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Sleeping With Ghosts by Placebo
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Tracklist
| Track | Duration | Listeners | ||||
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Bulletproof Cupid | 2:21 | 231,724 | ||
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English Summer Rain | 3:08 | 355,208 | ||
| 3 |
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This Picture | 3:34 | 386,821 | ||
| 4 |
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Sleeping With Ghosts | 4:38 | 296,083 | ||
| 5 |
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The Bitter End | 3:10 | 587,176 | ||
| 6 |
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Something Rotten | 5:29 | 179,989 | ||
| 7 |
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Plasticine | 3:24 | 197,856 | ||
| 8 |
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Special Needs | 3:27 | 391,704 | ||
| 9 |
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I'll Be Yours | 3:31 | 197,536 | ||
| 10 |
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Second Sight | 2:48 | 194,311 | ||
| 11 | Protect Me From What I Want | 3:14 | 223,553 | |||
| 12 |
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Centrefolds | 4:59 | 183,466 |
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About this album
Sleeping With Ghosts is the fourth album released by European alternative rock band Placebo in 2003. It achieved chart success in the UK, Australia and Europe. This album has been released with the Copy Control protection system in some regions.
Album meaning
The album has several songs based on a theme of relationships, whether as in relationships that end badly as inThe Bitter End, power struggles in relationships (Special Needs) or the idea that some are meant to be eternal soulmates (the title track). Singer-lyricist Brian Molko told Kerrang! magazine that he was trying to ‘exorcise’ the ‘ghosts’ of the past:
I’m looking back to what’s happened in my past emotional decade, trying to understand it. Trying to exorcise the ghosts and the demons of relationships past. It’s the old cliché of it being therapeutic but it does work for me in that way.
Another interview has Molko explaining:
The album title’s about carrying the ghosts of your relationships with you, to the point where sometimes a smell or a situation or an item of clothing they bought brings a person back. For me it’s about the relationship that you have with your memories. They inhabit your dreams sometimes. There can be a lot in the future that’s gonna remind you of the ghost of relationships past. So I see the album as a collection of short stories about a handful of relationships. Most of them mine. In a way writing the songs helps me to get a lot of the nasty feelings off my chest and put them in a box, and therefore have a bit more of an objective discourse with those emotions because you’ve done something positive with them, you’ve rid yourself of them.
Album meaning
The album has several songs based on a theme of relationships, whether as in relationships that end badly as in
The Bitter End, power struggles in relationships (Special Needs) or the idea that some are meant to be eternal soulmates (the title track). Singer-lyricist Brian Molko told Kerrang! magazine that he was trying to ‘exorcise’ the ‘ghosts’ of the past:
I’m looking back to what’s happened in my past emotional decade, trying to understand it. Trying to exorcise the ghosts and the demons of relationships past. It’s the old cliché of it being therapeutic but it does work for me in that way.
Another interview has Molko explaining:
The album title’s about carrying the ghosts of your relationships with you, to the point where sometimes a smell or a situation or an item of clothing they bought brings a person back. For me it’s about the relationship that you have with your memories. They inhabit your dreams sometimes. There can be a lot in the future that’s gonna remind you of the ghost of relationships past. So I see the album as a collection of short stories about a handful of relationships. Most of them mine. In a way writing the songs helps me to get a lot of the nasty feelings off my chest and put them in a box, and therefore have a bit more of an objective discourse with those emotions because you’ve done something positive with them, you’ve rid yourself of them.
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Shouts
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Angelight2012 wrote:
This album is more sad than a death in the family
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hamlet666olsdal wrote:
Not my favorite but "The Bitter End", "Plasticine", "Second Sight" and "Bulletproof Culpid" are awesome
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JijiMylene wrote:
My favorite album! God damned, i love them!!! [2]
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soulmate4ever wrote:
my favorite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Daymabema wrote:
spectacular, my favorite♥
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gaabsreiis wrote:
Sleeping With Ghosts é o melhor álbum. Special Needs é a melhor música.
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Roman_Sekatskiy wrote:
favorite album).
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slash_godhateme wrote:
My favorite album! God damned, i love them!!!
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phosgene wrote:
Their last listenalbe album, definitely. And a good one too.
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claudyn wrote:
ach, and really love this cover! :)
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claudyn wrote:
the best!
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grizou49 wrote:
♥♥♥ j'adore !!!!!!!!!
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alineieie wrote:
I own and I love it
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danadolilith wrote:
I ♥ this album
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led_zeppola wrote:
didn't know that ghosts have an ass like that
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Denner_Duarte wrote:
I fell in love with Placebo with this album, and this is still my favorite.
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Hello1994 wrote:
not bad but there is so much better than this in placebo. best cover though
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veneratamnqkude wrote:
What's 'before' and 'after' - does it matter? It's (k)now.. and it's the deepest emotion that Placebo music ;p
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Pierrotclowns wrote:
Their best cover. some epic tracks too <3
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ostrich54321 wrote:
their last good album. [3] ...so glad I didn't have to be the first to say it. and yeah, maybe their best. It's sad, really, you'd thought this would have been the springboard to yet more adventurous music.
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