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+''Music/DavidBowie, Music/TheSmashingPumpkins, Music/NineInchNails, Music/MarcBolan, Music/JanisJoplin, Music/BillieHoliday, Music/PattiSmith, Music/DepecheMode, Music/JoyDivision, Music/SonicYouth, Music/{{REM}}, Music/ThePixies''
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* {{Bishonen}}: Brian Molko.
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* PerformanceVideo: Two videos for "Every You Every Me" were made- one mixes live performance footage with clips of ''Film/CruelIntentions'', one is essentially an alternate cut without the movie clips. Both versions use split screens for the performance parts to artistic effect- e.g. at the beginning of the video, it's made to look like two copies of Stefan are alternating playing the main guitar riff.
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* PerformanceVideo: Two videos for "Every You Every Me" were made- one mixes live performance footage with clips of ''Film/CruelIntentions'', one is essentially an alternate cut without the movie clips. Both versions sometimes use split screens for the performance parts to artistic effect- e.g. at the beginning of the video, it's made to look like two copies of Stefan are alternating playing the main guitar riff.
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* PerformanceVideo: Two videos for "Every You Every Me" were made- one mixes live footage with clips of ''Film/CruelIntentions'', one is essentially an alternate cut without the movie clips. Both use split screens to artistic effect- e.g. at the beginning of the video, it's made to look like two copies of Stefan are alternating playing the main guitar riff.
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* PerformanceVideo: Two videos for "Every You Every Me" were made- one mixes live performance footage with clips of ''Film/CruelIntentions'', one is essentially an alternate cut without the movie clips. Both versions use split screens for the performance parts to artistic effect- e.g. at the beginning of the video, it's made to look like two copies of Stefan are alternating playing the main guitar riff.
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* PerformanceVideo: Two videos for "Every You Every Me" were made- one mixes live footage with clips of ''Film/CruelIntentions'', one is essentially an alternate cut without the movie clips. Both use split screens to artistic effect- e.g. at the beginning of the video, it's made to look like two copies of Stefan are alternating playing the main guitar riff.
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** "Exit Wounds" is a cry of longing and depression over an ex-partner who's… very, very one-sidedly moved on.
** "Begin the End" is a breakup song in the most direct sense, depicting the narrator resolute and at peace in their choice and firm in the face of their partner's resistance.
** "Begin the End" is a breakup song in the most direct sense, depicting the narrator resolute and at peace in their choice and firm in the face of their partner's resistance.
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Current rules seem to be that trope aversions usually aren't notable enough to mention on work pages, which... yeah, makes sense.
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* {{B Side}}s: A smorgasbord. Double-disc compilation ''B-Sides: 1996–2006'' had to omit all the remixes just to get the better part of them. While Placebo have a signature sound, the b-sides are where you can hear their more adventurous side, with {{Instrumental}}s and weird electronic experiments.
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* {{B Side}}s: A smorgasbord. Double-disc compilation ''B-Sides: 1996–2006'' had to omit all the remixes just to get the better part of them. While Placebo have a signature sound, the b-sides B-sides are where you can hear their more adventurous side, with {{Instrumental}}s and weird electronic experiments.
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* BreakupSong: "Song To Say Goodbye" averts this trope. Brian wrote the song as a letter to himself, trying to get away from the destructive lifestyle he was leading at the time. That said, "The Bitter End" is a straight, and really ''angry,'' example.
* ClusterFBomb: The chorus to b-side "Slackerbitch."
* ClusterFBomb: The chorus to b-side "Slackerbitch."
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* BreakupSong: "Song To Say Goodbye" averts this trope. Brian wrote Certainly to be found in the song as band's catalogue.
** "36 Degrees" is aletter reflection on the end of a dead relationship.
--->''In hindsight, I was more than blind''\\
''Lost without a clue''\\
''Thought I was getting karat gold''\\
''When what I got was you''
** "You Don't Care About Us" is a declaration of exhaustion with a partner who has a tendency tohimself, trying to get catastrophize over or run away from conflict and disagreement instead of work on resolving it, culminating in the destructive lifestyle he was leading at the time. That said, narrator saying they "think [they]'ll leave it all behind".
** "The Bitter End" isa another straight, and really ''angry,'' example.
* ClusterFBomb: The chorus tob-side "Slackerbitch."B-side "Slackerbitch" is mainly a cluster of rather coarse insults direct at its subject, including the title.
** "36 Degrees" is a
--->''In hindsight, I was more than blind''\\
''Lost without a clue''\\
''Thought I was getting karat gold''\\
''When what I got was you''
** "You Don't Care About Us" is a declaration of exhaustion with a partner who has a tendency to
** "The Bitter End" is
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* CueTheSun: "Pure Morning" is about the sun coming up after a long night of sex, drugs, and debauchery, and feeling disconnected from normal people on normal schedules.
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* CueTheSun: "Pure Morning" is about the sun coming up after a long night of sex, drugs, and debauchery, and feeling disconnected from normal people on normal schedules. "In the Cold Light of Morning", meanwhile, is almost an unofficial thematic sequel, depicting its subject still (or already) high by daybreak, terrified and ashamed by their isolation in the state they're in while the rest of the world around them's peacefully waking up as the eerie and dissonant music reflects their emotional state.
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* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: You'd better believe Brian fits this.
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* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: You'd better believe Brian certainly fits this.the vibe, as a pale black-haired man who performs some very dark, dissonant music with a composed affect.
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** The HiddenTrack on ''Without You I'm Nothing,'' "Evil Dildo," is an eight-minute nightmare of a song. It follows "Burger Queen" which is over six minutes.
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** The HiddenTrack on ''Without You I'm Nothing,'' "Evil Dildo," is an eight-minute nightmare of a song. It follows "Burger Queen" Queen", which is over six minutes.
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* InTheStyleOf: The band tried their hand at RapRock, which of course was booming around the time ''Black Market Music'' came out. "Spice & Malice" features rap verses from musical journeyman Justin Warfield.[[note]]Some of you may know him now as a member of Music/SheWantsRevenge.[[/note]]
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* InTheStyleOf: The band has tried their hand at RapRock, which of course was booming around the time ''Black Market Music'' came out. "Spice & Malice" features rap verses from musical journeyman Justin Warfield.[[note]]Some of you may know him now as a member of Music/SheWantsRevenge.[[/note]]
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* LyricalDissonance: "Commercial for Levi" has a rather upbeat melody and naïve percussion in the background while the singer is pleading for the life of a self-destructive friend. (Yet again confirmed by Word of God that it was basically singing to a mirror.)
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* LyricalDissonance: "Commercial for Levi" has a rather upbeat melody and naïve percussion in the background while the singer is pleading for the life of a self-destructive friend. (Yet again (Brian Molko has confirmed by Word of God that it it, along with other songs like "Song to Say Goodbye", was basically written as him essentially singing to a mirror.)
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* MeaningfulName: While all kinds of stuff have been read about [[GratuitousLatin the Latin meaning]] ("I will please"), [[https://web.archive.org/web/20081202070634/http://yourhereblog.mtv.com/2007/08/18/girls-gone-punk-placebo-the-sex-and-the-drugs-and-the-complications/ it's mostly a parody of]] [[OdeToIntoxication drug-named bands]] that would be good to shout for fans at concerts.
* MurderBallad: Implied in "Infrared", as the chorus says "Someone call the ambulance, there's gonna be an accident".
* MurderBallad: Implied in "Infrared", as the chorus says "Someone call the ambulance, there's gonna be an accident".
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* MeaningfulName: While all kinds of stuff have much has been read about made of [[GratuitousLatin the Latin meaning]] ("I will please"), the band's name [[https://web.archive.org/web/20081202070634/http://yourhereblog.mtv.com/2007/08/18/girls-gone-punk-placebo-the-sex-and-the-drugs-and-the-complications/ it's is mostly a parody of]] [[OdeToIntoxication drug-named bands]] that would be good to shout for fans at concerts.
*MurderBallad: MurderBallad:
** "Brick Shithouse" is a song about a murder, from the POV of the ''victim,'' ''after'' the fact.
** Implied in"Infrared", as "Infrared". It's certainly a ''threat,'' if nothing else, with the chorus says pre-chorus being "Someone call the ambulance, there's gonna be an accident".accident".
* MurderTheHypotenuse: The narrator of "Brick Shithouse" was murdered by the title character ("built like a brick shithouse" is an expression used to describe a brawnier man), his ghost now watching when his rival's together with their once-shared love interest.
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** "Brick Shithouse" is a song about a murder, from the POV of the ''victim,'' ''after'' the fact.
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* MurderTheHypotenuse: The narrator of "Brick Shithouse" was murdered by the title character ("built like a brick shithouse" is an expression used to describe a brawnier man), his ghost now watching when his rival's together with their once-shared love interest.
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** ''Black Market Music'' Moves even further into DarkerAndEdgier territory, Drops most of the glam, as well as any ties to Britpop, and dials up the PostPunk while also bordering on industrial rock at times.
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** ''Black Market Music'' Moves moves even further into DarkerAndEdgier territory, Drops drops most of the glam, glam as well as any ties to Britpop, and dials up the PostPunk while also bordering on industrial rock at times.
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* PrecisionFStrike: Only one F word on ''Without You I'm Nothing,'' from "My Sweet Prince," and Brian leans right into it: "Never thought you'd '''fuck''' with my brain." Not that Brian's above some colorful language sometimes; there's another song on the record called "Brick Shithouse."
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* PrecisionFStrike: PrecisionFStrike:
** Only one F word on ''Without You I'm Nothing,'' from "My Sweet Prince," and Brian leans right into it: "Never thought you'd '''fuck''' with my brain." Not that Brian's above some colorful language sometimes; there's another song on the record called "Brick Shithouse."
** Only one F word on ''Without You I'm Nothing,'' from "My Sweet Prince," and Brian leans right into it: "Never thought you'd '''fuck''' with my brain." Not that Brian's above some colorful language sometimes; there's another song on the record called "Brick Shithouse."
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* PunctuatedForEmphasis: ''"WE! ARE! LOUD! LIKE! LOVE!"''
** The entire chorus of "Pure Morning," essentially.
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** ''"WE! ARE! LOUD! LIKE! LOVE!"''
** The entire chorus of "Pure Morning,"essentially. essentially, featuring few words spaced to every other beat.
** ''"WE! ARE! LOUD! LIKE! LOVE!"''
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* RearrangeTheSong: Here's a fun one for Placebo completists. The band have a particular love of this trope, usually in the form of slowing down a song for maximum moodiness. Slower versions of "Every You Every Me," "36 Degrees," "Teenage Angst," "I'll Be Yours," "Plasticine," "Meds" and "Breathe Underwater" are out there, usually as {{B Side}}s, and ''Live At Angkor Wat'' is a live album almost wholly devoted to this trope, slowing down songs like "Because I Want You," "Drag" and more.
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* RearrangeTheSong: RearrangeTheSong:
** Here's a fun one for Placebo completists. The band have a particular love of this trope, usually in the form of slowing down a song for maximum moodiness. Slower versions of "Every You Every Me," "36 Degrees," "Teenage Angst," "I'll Be Yours," "Plasticine," "Meds" and "Breathe Underwater" are out there, usually as {{B Side}}s, and ''Live At Angkor Wat'' is a live album almost wholly devoted to this trope, slowing down songs like "Because I Want You," "Drag" and more.
** Here's a fun one for Placebo completists. The band have a particular love of this trope, usually in the form of slowing down a song for maximum moodiness. Slower versions of "Every You Every Me," "36 Degrees," "Teenage Angst," "I'll Be Yours," "Plasticine," "Meds" and "Breathe Underwater" are out there, usually as {{B Side}}s, and ''Live At Angkor Wat'' is a live album almost wholly devoted to this trope, slowing down songs like "Because I Want You," "Drag" and more.
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** An old b-side to "Nancy Boy," entitled "Miss Moneypenny," is obviously a shout-out to the ''Franchise/JamesBond'' franchise.
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** An old b-side B-side to "Nancy Boy," entitled "Miss Moneypenny," is obviously a shout-out to the ''Franchise/JamesBond'' franchise.
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* GreatestHitsAlbum: Two, ''Once More With Feeling'', released on the tenth anniversary of the band's formation, and ''A Place for Us to Dream'' (which while named after a lyric from "Narcoleptic", does not feature said song), released on the debut album's twentieth anniversary.
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* GreatestHitsAlbum: Two, ''Once More With Feeling'', released on the tenth anniversary of the band's formation, and ''A Place for Us to Dream'' (which while named after a lyric from "Narcoleptic", does not feature said song), released on the debut album's twentieth anniversary. The latter uses a famous photograph of the 2011 UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}} [[UsefulNotes/TheStanleyCup Stanley Cup]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Vancouver_Stanley_Cup_riot riot]] of a young couple on the ground in the middle of a street between lines of riot police.
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* RefrainFromAssuming: "Every You, Every Me". Most people think the song is called "Every Me and Every You", because that's how the chorus seems to go. If you read the back of the CD case, it is quite clearly called "Every You, Every Me" and if you listen to the chorus ''more'' carefully, you'll hear the end of the chorus goes "every me and ''every you, every me.''"
** And a lot people think it's called "Sucker Love" after the first two words of each verse.
** And a lot people think it's called "Sucker Love" after the first two words of each verse.
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* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: 2022's ''Never Let Me Go'' occasionally has the Earth's decay and impending doom as a recurring theme, never moreso than on the sardonically-titled "Try Better Next Time" which is Brian's disillusioned fuck-you to the human race.
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* NoiseRock:
** The sound of "Taste In Men" was inspired by Music/NineInchNails' ''Broken'' EP; Brian wanted a song to approach that level of harshness.
** "Evil Dildo," to this day, is still the harshest song they've released, filled with mountains of distortion and feedback.
** The sound of "Taste In Men" was inspired by Music/NineInchNails' ''Broken'' EP; Brian wanted a song to approach that level of harshness.
** "Evil Dildo," to this day, is still the harshest song they've released, filled with mountains of distortion and feedback.
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* NoiseRock:
** The sound of "Taste In Men" was inspired by Music/NineInchNails' ''Broken'' EP; Brian wanted a song to approach that level of harshness.
** "Evil Dildo," to this day, is still the harshest song they've released, filled with mountains of distortion and feedback.
* NonIndicativeName: "Sad White Reggae" from ''Never Let Me Go'' is actually a pretty upbeat electro-rock song. Brian explained that the title originated as a joke about Music/ThePolice's music.
** The sound of "Taste In Men" was inspired by Music/NineInchNails' ''Broken'' EP; Brian wanted a song to approach that level of harshness.
** "Evil Dildo," to this day, is still the harshest song they've released, filled with mountains of distortion and feedback.
* NonIndicativeName: "Sad White Reggae" from ''Never Let Me Go'' is actually a pretty upbeat electro-rock song. Brian explained that the title originated as a joke about Music/ThePolice's music.
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* VocalTagTeam: Stefan takes on more prominent backing vocal duties in ''Never Let Me Go''
