I mean really, I'd like a Placebo fan to try and defend this fucking cover (starts about 1:35). It's entirely possible that I'm just being an overly touchy Kate Bush fan, but good god I'd forgotten how awful that mid-90s slightly emo, slightly faux-industrial voice could be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyguybxwIiU
― filthy dylan, Saturday, 5 September 2009 21:53 (fifteen years ago)
It's = its
This cover's been around forever! Talk about repurposing. I like it well enough but I'm not going to bother getting into it, it's just there and they've done better covers.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 5 September 2009 22:03 (fifteen years ago)
Combine Ethan Hawke and the 90s are BACK!
― filthy dylan, Saturday, 5 September 2009 22:15 (fifteen years ago)
first time i heard this i thought it was the decemberists tbh
― ian, Sunday, 6 September 2009 04:18 (fifteen years ago)
but yeah what an utter piece of garbage.
Yeah this cover is about 5 years old now innit - didn't placebo do a whole covers album or something horrible?
― our soldiers die like chickens day by day (Trayce), Sunday, 6 September 2009 05:50 (fifteen years ago)
^ that was six years ago, and AFAIK was a compilation of previously-recorded stuff, I think the Running had been on the radio the year before
― miss pamela and the gtfo's (sic), Sunday, 6 September 2009 11:28 (fifteen years ago)
I quite like Placebo but there's no way I'm defending Milko's voice.
― the cunt from the hilarious "spotify" adverts (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 6 September 2009 11:32 (fifteen years ago)
Sleeping with Ghosts came with a bonus-disc of cover versions, including this one. There is even an official video for it, which doesn't seem to be on Youtube at the moment (only fan vids). It actually got me back into the band, after having given up on them circa Black Market Music.
― Sebastian (Royal Mermaid Mover), Sunday, 6 September 2009 22:57 (fifteen years ago)