Teenage Angst (song)

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"Teenage Angst"

Single by Placebo

from the album Placebo

Released

1996

Placebo singles chronology

"36 Degrees"
(1996)

"Teenage Angst"
(1996)

"Nancy Boy"
(1997)

"Teenage Angst" is a song by British alternative rock band Placebo, released in 1996 as the third single from their self-titled debut album. It reached number 30 on the UK Singles Chart.

Reviews of the song offered that ""Teenage Angst" illustrates the "utter despair" motif even more convincingly, major key aside"^[1] and "Teenage Angst [...] [was] destined to become [a] single".^[2]

Live performance history

The song was part of the band's repertoire prior to the release of their album and continues to be played live on occasion to the present. The song has been performed in notably different versions: the original version was performed up until 2000, with a piano-based version normally being played during the Black Market Music tour and the Meds and Battle for the Sun tours. During the Sleeping with Ghosts tour, the song was played with a hip-hop inspired drum beat.^[3] The song returned to the setlists towards the end of the Battle for the Sun tour in 2010, with a new arrangement. Yet another arrangement was performed during the Loud Like Love tour.

Older live performances of the song were made public by the band, as part of its 20th anniversary activities.^[4]

Track listing

CD

"Teenage Angst"
"Been Smoking Too Long" (Nick Drake cover)
"Hug Bubble"

7" Pt1

"Teenage Angst"
"Been Smoking Too Long"
"Hug Bubble"

7" Pt2

"Teenage Angst" (Amsterdam V.P.R.O. Session)
"Flesh Mechanic" (demo)
"H.K. Farewell"

References

^ "Once More With Feeling: Singles 1996-2004". PopMatters. 21 March 2013. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
^ "Placebo". Musicfolio.com. April 2005. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
^ "Placebo — Live 2003.06.07 at Rock am Ring — Teenage Angst". YouTube. 31 March 2010. Archived from the original on 14 December 2021. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
^ "Exclusive: Placebo Perform 'Teenage Angst'". Gigwise. 28 July 2015. Retrieved 4 July 2016.

External links

"Teenage Angst" on AllMusic

v t e Placebo
Brian Molko Stefan Olsdal Robert Schultzberg Steve Hewitt Steve Forrest
Studio albums	Placebo Without You I'm Nothing Black Market Music Sleeping with Ghosts Meds Battle for the Sun Loud Like Love Never Let Me Go
EPs	Extended Play '07 B3 Life's What You Make It
Compilation albums	Covers Once More with Feeling: Singles 1996–2004 A Place for Us to Dream
Live albums	Live at Angkor Wat MTV Unplugged
Video albums	Soulmates Never Die: Live in Paris 2003 Once More with Feeling: Videos 1996–2004 We Come in Pieces MTV Unplugged
Singles	"Bruise Pristine" "Come Home" "36 Degrees" "Teenage Angst" "Nancy Boy" "Pure Morning" "You Don't Care About Us" "Every You Every Me" "Without You I'm Nothing" "Taste in Men" "Slave to the Wage" "Special K" "Black-Eyed" "The Bitter End" "This Picture" "Special Needs" "English Summer Rain" "Protège-moi" "Twenty Years" "Because I Want You" "Song to Say Goodbye" "Infra-Red" "Meds" "For What It's Worth" "Ashtray Heart" "Bright Lights" "Too Many Friends" "Loud Like Love" "Jesus' Son"
Other songs	"I Feel You" "Sleeping with Ghosts"
Related articles	Discography Fiona Brice

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