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Placebo: Battle for the Sun

by Erin Lyndal Martin

[18.Jun.09] :. Fans can stop holding their breath now: Battle for the Sun is unmistakably a Placebo album.

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Placebo: Extended Play 07

by John Bergstrom

[9.Nov.07] :. The veteran UK glam-rockers commemorate their appearance on the 2007 Projekt Revolution package tour with this unsatisfying grab bag EP.

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Placebo: Meds

by Dan Raper

[4.Apr.06] :. Despite forays into heavier metal-inspired sounds or electronica, a new Placebo album becomes an exercise in slight variation, little more.

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Placebo: Once More with Feeling: The Singles 1996-2004

by John Bergstrom

[15.Dec.04] :. Placebo's music is so full of sex and drugs, it's amazing the rock & roll doesn't come across as an afterthought.

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Placebo: Sleeping With Ghosts

by David Antrobus

[14.May.03] :. A distinct and puzzling mean-spiritedness toward pan-cultural (Scottish-American, English, Swedish) poster boys Placebo has been emanating from some critical quarters lately, most of it directed at...

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    Placebo: Black Market Music

by Nicholas Taylor

[7.May.01] :. Placebo is wonderfully anachronistic in their outlook. They refuse to let the early ‘70s die. They fashion themselves as the heirs of the glam rock legacy bequeathed by David Bowie, Brian Eno,...

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Placebo, Without You I’m Nothing

by Sarah Zupko

I must admit I never thought much of Placebo in the past. The camp outrageousness has been done to death to far better effect by Bowie and the rest of the glam rock crowd. Furthermore, their first...