Placebo - Meds
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Artist: PlaceboBrand: PLACEBO
Edition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks
CD Release Date: 2007-01-23
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Soundtracks:
- Meds (featuring Alison Mosshart)
- Infra-Red
- Drag
- Space Monkey
- Follow The Cops Back Home
- Post Blue (Dave Bascombe Mix)
- Because I Want You
- Blind
- Lazarus
- Broken Promise (featuring Michael Stipe)
- One Of A Kind
- Pierrot The Clown
- Song To Say Goodbye
- UNEEDMEMORETHANINEEDU
- Running Up That Hill (2007 Digital Remaster)
Music reviews of Meds
Music Review: They want me to buy this AGAIN?
Rating: 2 Stars
This is the third distinct edition of this CD to be released in the US. It follows the original, standard release and a "limited edition" version which came with a bonus DVD. This edition contains three songs (two original tracks that have appeared on UK singles and a cover of Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill" that has already been released on CD several times) and an alternate mix not included on either of the prior versions. It also omits one song from prior editions of the album. In other words, Placebo, or more likely their record label, expect you to pay another $12+ to get another two or three songs and, furthermore, to ensure that you don't simply sell, gift, or trade off your old Meds CD, they've omitted one track so that you (theoretically) need to have copies of at least two editions to get all the tracks. And the RIAA wonders why people "steal" music. Maybe it's because they're tired of being stolen from.
All of this aside, Meds is an excellent album. If you haven't bought (or otherwise obtained) it yet, this edition would appear to be as good as the prior editions (and it does contain more music than the prior single CD version). If you have already bought this album, PLEASE stand up to the RIAA and DO NOT buy it again.
Description of Meds
Japanese release of the fifth full-length album from UK rock band Placebo. Includes their singles 'Song To Say Goodbye' and 'Because I Want You' plus the bonus track 'Twenty Years' (live version11/04/05). Toshiba. 2006.Glammy, druggy, androgynous: the guitar-hefting trio Placebo has rarely left its aesthetic cornerstones vague. With a title like Meds, they've no intention of doing so in 2006. "Baby, did you forget to take your meds?" is the opening chorus, sung with an endearing, scared soft-wrap by the Kills' Alison Mosshart ? perhaps an ironically simple little question given singer Brian Molko's oft-declared dope fascination. Following the band's 2004 hits collection, Once More with Feeling ? which closed with the lean "Twenty Years," the then-new and brilliant single ? Meds strips Placebo down anew, focusing on guitars, Molko's high-pitched vocals, Stefan Olsdal?s bounding bass, and drummer Steve Hewitt?s determined, hard-hitting thwack. Having toyed with electronics and, famously, hooking up with David Bowie (among other luminaries), Placebo here presents gems like "Broken Promise," with its piano-tinted, haunted guest vocal from Michael Stipe that foreshadows a g! uitar-blasting thunderstorm. It drives the mind again to ponder: With their records selling more than 6 million copies globally, how come Placebo isn't a massively "it" band in the U.S.? It's this country's loss. --Andrew Bartlett
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