New album- official!

mrsverlaine wrote:But what puzzles me is he doesn't mention his son or partner

I noticed it too and it made me think he had parted with Helena and it's awful and sad

a lot of ppl talking about his meet with Cody & Helena in Paris not very long before their promo for the new album, which means Cody is currently living in Paris

It doesn't prove anything. Brian always spent a lot of time in Paris too. Remember those pictures of him and Helena in the zoo of Paris and rumours about Brian recording his solo album in France. And maybe France is not Helena's pernament residence, maybe her relatives live there or something... Though this interview made me think they really had parted.

suggest that Brian should marry Stef

Noooo, Stef is taken, he even wears something like a wedding ring on his finger and Brian prefers girls mostly.

He could change his mind !!!!

^ haha i was just kidding but Stef means too much for Brian - - as a medical treatment they should be bond together forever, coz band members cannot be together permanently...

Is that really a wedding ring? i doubt it coz he changed the rings from time to time and there's a period he didnt wear rings at all. ummm.

and for Helena...i like her quite much coz she's unique in personality and seems nice and kind, however i felt the same that they were apart from each other which made me a bit sad.

Amethyst wrote:There are rumours that it will be almost impossible to rip the album on Friday, we can only listen to it but cannot rip

Oh, nooooooooooooooo... I have problem about that. I didn't get any conformation from PlaceboWorld and I register there with two e-mails and nothing, not even one message... How they were contact you?

About that performance of FWIW, very good, I like how Brian act there, he looked somehow very manly to me, with those legs moves. Even the hair is still there.

He was singing it very well, and backvocals are definitely recorded.

I'll read that interview a bit later, it seems very different.

^ yeah totally different, i honor it the most shocking interview i've ever read.

Is that really a wedding ring?

No, I joked but, you know, gay marriages are allowed in Spain

adan wrote:I didn't get any conformation from PlaceboWorld and I register there with two e-mails and nothing, not even one message... How they were contact you?

You don't need any confirmation. Check out your emails right now, you must see a letter with instructions from placeboworld (I received them). If you don't find any letters, maybe I can give you my registration email and the code for a few listens? I signed up with 2 mails so I can listen to the album 10 times (hopefully ) but I'm not sure I'll have enough time to use all of them. Still hope for the rip

Here are the details

You can login to the playback 5 times from 9am on Friday 29th May until midnight Sunday 31st May.
Each login session allows you to listen to the complete album from start to finish!
Once the track finishes click the next button to continue to the next song.
You cannot pause or go back until your next login - so make sure you have time to enjoy the whole album!!
If you leave your listening session inactive for more than 15 minutes then you will be logged out and will miss out on one of your 5 playbacks!

http://placeboworld.co.uk/mynews.php?id=61

No, I can't believe on my two e-mails no any letter from PlaceboWorld there! I might try with third also...

Amethyst wrote:
If you don't find any letters, maybe I can give you my registration email and the code for a few listens?

I'd really appreciate that. One or two listens, and I'd be happy!

They're a bit strict with all those rules, but I understand them. Reading that thing at the end, when they nicely asked to not copy their music, I said to myself, well I don't need leak. But, I want it so much! That would be very unusual situation if they really keep album till it will be realized.

I read the interview! It's great, interviews usually don't tell much, but this one did!

Meds - first sober tour - wow, and my first time to see them live.

And really shocking think about Steve, they kept their disagreement inside of band away from the eyes of public. And the thing he couldn't look Steve in the eyes makes me to think the song Happy You're Gone is about him, you know the line "Now I can look you in the eye".

Yeah, I'd also want he mentioned Cody or Helena, I like them, I like Brian as a family man.

I like Stefan's rings btw, he always wears a nice ring.

I tried with my third e-mail now and I got code in one second! Yay! Happy now!

Now, where I should log in, I don't see such place for now on PlaceboWorld. I read earlier something like we'll must long in today, and then again tomorrow... Or I should just log in tomorrow morning?

Edit: I see now, they gave us a link...

Edit again : I got two more codes. Which means I have three now. No way I'll spend that all.

haha, i got the code too...well, 13 hours to go.

about the interview, fans on other forum were disputing over the split with Steve...the point is whether Brian Molko is a hypocritical bitch or a rather vulnerable boy who confessed with candid and bravery. Personally I dont agree with either side coz it's no of our business, no one actually knows what happened. But still i'm inclined to believe that Brian was ingenuous in the interview.

The interview seems quite sincere... him talking about the addiction and depression.

Btw. I've recieved my code also, just now.

Nada, congratulations You have 15 listens now, lucky

I still feel very, very about the interview. And the split thing, I don't blame neither. And I understand Brian perfectly.

I feel like I understand Brian a lot better after the interview, and I understand the depression thing, there's a history of depression in my family. My sister is the worst affected, it's not good for her to be alone, because she startes to think about things too much, so she always keeps herself busy. So what Brian says makes sense. I can understand why he was too scared to tell Steve to his face, but for Steve to be that bad ? ! I'd still like to hear his side of the story.

^ Yeah exactly, what he said about his depression and the childhood did make sense. I dont think Steve would even be willing to respond...

My first listen is over.

Bright Lights and Kings Of Medicine are great surprises!

Julien is weird at start, disco sound. It gets better later.

Happy You're Gone is better live in my opinion. Speak in Tongues is the same quality, very good. Also the same thing with Come Undone.

Awwwww, love them.

The rip has come So I'm listining now. I like Kitty Litter a lot.
http://rapidshare.com/files/238539060/Placebo_-_Battle_For_The_Sun__2009_.rar

The beggining of Julien sounds like a song of a Russian band 'Tokio' Compare. Very similar?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9h92RxpPnw

The end of Julien and Speaking In Tongues sound like in live versions, so I like them. And also Come Undone is like WYIN #2 for me.
Kings of Medicine is like a soundtrack to a fairytale movie, I mean the music, not lyrics
Stef sings in Breath Underwater?

I love the entire stuff. The songs are just incredible.

Now the songs i keep listening to are Bright Lights, Breathe Underwater and Kings Of Medicine. All of them are much greater than I ever considered.

Well my favorite still goes to Kitty Litter, the album version sounds even better than live.

Well i'm too excited to do anything else but listening to the album and being addicted. I should focus on my upcoming test...errrrrr

I think I understand the songs better after reading that interview...and I do understand what conceptual album means. A million thanks to Brian, Stef, Stevie and the whole team who contributed to BFTS. They are the best.

Today the For what it's worth single is out in Germany (and maybe in some other contries), it includes FWIW, Wouldn't it be good and a demo version of FWIW. My friend bought it and she said the liked the demo the most of all I also found a rip of single and the demo actually sounds like that acoustic version of the song they played recently.

The official date in the Uk is Monday, I ordered mine from HMV and it was dispatched my email said Thursday, I should have it anyday, but I'm sure it only has the single version and Wouldn't It Be Good, so the Uk doesn't get the demo, I suppose that's fair, they have more support in Germany. I don't think the UK is very fair to Placebo at all, people are like sheep, and the press is more preoccurpied with people like Lily Allen, than serious artists !

mrsverlaine wrote:so the Uk doesn't get the demo, I suppose that's fair, they have more support in Germany.

But they wrote on the official site that the demo would be included in the single. Maybe it's also because Germany has very strict laws regarding illegal downloads and illegal CDs. My friend is scared of downloading from the net. She saved money for the legal single and the album for a long time.

I don't think the UK is very fair to Placebo at all, people are like sheep, and the press is more preoccurpied with people like Lily Allen, than serious artists !

Oh, I didn't know it. It's weird counting that the UK is their home.

I was wrong even though it didn't include it in the discription, the demo is there, I received my single yesterday, and I'm very pleased, I like that version a lot.
Yeah they are very understated, the music stations I have haven't shown the videos once, nor the single on the radio apart from the nights it wa played as that first promotion. Even C4 who are one of the UK's best stations haven't aired the video , it's quite disapointing because in 2006, they got quite a lot of TV coverage. In the UK they like to have someone new all the time it seems !

Ha, the video was actually shown on E4 this morning, I was flicking channels this morning and it was on their Anything Goes show, it cheered me up immensely after a crap weekend !