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"The whole teenage angst shebang with gender-bender glamour-rock poseurs Placebo was suddenly changed in 2003 with the release of their much anticipated 'Sleeping With Ghosts', when the band's voice Brian Molko and his posse traded their gloomy pretentious sound to something more inventive and brighter. (...) 'Meds' is as musically and stylistically convincing as their previous work, with Alison 'VV' Mosshart (of ubiquitous The Kills) appearance on the excellent opening which is also a title track, and some help from R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe on a more lacklustre song [broken Promise]. The mood set by the opener is naturally supported by the classic Placebo number Infra-red and a brighter, mellower Drag. The fourth Space Monkey sounds almost like a parody to Marilyn Manson sound circa 'Mechanical Animals' era and then the album subsides in a more relaxed and less catchy tracks, but, once set, the atmosphere is quite thoroughly maintained throughout the entire album, and the disc is destined to be one of the better pop-rock British endeavours of 2006."

-- Anton Varichenko, Mindfvck.com, 01/06

This is my favourite Placebo album... :wub: I like every single song on it a lot, except In The Cold Light Of Morning (I haven't heard it :kink: )

 

Meds are cool song, but I think that on this album there are even better songs than Meds for single. -_- Infra red get me into this album and Placebo from the first time I heard it and saw the video on tv. :wub: I love Drag very much, great music and lyrics, this is the kind of song I like. Space Monkey is better to hear live, imo, but not bad from cd, also. Follow The Cops Back Home is a great ballad and I like it a lot, right again first watching it live on Rock Am Ring. Post Blue is amazing :wub:, you just must love this one. :heart: Because I Want You is maybe my favourite from this album right now. I like music in it, drums are great. :wub: Brian voice in it is amazing. Blind is also ok, but not that good as other ones in here. These days I like a lot Pierrot The Clown. It's an amazing ballad. :wub: Broken Promise is not very good, but it's duet with Michael Stripe, so it's ok. :D One Of A Kind is very melodic and have very good lyrics. Song To Say Goodbye has great lyrics :wub: , I liked it a lot when it was realised as a single.

 

I would like more than Because Of You is realised in world as a 2nd single.

My review:

 

So, 5 albums in... what can we expect from this one?

Kicking off we have the title track, which features Alison Mosshart of The Kills. It may sound subtle for the first two minutes, but it builds up into something insane, it's as if the track spontaneously combusts, and the drums, guitars and synths go itno overdrive, as do Brian's vocals. It is a good track, but in my view it has something missing.

Onto track two, which was the second single 'Infra-Red', I'm not a huge fan of it but it has it's merits, and it is a catchy tune I guess.

Onto track 3, 'Drag', and now we're talking. A solid number with excellent lyrics about always feeling second best, I think a lot of people can relate to this one.

Next up we have 'Space Monkey' which is unlike anything Placebo have ever done before, it's very atmospheric and the distorted vocals are an excellent effect.

'Follow The Cops Back Home' isn't a favourite of mine, but it wouldn't sound out of place on their Without You I'm Nothing album, it has that sound.

'Post Blue' is a highlight of this alnum for me, very experimental in sounds, catchy verses with each one beginning with "it's in the water baby...", and of course the ingenous line "bite the hand that feeds, tap the vein that bleeds".

'Because I Want You' was the lead UK single from this album, which I personally think was a mistake. It's Placebo by numbers and doesn't really have anything special about it, and a minimalistic chorus doesn't work as well as on tracks like 'You Don't Care About Us' or 'The Bitter End'.

'Blind' is a gorgeous track, but I find the chorus grates sometimes, and 'Pierrot The Clown' is the ballad of this album, it really moves me, excellent lyrics and vocals.

'Broken Promise' is a collaboration with REM's Michael Stipe, it took a while to grow on me, but it's one of my least favourites on the album easily.

Ironically, the last two tracks are my least favourite and favourite on this album. 'In The Cold Light Of Morning' has some good lyrics, but it just plods along and goes nowhere, and to end the album we have 'Song To Say Goodbye', which is by far and away my favourite on here. It switches pace a lot, fairly mellow for the verses and speeds up the pace for the chorus, it also reminds me a bit of 'The Bitter End' in places, although not as energetically charged. The lyrics and video are very moving, this really should have been a single in the UK as it would have put them well and truly back on the map.

All in all this is an excellent album, which grows on you. When I bought it I put it away for a few months, but after digging it out again a couple of months ago I play it almost every day now.

It sort of carries on where Sleeping With Ghosts left off, but I feel this is a stronger album overall, despite Sleeping With Ghosts having a few tracks which are better than anything on here.

I couldn't find the CD version anywhere so i had to splash out £20.99 on the DVD/CD version, the one in the DVD hardback case. It was worth it though, yet to watch the DVD, as of yet.

I only own the standard version, bad fan. :(

 

I may well splash out on the CD/DVD version if I have a windfall as it's pretty and there's some wicked extras on it.

I would have settled for the CD, i think it was a tenner cheaper :D i never have time for DVD's lol

Swap? :P :lol:

for a tenner :D ha. lol

I think the meds album is really good i like all the songs on it. It is just fantasic album :wub:

for a tenner :D ha. lol

 

Tenner's in the post, as they say!