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Placebo - Battle For The Sun
UK: 8th Jun - Dream Brother

For the first time, Placebo leaving the Elevator label (initially Hut then Virgin) to release new materials in their new label Dream Brother, which can be found on the lyrics of the title track. Now welcome their third drummer since the band formed 15 years ago, the 20 something may not play as well as the previous roles, but that doesn’t affect Placebo becoming superstars. Battle For The Sun is a conceptual album that maybe telling a man from cradle to grave.

Outstanding tracks: ‘Astray Heart’ & ‘Battle For The Sun’.

Back Catalogue:

Recently, EMI (the parent label of Hut and Virgin) releasing a box set of 8 CDs and 2 DVDs of previous Placebo works, titled ‘The Hut Recordings’.

It contains:
CD1: Placebo (1996)
CD2: Without You I’m Nothing (1998)
CD3: Black Market Music (2000)
CD4: Sleeping With Ghosts (2003)
CD5: Sleeping With Ghosts bonus covers CD (2003)
CD6: Meds (2006)
CD7: The B-sides
CD8: More B-sides along with some live tracks
DVD1: Once More With Feeling/Videos 1996-2004 (2004)
DVD2: Soulmates Never Die/Live In Paris 2003 (2004)

Also don’t forget there’s a compilation the CD version of Once More With Feeling was also released in 2004.
And a ‘10th Anniversary Edition’ of their debut self-titled album was re-issued in 2006.