Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: You'd better believe Brian fits this.

Often leads to Viewer Gender Confusion on music videos and forums as well.

Dude Looks Like a Lady: What most early interviews and media snippets seem to have focused on.

Darker and Edgier: Black Market Music attempted this.

Cue the Sun: 'Pure Morning' is about the sun coming up after a long night of sex, drugs, and debauchery, and feeling disconnected from normal people on normal schedules.

They've released a whole album of covers, actually (simply titled Covers), including the aforementioned 'Running Up That Hill'.

Have covered two signature eighties songs, Kate Bush's 'Running Up That Hill' and Nik Kershaw's 'Wouldn't It Be Good'.

Brian has described Battle For The Sun as being one, inspired by the band getting sober.

Meds gets a little darker with its theme of alcoholism and drug addiction.Sleeping with Ghosts is about relationships of many kinds.Cluster F-Bomb: The chorus to b-side 'Slackerbitch.'.That said, 'The Bitter End' is a straight, and really angry, example. Brian wrote the song as a letter to himself, trying to get away from the destructive lifestyle he was leading at the time. Break-Up Song: 'Song To Say Goodbye' averts this trope.Bi the Way: Brian is bi, and it informs some of the band's music, most notably the carnal debauchery of 'Nancy Boy.' For the record, Stefan is gay, while every drummer so far is straight.While Placebo have a signature sound, the b-sides are where you can hear their more adventurous side, with Instrumentals and weird electronic experiments. Double-disc compilation B-Sides: 1996–2006 had to omit all the remixes just to get the better part of them. Anti-Christmas Song: 'Allergic (To Thoughts Of Mother Earth)' is this, according to Word of God.Live At Angkor Wat (2011) (iTunes only release).iTunes Live: London Festival '09 (2009).

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