Sleeping with Ghosts

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Sleeping with Ghosts
Placebo's studio album

Publication
(s)

April 1, 2003

Label (s) Astralwerk, Emd

Format (s)

CD, record

Genre (s)

Rock , synth pop

Title (number)

12 (+11)

running time

42 min 32 s

occupation

production

Jim Abbiss

chronology
Black Market Music
(2000) 		Sleeping with Ghosts Once More with Feeling
(2004)

Sleeping with Ghosts is the fourth album by Placebo , which was released on April 1, 2003 .

The album

The band describes interpersonal relationships, such as love and friendship, as the main theme of the album.

Placebo also use electronic effects more and more in the album compared to its predecessors. Therefore it is partly assigned to the Synth Pop . However, the typical placebo elements, such as the melancholy mood and the extraordinary voice of Brian Molko, are always retained. So Sleeping with Ghosts fits in with the band style.

Track list

  1. Bulletproof Cupid - 2:22
  2. English Summer Rain - 4:01
  3. This Picture - 3:34
  4. Sleeping with Ghosts - 4:38
  5. The Bitter End - 3:10
  6. Something Rotten - 5:28
  7. Plasticine - 3:26
  8. Special Needs - 5:15
  9. I'll Be Yours - 3:32
  10. Second Sight - 2:49
  11. Protect Me from What I Want - 3:15
  12. Centrefolds - 5:02
  13. Protège-Moi - 3:13 (additional track of the Special Edition)

Special edition

Sleeping With Ghosts was also released in a special edition. There are ten songs by other artists covered by Placebo on a second CD.

  1. Running Up That Hill ( Kate Bush )
  2. Where is my mind? ( Pixies )
  3. Bigmouth Strikes Again ( The Smiths )
  4. Johnny and Mary ( Robert Palmer )
  5. 20th Century Boy ( T. Rex )
  6. The Ballad of Melody Nelson ( Serge Gainsbourg )
  7. Holocaust ( Alex Chilton )
  8. I Feel You ( Depeche Mode )
  9. Daddy Cool ( Boney M )
  10. Jackie ( Sinéad O'Connor )

The covers of "Where Is My Mind?" And "Running Up That Hill", both of which were included in the following tour programs, were particularly successful. In addition, the special edition includes “Protège-Moi”, the French-language version of “Protect Me From What I Want”. Placebo thus underline their close relationship with France .

Single releases

  • The bitter end
  • This picture
  • Special needs
  • English Summer Rain
  • Protège-Moi (in France and Switzerland)

Chart placements

The album was particularly successful in France, Germany and Switzerland. It reached the following chart positions:

  • France: 1st place
  • Germany: 2nd place
  • Switzerland: 3rd place
  • Austria: 6th place
  • Great Britain, Australia: 11th place
  • Sweden, Finland: 14th place
  • Denmark: 28th place

Thus was Sleeping with Ghosts in Central Europe more successful than in the home country of the band, Great Britain.

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