I Placebo sono una alternative rock band britannica di livello internazionale formata da Brian Molko (chitarra e voce), Stefan Olsdal (tastiera, basso e chitarra) e Steve Forrest (batteria): i Placebo hanno venduto oltre 10 milioni di dischi e sono famosi per aver introdotto uno stile musicale molto variegato, che ha saputo spaziare dal britpop al post-grunge, dal neo-glam al punk rock e all’elettronica. Tra le canzoni di maggior successo: Pure Morning, Every You Every Me, Nancy Boy, The Bitter End, Infra-red, Song to say Goodbye, Running Up that Hill. Prima di vedere la loro completa discografia, una curiosità: il loro nome deriva dal concetto medico di placebo, ovvero “qualcosa che tu credi ti faccia sentire meglio”. Vediamo la discografia:
Placebo (1996)
- Come Home
- Teenage Angst
- Bionic
- 36 Degrees
- Hang on to Your IQ
- Nancy Boy
- I Know
- Bruise Pristine
- Lady of the Flowers
- Swallow
- H.K.Farewell (traccia nascosta)
Without You I’m Nothing (1998)
- Pure Morning
- Brick Shithouse
- You Don’t Care About Us
- Ask For Answers
- Without You I’m Nothing
- Allergic (To Thoughts of Mother Earth)
- The Crawl
- Every You Every Me
- My Sweet Prince
- Summer’s Gone
- Scared of Girls
- Burger Queen
Black Market Music (2000)
- Taste in Men
- Days Before You Came
- Special K
- Spite & Malice
- Passive Aggressive
- Black-Eyed
- Blue American
- Slave to the Wage
- Commercial for Levi
- Haemoglobin
- Narcoleptic
- Peeping Tom
Sleeping with Ghosts (2003)
- Bulletproof Cupid
- English Summer Rain
- This Picture
- Sleeping With Ghosts
- The Bitter End
- Something Rotten
- Plasticine
- Special Needs
- I’ll Be Yours
- Second Sight
- Protect Me From What I Want
- Centrefolds
Once More with Feeling: Singles 1996-2004 (2004)
- 36 Degrees (pubblicato in origine nel 1996)
- Teenage Angst (1996)
- Nancy Boy (Radio Edit) (1997)
- Bruise Pristine (1997)
- Pure Morning (Single Edit) (1998)
- You Don’t Care About Us (1998)
- Every You Every Me (Single Mix) (1999)
- Without You I’m Nothing (Single Mix) (featuring David Bowie) (1999)
- Taste in Men (Radio Edit) (2000)
- Slave to the Wage (Radio Edit) (2000)
- Special K (2000)
- Black-Eyed (2001)
- The Bitter End (2003)
- This Picture (2003)
- Special Needs (Edit) (2003)
- English Summer Rain (Single Version) (2004)
- Protège-Moi (2004)
- I Do (2004)
- Twenty Years (2004)
Meds (2006)
- Meds (feat. Alison Mosshart)
- Infra-Red
- Drag
- Space Monkey
- Follow the Cops Back Home
- Post Blue
- Because I Want You
- Blind
- Pierrot the Clown
- Broken Promise (feat. Michael Stipe)
- One of a Kind
- In the Cold Light of Morning
- Song to Say Goodbye
Extended Play ’07 (2007)
- Nancy Boy
- Every You Every Me
- Taste in Men
- Bitter End
- Meds
- Pure Morning (Live@Arras)
- Infra-red (Live@Nimes)
- Running Up That Hill (Live@Santiago)
Battle for the Sun (2009)
- Kitty Litter
- Ashtray Heart
- Battle for the Sun
- For What It’s Worth
- Devil in the Details
- Bright Lights
- Speak in Tongues
- The Never-Ending Why
- Julien
- Happy You’re Gone
- Breathe Underwater
- Come Undone
- Kings of Medicine
- In A Funk (bonus track Giappone)
B3EP (2012)
- B3
- I Know You Want to Stop
- The Extra
- I.K.W.Y.L
- Time is Money
Loud Like Love (2013)
- Loud Like Love
- Scene of the Crime
- Too Many Friends
- Hold On to Me
- Rob the Bank
- A Million Little Pieces
- Exit Wounds
- Purify
- Begin the End
- Bosco