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Artist : Placebo
Song : Something Rotten
Album : Sleeping With Ghosts
Intro :
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Tapé par Mac alias Denis Ruelle
denis_goldorak@hotmail.com
Taken from The BassMasta -- http://www.bassmasta.net
Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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reece Average |
#1 by reece f at Dec 16, 1970 at 4:25 PM EST |
| i think this song is total wank. actually i think the whole album is. placebo really let themselves down. | |
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Galen Wanna Be |
#2 by Galen at Nov 10, 1971 at 9:11 AM EST |
| brian metions that this song is about abuse. domestic or relatioship wise. the song is creepy. but good creepy. if there is such a thing. | |
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Skye Average |
#3 by Skye at Apr 23, 1973 at 9:13 AM EST |
| it sounds like he's singing this from a sewer. in a good way | |
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Julz Average |
#4 by Julz xx. at Sep 19, 1979 at 12:30 AM EST |
| something's rotten in the state of denmark... yeah, this particular song really does drone on too much. | |
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J Wanna Be |
#5 by J kennedy at Jul 17, 1991 at 7:16 AM EST |
| ehh i guess it could have a great message if it wasnt so droning on and on and on... a five minute song is kindof hard to listen to a lot, especially with all this repetition. "i mis you something rotten" thats a great line but once you hear that once the rest of the song is useless | |
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jimmy Lead Player |
#6 by jimmy matthews at Dec 17, 1991 at 12:20 AM EST |
| I know this song is supposed to be about abuse (I heard it was about child abuse...) but it sounds sexy, despite it's meaning. | |
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Sybren Average |
#7 by Sybren .... at Jun 11, 1993 at 8:46 AM EST |
| I like this song because I have a difficult time focusing on lyrics, especially if I'm doing something else at the same time. In this case I get to listen to Brian's pretty, pretty voice with no worry at all about the fact I'm not paying attention to what he's saying. | |
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Teddy Wanna Be |
#8 by Teddy Bass at Aug 16, 1996 at 2:10 AM EST |
| i agree withich lecke Koffer... but did you know your name means I lick suitcases? thats rather odd. | |
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Lenny Ramone Wanna Be |
#9 by Lenny Ramone at Aug 22, 1999 at 11:40 PM EST |
| It may not necessarily be about sexual or physical abuse either. This song gives me complete shivers everytime and I have a pretty active imagination so you can imagine it's mental torture hearing this song - which is okay I suppose. BUT, I don't like the instrumentalness of this song. It goes on just a little too much. | |
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$am Rhythm Player |
#10 by $am taylor at Jun 26, 2002 at 9:55 PM EST |
| Hey..that's what Brian said in an interview : "It's about child abuse, but not necessarily sexual abuse. It could be pyhsical or mental. When I sang the lyric it was just completely off the top of my head, and we never changed it. It just kind of stayed there because it captured a real atmosphere -- very sinister an creepy. It came to be about a young person very desperate to get out of a family environment situation for whatever reasons. It's a song that people can interpret in a hundred different ways." And I think that's really what you can hear in the song. The pain, the feeling to stick in a strange situation, not to be able to go on...to desperate...everything that is completely out of time...that's my opinion. | |
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Lucas Average |
#11 by Lucas Grizzle at Sep 3, 2002 at 11:03 PM EST |
| I think that line might be "I misused something rotten." Not completely sure, but that's what i hear. | |
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Guillaume Wanna Be |
#12 by Guillaume at Dec 10, 2004 at 6:25 AM EST |
| Personally, I could never get tired of Brians voice. It's far too beautiful. He has said the song is about child abuse. | |
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