Strange infatuation…
The digitally remastered two-disc set contains rare demos, B-sides, videos and other performances. Here’s the tracklisting:
CD 1
01 Come Home
02 Teenage Angst
03 Bionic
04 36 Degrees
05 Hang On To Your IQ
06 Nancy Boy
07 I Know
08 Bruise Pristine
09 Lady Of The Flowers
10 Swallow
11 Paycheck (Demo)
12 Flesh Mechanic (Demo)
13 Drowning By Numbers (B-side)
14 Slackerbitch (B-side)
15 H K Farewell (Hidden track)
DVD 1
01 Come Home (Alexandra Palace – 11.04.06)
02 Teenage Angst (The Big Breakfast – 29.08.96)
03 Nancy Boy (Top Of The Pops – 31.01.97)
04 Lady Of The Flowers (Glastonbury Festival – 27.06.98)
05 Teenage Angst (The White Room – 23.08.96)
06 Bruise Pristine (Top Of The Pops – 23.05.97)
07 36 Degrees (Wembley Arena – 05.11.04)
08 36 Degrees (Video)
09 Teenage Angst (Video)
10 Nancy Boy (Video)
11 Bruise Pristine (Video)
I’m sure everybody here is well aware of David Bowie’s patronage of the band, particularly early in their career when they were the support act at his 50th birthday bash at Madison Square Garden in January 1997.
Two years later, DB covered T-Rex‘s 20th Century Boy live with Placebo at The Brit Awards in London in February 1999 and again at The Irving Plaza in New York the following month. At the latter date David also performed a duet with Brian on the band’s own Without You I’m Nothing, which was later recorded for posterity and released on single as Placebo Featuring David Bowie the same year.
Anyway, David has contributed this short tribute to Placebo in the sleevenotes of the re-issue:
“Lyrically, Brian is writing deeply evocative and darkly slithering things, quite scary and brilliantly supported by the band’s music. I think Placebo are now possibly one of the best three piece bands in the world.” – David Bowie, July 2006.
We’ll be running a contest shortly to win the collectors edition of Placebo, not to mention some rather cool promotional Placebo radios…So stay tuned! (Pun obviously intended.)