BRAIN MOLKO

[Monty Cantsin]

What do you guy’s thing of him? His political message, voice, cloths what ever anything what do you think of him?

[celtopunk]

I have no idea who this is, therefore I have no opinion on him or his clothes.

[Monty Cantsin]

his the lead singer out of placebo.

[Purple]

hmmm.... OK.. never really consived a political message from him..

[mentalbunny]

He used to be pretty sexy, I much preferred him with longer hair and more make-up and dresses and shit. He's just a hedonist really, not very political at all.

[Invader Zim]

he's an excelent singer, if you like that kind of voice, (personally I love it)

http://www.alwaysontherun.net/placebrian.jpg

His political message is that of mild leftism, but not really that major part of his music and lyrics.

This one world vision
Turns us in to compromise
What good's religion
When it's each other we despise
Damn the government
Damn the killing
Damn the lies

Sleeping with ghosts

[The Feral Underclass]

he was ok in his day...his music dosnt seem to progress for the better. Radiohead went out and experimented and was succesful...Placebo seem to have kept their 14 year old angst image...It's time to move on Brian!!!

[mentalbunny]

That pic of him was when he was good looking, at his best even, now he looks pretty shit. And one review called Placebo's politics "lipservice", I'd go along with that. I love their first album, the second one if a lovely huge does of teenage angst and the third one's pretty good, but I haven't heard the fourth one. From the ones I've got it looks like they're going downhill.

[Urban Rubble]

Dear Lord, that picture was a guy ?

If I hadn't known that I swear to you I would've thought "What a pretty girl". I guess he's a pretty guy, but usually women don't like their guys to look like women.

As for their music, I have only really heard them on skate videos, alot of skaters these days love them. I didn't like the sound of it but I only heard like 3 or 4 songs.

[Monty Cantsin]

i have to say myself that i don’t really like the new cd. There’s a political message there but it talks more about the social implication cursed by political activity.

[bush youth]

Yay! Androgyny!
It never occured to me until now...
they are kind of political.
I like them, but i've listened to them too much and now they're kind of annoying.

the lyrics to "Slave to the Wage" are good
..or maybe just the title.

[canikickit]

"A friend in need is a friend indeed,
a friend with weed is better"

I agree.

[mentalbunny]

Androgyny is my thing, I like bi everyone, straight guys are just a bit disappointing.

[Invader Zim]

Originally posted by bush [email protected] 8 2004, 04:15 AM
Yay! Androgyny!
It never occured to me until now...
they are kind of political.
I like them, but i've listened to them too much and now they're kind of annoying.

the lyrics to "Slave to the Wage" are good
..or maybe just the title.
The lyrics to Slave to the Wage ar great.

"Its a race for rats to die."

Doesn't take much to know what the rat race is.

[Monty Cantsin]

That what I think of special k (its meaning) he doesn’t talk directly about politics but the affects of them example the affect consumerisms on the person. This talks about when large holidays come around the suicide rates go up.


The first two lines of the song go, “coming up beyond belief on this coronary thief, more than just a leitmotif more chaotic no relief”

I think “coming up beyond belief” is the holiday approaching or the inevitability of their circumstances, meaning depression. Coronary is used to describe the veins that carry oxygen through out your body, so the coronary thief is death approaching or hovering.
More then just a leitmotif well a leitmotif is a musical theme attached a particular character or situation in this case Christmas or Valentine’s Day.

Another line in the songs is “Or are you just my seventh seal?” I think this means the thing that pushes the person over the edge it’s also a movie from the 1950’s about depression and death which shows the grim reaper hovering over a duke trying to push him towards death. That example of referencing is another technique used to show more about something then can be fifteen on two or three lines.

So I feel that the connection is people can be very depressed when they are alone especially on public holidays because Everone Is with there family and if you don’t have one you become even more lonely and therefore the chances of someone committing suicide on a public holiday increases and that is the relationship between public holidays and suicide rates.

[mentalbunny]

Wow, good one Euripides. Interesting. I guess I'm very shallow when I look at lyrics, if I ever look at them at all.

[Monty Cantsin]

yer someone said that song was about drugs which the name relates to some rape drug or something but i thought there was more then that well something totaly different.

[mentalbunny]

Special K is another name for Ketamine, also known as horse tranquilizer, as vets use it for anaesthetic frequently.

But you're right, I reckon there's a lot more to their lyrics, but if the music doesn't attract me I'm not going to make the effort with the lyrics, and I'm not really a lyrics kind of person anyway.