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Track List
01) Running Up That Hill
02) Where Is My Mind (XFM live version)
03) Bigmouth Strikes Again
04) Johnny and Mary
05) 20th Century Boy
06) The Ballad of Melody Nelson
07) Holocaust
08) I Feel You
09) Daddy Cool
10) Jackie
01) Running Up That Hill
02) Where Is My Mind (XFM live version)
03) Bigmouth Strikes Again
04) Johnny and Mary
05) 20th Century Boy
06) The Ballad of Melody Nelson
07) Holocaust
08) I Feel You
09) Daddy Cool
10) Jackie
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3:58
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First Released
2007
Alternative Rock
Bittersweet
Rock/Pop
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“Covers” es el álbum de versiones de Placebo, lanzado oficialmente en 2003 (aunque su origen se remonta a sesiones y caras B entre 1996 y 2002).
No fue concebido como un álbum en sentido clásico, sino como un compendio accidental de obsesiones ajenas reinterpretadas hasta parecer propias.
El disco apareció primero como una edición limitada en la reedición de Sleeping with Ghosts, y luego se publicó por separado, casi por demanda popular: los fans lo habían convertido en un mito pirata.
Aquí no buscan homenajear; buscan poseer.
Cada canción ajena se transforma en un reflejo de su universo: oscuro, ambiguo y vulnerado.
Su versión de “Running Up That Hill” de Kate Bush se convirtió en uno de sus temas más icónicos, un himno de deseo desesperado reinterpretado con frialdad sensual y un pulso casi industrial.
La “Bigmouth Strikes Again” de The Smiths se desarma y reconstruye como un lamento mecánico. “Where Is My Mind?” de Pixies suena más a anestesia que a catarsis, y “Johnny and Mary” de Robert Palmer adquiere un tono melancólico y crepuscular.
La crítica lo recibió con sorpresa: muchos esperaban un disco de rarezas, y se encontraron con una obra coherente, casi conceptual. Covers reveló algo que ya se intuía: Placebo no solo eran buenos compositores, también eran intérpretes con una empatía particular hacia el dolor de otros.
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The very idea of a covers album may have connotations of a concept employed by waning pop artists taking a stab at swing music. However, this collection of re-readings from post-Britpop neo-glam bastions Placebo is an entirely different entity. A smattering of B sides, live favourites and other rarities make Covers a one-artist compilation album as opposed to a from-scratch covers project, and it functions all the better for it.
Originally released as a bonus disc to accompany 2003 album Sleeping With Ghosts, then given a limited standalone push in 2007, Covers finally warrants a full release in its own right. And headed up by their sullen, cerebral take on Running Up That Hill (a long-established Placebo catalogue staple), its appeal, unlike its sporadic life as an album thus far, is immediate.
An interpretation of Depeche Mode’s I Feel You is among the more dependable covers, as is their 20th Century Boy, originally recorded for the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack. Elsewhere, a radio session take on the Pixies’ Where Is My Mind – surprisingly polished for a live version – operates as both a tribute and a display of fandom towards a band whose influence in Placebo’s output is unmistakable.
Its decade-straddling compilation aspect makes Covers all the more extraordinary, its constancy completely steadfast. The lone exception to the brilliance comes via an oddly faithful version of Boney M's Daddy Cool, which has to be consumed as the side dish to a sizeable main portion of irony to stomach; and yet, its clunky audacity is admirable.
Where an album of this type is often one for the fans, it’s doubtful there’s a Placebo devotee that doesn’t already have a copy of Covers knocking about. Rather, it’s something to turn the heads of the music fans for whom Placebo have never fully broken the surface, and even more commendably for an album without a solitary Placebo original, it sells their incomparable brand of dark, licentious rock beautifully.
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“Covers” es el álbum de versiones de Placebo, lanzado oficialmente en 2003 (aunque su origen se remonta a sesiones y caras B entre 1996 y 2002).
No fue concebido como un álbum en sentido clásico, sino como un compendio accidental de obsesiones ajenas reinterpretadas hasta parecer propias.
El disco apareció primero como una edición limitada en la reedición de Sleeping with Ghosts, y luego se publicó por separado, casi por demanda popular: los fans lo habían convertido en un mito pirata.
Aquí no buscan homenajear; buscan poseer.
Cada canción ajena se transforma en un reflejo de su universo: oscuro, ambiguo y vulnerado.
Su versión de “Running Up That Hill” de Kate Bush se convirtió en uno de sus temas más icónicos, un himno de deseo desesperado reinterpretado con frialdad sensual y un pulso casi industrial.
La “Bigmouth Strikes Again” de The Smiths se desarma y reconstruye como un lamento mecánico. “Where Is My Mind?” de Pixies suena más a anestesia que a catarsis, y “Johnny and Mary” de Robert Palmer adquiere un tono melancólico y crepuscular.
La crítica lo recibió con sorpresa: muchos esperaban un disco de rarezas, y se encontraron con una obra coherente, casi conceptual. Covers reveló algo que ya se intuía: Placebo no solo eran buenos compositores, también eran intérpretes con una empatía particular hacia el dolor de otros.
User Album Review
The very idea of a covers album may have connotations of a concept employed by waning pop artists taking a stab at swing music. However, this collection of re-readings from post-Britpop neo-glam bastions Placebo is an entirely different entity. A smattering of B sides, live favourites and other rarities make Covers a one-artist compilation album as opposed to a from-scratch covers project, and it functions all the better for it.
Originally released as a bonus disc to accompany 2003 album Sleeping With Ghosts, then given a limited standalone push in 2007, Covers finally warrants a full release in its own right. And headed up by their sullen, cerebral take on Running Up That Hill (a long-established Placebo catalogue staple), its appeal, unlike its sporadic life as an album thus far, is immediate.
An interpretation of Depeche Mode’s I Feel You is among the more dependable covers, as is their 20th Century Boy, originally recorded for the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack. Elsewhere, a radio session take on the Pixies’ Where Is My Mind – surprisingly polished for a live version – operates as both a tribute and a display of fandom towards a band whose influence in Placebo’s output is unmistakable.
Its decade-straddling compilation aspect makes Covers all the more extraordinary, its constancy completely steadfast. The lone exception to the brilliance comes via an oddly faithful version of Boney M's Daddy Cool, which has to be consumed as the side dish to a sizeable main portion of irony to stomach; and yet, its clunky audacity is admirable.
Where an album of this type is often one for the fans, it’s doubtful there’s a Placebo devotee that doesn’t already have a copy of Covers knocking about. Rather, it’s something to turn the heads of the music fans for whom Placebo have never fully broken the surface, and even more commendably for an album without a solitary Placebo original, it sells their incomparable brand of dark, licentious rock beautifully.
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