Placebo

In its 1997 heyday, when brit-pop success meant being loutish, laddish and rooted in the
Sixties, the London-based trio Placebo wore dresses onstage, spouted end-of-time rock
manifestoes and played a crashing, melodic glam rock over which Brian Molko whined in
his insinuating nasal tones about sex, sexuality, sexiness and drugs. After two albums of
glittery, witty filth, Placebo are undergoing an unfortunate growth spurt. Despit... More >

With encouragement from, of all people, Pavement, an angstmonger's voice gets political, a little ("Taste in Men," "Slave to the Wage") (Grade - )