Placebo has decided on a release date for their This Search For Meaning documentary. You can pre-order here.
You’ll be able to get your hands on the doc as of September 12 (via SO Recordings). It’s a four-disc deluxe collection called This Search For Meaning and includes the documentary of the same name on both Blu-ray and DVD, along with two audio CDs of ‘This Is What You Wanted – Live In Mexico City’.
Included in the deluxe six-panel digipak: bonus track edition of their latest studio album ‘Never Let Me Go’, which includes their cover of Tears For Fears’ ‘Shout’, and a pull-out poster booklet.
But wait. Didn’t the doc already play in theatres? Yes. Last year, and we know the film looks at the ideas and lyrics of the band’s discography, and their personal growth.
Of course, the band members are interviewed, and you’ll see other notables, including: Garbage’s Shirley Manson, Robbie Williams, Yunglbud, Self Esteem’s Rebecca Lucy Taylor, IDLES’ Joe Talbot, and actor Benedict Cumberbatch.
The Placebo ‘This Is What You Wanted – Live In Mexico City’ tracklist:
1. ‘Opening Titles
2. ‘Forever Chemicals
3. ‘Beautiful James’
4. ‘Scene Of The Crime’
5. ‘Hugz’
6. ‘Happy Birthday In The Sky’
7. ‘Bionic’
8. ‘Twin Demons’
9. ‘Surrounded By Spies’
10. ‘Chemtrails’
11. ‘Sad White Reggae’
12. ‘Try Better Next Time’
13. ‘Too Many Friends’
14. ‘Went Missing’
15. ‘For What It’s Worth’
16. ‘Slave to The Wage’
17. ‘Song To Say Goodbye’
18. ‘Come Undone’
19. ‘The Bitter End’
20. ‘Infra-Red’
21. ‘Shout’
22. ‘Fix Yourself’
23. ‘Running Up That Hill’
Last year, Placebo spoke at the premiere, talking about how the doc looks into the band and was created by “the desire to break the form and to do something new.”
Singer Brian Molko said, “(Sansom) pushed us to be daring and to be quite naked, and to put things in the film which were embarrassing and maybe a bit humiliating.”
Molko added, “But (he) gave us the courage to tell the most honest story that we could. It took a bit of courage, because there were some moments in the film which are extremely uncomfortable, and we could have sanitized it, but I think (he) really wanted to show us as human beings and we needed to discover ourselves through watching all of this.”
Which other bands/artists should release this type of documentary?
