Placebo back in spotlight with Meds
Placebo - Meds
Ever since their debut album, Placebo has continued to evolve, inspire and influence pop-culture and help revolutionize the music industry. After the success of the singles ‘Every You & Every Me' and the monster-hit “Pure Morning,” their fame in North America faded away and are now known by many as the “friend in needs a friend indeed, a friend with weed is better” 90s band.
Despite their lack of staying-power on this continent, internationally Placebo sells-out large venues, play soccer arenas, headline large festivals (including “Live 8” in Paris) and have also opened for David Bowie, U2 and the reunited Sex Pistols.
Placebo's influence can be heard in bands like The Killers, Muse, Mobile, AFI and numerous others that have exploded onto the market over the past couple years. The band has also received Kerrang's Classic Songwriters Award, MTV Europe awards and various charting awards.
Singer Brian Molko creatively blends his influences from relationships, drug use, life and politics to build well structured, sonically profound songs and music.
In the spring of 2006 Placebo released the album Meds, their fifth studio effort to much critical acclaim.
With guest vocals performances, such as The Kill's Allison Mosshart (on the title track “Meds”) and by R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe (“Broken Promise”), Meds feels a little more mature and structured than their last albums The album is less polished than previous efforts such as Black Market Music or Sleeping With Ghosts, yet still offers blended layers of background production.
The instrumentation and songwriting was brought to a new level. There are larger, more distorted guitars, larger sounding drums, but a little less synthesizer than on previous albums. The end result was an album that was well worth the over two-year wait, and solid from start to finish. The initial release was available as a special edition that came with a book and DVD about the making of the CD, which included a few live videos and the demo versions of tracks found on the CD.
The season premier of “The OC” featured Placebo's take of the Kate Bush classic “Running Up That Hill,” which has garnered the band a lot of North American attention and has been streamed over four million times on the band's MySpace website. With the heightened exposure, Virgin Records decided to re-release the album in the US at the end of January, which includes two new tracks, plus “Running Up That Hill.”
Placebo are coming back to North America this spring to play the Coachella Festival in Indio, California and hopefully we will be able to see an Ontario date in the near future.
Ever since their debut album, Placebo has continued to evolve, inspire and influence pop-culture and help revolutionize the music industry. After the success of the singles ‘Every You & Every Me' and the monster-hit “Pure Morning,” their fame in North America faded away and are now known by many as the “friend in needs a friend indeed, a friend with weed is better” 90s band.
Despite their lack of staying-power on this continent, internationally Placebo sells-out large venues, play soccer arenas, headline large festivals (including “Live 8” in Paris) and have also opened for David Bowie, U2 and the reunited Sex Pistols.
Placebo's influence can be heard in bands like The Killers, Muse, Mobile, AFI and numerous others that have exploded onto the market over the past couple years. The band has also received Kerrang's Classic Songwriters Award, MTV Europe awards and various charting awards.
Singer Brian Molko creatively blends his influences from relationships, drug use, life and politics to build well structured, sonically profound songs and music.
In the spring of 2006 Placebo released the album Meds, their fifth studio effort to much critical acclaim.
With guest vocals performances, such as The Kill's Allison Mosshart (on the title track “Meds”) and by R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe (“Broken Promise”), Meds feels a little more mature and structured than their last albums The album is less polished than previous efforts such as Black Market Music or Sleeping With Ghosts, yet still offers blended layers of background production.
The instrumentation and songwriting was brought to a new level. There are larger, more distorted guitars, larger sounding drums, but a little less synthesizer than on previous albums. The end result was an album that was well worth the over two-year wait, and solid from start to finish. The initial release was available as a special edition that came with a book and DVD about the making of the CD, which included a few live videos and the demo versions of tracks found on the CD.
The season premier of “The OC” featured Placebo's take of the Kate Bush classic “Running Up That Hill,” which has garnered the band a lot of North American attention and has been streamed over four million times on the band's MySpace website. With the heightened exposure, Virgin Records decided to re-release the album in the US at the end of January, which includes two new tracks, plus “Running Up That Hill.”
Placebo are coming back to North America this spring to play the Coachella Festival in Indio, California and hopefully we will be able to see an Ontario date in the near future.
