Placebo - Once More With Feeling - Singles 1996-2004

Once More With Feeling is all about a band who wrote a song called You Don't Care About Us. A track that's propelled by an unstoppable, elastic bass line and that flips manically between wise, sighing despair and spitting adolescent rage. A song which feels like it had no choice but to be written and which is one of the rawest, most brilliant singles of the last decade. It's a story about the shuddering electronica of Pure Morning, the sleazy sneer of Every You, Every Me and the searing riff of Bruise Pristine. It's about a band constrained by their musical limitations but who thrashed happily within them. It's about the way that Special K climbs frantically towards its chorus before collapsing sadly under its own weight.