Placebo - Soulmates Never Die (live in Paris)

Genre(s) - Alternative rock
Origin - United Kingdom
Year of release - 2004
Bitrate - 128 kbps
Size - 130 MB

Soulmates Never Die is a concert registration released on DVD but I found an mp3 version of it, which I had to split up into two files because of its length. It's a vibrant liveshow that got me in love with a good deal of the songs even though I'm not familiar with most of their studio works. Placebo's electronica-influenced alternative rock, with its slight melancholic under- and overtones, is right up my alley. It's not the whiny-ass teen angst music you might expect (I know I did). In their concise songs they don't neglect the rock aspect and a lot of 'em, starting simple, gain more and more momentum as they go by. Plentiful guitar, keyboard and vocal hooks, and a strong chorus in most of the tracks, are given an extra shinin' by the live show's energy and especially the tandem of Bitter End and Soulmate gave me goosebumps (not that dopefiend-anthem Special K or the Frenchified version of Protect Me aren't worth the mention). Just great modern rock with a heart.

1. Intro
2. Bulletproof cupid
3. Allergic (to thoughts of Morther Earth)
4. Every you every me
5. Bionic
6. Protège moi
7. Plasticine
8. Bitter end
9. Soulmates
10. Black-eyed
11. I'll be yours
12. Special needs
13. English summer rain
14. Without you I'm nothing
15. This picture
16. Special K
17. Taste in men
18. Slave to the wage
19. Peeping Tom
20. Pure morning
21. Centerfolds
22. Where is my mind? (Pixies cover; with Francis Black)
    

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Built to Spill - Perfect from Now on

Genre(s) - Bit grungy alternative rock
Origin - United States of America
Year of release - 1997
Bitrate - 128 kbps
Size - 48.88 MB

This is not a band I know and love since ages, or connect with on a spiritual level, or any of that shit. But at the best moments the singer sounds like he has just been beaten to a pulp in a dead-end alley, ruptured a few organs, can't get back on his feet, and is crying miserably out for help to the rain-soaked streets, but nobody hears him, and even if they do they'd avert their eyes and hurry on anyway, not so much because of the rain or because they got stuff to do but because it's just some dude in an alley, right, what business is that of mine and probably the next fellow will help him. And there's a cello too. I like it.

1. Randy described eternity
2. I would hurt a fly
3. Stop the show
4. Made up dreams
5. Velvet waltz
6. Out of site
7. Kicked it in the sun
8. Untrustable part 2 (about someone else)
   

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