QUOTE(Asparagus Sin Drum @ Dec 29 2004, 09:18 PM)
God yeah. I remember that song they had about a black man hanging from a tree. That was hilarious.
And that song with a rap in it. Oh dear.
Isn't Brian Molko famous for being an absolute cock anyway?
"Without You I'mNothing" was a decent enough album though, especially the title track.
Yes.
And I'd forgotten about the rap. Hahaha. Haemoglobin was that terrible hanging song. It was political in the same way as a jam tart. The lyrics:
http://www.alwaysontherun.net/placebo.htm#t10.
"I was hanging from a tree
Unaccustomed to such violence
Jesus looking down on me
I'm prepared for one big silence"
That's surely meant to be a joke. Surely. "Unaccustomed to such violence" - well, you're only hanged once, sonny. "I'm prepared for one big silence"! Is it possible to trivialise death any more than that?
It's also clearly Brian Molko trying to express how alone he feels being the only man daring enough to wear lipstick in a world run by suited men, or something, but disguising it behind some attempt at an empassioned song about black civil rights.
From Blue American:
"I wrote this novel just for Mom
For all the Mommy things she's done
For all the times she showed me wrong
For all the times she sang God's song
And I say thank you Mom
Hello Mom
Thank you Mom
Hi Mom"
This genuinely made me laugh out loud.
Spite And Malice was the one with the rap.
Everyone wants the revolution to consist of "dope, guns (and) fucking in the streets". Oh, wait a second...