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happy junkie

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VOLGA:
Tworzymy biblioteczke, wiec tu nie komentujemy!!! Dzieki temu Junkie oszczedzi topik przy kolejnych porzadkach wiosennych;-)

miko

wywiad z Levim Tecofskim

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lady_boom_boom

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Twist ("maj" 2007)

Hearty

Wywiad z Brianem z 9 kwietnia z Toronto:
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miko

updejt na majspejsie z 6 maja

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wojewoda

recenzja z Pitchfork: ("meds")

One of the most memorable concerts I've ever been to was a Placebo show-- mostly because the stage caught fire during the first song. The band never broke stride on the glam Zeppelin stomp of "Pure Morning", though-- Brian Molko just changed the song's lyrics from "A friend in need is a friend indeed/ A friend who bleeds is better" to "A friend in need is a friend indeed/ A friend with a fire extinguisher is better" as the staff of Boston's Avalon raced to put out the flames.

Molko's response to the potential disaster was revealing in a few ways: It put his under-appreciated sense of humor on full display, but it also handily illustrated the interchangeability of his lyrics-- the fire extinguisher line actually sounded OK. He's made a career (and a pretty successful one at that, with more than six million albums sold worldwide) out of milking a specific libertine personality. If you're offended by music that seems calculated, take a pass on these guys-- Molko's mix of arm's-length sleaze, studied sexual ambiguity, casual drug references, and sad-boy romantic pining is so precise you could design an algorithm around it.

What Placebo do well is deliver some pretty good glam and grunge-influenced hard rock. Molko sells his lyrics with a high, nasal voice that lends a calm sadness to lines few other singers could get away with. On their latest album, Meds, the arrangements and recordings are so airtight you could suffocate in them, with the distortion strictly compressed and neatly controlled-- everything on the beat and vocal guest spots by Michael Stipe and the Kills' Alison Mossheart so underplayed that they're nearly hidden. Steve Hewitt's drumming is so metronome-friendly it could be a machine, and the band augments him with mecha-Bonham programming on a couple of tracks. Even with the Ziploc production, this is still the most varied record Placebo have produced-- they now have more settings than "quiet" and "loud".

The album opens with the fast-paced build of its title track, though it's a bit of a mystery why when "Infra-Red" is sitting right behind it. The barbless hook goes, "Baby, did you forget to take your Meds?" and Mossheart's backing vocal is wasted saying "sex, drugs, and complications" over and over. "Infra-Red", meanwhile, has a beats-n-guitars swagger to it and a nice lead-off line in "One more thing before I shuffle off the planet," which would have made a great opening shot. "Follow the Cops Back Home" offers some pretty bad advice with its refrain of "Follow the cops back home/ And rob their houses," a strangely jokey line in a song that treads similar sonic territory to Interpol's "NYC". "Pierrot the Clown" is a better, if less dramatic, ballad, with a small army of soft-hued keyboards tagging along with Molko's melancholy croon.

"One of a Kind" kicks off with a stomping groove topped by a climbing synth loop, but it squanders some of the verse's svelte momentum with a shift to stiffly noisy guitars in its chorus. "Drag" seems to be titled with a nod to self-parody, as the song itself has nothing to do with the expected gender ambiguity, instead referring to Molko's claim that he "drags" behind the song's subject. Musically, it's the album's best rocker, playing off Hewitt's steady playing with great e-bow riffs and a memorable chorus. The best song on the record, though, is closer "Song to Say Goodbye", an angry goodbye spit over a sharp beat compromised by an intentionally out of tune piano placed low in the mix. A totally unexpected synth melody kicks in around 2:20, taking the song right through the roof as it heads off toward its abrupt ending.

If only everything was as inspired as that song. As it is, five albums in, Placebo's shocking-to-your-grandma approach hasn't really changed much, though they've developed a little more stylistic nuance. Meds isn't a terrible album, but there's very little to get excited about on it either, and Placebo's calculated naughtiness is no more convincing than it's ever been. If you've enjoyed their past output, you'll likely enjoy Meds as well, but there's no need for anyone else to bother.

-Joe Tangari, May 05, 2006

łukasz_89

Artykuł o koncercie Placebo z wczorajszego (tj 18 maja 2007) "Dziennika Bałtyckiego". Oczywiście kilka błędów, ale normal... Pan redaktor chyba zgubił wątek bo najpierw podaje, że koncert odbędzie się na Torwarze, a na końcu w podsumowaniu jako miejsce koncertu wymienia Służewiec Smile

. No i te ceny biletów na sektory... 190 Razz

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crescendo

Przeczytałam ostatnio artykuł we wrocławskim "echu miasta", o prawda Placebo i koncercie w kazdym razie,nie tylko w dzienniku bałtyckim sie mylą Very Happy

może przytocze fragment:
"(...) Nowa płyta grupy, >>Sleeping With Ghosts<< to jak na razie jej najbardziej refleksyjny i wybuchowy album. wściekłe elektroniczne rytmy przechodzą w uduchowione elegie, które są jednocześnie mroczne,ckliwe i porywające. Taka sztuczka udała się do tej pory jedynie takim artystom, jak PJ Harvey i Bjork. Płyta jest na wskroś eksperymentalna, zaś mariaż elektroniki z rockiem - zadziwiająco nowatorski. Jednak "Sleeping with ghosts" nadal posiada tę dziką moc, dzięki której Placebo narobiło niezłego zamieszania na całym świecie. I którą zaprezentuje na koncercie w Warszawie(...)"

nie ma to jak zorientowanie w temacie

Volga

airishka

artykuł z dzisiejszego 'dziennika zachodniego' ~ niestety bez informacji o akcji Rolling Eyes

Green19

Music Snobbery- Wywiad ze Steven'em:

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ka.sia

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Z piątkowego wroclawskiego Co Jest Grane. Takie wlasciwie nic, no ale bylo. Nie mam sily walczyc ze skanerem, wiec zrobilam screena z internetowego wydania Gazety, niestety nie umialam tak, zeby nie obciac Stefowi glowy:P

happy junkie

anulka667

Takie info z CGM.PL

A Na Kolację… Placebo
Witek Kociniak, 2007.06.01
A Na Kolację… Placebo
Już dzisiaj, na warszawskim Torwarze oczom publiczności ukaże się Brian Molko z wesołymi kamratami.

Wszystkich tych, którzy jakimś cudem nie wiedzieli, zapomnieli albo po prostu zignorowali informację o koncercie Placebo, jeszcze raz serdecznie zapraszamy. Dzisiaj, Torwar, 18, to miejsce i czas, gdzie nie może zabraknąć żadnego fana dobrej muzyki. Warszawski koncert odbywa się w ramach trasy Meds.

Przypominamy o akcji, którą chcą zorganizować fani zespołu. Wszyscy, którzy wybierają się na koncert powinni zebrać ze sobą flagę Polski z napisem „Welcom Home”. Będzie to podziękowanie, za przyjazd do Polski i docenienie starań ludzi, którzy podczas wielu koncertów za granicą, mieli flagi z napisem „Come Home to Poland”.