PLACEBO VINYL LP - WITHOUT YOU I'M NOTHING NEU NEW RAR

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 PLACEBO – WITHOUT YOU I’M NOTHING VINYL LP - NEW

Long out of print.

Released:1998

Condition: Record: New – unplayed

Cover: Neuwertig. Ich stufe das Cover hier nicht als neu ein, da es einen circa 2 cm farblichen Umriss gibt, den ich definieren kann. Es kann sein das es zu dem gelben Vorhang des Covers gehört. Ich habe keine Vergleichsmöglichkeit da ich keinen kenne der diese Platte besitzt, auch habe ich diese Platte nie wieder im Laden gesehen. Bitte betrachten Sie das Photo im Vorfeld.

Engineer – Adrian Bushby (tracks: A2 to B6)

Engineer [Additional] – Paul Corkett

Lyrics By – Brian Molko

Mastered By – Bunt Stafford-Clark

Mixed By [Assistant] – Jake Davies

Music By – Placebo

Photography By – Corrine Day*

Producer – Steve Osborne (tracks: A2 to B6)

Recorded By [Assistant] – Jacquie Turner

Tracklisting:

Pure Morning – 4:14

Brick Shithouse – 3:18

You Don’t Care About Us – 3:58

Ask For Answers – 5:19

Without You I’m Nothing – 4:08

Allergic (To Thoughts Of Mother Earth) – 3:49

The Crawl – 2:59

Every You Every Me – 3:33

My Sweet Prince – 5:45

Summer’s Gone – 3:05

Scared Of Girls – 3:00

Burger Queen – 22:39

Reviews:

After the almost impeccable release from the bands self-titled album with Nancy Boy rocketing to #4 on the U.K charts the band’s drummer Robert Schultzberg left the band mid- 1996 due to personal interests. Steve Hewitt, a past drummer of the band filled his position. They spent the end of 1996 and the majority of 1997 touring. Placebo was then invited to play at David Bowie’s 50th birthday leading to a guest appearance on “Without You I’m Nothing” which was released in October 1998.

Following rising to commercial success throughout Britain it was time for Placebo to burst into relentless American music scene. The band offer a darker, more mature sound on their second album providing unforgettable singles but does disappoint with a poor performance by the other songs on the album.

Musically “Without You I’m Nothing” is defiantly not the album for anyone interested in amazing solos or insane fret board work instead Placebo stick to what they know best, harmony among instruments and excellent rhythms. The opener “Pure Morning” displays a terrific rhythm which is driven by thumping drums and simple electric guitar although it may be labeled by some as repetitive “Pure Morning” displays the true capability of the band and is one of the better tracks.
Throughout the album many of the tracks consist of a simple guitar, bass and drum layout. The band do try some different set ups on other tracks such as “Burger Queen” which consists of no bass and some electronic influence, this experimentation does pay off making it one of my personal highlights.
Molko’s guitar work is slightly conservative on this release which does disappoint but “Without You I’m Nothing” does display how well he can create a mood in a song. The dark and haunting feeling of the song is topped with some well placed guitar work, the song gives a similar uneasy feeling to “Bruise Pristine” on their self titled release.
Although on some tracks the instrumental work is wisely used there are some songs where the instrumental work is poor. “My Sweet Prince” and “Ask For Answers” lack any creativity or thought in the instrumental work, they have barely any layers at all and overly repetitive, sadly tracks I tend to skip.
On the album the instruments find their place among each other which creates cohesion and lays the platform for some excellent rhythms and some electronically influenced songs.

The vocals and lyrics of the album are done quite well. Firstly the vocals of Brian Molko are either loved or hated by people but I find on this album he does some different vocal work and can create emotions very well with his voice. “Scared of Girls” displays his skill to do this. It is a very loud and powerful song and Molko helps establish an almost desperate feeling. The experimentation continues in the vocal section with “Brick S***house” where Molko uses effects on his voice throughout the song to make it part spoken work and singing which pays off quite well in the song. The lyrics of the album are really some of the bands best. I could go through and list some from each song but I would like to draw attention to only a few. “Every You Every Me” is my favorite song from the album but I feel the lyrics are the real highlight.
“Carve your name into my arm
Instead of stressed I lay here charmed
Cause there’s nothing else to do
Every me, every you”
“Allergic” is a track that the band exhibits much deeper and darker lyrics, these lyrics do work well in the song and make it one of the albums better tracks.
“Any means in your horizon
Heaven in a tourniquet
The after life to keep your eyes on
Bitter pill you take you take today”

Although musically and vocally the band does deliver, there are some tracks that are much below Placebo’s usual standard. The poorer tracks on the album are slower and contain little instrumental and lyrical work. “Ask For Answers”, “My Sweet Prince” and “The Crawl” are some of my least favorite tracks but are still decent songs though.

The more rock influenced songs on the album are all very high quality “Brick S***house”, “Scared of Girls” and “Allergic” are all examples of the rockier songs, although these tracks don’t contain many great instrumental pieces or lyrics their simplicity and ideas used by the band make them some of the better tracks on the album.

“Burger Queen” and “Summer’s Gone” are slower electronic influenced songs. Burger Queen is one of the albums highlights, it is a soft, calming track which really makes it a top album finisher. “Summer’s Gone” is a great track that has a very regrettable tone.

The singles off the album are my personal highlights though. “Pure Morning” and “Every You, Every Me” are both lyrically outstanding and all instruments work very well in the tracks. “You Don’t Care About Us” is a bouncy, more upbeat track that is obviously designed for commercial success. A complete contrast from that track is “Without You I’m Nothing” which is darker and more emotion, Brian Molko and David Bowie’s voices work well together in the track and promote the brooding feeling of the song.

Summing up this is a terrific release from the band, it has some excellent tracks that really push the bands popular acclaim. 10/10

NME review:

BRIAN MOLKO CAN'T BE WHAT he's not. He might claim he was burned by the accusations of misogyny and drug abuse and sexual indiscretion that dogged Placebo's progress last time around, but you can bet your bottom dollar he doesn't feel too bad about it now. Likewise, his claims for his band's new-found sensitivity. One listen to 'Without You I'm Nothing', a record where every note is shot through with his real character, and you'll realise they can be taken with the pinch of salt they rightly deserve.

You see, at heart, Brian Molko is quintessentially American in outlook. Fiercely ambitious, unafraid of fame and desperate to be noticed, you just know that he'll do whatever it takes to fulfil his ambitions (you only have to look at his burgeoning friendship with Marilyn Manson to realise that he's already got the US market in his sights). He might have no soul - just look at his steely green eyes glaring out from the sleeve - but who cares? That's what makes Placebo what they are: a filthy and enthralling hive of dubious excess. 'Without You I'm Nothing' proves that from the moment you slip it into your CD player.

Molko's skill lies in his inherent grasp of what makes for an exciting pop record. He might cite Sonic Youth as his prime influence, but they have never made a record that's come close to matching the muscular force of this album. The sheer clarity and power of the sounds here frequently take your breath away: the cranked-out guitar line of 'Pure Morning', the rumbling fuzz of 'Allergic (To Thoughts Of Mother Earth)', the strung-out, mechanical beauty of 'My Sweet Prince', they're all fantastic moments, glossed and fattened by Steve Osbourne's amazing production and strongly reminiscent of both Nirvana's 'Nevermind' and Hole's 'Celebrity Skin'.

That's what Placebo are pushing towards all the time: the perfect radio hit. These aren't songs that need to be studied too carefully. Whatever Molko says about the vulnerability and self-criticism of the lyrics on this record, the overall effect hardly reeks of repentance or fragility, the songs here are too confident for that, too sure of both where they're going and how they're going to get there.

All of which means we get the same narrow themes that have fixated Molko from the start. So, the sly references to heroin ("Close up the hole in my vein/Me and my valuable friend can fix all the pain away") collide with all the whores and "mental masturbation" that Brian can imagine. And as the 'Pure Morning' fiasco proved, the last thing you ever want to do with a Placebo song is concentrate too hard on the lyrics. Even 'Burger Queen', an apparently autobiographical account of his time in Luxembourg, is awash with flagging erections and goth junkies, a fact that almost puts you off a) what a beautiful song it is, and b) that it's almost a note-for-note re-write of Altered Images' 'I Could Be Happy'.

That aside, though, the rest of this album is astonishing. Everything you liked about the first record is here (the coiled riffs, epic distortion and careering momentum), but more so. 'Brick Shithouse', for instance, is a carbon copy of '36 Degrees', but swathed in radio static and pumped full of steroids. Everywhere else the tunes are better, the guitars are louder, it's more intense, more scuffed-up, more out-of-control and in the case of the ballads, more moving. It's no radical departure or change of style, just a big-budget Hollywood refinement of everything that made their debut so successful.

A thrilling record, then, made by freaks, for freaks. Just don't expect to leave with your soul intact.

Versand:

Versichert und vorsichtig verpackt, d.h.  Vinyl LP separat damit das Cover nicht beschädigt wird.  6,90 Euro.