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Placebo
last updated 2026-09-11 11:26
Placebo
Plays on LTZ: (historical total not available beyond this vault's episode folders)
Tracks played
Nancy Boy (RE:CREATED) — played 2026-06-25
Running Up That Hill — played 2026-07-30
Research
Placebo — Nancy Boy (RE:CREATED)
Played: 2026-06-25 (Segment 7 — Late run) (TikTok)(new release)
From Placebo RE:CREATED (19 June 2026), a 30th-anniversary re-recording of their 1996 debut. The band returned to the original master tapes and brought three decades of playing these songs live back into the room — Brian Molko's vocal pushed forward, drums and bass beefed up, the song's identity intact. Released during Pride month.
TikTok angle: Placebo re-recorded "Nancy Boy" (1996) thirty years later, going back to the original tapes with three decades of live experience — Molko's vocal pushed forward, everything bigger, same song with a different nerve. Framed as a comment-bait question: the version that made you fall in love, or the one they grew into?
Placebo — Running Up That Hill
Played: 2026-07-30 (Moment in History)
Placebo released their cover of Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)" in 2003. Brian Molko has said the band chose to cover it because "we've always been massive Kate Bush fans," and he connected deeply with the song's theme of wanting to swap places with a loved one to truly understand them. Placebo's version originally appeared as a B-side and on their B-sides/rarities collection Covers. Two decades later, when Kate Bush's original surged to #1 worldwide in 2022 after featuring in Stranger Things Season 4, Placebo's cover also experienced renewed interest. The band released a live performance video of their cover in June 2022 to meet the demand.
Moment in History: Kate Bush, whose song this is a cover of, was born on 30 July 1958 — the same calendar date as this show. She had been out of the public eye for over a decade since her 2011 album 50 Words for Snow until 2022, when Stranger Things Season 4's use of "Running Up That Hill" sent the original to #1 on the Billboard Global 200 — the same resurgence referenced in this track's own research.
Sources: NME · Far Out Magazine · Entertainment Weekly
Placebo
Origin: London, England · formed 1994 · active
Members: Brian Molko (vocals, guitar), Stefan Olsdal (bass, guitar) — the band's two constant members; drummers have rotated over the years
Genre: Alternative rock
Discography:
Placebo (1996) — Elevator Music/Hut
Without You I'm Nothing (1998) — Hut
Black Market Music (2000) — Hut
Sleeping with Ghosts (2003) — Virgin
Meds (2006) — Virgin
Battle for the Sun (2009) — Vertigo/Mercury
Loud Like Love (2013) — Rykodisc
Never Let Me Go (2022) — So Recordings
Facts:
David Bowie invited Placebo to open shows for him and to perform at his 50th birthday concert at Madison Square Garden in January 1997.
Molko and Olsdal have been the band's only constant members since its 1994 formation.