Name: Once More with Feeling
Brand: Astralwerks
SKU: 840027
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Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Once More with Feeling

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Album: Once More with Feeling
#	Song Title	Time
1)	36 Degrees
2)	Teenage Angst
3)	Nancy Boy
4)	Brusie Pristine
5)	Pure Morning
6)	You Don't Care About Us
7)	Every You Every Me
8)	Without You I'm Nothing
9)	Taste in Men
10)	Slave to the Wage
11)	Special K
12)	Black-Eyed
13)	Bitter End, The
14)	This Picture
15)	Special Needs
16)	English Summer Rain
17)	Protege Moi
18)	I Do - (previously unreleased)
19)	Twenty Years - (previously unreleased)

Album: Once More with Feeling
#	Song Title	Time
1)	36 Degrees
2)	Teenage Angst
3)	Nancy Boy
4)	Brusie Pristine
5)	Pure Morning
6)	You Don't Care About Us
7)	Every You Every Me
8)	Without You I'm Nothing
9)	Taste in Men
10)	Slave to the Wage
11)	Special K
12)	Black-Eyed
13)	Bitter End, The
14)	This Picture
15)	Special Needs
16)	English Summer Rain
17)	Protege Moi
18)	I Do - (previously unreleased)
19)	Twenty Years - (previously unreleased)

Performer Notes

Placebo (UK): Brian Molko, Stefan Olsdal, Steve Hewitt.
Additional personnel: David Bowie (vocals).
This well-compiled retrospective covers the first eight years of the London-based rock trio's career. Placebo combines the sexy, androgynous attitude of glam with the grind of grunge, the razor-edge of punk, and a dash of blissful drone-noise a la Sonic Youth. Through its first four studio albums, Placebo blazed a trail with equal parts flash, guitar-muscle, and keen pop smarts, a mix that sent several of the band's singles up the UK charts. For these reasons, Placebo is especially well suited to a hits collection, and ONCE MORE WITH FEELING is, as a result, the group's best overall offering.
Early hits ("Nancy Boy" and "Bruise Pristine") define the band's cross-gender themes and slick, churning sound, while the mid-tempo "Pure Morning" sports an expansive feel and an infectiously catchy melody. "Taste in Men" has a goth-industrial edge, "The Bitter End" recalls 1980s New Wave, and glam godfather David Bowie joins the group for a duet on "Without You I'm Nothing" (an association that has helped the band not a little). But while it's easy to play spot-the-influence with Placebo, the trio has enough panache and songcraft to pull it off effectively, a feat attested to on this impressive 19-song disc.