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Music:
Ranging from Indie to Electronica, generally very happy music with morose lyrics, execpt Meds which seems to be the other way around alot of the time.
Band:
Brian Molko (Vocals/Guitar/Harmonica), Stefan Olsdal (Bass/Guitar/Keyboard), Steve Hewitt (Drums)
Essential Albums:
Placebo, Black Market Music, Once More With Feeling
Essential Songs:
Bitter End, Pure Morning, Nancy Boy, Twenty Years
Hidden Gems:
Slackerbitch (Nancy Boy b-side), The Crawl, I Do, Protege Moi, Evil Dildo (hidden track on Without You I'm Nothing), Black Market Blood (hidden track on Black Market Blood), Spite And Malice & Follow The Cops Back Home
Aesthetics/Art:
Album and DVD art seems to be body-based black and white photography based on bodies
Brian Molko is also unusually androgenous, which makes for alot of interesting fan art
Notes:
Hard to put into one genre. A mainstream band with some very controversial lyrical content; Commercial For Levi being a good example.
Classic Incidents:
Brian Molko getting kicked out of the Kerrang! awards for drunken hissy fits.
Brian Molko on a plane (drunk) telling all the passangers that he wasn't ready to give interviews, thinking that they were all interviewers.
Steve Hewitt throwing a really annoying guy into a fountain in the middle of a hotel.
All members daring one of their temp (now not so temp) musiciand to fuck a dead seal... he did!!!
Brian Molko being mistaken for a girl and having to flash to prove he wasn't
Buy:
Once More With Feeling DVD, Once More With Feeling Album... a very concise and thorough look at the band's history, thought they have released Meds since then which isn't the most appealing of albums to appreciate unless you're already a hardened fan
