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  • I always thought Placebo were American
  • spud-face
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    Until this thread I thought Placebo were Danish.
    I only popped in on the off-chance no-one had already mentioned their fellow Danes Mew, as they are/were alrightish (vocals a bit weak). Instead I’ll pointlessly mention a band that are from a different country to Placebo and don’t sound like Placebo. Mew. They’re alrightish. 😀

    rob2
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    Funnily enough I was listening to placebo and Meds this afternoon. I knew he was Scottish but what I don’t know is why the hell does he try to sing like and speak like an American (unless he was brought up there I guess?)

    athgray
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    I recall hearing Brian Molko is from Dundee.

    Harry_the_Spider
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    The Thompson Twins were in fact completely unrelated by blood.

    …and there were three of them.

    senorj
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    The band Moloko may have been formed in Sheffield , but I’m sure the singer was from Ireland. 🙂

    clarkpm4242
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    Really! Placebo, not from the U.S. Now that is a surprise…all these years.

    Am also confused about the Flaming Lips, or is it the Smashing Pumpkins…

    roper
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    I found out last week I saw radio head at a festival in the 90s.

    angeldust
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    I also thought Lost Prophets were American

    That’s because they were a (bad) Faith No More tribute band. And FnM are American.

    Is that a commonly held opinion? I am a FNM fanatic and hear absolutely nothing of FNM in the Lost Prophets (admittedly I only know a handful of their singles from some years back). I guess you could argue that FNM covers such a large scope most bands are going to overlap them somewhere….

    granny_ring
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    Blondie wasn’t a real blond…..

    waihiboy
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    Yet I’ve just found out they are English, and Brian Molko is Scottish.

    hahah i thought this for years aswell…

    was listening to some 90’s stuff the other night and Gene came on, didn’t know the lead singer was Welsh.

    +i now feel old as i can remember buying their first album on a long forgotten invention called a ‘cassette’!

    cfinnimore
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    I’m eternally grateful that Placebo existed simply to give me some sort of enlightenment into the vast spectrum of sexuality, drugs and inebriation from my shitty little bigoted, xenophobic adolescent town.

    I would be a completely different man without Placebo and Zane Lowe interviews with the band. Thanks to those I found Pixies, Einsturzende Neubauten and Skinny Puppy: Revolution in my eyes. And a Scot at that.

    flossie
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    I used to think Metalicarrrrrr were dainish, I think it was because the only name I’d heared in connection with them was Lars Ulrich

    Northwind
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    roper – Member

    I found out last week I saw radio head at a festival in the 90s.

    Heh. A mate of mine reminded me we saw Coldplay play in front of about 200 people at the edinburgh venue in about 2001- I tipped coheadliners Terris for big things but Coldplay will never amount to anything.

    julianwilson
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    Molko has that pan-european accent common to many peeps that went to international schools. He was at international skool in Luxembourg and a good mate of my cousin (half french half english) who also features a funny unplaceable accent. According to my aunt he was a “sweet young man” in his pre-rascally teenage sex-midget years.

    lodious
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    I learned last week the Jamaican ghetto stylee vocals on’ ‘Chant of a poor man’ by Leftfield were sung by a skinny white Brummie.

    joat
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    “Don’t you c**ts (pronounced as in Brian Cant) throw any more bottles at me or I’m off” were some of the only words I remember him saying a good few years ago at Rock City. It was only a plastic bottle but it was a good shot.

    buzz-lightyear
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    Awful fake American accents that record companies make singers use to sell more records in America.

    Saccades
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    Pretty sure the lead singer from Moloko was born/brought up about 50yds from where i’m sitting.

    Depths of ireland.

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