Product Description

'Meds' is the fifth studio album from UK trio Placebo. Produced by Dimitri Tikovoi and recorded in just eight weeks, Tikovoi made the band strip back their sound, doing away with studio trickery and taking the band back to their early indie rock roots. The album features the lead single 'Because I Want You'.

Track Listing

1. Meds
2. Infra-red
3. Drag
4. Space Monkey
5. Follow The Cops Back Home
6. Post Blue
7. Because I Want You
8. Blind
9. Pierrot The Clown
10. Broken Promise
11. One Of A Kind
12. In The Cold Light Of Morning
13. Song To Say Goodbye

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8211 in Music
• Released on: 2006-03-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

Amazon.co.uk Review
While Placebo’s previous couple of albums demonstrated a tendency to pander to a devout fanbase eager to suckle up frontman Brian Molko’s shrill delivery of prurient autobiographical narrative and sexual innuendo, their fifth album, Meds, finds them ready to engage again with the rock mainstream.

Tracks like "Infra Red" and "Post Blue" craft a fresh dynamic between quiet-loud Pixies dynamics and febrile Sonic Youth crunch, and there’s a couple of notable guest appearances: first in the shape of VV, smouldering frontwoman of The Kills, who brings her femme fatale drawl to the chorus of "Meds", but also REM’s Michael Stipe, who shadows Molko through the dynamite plumes of "Broken Promise". "Drag", meanwhile, might even become a career highlight, a breezy hymn to self-loathing with characteristically perverse lyrics ("You’re the first one to swim ‘cross the Seine/I lag behind"), while "Pierrot The Clown" strikes a neatly poignant note, all painted-frown melodrama and tapped glockenspiel. All in all, it’s probably Placebo’s most accessible album since Without You I’m Nothing. --Louis Pattison

Customer Reviews

Take your Meds
I have all Placebo albums, and just through a search of all bands I have liked in the past, I stumbled upon this new Placebo addition. The album is very good on first listen...holding its own with all their earlier work...and yet the more I listen...the more I think they have created something really special with this album. The music has the unmistakable Placebo sound...but with a number of fresh sounds added in...so builds well on past work to create richer, more comfortable sounding songs. I think Placebo fans will be pleased with this purchase. The album gets five stars for consistently good music that exceeds expectation.

Placebos Best Album To Date
One of the great bands around. They released their self titled debut album, which was pretty good and then released without you i'm nothing which was awesome and then black market music, which was also fantastic. but............
I really didn't like sleeping with ghosts except for a couple of songs.

But meds is their best album i recon, except for track 10..... i love the dreamy feel to it, like follow the cops back home, blind, in the cold light of morning, pierrot the clown, post blue then the more rockier tracks. infra red, meds, because i want you.....i may as well name all the songs.

great album, give it a listen, you will not be disappointed

A good attempt from Placebo
Not having any other Placebo albums besides this one, I'm not going to try and persuade you with my stupid opinions. I normally give a track by track review but I just simply don't know Placebo well enough (I might make a better review later). To keep it short I'll put it this way: the first two songs Meds and Infra Red are very obvious singles and sound quite poppy. Then there is Drag and Space monkey which I think are amazing songs with great lyrics from Brian. Then Follow the Cops Back Home is a calm yet explict song that may have something against cops followed by Post Blue which is electronic and kind of poppy. Because I Want You is also a bit poppy.

After this it goes slightly downhill except for ballad Pierrot the Clown and the ender Song to say Goodbye which are also great songs. I'm not going to tell you whether you should buy this album or not, but if you want your curiosity to get the better of you; be my guest.