Track Listing 1. 36 Degrees 2. Teenage Angst 3. Nancy Boy (radio edit) 4. Bruise Pristine 5. Pure Morning (radio edit) 6. You Don't Care About Us 7. Every You Every Me (single mix) 8. Without You I'm Nothing - Placebo & David Bowie 9. Taste In Men (radio edit) 10. Slave To The Wage (radio edit) 11. Special K 12. Black Eyed 13. Bitter End 14. This Picture 15. Special Needs (edit) 16. English Summer Rain (single version) 17. Protege Moi 18. I Do 19. Twenty Years
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Phil Vinall, Placebo, Teo Miller | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | EMI Operations/CEVA Logistics | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes Placebo (Pop): Brian Molko, Stefan Olsdal, Steve Hewitt.Additional personnel: David Bowie (vocals).Recording information: 1996 - 2004.This well-compiled retrospective covers the first eight years of the London-based rock trio's career. Placebo combines the sexy, androgynous attitude of glam with the grind of grunge, the razor-edge of punk, and a dash of blissful drone-noise a la Sonic Youth. Through its first four studio albums, Placebo blazed a trail with equal parts flash, guitar-muscle, and keen pop smarts, a mix that sent several of the band's singles up the UK charts. For these reasons, Placebo is especially well suited to a hits collection, and ONCE MORE WITH FEELING is, as a result, the group's best overall offering.Early hits ("Nancy Boy" and "Bruise Pristine") define the band's cross-gender themes and slick, churning sound, while the mid-tempo "Pure Morning" sports an expansive feel and an infectiously catchy melody. "Taste in Men" has a goth-industrial edge, "The Bitter End" recalls 1980s New Wave, and glam godfather David Bowie joins the group for a duet on "Without You I'm Nothing" (an association that has helped the band not a little). But while it's easy to play spot-the-influence with Placebo, the trio has enough panache and songcraft to pull it off effectively, a feat attested to on this impressive 19-song disc.
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