PLACEBO
Brian :" 'Placebo' took just two months to record, in Dublin and London, and was produced by Brad Wood. He' s as much into electronic music as we are. And we didn' t want to make pure punk records, we wanted to make something that was colourful.
You run the risk on the first album of making a record that has one particular sound, that runs the whole way through it. There's a lot of characters in there, and a lot of the lyrics are telling stories too. But if it makes you feel that it' s an emotional record then I' m happy about that, I' m happy to walk the line. To make things dangerous, hopefully. People could really hate the record, it could really annoy them which would be really cool. Indifference about it would piss me off more. And we wanted ours to be like a collection of short stories, approach every single song individually with the orchestration and vocal styles. We wanted to take you on a journey, an emotional rollercoaster, with little surprises here and there, instead of just having a blanket sound."
Teenage AngstBrian: " [...] suicide [...]Teenage heartbreak. That's what the song Teenage Angst is about. When you're a teenager you react to the world around you in a way that's 100 percent heart. And as you grow older, in order to stay sane you you learn to react with a balance of heart and head, and that's what helps you survive. i'm interested in that loss of innocence."
36 Degrees Brian: " It's called that because "36 Degrees" suggests plenty of double meanings. It's called that because 36 Degrees is close to the body temperature,I guess it's all body metaphors. The sleeve has an arm and a leg wrapped in clingfilm, like they're being preserved. And you can put something in clingfilm and stick it in a refrigerator, or stick it in a microwave and warm it up or cool it down."
Nancy Boy Brian: " People who think it's fashionable to be gay-guys who think that because some of my best friends are gay that they are going to try it out because they are in amilieu where it's cool, but they haven't actually had the desire themseilves. In the song, I'm questionning people's reasins for sleeping with someone of the same sex. In the same way that heroin is very hip today, being bisexual seems to be very chic."" It's an exploration into somebody's misogyny yet heartfelt. It's angry, nasty, insulting and completely politically incorrect."
Hang on To Your IQ/I Know Brian : Both Hang On To Your IQ" and " I Know" employed toy instruments to "Bring a real loss of innocence feel, a prison novel. "
Swallow Brian : " Swallow" is what happened the last time Stefan and I took acid. It could mean many things, I guess at first you might think it' s about losing your drugs, or maybe it' s someone who' s so wasted during sex they forget not to swallow. I don' t know, it was never really written in a state of reality."
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