question why or how

For all of our youth
We have craved them
Their beauty and their truth
So we name them
And somehow they pull us through
We have craved them
For all of our youth

Breathe (x4)
Believe (x4)

We are loud like love (x9)

[henryeatscereal]

Meds has "Space Monkey", for that track alone, it's existence is justified...

"Battle for the Sun" was great! (minus "Ashtray Heart", i hate that song!)

[eversonpoe]

speak in tongues and devil in the details are two of my favorite placebo songs, with battle for the sun ranking up there, too...i like the majority of that album a lot.

[kitz]

This band has lost the point entirely. That new single is horrendous.

Seriously, I was a huge Placebo fan all the way up until Sleeping With Ghosts, with Black Market Music being their apex. SWG had its moments, but Meds and that Battle of the Sun record were fucking abysmal. This one is on track for the hat trick.

What happened to you, Brian Molko.

Welcome to the disappointed fans of Placebo. Although I saw them live last year ( I got a free ticket) and the gig was pretty good, I think my passionate feeling for them got lost in 2009.

[slave2thewage]

LOL at talking about "the best of Meds" and then mentioning the flop that is Infra-Red. Also, no Drag = fail.

[icklekitty]

Accurate breakdown clapping or GTFO.

[eversonpoe]

Not only did I mention it, I kicked off the album with it. You must be a diehard fan if you put Drag over Infra-Red.

Drag sounds like a 'self-titled' b-side, at best. Infra-Red at least sounds like a Placebo A-side...whatever that means anymore.

i'm guessing you don't like self-titled, then? i think that album is fantastic (though i prefer live versions of the songs with steve h playing drums)

[Reznor2112]

Any word on LLL?

[slave2thewage]

Any word on LLL?