Placebo

[fillow]

No problem with the "Only" LED curtain on the show, but finishing with the "Placebo" logo at the end looked like a NIN ripoff...

Right, because NIN totally invented displaying band's logo on LEDs and backdrops...

[slave2thewage]

NIN have been an influence on the visual side of Placebo's shows since the early 2000s. The BFTS tour was taking some definite visual cues from Lights in the Sky and Corbijn's visuals for Depeche Mode.

[GibbonBlack]

I saw them in Bournemouth in 2009 and they had three screens behind them very similar to the ones used in And All That Could Have Been

[slave2thewage]

The Unplugged version of Slave To The Wage doesn't have the "run away" section of the outro.

Major side-eye going on right now.

[slave2thewage]

I saw them in Bournemouth in 2009 and they had three screens behind them very similar to the ones used in And All That Could Have Been

Those shows had one screen behind them, but it was frequently divided into three sections so I understand the confusion. I've always wanted an official release of a show from the Meds arena tour because those projections were insane - just very random (for the most part) and claustrophobic. Plus I've forgotten what they had on the screens for Cops, but I remember that one part had a heavily processed video of those lights running across the tops of underground tunnels and the whole thing was just eerie and quite melancholy. Worked very well with that song.

[GibbonBlack]

Those shows had one screen behind them, but it was frequently divided into three sections so I understand the confusion.

Ah my mistake. I don't know why but that whole gig is a complete blur to me.

Are there any Placebo bootleg sites ninlive.com but for Placebo?

[henryeatscereal]

Right, because NIN totally invented displaying band's logo on LEDs and backdrops...

I'm sure NIN didn't invented that, but the effect and the curtain reminded me a lot to the "Only" performance for the "Lights in the sky" tour, 'course i could be wrong since it's just my opinion, but that's what it looks to me.

On topic: Got the Unplugged CD/DVD version, heard the CD and liked it, but i still have to check out the DVD...

[Reznor2112]

The Spotify version sounds like there is some over-modulation or peaking on Brian's vocals every no and then...maybe it's just me.

[slave2thewage]

Are there any Placebo bootleg sites ninlive.com but for Placebo?

Try the forums on placebocity.com for your bootleg needs. Heard they have a lot.

I think my new holy grail is a full-length, decent rip of the Hotel Persona remix of Cops.

[GibbonBlack]

I think my new holy grail is a full-length, decent rip of the Hotel Persona remix of Cops.

I've never heard any remixes of their stuff. Cops is probably my favourite track of theirs though.

Black Market Music though. That whole album gives me butterflies every time. No other album by anyone has that effect on me. It's the strangest thing


/edit. I didn't find the bootleg on that site but I managed to find a torrent that has a whole lot of bootlegs including the show I was at

[Reznor2112]

Been on a mad Placebo kick today. Threw on my Without You I'm Nothing vinyl and damn if side B isn't just a PERFECT second half of an album...

Really wish I could've snagged the blue vinyl version of Sleeping With Ghosts but it appears to be sold out everywhere

[eversonpoe]

Been on a mad Placebo kick today. Threw on my Without You I'm Nothing vinyl and damn if side B isn't just a PERFECT second half of an album...

Really wish I could've snagged the blue vinyl version of Sleeping With Ghosts but it appears to be sold out everywhere

did you get the black version, at least? i listened to mine today and it's GORGEOUS. however, the mailer they shipped it in wasn't great and one of the bottom corners (and a pretty big amount of it) is bent all the way through (which means the inner sleeve, too). which sucks. at least it didn't affect the record, though. : /

[armogi]

funny, i have been playing that album a lot recently, i can't stand what they've become and hardly want to listen to them anymore but damn that record is just awesome, i realize it's hard and probably impossible to go on for 20 years and release anything as good as this record again but i wish they had. I also realize that every you every me is also probably the reason they now suck, as good as it was then that song paved the way for their mainstream success and that generic mellow crap formula they repeat now.

[Reznor2112]

did you get the black version, at least? i listened to mine today and it's GORGEOUS. however, the mailer they shipped it in wasn't great and one of the bottom corners (and a pretty big amount of it) is bent all the way through (which means the inner sleeve, too). which sucks. at least it didn't affect the record, though. : /

No, haven't ordered yet.

I will say, I ordered the WYIN black vinyl from Turntable Lab and the damn heavy ass disc cut right through the inner sleeve and is busting out of there bottom of the actual jacket .

[GibbonBlack]

https://www.facebook.com/officialplacebo/?fref=photo

Something's being announce tomorrow

[eversonpoe]

so they've released b-sides for s/t, black market music, and sleeping with ghosts. why not for without you i'm nothing?

[GibbonBlack]

Their b-sides aren't mind blowing. It wouldn't surprise me if there just weren't any decent ones from those sessions

[eversonpoe]

today's big announcement

20 YEARS OF PLACEBO - WORLD TOUR 2016/17
WWW.APLACEFORUSTODREAM.COM
FIRST SHOWS ANNOUNCED - 14.03.16
48 HOUR PRE-SALE 9 AM - 16.03.16

[Reznor2112]

so they've released b-sides for s/t, black market music, and sleeping with ghosts. why not for without you i'm nothing?

[armogi]

is this available to purchase anywhere? not lossy.

[Reznor2112]

is this available to purchase anywhere? not lossy.

edit: iTunes has them all for sale.

[slave2thewage]

OCT 13 - DENMARK. AARHUS TRAIN
OCT 14 - DENMARK. COPENHAGEN VEGA MAIN HALL
OCT 16 - NORWAY. OSLO SENTRUM SCENE
OCT 18 - SWEDEN. STOCKHOLM CIRKUS
OCT 20 - FINLAND. HELSINKI HARTWALL ARENA
OCT 22 - LATVIA. RIGA ARENA
OCT 24 - RUSSIA. ST.PETERSBURG NEW ARENA [ SUPPORT FROM. THE MIRROR TRAP ]
OCT 26 - RUSSIA. MOSCOW OLIMPIYSKIY [ SUPPORT FROM. THE MIRROR TRAP ]
OCT 29 - POLAND. WARSAW TORWAR
OCT 31 - GERMANY. HAMBURG BARCLAYCARD ARENA
NOV 02 - GERMANY. COLOGNE LANXESS ARENA
NOV 04 - GERMANY. MUNICH OLYMPIAHALLE
NOV 05 - GERMANY. LEIPZIG ARENA
NOV 07 - GERMANY. BERLIN MERCEDES-BENZ ARENA
NOV 08 - CZECH REP. PRAGUE FORUM KARLIN
NOV 10 - CROATIA. ZAGREB CIBONA HALL
NOV 11 - HUNGARY. BUDAPEST SPORTARENA
NOV 13 - AUSTRIA. VIENNA STADTHALLE
NOV 15 - ITALY. MILAN MEDIOLANUM FORUM
NOV 16 - SWITZERLAND. ZURICH HALLENSTADION
NOV 18 - FRANCE. LILLE ZENITH
NOV 19 - BELGIUM. ANTWERP SPORTPALEIS
NOV 21 - HOLLAND. AMSTERDAM ZIGGO DOME
NOV 23 - GERMANY. FRANKFURT FESTHALLE
NOV 24 - GERMANY. STUTTGART SCHLEYERHALLE
NOV 26 - FRANCE. AMNEVILLE GALAXIE
NOV 28 - FRANCE. NANTES ZENITH METROPOLE
NOV 29 - FRANCE. PARIS ACCORHOTELS ARENA
DEC 02 - UK. GLASGOW SSE HYDRO
DEC 03 - UK. LEEDS FIRST DIRECT ARENA
DEC 05 - UK. MANCHESTER ARENA
DEC 06 - UK. NOTTINGHAM MOTORPOINT ARENA
DEC 08 - UK. BIRMINGHAM BARCLAYCARD ARENA
DEC 10 - IRELAND. DUBLIN 3ARENA
DEC 12 - UK. NEWPORT CENTRE
DEC 14 - UK. BRIGHTON CENTRE
DEC 15 - UK. LONDON SSE WEMBLEY ARENA

Probably doing Glasgow and the last four shows.

[GibbonBlack]

Does anyone know why there is 2 different versions of Bright Lights? When I first heard it, which was on a pirate copy, it didn't have the "bright lights and black holes" repeated at the end and it sounds really jarring to me whenever I hear it now. Was that added later or was it removed from a version for some reason?

[icklekitty]

The version without it is the album version and the version with it is the single version - I think this version might also be shorter. I find it a stupid addition too.

[GibbonBlack]

it's annoying that whenever it comes on my shuffle on Spotify it's the single version then

[slave2thewage]

The Spotify version has the single version replacing the old album version. The 'Redux' edition of BFTS did the same thing.

Also, Universal Germany let it slip that a second 'greatest hits' is coming in October called A Place For Us To Dream and will feature three new/unreleased tracks. They were filming a video on a beach in Spain a few weeks ago for one of the tracks.

[GibbonBlack]

A Place For Us To Dream

That's a great title!

[slave2thewage]

Two releases coming on 7th October.

Life's What You Make It EP.

01. Life's What You Make It (Talk Talk cover)
02. Jesus' Son
03. Twenty Years (Live)
04. Autoluminescent
05. Twenty Years (Live/Acoustic)
06. Song #6

A Place For Us To Dream: 20 Years of Placebo

CD1
01. Pure Morning (edit)
02. Jesus' Son (edit)
03. Come Home
04. Every You Every Me (single version)
05. Too Many Friends
06. Nancy Boy (edit)
07. 36 Degrees (version 2016)
08. Taste in Men (edit)
09. The Bitter End
10. Without You I'm Nothing (feat. David Bowie)
11. English Summer Rain (single version)
12. Breathe Underwater (slow)
13. Sleeping with Ghosts (B-side version)
14. Meds (single version)
15. Bright Lights (single version)
16. Song to Say Goodbye (edit)
17. Infra-Red
18. Running Up That Hill

CD2
01. B3 (edit)
02. For What it's Worth
03. Teenage Angst
04. You Don't Care About Us (edit)
05. Ashtray Heart
06. Broken Promise
07. Slave to the Wage (edit)
08. Bruise Pristine (edit)
09. This Picture
10. Protège-Moi
11. Because I Want You (redux)
12. Black-Eyed
13. Lazarus
14. I Know (version 2008)
15. A Million Little Pieces (edit)
16. Special Needs (edit)
17. Special K
18. Loud Like Love

[henryeatscereal]

I will be buying just the EP, i hate to buy tracks that i already have (for the third time), i did it with the "Nothing has Changed" compilation by Bowie but that's it

[slave2thewage]

Radio rip of Jesus' Son just surfaced. I quite like it, but it's very cheesy. It reminds me a lot of the acoustic pop-rock songs from about ten years ago.

Incomplete lyrics (the rip cuts off the start of the song):

Now is the rest of your life

Dare, dare a dimension
Your laughter makes me cry
A speck of dust in my eye

And I am unafraid and blissful, here I come
I am unashamed at getting nothing done
I'm a cavalcade that tumbles one by one
But I'm okay, just like Jesus' son

Bone, bone of contention
I've lost the count of times
I've seen you, fucking goodbye

Some good orderly direction
To pull you from the mire
Your universe on fire

And I am unafraid and blissful, here I come
I am unashamed at getting nothing done
I'm a cavalcade that tumbles one by one
But I'm okay, just like Jesus' son

And I am unafraid and blissful, here I come
I am unashamed at getting nothing done
I'm a cavalcade that tumbles one by one
But I'm okay, just like Jesus' son

I'm okay, just like Jesus' son
And I'm okay, just like Jesus' son
And I'm okay, just like Jesus' son