Posted November 14, 200618 yr In this topic you can post any reviews you find of this album, you can also post your personal reviews and agree or disagree with any of the reviews posted. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/alan_the_evil/Placebo-BMM.jpg "(...) Unfortunately for Placebo, it takes a little more than wearing makeup to qualify as bona fide glam. If anything, on this record, Placebo show themselves to be children of the nineties. Call it alternative with makeup (taking the next step from Kurt Cobain appearing on stage in what appeared to be one of Courtney Love's dresses). For one thing, their immense guitar sound recalls not Mick Ronson, but rather the larger than life drone of such mid-'90s acts as Smashing Pumpkins and Hum. More importantly, their music bears the indelible mark of mid-'90s alternative angst. Placebo may sing about sex and drugs, but the real issues in these songs are Molko's inner demons. This is loud confessional rock, not coy, elusive rock in the spirit of, say, Roxy Music. This alterna-angst reaches its apex on Black Eyed, a slithering rocker in which Molko sings 'I was forever black eyed, a product of a broken home.' I can think of no clearer expression of Placebo's real agenda behind all of the makeup — Molko is sad and he is screaming about it. Would David Bowie ever do that? Of course not...." -- Nicholas Taylor, popmatters
