Indie
This Search For Meaning (Blu-ray/CD)
SO RecordingsSOAKBR608
Indie, Rock
4xCD
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Blu Ray film of This Search For Meaning documentary including Never Let Me Go CD incl. bonus track Shout (Tears For Fears cover).
An intimate exploration of Placebo's evolution, charting their journey through lyrics and songs that delve into the human experience.
Placebos second feature-length documentary called 'This Search For Meaning'. This intimate and enlightening film explores the ideas that inhabit the lyrics and subject matter of Placebos songs, whilst charting their evolution as a group and as human beings. It is a fearless, truthful and forthright exploration of the creative process and the rock n roll lifestyle, along with its inevitable consequences.
Since emerging from obscurity in the 1990s with provocative songs such as Nancy Boy and Bruise Pristine, Placebo forged a decidedly unfashionable path through the brazenly macho Britpop scene to explore subjects such as the body politic and the continued erosion of our human rights and our individuality, the ever growing epidemic of apathy in society and the hubris and corruption of those in power. Placebo seemed to be asking the questions no one else dared to, then dared the individual to find their own answers.
Rather than present a conventional origin story, Scottish award-winning filmmaker Oscar Sansom, known for his trailblazing work in music films, charts the bands ongoing impact and legacy through a visual meditation on contemporary themes such as surveillance, culture and scrutiny, sexuality and gender identity, addiction and trauma as well as the climate crisis. These significant and weighty themes are explored in both an informal and personally authored manner through brand new interviews with Brian and Stefan. Both reflective and revealing, these interviews also underline placebos ongoing socio-cultural curiosity and musical journey a quest that continues in their chart-topping albums and sold-out live arena performances worldwide today.
In and around the bands presence, we see contributions from other significant figures within the arts that either admire or have been inspired by Placebo. these entertaining and often emotive discussions are presented as a single, yet multi-faceted, overheard conversation and include the likes of Shirley Manson (Garbage), Robbie Williams, Yungblud, Rebecca Lucy Taylor (Self Esteem), Joe Talbot (Idles) as well as contemporary artist Stuart Semple. The result is honest and rewarding capturing the sense that we are all just trying to figure out our place in this world; and hopefully making some sense of it too.
The films overall narrative is structured around incredible and completely new performances of Placebos latest songs taken from Never Let Me Go captured at Britains legendary Twickenham Film Studios, where The Beatles can be seen composing a new album in Peter Jacksons Get Back, as well as intercut with archive footage of the band, and exclusive, never-before-seen, material that spans across their entire career, including their creative and personal collaboration with David Bowie and his enduring influence.
Blu Ray film of This Search For Meaning documentary
including Never Let Me Go CD:
-Forever Chemicals
-Beautiful James
-Hugz
-Happy Birthday In The Sky
-The Prodigal
-Surrounded By Spies
-Try Better Next Time
-Sad White Reggae
-Twin Demons
-Chemtrails
-This Is What You Wanted
-Went Missing
-Fix Yourself
-Shout (Tears For Fears cover)
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